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

had compassion on me-" 'Shall write
to your mother and tell her that the lost
one is found and the dead is alive?" IIc
answered, Il wish you would, if it would
not be too much trouble" Do YOU sun.
pose that woman who made that quilt
and filled it with Scripture passages had
any trouble about who Melchizedek was,
or how the doctrine ofGod's sovereignty
can be harmoniZed with mans free apcn-
cy, or who wrote the Pentateuch or the
Inconsistencies of the Nicene creed? No:
no; 90 to work for God and suffering hu.
manity and all your doubts and fears
and mysteries and unbeliefs put togeth-
er will not be heavy enough TO stir the
chemists scales, which is accustomed
TO weighing one-fiftieth part Of grain of
chamomile flowers. Why stop mo.
ment to understand the mysteries when
there arc 80 many certitudcs? Why
spend our time exploring the dark gar
rets and coal holes of great palace
| which has above ground one hundred
rooms flooded with sunshine: 1t takes
all my time to absorb what has been re.
vealed, 80 that have no time to upturn
and root out and drag forth what has not
| been revealed. The most of The effort
to solve mysteries and explore the III
eXplicable and harmonize things is an
attempt to help the Lord out Of thcolo-
gical difficulties. Good enough nten-
ton, my brother, no doubt; but the Lord
Is not anxious to have you help him.
lie will keep his throne without your as
slstance. Don't be afraid that the Bible
will fall apart from Inconsistencies. 1t
hung together many centuries before you
! were born, and your funeral sermon
! will be preached from text taken from
its undisturbed authenticity.
LAY HOLD ON GODS WORD.
DO you know that l think that if all
ministers IN all denominations would stop
this nonsense of ecclesiastical strife and
take hod the world of God, the only
question with each Of us being how many
souls we can bring to Christ and in how
short time, the Lord would soon appear
for the salvation of all nations? When
The young queen of England visited
Scotland many years ago great prepara-
tlons were made for her reception. The
vessel in which she sailed was far out at
sea, but every hill in Scotland was illum-
ined with bonlires and torches. The
night was set on fire with artificial illunl-
lnatlon. The queen, standing on ships
deck, knew from that that Scotland was
tull OF heartiest welcome, aud the thun-
der OF the great guns at Glasgow and
Edinburgh castle woke up all the echoes.
Boom! they sounded out over the sea,
Boom! they sounded up among the hills.
DO you know that4 think that our king
would land If we were only ready to re-
ceive him? Why not call to him from all
our churches; from all our hospitals, from
all our homes? Why not all at once !.SS!!st
all the torches of Gospel invitation?
Why not ring all the bells of welcome:
Why not light up the long night of the
worlds sin and suffering with bonlires of
victory? Why not unlimber all the Cos
pei batteries and let them boom across
the earth. and boom into the partin..
heavens. The King is ready to land if
we are ready to receive him. Why can
not we who are now living see his de-
scent? Must it all be postponed to later
ages? Has not our poor world groan cd
long enough in mortal agonies? Have
there not been martyrs enough, and have
not the lakes of tears and the rivers of
blood been deep enough? Why cannot
the final glory roll in now? Why can
| not this dying century feel the incoming
tides OF the oceans of heavenly mercy?
Must our eyes close in death and our
ID.
and these hearts beat their last throb
before the day come IN? O Christ!
why tarrlest thou? Wilt thou not. be-
fore we go the way of all the earth, let
us see the Scared feet under some noon
day cloud coming this way? Before we
die let us behold thy hands that were
spiked, spread out in benediction for
lost race. And why not let us, with
ont Dnnrt01 l,noe hot ~
spoke peace as thou didst go up speak
pardon and emancipation and love and
holiness and JOY to all nations as thou
| contest down?
But the skies do not part. hear no
rumbling OF chariot wheels. coming down
over the sapphire. There is no swoop
OF wings. l see no flash Of angelic APP
pearances. All is still. | hear moth
ing but the tramp of my own heart as |
pause between these utteranccs. The
king does not land because the world is
not ready, and the church is not ready.
TO clear the way for the Lords coming
let us devote all our energies of body,
mind and soul. A Russian general rid
Ing over the battle field, his horse trea d.
ing amid the dying dead, n wounded
soldier asked him for water, but the Of
| hSSl uiu uoU his language
and knew not what the poor fellow
wanted. Then the soldier cried out
"Christos," and that word meant SYM
pathy and help, and the Russian officer
dismounted and put to the lips of the
SUITE. er a cooling draught. BE that the
charmed word with which we 60 forth to
do our whole duty. In many languages
it has only little difference of tcrmina-
| IntN tNni 10 NIo r..
thy. 1t stands for help. 1t stands for
pardon. 1t stands for hope. 1t stands
for heaven. Christos! In that nam
we were baptized. In that name we
took our first sacrament. That will be
the battle shout that will win the whole
world Tor God! Christos! Put it on our
banners when we march! Put it on our
lips when we die! Put it in the funeral
psalm at obsequjes! Put it on the plain
slab over our grave? Christos! Bless
ed be his glorious name forever! Amen!