The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-06-25

men instead Of discussing the eternitles.
Abaddon the Fourth! You 20 up to that
old Methodist church, which has, through
her revivals, sent millions to heaven
which we would otherwise have added to
our population; the church Of Wesley
and Matthew Simpson, against which
we have an especial grudge, and get
them so absorbed in discussing whether
women shall take part in her conference
that they shall not have 80 much time
to discuss how many sons and daughters
she will take to glory"
What amaZes me most Is that all peo-
pie do not see that the entire movement
at this time all over Christendom is sa-
tanic. Many of the Internal attacks are
sly and hidden and strategic and so IN
geulous that they are not easily dscov-
cred. But here is bold and uncovered
attempt of the powsrs of darkness TO
split up the churches, to get ministers TO
take each other by the throat, to make
religion laughing stock Of earth and
hell, to leave the Bible with no more
respect or authenticity than an old alma
nae of 1922, which told what would be
the change of weather six months ahead
and III what quarter of the month it is
best to plant turnips. In a word, the
effort is to stop the evangeliza!ion of the
world. 1t seems to me very much like
this: There has been railroad acci-
dent and many are wounded and dying.
There are several drug stores near the
scene of casualty. All the doctors and
druggists are needed and needed right
away. Bandages, stimulants, anns-
thetics, medicines of all sorts. What
are the doctors and druggists doing? Dis
cussing the contents of some old bottles
ON the top shelf, bottles of medicine
which some doctors and druggists mixed
two or three hundred years ago. :sCome
doctors" "Come druggists!' cry the
people, ''and help these wounded and
dying that are being brought from be-
meath the timbers of the crushed rail
train. In little while 1t will be too
late. Come for Gods sake! Come
right away!" NO." says the doctor,
mot until we have settled whether the
medicine on that top shelf was rightly
mixed. say there were too many drops
OF laudanum IN it, and this other man
says there were toD many drops of cam
phire, and we must get this question set
tied before we can attend to the railroad
accident.
DOCTORS DISPUTE WHILE PATIENTS
DIE.
And one doctor takes another doctor
by the collar and pushes him back
against the counter, and one of the drug
glsts says, "1f you will not admit that I
am right about that one bottle l will
smash every bottle in your apothecary
store," and he proceeds to smash.
Meanwhile, on the lower shelf, plainly
marked and within easy reach are all the
medicines needed for the helping of the
sufferers by the accident, and in that
drawer, easily opened, are bandages and
splints for the lack of which fifty people
are dying outside the drug store. Be-
tore apply this thought every one sees
Its application. Here is this old world,
and it is of track. Sin and sorrow have
collided with it. The groan of agony is
fourteen hundred million voiced. God
has opened for relief and cure a great
sanitarium, great house of ulercy, and
all Its shelves are filed with balsams,
with catholictns, with help-glorlous
help, tremendous help, help so easily
administered that you need not get upon
any step ladder TO reach it. You can
reach IL on your knees and then hand it
to all the suffering, and the shining, and
the dying. Comfort for all the troubled!
Pardon for all the guilty! Peace for all
the dying! But while the world is need
ing the relief and perishing for lack of it,
what Of the church? Why, it is full of
fighting doctors. On the top shelf are
some old bottles, which several hundred
years ago Calvin or Arminlus, or the
members of the synod of bort, or the
f0rnNnra Nf 10 lNl a,
holy mixtures, and until we get n re-
vision Of these old BOTTLES and find out
whether we must take teaspoontul or
tablespoonful, and whether before or af-
ter meals, let the nations suffer and
groan and die. Save the bottles by all
means, if you cannotsave anything else.
Now, what parts shall you and take
in this controversy which fills all Chris
tendon with clangor? My advice is,
take no part. In time Of riot all may.
Ors Of cities advise good citize ls to stay
at home or in their places Of business,
and in this time Of religious riot | advise
you to go about your regular work for
God. Leave the bottles on the higher
sholves Tor others to fight about, and
take the two bottles on the shelf within
easy reach, the two bottles which are all
this dying world needs; the one filled
with a potion which is for the cleansing
of all sin, the other filled with potion
which is for the soothing Of all suffering.
Two gospel bottles! Christ mixed them
out OF his own tears and blood. In them
is no hu nan admiXturc. Spendno time
on the mysteries! You, man only
five or six feet high. ought not try to
wade an ocean a thousand feet deep.
My own experience has been vivid. Il
devoted the most of my time for years
in trying to understand Gods eternal de-
crees, and / was determined to find out
why the Lord let sin come into the world,
and set out to explore the doctrine of
the TriuiLy, and with yardstick to
measure the throne of the Infinite. AS
with all my predecessors, the attempt
was dead failure. For the last thirty
years I have not spent two minutes in
studying the controverted points of the
ology, and if live thirty years longer
Will not spend the thousandth part of a
second in Sllch nyploratlnn know