The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-05-26

attacks Christianity.
y man ninety years old was telling
me few DAYS ago how he put to fiji ,ht
a 8, offer. My aged friend said to the
ak( ptic, did you ever read the history
ot Joseph in the Biblc?" YES" sad
the man; "it is Il fine story, aud as inter-
csting story as l ever read" "Well,
now,' said my old friend, "suppos
that account of Joseph stopped half
way" oh" said tho man, "thcn it
would not be cntcrtainiug." "Well,
now" said my friend, ''wc have ia this
world only half Of every thing, and do YOU
not think that when we hear the last
halt things may be consistent, and that
then we may find that God was riyht?n
On, friends, better load up with few
interrogation points. You cannot af.
loru TO be silent when God and the Bible
and the things OF eternity are assaile /.
\ our silence gives consent TO the bonn
bardmcnt OF your fathers house. You
alio" slur to be cast on your mothers
dy my pillow.
In behalf OF the Christ, who for YOU
went through the ayon'c cs Of assussua-
ton on tho rocky blull' back Of Jcrusa-
lem, you dared not face sickly j)kc.
Better load up with Il few questions so
that next time YOU will be cady. Say
I" thC acO!lCr: "My dear sir, will YOU
;cll me what makes the Il ference be-
tween the condition Of woman in CMina
an" the United States? What do y0u
tank OF the sermon on tn mpull? How
d) You llC the golden rule Lad down N
The Scriptures: Are you in favor OF the
ten commandments? In Your large ana
extensive reading have you come across
Il lpvclGr character than Jesus Christ?
W!il YOU please tOnnmG the triumphant
HralhDcd OF mlidcls and .thcISt>?
'lloW dO you account tor the fact that
among the out and out believers in Chris
uHnIiy were such persons as Rcnamn
Franklin, John liusk'n, Thomas Carlyle,
Burlington Macaulcy, William Penn,
Walter Scott, Charles Kir"slcy. Horace
l'uSEncll, James a . Garfield, Robert T..
Ice, StonCwall Jackson, Admiral FoOtc,
Admiral Farragut, Ulyssr5 5. Grant,
John Milton, William Shakespeare,
ChIct Justice Marshall, John Adams,
Daniel Webster, George Washing ON?
How do you account for their tOndnrss
tor the Christian religion: Among the
lnnumcrahlc colleges and universities Of
The earth will III maine me three started
hY hil,iclSand now supported b g. iulidcIS2
Down in your hcart are YOU really
happy in the position You Ccc,lpy aula-
""nlStic To the Christian religion: When
'I" You have the most raptllrous views
"t The next w0rld:"
Go at aim with Il few such questions
and l!c Will "ct 80 rcd in the taco as To
suggest ap"plrNy. aud he will look ut
his watch and say he has an engage
mrnt and must go. You will put hrm
IN 4 sweat that Will beat Il Turkish bath.
\ on Will put him on Il rOuL compared
with which our troops at Bull Run made
no time at all. Arm yoursclG, not with
ar"un, ntS but interrogation points, and
| PROMISE you victory. Shall such Il
! man rs you surrender to one Of the
mranrSt spirits that ever smoked uI
from the pit--thc dumb devil spoken oi
in the tCNl?
But thcn there are occasions when
this particular spillt that Christ cXcrcis.
CT when he said, ~ charge thee to come
, cut "i him," takes people by the whole
, sale. In the most responsive religious
| auIicnce have You noticed how man,
people never Sln:s at all: They have 4
BOOK, and they have voice, and they
know how to read. They know many
OF the tunes, and yet are Silsnt while
he treat rariutcs Of music PASS by.
Among those WEo siny not Que on! of Il
'undrrI sings loud enough to here his
OWN voice. They hum il. They give
a sort Ct religious Hrunt. They make
the lips 20, bat ii is inauAiblc. With il
H'l.c strong enough to stop Il street cal
"nr block away, all they can afford in
th" lraiS" Of God is about half a wills.
per. With enough sopranos, rnoG.h
altos, enough huSscs 10 make small
hcaVrn lctwCCu The four walls they let
lhr opportunity 90 by unimprovcd.
Dul!u~ the cotton famine in Ianca-
shire, England. when the SUFFERING was
something terrific, DIS the first WAGON
Inid "I cotton rolled III tie starving pco-
pie unl.uOkcI the horses and drew ;hc
load themselves, singing until all I.ancl-
aHnc joined in with triumphant voices,
then checks SOpping with tears, "praisc
God, from whom all blessings nDw."
When Commodore Perry, with his war;
>fr, tie Mississippi, lay Cn' the coast
"' Japan. hc hOmblrdCd the shores with
"O.d Humid. Gd' playing By the marine
hAhd. Glorious "Ojd Hundred, - com.
posed h} Wll!an Franc, OF Germany.
III 4 war pl son, at 10 o'clock ut nighl,
ihc peer fellows far from home and
W""i""d ANA sick and dying, one pri-
s"hrr started the "O!d Hundred D0x-
"loSN,' and then Il score of voices
.l"mr". rrn all the prisoners on all the
Ll"orH took up the acclaim until the build.
ln", from foundation to top stone, fairly
NurEcd with the mClOdiOus ascrip:ion.
y HIil!HA man-oI-war, lying OLA foreign
c,aNt, heard Il voice singing that doy-
"!"%|, and immediately guessed, and
Guessed arIght, that there was an Enc
IiNman III captivity to the Mohamme-
dams, aud in The small boats the sailors
r"WCd to shore ard burst INTO a Guard.
nous" "nd sc; the captive free.
! DON'T know what tune the trum,a2ts OF
resurrection shall pl ~, b'.t il may BE- the
d"Npiogy win IN Is now sounding across
thnStcndom. How much more hearty
we WouIG be i'll our songs. and hov
easily "u could drive back the dun, b
dcEll from all cur worshipmy assem-
hia4cS, II wc could realize that nearly
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