The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-03-20

would be a requiem, q fast day, a gloom
q horror, as compared with the poores
hour they have had in heavcn .ince it
tirst;tower was built, or it's arst gate
swung or its first song caroled. "Oh,
you say, 'that may be true, but I am 81
afraid Of crossing over from this worlc
to the next, and fear tho swapping O
the cord between soul aud body" Well
all the surgeons and physicians anC
Socialists declare that there is no pans
at the parting Of tho body and soul, and
all the seeming restlessncss at the clos
'rs hour Of life is involuntary and
no !i' ross at all. Aud l agree with the
doctors, TO- what they say is confirmed
by tho fact dat persons who were
drowned or were submerged until all
consciousness departed and wcro after.
wards resuscitated, declare that the sc nsa.
tlon Of passing ints unconsciousness was
pleasurable rather than distressful. The
cage Of the body has deor on easy hia-
ges, and when that door Of the physical
cage open, the soul simply puts out it's
wings and soars. "But," you say, 81
fear to 60 because the future is so full Of
mystery" Well, will tell you how to
treat the mysteries. The mysteries have
ceased bothering me, for l do as the
Judges of your courts often do. They
bear all the argument in the case and
then say: 81 will take these papers and
give you my decision next week" Sc
nave heard all the argument in regard to
the next world, and soms things are un-
certain and full of myatery, and so |
fold up the papers and reserve until the
next world my decision about them. I
can there study all the mysteries to bet
ter advantage, for the light will be bet
ter and my faculties stronger, and will
ask the Christian philosophers, who have
had all the advantages Of heaven for
centuries, to help me, and may be per
mltted myself to humbly ask the Lord,
and think there will be oaly one mys-
tecy left, and that will be how one so un-
worthy as myself got into such An en-
raptured place. Come up cut Of the sepul-
chral shadows. If you are not Chris
tlans by faith in Christ como up into the
hight; and if you are already like Laza-
rus, terminated, but still have your
grave clothes on, get rid Of them The
command is "Loose him, aud let him
CO." The only part of my recent jour-
ncy that l really dreaded, although did
not say much about it beforehand. was
the landing at Jeppa. That is the port of
entrance to the Holy Land, and there
arc many rocks, and in roIgh weather
people cannot land at all. The boat.
taking the people from tho steamer to
the docks must run between reefs that
looked to me to be about fifty feet apart,
and one misstroke Of an oarsman or un-
expected wave has sometimes been fa-
tai, and hundreds have perished along
those reefs. Besides that, as we left
Port Said the evening before an old
traveller said: "Ths wind is lust right
to give you a rough landing at Joppa;
indeed think you will not be able to
land at ALL" The fact was that when
our Mediterranean steamer dropped an
chor near Joppa and we pat cut for
shore in the small boat, the water was as
still as though it had been sound asleep
hundred years, and we landed as easily
as came On this platform. Well, your
1ears Rave pictured for you an appalling
arrival at the end of your voyage Of life,
and they say that the seas will run high
and that the breakers will swallow you
up, or that il you reach Canaan at all it
will be very rough landing. The very
opposite will be true if you have the
eternal God for your portion. Your
experimentation fer the promised land
Will be as smooth a. was ours at Pales-
tine last December. Christ will meet
you far out at sea and pilot you into
safety, and you will land with
hosanna on one side of you and q hal
lelujah on the other.
landsahead!' 1t fruits are waving
Ger the hills of fadeless green,
And the living waters having
Shores where heavenly forms are seon.
Rocks and storms I'll fear no moro,
When on that eternal shore;
Drop the anchor! furl tho sail!
am safe within tho vcilI