The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-02-05

sea, or pitched by the angry wave on
the beach-a battered. bruised and
loathSome wreck! Suddenly destruc-
ton came. One-half hour before they
could not have believed it. DESTROYED,
and without remedy.
l am just setting forth fact, which
You have noticed as well as l. Ananias
comes to the apostle. The apostle
says, Did you sell the land for SO
much? :? lie says, "Y eS" 1t was q lie.
Dead! as quick as that! Sapphira; his
VIE, comes IN; Did you sell the land
and quick rs that she was dead. Gods
Judgments are upon those who despise
him and defy him. They come sud
denly.
The destroying angel went through
| Egypt. DO you suppose that any of
the people knew that he was coming &?
Did they hear the flap Of his great
wing? No! no! Suddenly, unexpected,
| he came.
Skilled sportSmen do not like to sho, I,
a bird standing on sprig near by. 1T
they arc skilled they pride themselves
on taking it on the wing, and they wait
till it starts. Death is an old sports
man, and he loves to take men living
under the very sun. lie loves to take
ktnem ON the wing.
Are there any here who are unprc-
pared for the eternal world? Are there
any hare who have been living without
hope? Let me say to you that you had
better accept Of the Lord Jesus Christ,
lest suddenly your last chance be gone.
The lungs will cease TO breathe, the
: heart will stop. The time will come
when you shall go no more to the Office,
or to the store, or t. the shop. Moth
; ing viii be left but Death and iudg-
mcnt and Eternity. Oh! flee to God
this hour. If there be one in this pres
encc who has wandered far away from
Christ, though he may not have heard
the call OF the gospel for many a year,
| ! invite him now to come and be saved.
| Flee rom thy sin. Flee to the strong
ed timc, now is the day of salvation.
Gooi-nlglt, my young friends. May
JGu have rosy sleep. guarded by him
who never Slumbers May you awake
in the morning strong and well. But
oh. "rt thou IL deSpiSer Of God? Is
this thy last night on earth? shouldst
thOn he awakened in the night by some
| thing, thou knowest not what and
thpr" DC shadows floating in the room, -,
and !" handwriting On the wall, ana
I YOU feel that your last hour is come,
and there be Il fainting at the heart,
and i tremor in the limb, and q catch-
ing of the hteath-then thy doom
would be but an echo Of the words OF
the trXt, "ln that night WAS Belshaazar,
the hing of the Chaidcans. slain.'
Hear the invitation Of the Gospel.
Th"r" may bc some one in this house to
| WhOnI | shall never speak again, and
there's let it be in the words of the
! Gospel, and not in my own, with which
clo5': "lio, every one that thirSte.h!
Com" yc to the waters. And let him
that j.ath no money come, bay wine
and Miik without money, and without
price. Come unto me, all ye who are
weary an heavy laden, and will give
you rest On. that my Lord Jesus
would now make himself so attractive
to your souls that you cannot resist
him; and that, if you have never prayed
before. or have not prayed since those
| days when you knelt down at your
mothers knee, then that tonight you
mlght pray, saying:
Just as | am, without one plea
But that thy blood vas shed for me,
! And that thou bid'St mo come to thee,
o Lamb of God, come!
But if you cannot think of so long Il
pra\c is that, will give you shorter
prayer that you can say, "GOu, be mcr-
citul = me, a .,inncr?" Or, if you can
not iAink of 40 long prayer as that, |
viii 1--WE you Il still shorter ono that
you may utter, "Lord, save me, or |
p"riSh.' Or if that he too long Il pray
rr, Nou need not utter one word: Just
look and live.
AGENERAL SCALING DOWN.