The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-04-28

" Atlh Va ot0khA RNt OhC
breath Of that air will cure the worst
l&dhercie. CrYstal light on all the leaves.
Crystal light shimmering ON the topaz
of the temples. Crystal light tossing
In the plumes of the equestrians OF heav-
en- on white horses. But ttthe crystal
cannot equal IT." John says crystai
river. That means joy. Deep and
e~yer-rolling. Not one drop Of the Thames
or the Hudson or the Rhine to soil it..
Not one tear OF human sorrow to embit-
ter II. Crystal, the rain out of which
It was made. Crystal, the bed over
which 1t shall roll and ripple. Crystal,
Its INFINITE surface. But site crystal
cannot equal it." John says crystal
sea. That a multitudinously vast.
Vast in rapture. Rapture vast as the
sea, deep as the sea, strong as the sea.
ever changing as the sea Billows of
light. Billows of beauty, blue with
skies that were nev clouded and green
with depths that were never fathomed.
Arctics and Antarctic and Mediterra.
heans and Atlantics and Paci6cs in
crystalline magniicence. Three crys-
tails, CRYSTAL light falling on q crystal
river. Crystal river rolling into a crys-
tai sea. But ''the crystal cannot equal
it,"
Oh, says some one, putting his hand
over his eyes, 'scan it be that who have
been in 80 much sin and trouble will ever
come to those crystals?n Yes, 1T may
belt will be. Heaven we must have,
whatever else we have or have not; and
we come here 10 get 1t. How much
must I pay for it2" you say. You will
pay for itjust as the coal pays to become
the diamond. In other words nothing.
The same Almighty power that makes
the crystal in the mountain will change
your heart, which lie harder than stone,
for the promise is 81 will take away your
stony heart and L will give you a heart
of flesh"
"Oh" says some one, sit is just the
doctrine / want; God Is to do everything
and 1 am 10 do nothing" My brother,
1t Is not the doctrine you want. The coal
makes resistance. 1t hears the resurrec-
ton voice in the mountain and it comes
to capitalization, but your heart r%esists.
The trouble with You, brother, is the
coal wants to stay coal. I do not ask
you to throw open the door and let Christ
in. l only ask that youstop boiling and
barring it. Oh, my friends, we will have
to get rid of our sin. L will have to get
rid Of my sins and you will have to get
rid of your sins. What Will we do with
our sins among the three crystalsp The
crystal atmosphere would display our
pollution The crystal river would be
befDuled with our touch. The crystal
sea would whelm us with its g~listening
surge. Transformation now or no trans
formation at all. Give sin full chance
In your heart and the transformation will
be downward instead of upward. In
stead ola crystalit will be a cinder. In
the days of Carthage a Christian girl was
condemned to die for her faith, and q boat
was bedaubed with tar and pitch and
filled with combustibles and set on fire
and the Christian girl was placed in the
boat, n the wind was of shore and the
boat floated away with its precious treas
ure. No a a doubt that boat landed
at the shore of Heaven. Sin wants to
put you in a fiery boat and shove you Of
in an opposite direction-oh from peace,
off from God, off from heaven, everlast-
ingly of; and the port toward which you
would sail would be a port OF darkness,
and the guns that would greet you would
be the guns Of despair, and the flags
that would wave at your arrival would
be the black flags of, death. Oh, my
brother, you must either kill sin or sin
will kill you. 1t is no wild exaggeration
when l say that any man or woman that
wants to be saved may be saved. Ire
ilendous choice! A thousand people
are choosing this moment between sal
walton and destruction, between light
and darkness, between heaven and hell,
between charred ruin and glorious crys-
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