The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-09-17

you, you ought not to worry much about
your lalllng eycslght and failing limbs.
You get little worried for fear some
tlme you will come to want, do
you? Your children and grandchildren
sometimes speak little sharp at you
because OF your ailments. The Lord
VIII not speak sharp. DO you think you
will come to want? Who do YOU think
the Lord is? Are his granarlcs empty?
| VIII he Iced the raven and the rabbit,
ana the lion in The desert, and FORGET
you? Why, naturalists tell us that the
porpolse VIII not torsakc its wounded
and sick male. And do you suppose
the Lord OF heaven and earth has not us
much sympathy as the fish Of the sea?
But you say: "I am SO near wOrnout.
and am Of no use to God any more, -
think the Lord knows whether YOU
arc OF any more use or not; if YOU were
OF no more use he would have taken YOU
before this. Do you think God has for-
cotton you because he has taken care Of
you seventy or eighty years? lie thinks
more OF you today than he ever did, be-
cause you think more Of him. Nav the
God OF Abraham and Isaac and Jacob
and Paul the aged be your God for ever!
GET1IER YOUR FLOCKS.
But gather all the promises today in
aEroup, and ask the shepherds TO drive
Their ilocks OF lambs and sheep up to
the sparkling supply. Behold, happy
Is the man whom God corrccteth.H
Though he cause grief, yet will he have
compassion" Many are the alllctions
OF Tie righteous, but the Lord delivcreth
| him nIt nf thpf,, al
endure for a night, but 10y cometh in
ttie morning" l am determined today
that no one shall go away uncontrolled.
1ondcr Is tlmid and shrinking soul
who seems to hide away from the con-
solatlons am uttering, as child with
a sore hand hides away from the physi-
clan lest he touch the wound too roughly.
anu The mother has to 90 and compel
the little patient to come out and see the
| physician.
So come TO your timid and shrink
ing soul today, and como out in the
presence Of the Divine Physician. He
Will not hurt you. lie has beer healing
wounds for many Years, and will y,ve
you gentle and omnipotent medicamnut
But people, when they have trouble, 90
anywhere rather than to God. De
Quincy took opium to get rid of his
troubles. Charles Lamb took to punch.
Theodore Hook took to sometime
stronger. Edwin Forrest took to the
eartieal dissipation. Aud men have run
all around the earth. hopiug in the oulck
transit to get away from their misfor.
| tunes. 1t has been dead failure. There
Is only one well thai can slakc the thirst
OF an afflicted spirit, and that is the deep
and ineNhausublc we'll Of the Gospel.
TIE THOUGHT OF HEAVEN.
But some one says, in the audience
Notwithstanding all you have said
tins morning, l find no allevialion for
my troubles" We'll, l am not through
yet. l Lave left the most potent con
sideratlon for the last. l am going to
soothe you with the thought of heaven.
However talkatve we may be, there will
come iime when the stoutest and most
emphatic Interrogation will evoke from
us no ans CT. AS soon as we have
closed our lips for the final silence no
| power can break that taciturnlty, but
where, on, Christian, will be your spirit?
In scene Of infinite gladncss. The
spring morning of heaven waving its
blossoms Ill the bright air. Victors
fresh from battle showing their scars.
| Tho rain OF earthly sorrow struck
| TIN ouyh with the rainbow 0: eternal joy.
In one group, God and angels and tie
rudcemcd-Paul and Silas, Latmcr and
Ridley, Isaiah and jeremiah, Payson
and John Milton, Gabriel and Michael
the arch angel. Long line Of choristcrs
reaching across tn, hills. Seas of Joy
dashin9 to the white beach. Conqucrors
marching from gate to gate. You among
them.
On, what a great flock Of sheep God
will gather around the celestial well.
No stone OH the Wells mouth while the
shepherd water the sheep. There ,Ja-
cob will recognize Rachel the shepher-
dess. And standing on one side Of the
well OF eternal rapture your childrcn.| Z
and standing on the other side Of the
well OF eternal rapture your Christian
ancestry, you will be bounded on all
sides by JOY 80 keen and grand that
no other world has ever been permitted
to experience it.
Out OF that one deep we'll Of heaven
the Shepherd will dip reunion for th c
bcreaved, wealth for the poor, health
for the sick, rest for the weary. And
then all the flock of the Lords sheep
VIII lie down in the green pastures, and
world without end we will praise the
Lord that on this FIRST autumnal Sabbath
OF 1891 we were permitted to study
among the blcating tlCcks and lowing
herds of this fair ground the story of
Jacob and Rachel the shepherdess. at
the well in Mcsopotama. Oh, plunge
your buckets into this great Gospel well
and let them come up dripping with that
water of which il man drink he never
again shall thir,t
| Got Enough OF Liberia.
New YORK, Sept. 5.-George b.
Parks. mulatto belonging to Atlanta,
Ga, and his family, consisting of his
wife and seven children, arrived here
to-day on the Sorrento. Parks Is an in
telligent man and carpenter. On
May %, lurcd 10y the promises of the
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