The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-09-08

ence over the face no taking off of shoes
On holy ground. You can tell from the I
way they talk they could have made a
better world than this, and that the
God of the Bible shocks every sense of
They talk OF the love Of
God in way that shows you they be-
ieve 1t d d1es not make any difference
how bad a man ls here be will come in
at the shining gate They talk Of the
love of God in such way which shows
you they think it is d general Jail deliv-
cry for all the abandoned ana the
of the universe. No
punishment hereafter for any wrong
done here.
The Bible gives us two descriptions
OF God, and they are just opposite, and |
they are both true. In one place the |
Bible says God is love. In another
place the lSible says God is consum-
ing fire. Tho explanation is as plain can
be. GCd through Chlist IS love. God
out Of Christ is fire. TO win tho one
and to escape the other We have only
to throw ourselves-body, mind and
soul-into Christ's keeping. No.
says lrreverence, ~ want no atone
ment, / want no pardon, want no in
tervention; l will go up and face God.
and will challenge him, and will defy
him, and l will ask him what he wants
to do with me-" SO the finite cOnfronts
the infinite, so a tack hammer tries to
break a thunderholt, SO the breath OF
human nOStrils delicS the everlasting
God, while the hierarchS of heaven bow
the head and bend the knee as the
Kings chariot gees ly, and the arch
angel turns away htcauce he cannot
endure the Splendor. and the chorus Of
all the empires Of heaven comes in
with full diapason, "lloly, holy, holy"
| reverence for sham, reverence for
the old merely becauSe 1t is old, reVer-
ence for stupidity however learned,
reVernce for lncapacity however finely
inaugurated, l have none. But we
want more reverence for God, more rev
erenCe for the sacramcntS, more rever
ence for the Bible. more reverence for
the pure, more reverence for the good.
Reverence a characteristic of all great
natures. You hear 1T in the roll of the
master oratorios. You see it in the
RaphaelS and TitianS and GhirlandijOS.
You study it in the architecture Of the
Ahoiabs and Christopher WTens. DO
not be iippant about GOI. DO not
joke about death. DO not make fun
of the Bible. DO m dc ride the eternal.
The brightest and mightlest Seraph
cannot look unabaShed upon hm. Ia
voluntarily the wings come up. with
| OWaAu ilC CoNS Su law.
Who is this God before whom the ar
rOgant and intractable refuse rever-
ence? There was an engineer OF the
; name Of ScTuSicrateS who was in the
employ Of Alexander the Great, and he
offered to heW Il mountain III the shape
OF his master, the emperor, the enOrm-
Gus figure 20 hold III the left hand a
city of ten Thousand inhabitants, while
with the right hand 1t was to hold Il
basin large enough to collect all the
mountain torrents. Alexander ap-
plauded llm for his ingenuity, but Tor.
bade the enterprise because of it's cost
J liness. let have to tell you that our
, King holds in one hand all the cities Of
the earth and all the oceans. while he
has heaven for his tiara.
Earthly power goes from hand to
hand-frOm Henry to Henry | and
Henry III, from Charles ! to Charles
ii, from Louis | to Louis L and Louis
lll-but from everlasting to everlaSt-
ing is God. God the first, God the last,
God the only. He has ono telescope
with which he sees everything-hiS
emniSCience. He has one bridge with
which he CROSSES rvcrything--his ON.
nipreSence. He has ono hammer with
which he builds everything-his om-
Impotence. Put two Tablespoonful of
water in the palm Of your hand and it
i will overflow; but Isaiah Indicates that
God puts the Atlantic, and the Pacific,
aud the Arctic, and the Antarctic, and
the Mediterranean, and the Black sea,
and all the waters Of the earth in the
hollow Of his hand. The fingers the
beach on one side, the wrist the beach
Oh the other ale holGeth the water
in the hollow Of his hnnd."
AS you take pinch of salt or row>'
1nr hnt 1,
gers, so Isaiah indicates Goo cakes up
the earth. He measures the dust Of
the earth, the orlgihai thcre indicating
that God takes az the dust Of all the
<nGlntiiTnTts between the thumb and two
fingers. \ on wrap around your hand a
blue ribbon five time S, ten times You
say it is five hand brrHdthS, or 1T is ten
hand breadthS. 50 indicates the pro,
phet, God winds the blue ribbon of the
sky around his hand. "lle meteth ont
the heaven with aSEan.'
Another seraphic posture in the text.
| The Seraph must not ALWAYS stand still.
lie must move. and it must be without
clumSinesS. There must be celebrity
and beauty in the movement. with
twain he did tly." Correction, exhila.
ration. Correction at our slow gait,
for we only crawl in the service when
we ought to fly at the divine bidding.
| EXhi laratiOn in the fact that the soul
has wings as the seraphs have wings.
What is Il wing? An instrument of
locomotion. They may not be like ser.
aph's wing. they may not be like birds
wings. God says SO. lie shall mount
up on wings as tagl,S. We are made
in the divine image. and God has wings.
The Bible says so "llealng in his
wings" "Under the shadow of his
wings" "Under who' wing thou hast
come to trust" We have folded wing
now, wounded wing, broken wing,
bleeding wing, Gagged wing. Aye; |
have 1T now. Gagged within bars of
bone and under curtains of flesh, but
one day to he free. hear the rustic of
pinions in Seagrave'S poem which we
often siEg:
Rise my soul, and stretch thy wings.
| hear the rustic of pinioLs in Alex
ander Pope's stanZa, which says.
mount, / fly,
o Death, where is thy victory?
a dying Christian not long ago cried