The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-08-11

md sit beside me, and let us talk of
heaven. 1 never knew what happiness
vas unit! found Christ" What did
dying Hannah More say? "To 60 to
heaVcL; think what that is! TO go TO
Christ, who died that might live! On,
what Il glorious thing 1t is to die! Oh,
the love Of Christ, the love of Chris,n'
What did Mr.. Toplady, the great hymn
maker, says in his last houl? ''Who
eau measure tue depth of the third heav-
Ell? Oh, the sunshine that fills my soul!
shall soon be gone, for surely no one
can live in this world after such glories
as God has manifested TO my soul.n
What did the dying Faneway says?
81 can as easily do as close my eyes or
turn my head in sleep. Before few
hours have passed l shall stand on
Mount Zion with the one hundred and
forty and tour thousand, and with the
just men made perfect, and we shall as
cribc llchcs and honor and glory and
majesty anddOminlon unto God and the
Lamb" DIR. Taylor, condemned to
burn at the stake, on his way thither
broke away from the guardsmen and
went bounding and leaping AID jumping
toward the fire, glad to go to Jesus
and to die for him. Sir Charles Hare
i'll his last moment had such rapturous
vision that he cried, "Upward, upward,
upwardW
And 80 great Was the peace of one of
Cmist's disciples that he put his fingers
upon the pulse in his wrist and counted
it and observed ii; and so great was his
placidity that after awhile he said,
"Stopped, and his life had ended here
TO begin in heaven. But srander than
that was the testimony of the worn out
first missionary when in the Mamartine
dungeon he cried: II am now ready TO
be offered, the time of my departure is
at hand; have fought the good fight, l
have fought the good light, l have
finished my course, | have kept The
faith; hcncciOrth there is LAID up for me
crown Of righteousness, which the
Lord, the righteous judge, will give me
in that day, and not to me only, but TO
all them that love his appearine" DO
you not see that Christ is above all in
dying alleviations:
Toward the last hour Of our earthly
residence we are speeding. When see
the sunset | say, "One day less TO live. :"
When | sec the spring blossoms scat
tered say, "Anothcr season gone for
ever" When | close ths Bible on Sab
bath night | say, "AnUthcr Sabbath de
parlcd.' When / Jury a friend | say,
"Anolhcr cartlJ attraction gone for
cVcrT.' What n!mble feet the Years
Nave. The rOcbu,hs aud the li-htnings
run Dos SO fast, From decade to de-
cade. from sky to sky, thcy go at a
bOund.
There IL place for Us. whether mark.
td or not, where YOU and | Will sleep
the last sleep, and the men are living
who will, with solemn tread, carry us to
our resting place. Aye, it is known in
heaven whether our departure VII be
4 coronation or 4 hani8hmeNt. Bright
"r than bHnquctlng hall through
Which the light feet of the daucCrS 90
up and down TO the sound of trumpet
crs will be the Sepulcher through whose
rlfts the holy light OF heaven streameth
GGd will w.tch you. lie VIII sond his
angels TO guard your slnmberiug
ground until, at ChriSt's beheSt, they
snail rOl! away the stone.
80 also Christ is above all In heaven.
The Bible distinctly says that Christ is
the chlct theme of the celestial ascrip-
ton, all the thrones facing hia throne,
all the palms waved before his tace. ali
the crowns down at his feet. Cherubim
TO cherublm, Seraphim to seraphim, re-
deemed spirit to redeemed spirit shall
recite the Sayiour's earthly sacrifice.
Stand Oh some high hill Of heaven,
and in all the radiant sweep the most
glorious object will be Jesus. Myriads
gazing OH the scars of his suffering, IN
silence first, afterward breaking forth
N .lD Of Nhn an
purer Tor the flame through which they
passed, will say, This is Jesus, for
whom we died. The apostles, all the
happier for the shipwreck and the
scourglng through which they went,
Will say, This Is the Jesus whom we
preached at Corinth, and at Cappadocia,
and at Antioch, and at Jerusalem ="
Little children clad in white will say,
This Is the Jesus who took us in his
arms anu blessed us, and when the
storms OF the world were too cold and
loud brought us into this beautiful
place. The multitudes of the bereft
will say, This is the Jesus who COM
forted us when our heart broke" Many
who had wandered clear Off from God
and plunged into vagabondism, but
were saved by grace. will say: "This is
The Jesus who pardoned us. We were
OSt OH the mountains, and he brought
ns home. We were guilty, and he made
us white as snow" Mercy boundless,
grace unparalleled. And then, after
each one has recited his peculiar deliv-
arances and peculiar mercies, recited
them as by solo, all the voices will come
together in great chorus, which shall
make the arches echo and re-echo with
The eternal reverberation Of gladness
and peace and triumph.
Edward / was so anxious to 90 TO the
Holly Land that when he was about to
expire he bequeathed $4,000 to have
his heart after his decease taken to the
Holly Land in Asia Minor, and his re.
quest was complied with. But there
are hundreds today whose hearts are al
ready in the holy land Of heaven.
Where your treasurers are there are
your hearts also. John Bunyan, of
whom J spoke at the opening Of the
DISCOURSE, caught glimpse of tnat
place, and III his quaint way he SAID:
And heard in my dream, and 10! the
Jells Of the city rang again for joy; and
IS they opened the gates to let in the
nen looked in after them, and 10. the
;ity shOne like the sun. and there were
streets Of gold, and men walked on them