The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-03-06

tie door of heather temple, said
"Glory to thee, 0 Godw What. die
dying Wilberforce say to his wife
"Como and sit beside me, and let u
talk Of heaven. / never knew what
happiness was uEtil 1 found Christ.
What did dying Hannah More say2 "Tc
1.-Two! Oh! glorious grave! Oh, th'
love OF Christ, tho love Of Christ, th'
| love of Christ"
What did tho dying Janeway say
81 can as easily die as close my eyes o.
turn my head In sleep. Before q few
hours have passed l shall stand or
Mount Zion with the one hundred aud
forty and four thousand and with tE,
just men made perfect, and we shall as.
cribe riches, and honor, and glory, and
majesty, and dominion unto God and
the Lamb" DR.. Taylor, condemned to
burn at the stake, on his way thithel
broke away from the guardsmen and
went bounding and leaping and jump
ing toward che lire, glad to go to Jesus
and to die fer him. Sir Charles Hare,
in his last moment, had such rapturous
vision that he cried upward, pward,
upwardw And SO great was the peace
Of one of Christ's disciples that he put
his finger upon thu pulse in his wrist
and counted it and observed it; and SO
great was his placidity that after a
while he said 'stopped!' and his life
had ended here to begin in heaven. But
grardcr than that Tas the testimony Of
Tho WORKOUT first missionary, whsn, in
the 3lainartinc dungeon, be cried: Il
am now ready to he offered end the time,
Of my departure isat hand g; | have fought
the good fight. have finished my course
| have kept the faith: henceforth is laid
up for me crown Of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous Judge,
will give me in that day, and not to me
only, but to all them that love hi. ap-
pcaringm Do you not sec that Christ is
above all in dying alleviations3
Toward the last hour Of our earthly
residence VIC arc speeding.
brighter than banqucting hall
through which the light feet Of tic
dancers go up and down TO the sound OF
irumpctcrs will be the scpulchcr through
whose riffs the holy light Of heaven
strcamcth. God will watch YOU. lie
will send his angels to guard your slum-
bcrlng ground, until, at Chrisl's behcst,
they %Nall roll away the stone
So. also, Christ is above nll in hcaocr.
TIE Diblc dis!'ncily says IT,. Christ is
the Ch,cf theme Of the celestial ascrip-
,ioH. al! the 'hr1ocs frcinG his throne.
At! '5c palms waved L~irl: his face, all
the crowns down at his feet. Chcrubim
to cnCruhim, scrAphm 10 sCraphim, re-
decmcd spirit t" redeemed spirit, shall
rccite the Savior's earthly sacrifice.
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in all the radiant sweep the most glori-
GUS Object will be Jesus. Myriads gaz-
lug on the scars Of his sufrerings, in
silence first, aftcrward breaking forth
into acclamation. The martyrs, all the
purer for the flame through which they
passed, will say: This is Jesus, for
whop we died" The apostles, all the
happier for The shipwreck and the
scourging through which they went, will
say: "rhis is the Jesus whom we
preached at Cornth, and at Cappad
and at Antioch, and at Jerusalem" "
Little children clad in white will say:
This is the Jesus who took us in His
arms and blessed US, and when the
storms If the world were too cold and
loud, brought us into this beautiful
place" The multitudcs of the bereft
will say: 'This is the Jesus who COM
forted us when our hearts broke" Nany
who wandered clear off from God ana
plunged into vagabondism, but wero
saved by grace, will say: This is the
jesus who pardoned us We were lost
on the mountain, and He brought rs
home. We were guilty, and he has made
us white as snow" Mercy boundless,
grace unparalleled. And then, after
each one has recitcd his peculiar deliver
asces and peculiar mcrcics, recited them
as by solo, all the voices will come to-
gethcr into great chorus, which will
make the arches echo and re-echo with
tho eternal reverberation of gladness,
and peace, and triumph.
Edward |. was so anxious to 90 to tho
Holy Land that when he was about to
expire he bequeathcd 100000 to have
his heart, after his decease, taken to the
Holy Land in Asia Minor, and his request
was complied with. But there are
hundreds o-day whose hearts arc already
in the Holy LAID Of heaven. Whore
your treasures ara, there are your hearts
also. Quaint John Bunyan, of whom I
spoke at the opening of the discourse,
caught II glimpse OF that place, and in
his quaint way he said: "And I heard
in my dream, and 10! the bells Of the city
rang again for joy; and as they opened
the gates to let in the men looked IN
after them, and 10! the city shone like
the sun, and there were streets of gold,
and men walked on them, harps in their
hands, to sing praises withal; and after
that they shut up the gates, which when
| had seen wished myself among them. "
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