The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-05-15

| blow for blow. stroke for stroke, but
when l come and knock ut the door
OF your heart, you open it say, "Comr
III. my brother. and tell me i'll YOU
know about Christ and heaven"
Listen to two OF three questions:
Are you rs happy rs you used to be
when You believed i'll the
truth of the Christian religion!
Would you like to have your chill
drsn travel on the road in which YOU
arenow travelling! You had rcla-
tive who profcsod to bc II Christian,
and was thoroughly consistent. Hvin.
and dying in the faith Of the Gospel.
Would You not like to live the same
quiet life, and the same peaceful
| death! | have II letter sent me by
one who has rejected the Christian
| religion. 1t says: II am old enough
to know that the Joys and pleasures
OF life arc cvancScont and to realize
the fact that it must be comfortable
in old age to believe in something
relative to the future, and to have II
ia!th IN some system that propo scs
to save. | am free to confess that |
would be happier if | could exercise
the simple and beautiful faith that is
possessed by many whom / know.
am not willingly out of the church or
out of the faith. My state of umcer.
tainty is one of unrest. Sometimes
L doubt my Immortality, and look up
on the dcatl' bed as the closing scene,
aitcr VIII ,ch there is nothing. What
shall | do that have not donc,"
ALL Hcrpticism is II dark ,,lulclul land!
l"t me say that this Bible is rthcr
true or fnlsc If it be false. we are
rs well of rs YOU; fit be true, then
! Which OF us i" safer!
Let me also ask whether your
trouble has not been that YOU con
founded Christianity with the incon-
Slstcnt character of some who pro
Tess it? You are Il lawyer. In your
profession there are mean anu diShnn-
"Sl mon. Is that anything against
the law! You are II doctor. There
are unskillrl and contcmptiblc men
IN your profession. Is that anything
against medicine! You are Il mcr
chant. There arc thieves and dcfraild
"rs in your business. II that any
thing against mcrrhaHdisc! Brbsld.
thrn, ;i'' umialrRrSs Of charging upon
'i iHllbiitH thc NitktNl!tSS Di its
'HH'ilH"S. "" admll that som" OF
,'i' ''irE'" iiG;'''Hi lh"$" who pro
'H'N 'rh%"n III" true. som" OF tho most
gigantic hwimdl"s OF thr present day
HAY" been carried ON by members OF
thN church. There arc men standing
in the f,"n. I0uk in thc churches vhu
w"uil not u, trusted with 50 with.
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lake II ali IN ALL Is about the best
n""h 'll't' Ih' W"iid l';t@ ever seen!
40 you kl'n" any n""k ti:h, has as
n'''''h III H. no YOU l"' lhlnk' upon
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one h'hu WI! Sufr"nucr Tor ever
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a' put n""k 'l,t' Is nrt'"r. Iodny
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