The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-06-30


wonder how it looks over there.
somebody tells me it is like paved
ity-paved with gold; and another
nan tells me 1t is like fountain, and |
t is like tree, and it is like Il triumph
u procession; and the next man meet |
ellis me it is AL tigurative. | really (
want to know, after the body is rcsur-
'ected, what they wear aud what they |
9at, and have an immeasurable curl |
osity to know what it is, and how it is, |
and where it is.
Columbus riSked his life to find this
and shall we Shudder to go
out on a voyage of discovery which
Shall reveal a vaSter AMI more brilliant
country? John Franklin risked bis
life to Gnd passage between Icebergs,
AID shall we dread to find a passage to
eternal summer? Men In Switzerland
travel up the heights of the Matterhorn
with alpenstock and guides and rockets
ana ropes and, getting half way up,
stumble and fall down in q horrible
massacre. They just wanted to say
they had been on the tops of those high
peaks. And shall we fear to 90 out for
the ascent of the eternal hills which
start thousand miles beyond where
stop the highest peaks of the Alps.
when in that ascent there is no peril?
n man doomed to die stepped on the
sca1fold and said in Joy, "NOw, in ten
minutes l will know the great secret"
One minute after the vital function
ceased the little child that died last
night knew more than Jonathan Ed
wards, or st. Paul himself, before he
died. Friends, the exit from this world.
or death, if you please to call it, to the
Christian is glorious explanation. 1t
Is demonstration. 1t is illumination.
lt Is s,lnburst. 1t is the opening Of all
the windows. 1t is shutting up the
catechism of doubt and the unrollinp
of all the scrolls of positive and accur.
! ate information. Instead Of standing
at lhe foot of the ladder and looking
up, it is standing at the top of the lad
der and looking down. 1t is the last
mystery taken out of botany and geolo-
gy and astronomy and theology.
On, Will 1T not be grand to have all
questions answered? The perpetuaily
recurring interrogation point changed
for the mark of exclamation. All rid
dies solved. Who will fear to go out
on that discovery when all the uues-
tlons are to be decided which we have
been discussing all our lives? Who
shall not clap his hands in the anticipa-
tlon or That blessed country, ii it be no
better than through holy curiosity cry
ing, ZINE time OF my departure is at
hand?" wv
| remark again we ought to have the
Joy 3i the text, because, leaving this
world, we move into the best society OF
the universe. You see a great crowd
OF people In some street, and YOU say:
"Who is passing there? What general,
what prince is going up there?" Well,
l. see great throng IN heaven. | say:
"Who Is the focus of all that admira-
tlon? Who is the center of that gilt
terlng cOmpany?' 1t is Jesus, the
champion Of all worlds, the favorite of
all ages.
DO you know what is the first dues
tlon the soul Will ask when it comes
through the gate Of heaven? think
the first question will he, "Whpre i3
,'esus, the Saviour that pardoned my
sin; that carried my sorrows; that
fought my battles; that won my victo.
rlesI . radiant one! how | would
IKE TO see thee! thou of the manger.
but without its humiliations: thou of
tne cross, but without its paugs: thou
OF the grave. buC without its darkness.
The Bible intimates that we will talk
WIN Jesus in heaven just AS a brother
talks with brother. Now what will
you ask him first? do not know. |
can think what | would ask Paul first
IL L saw him in heaven. | think |
would like to hear him describe the
storm that came upon the ship when
there were two hundred and seventy
llVe souls on the vessel, Paul being the
oniy man on board cool enough to DIES.
crioe the storm. There is facination
about ship and the sea that never
snail get over, aud think | would like
TO near nm talk about that first.
But when | meet my Lord Jesus
SnrlSt, ol "hat shall first delight to
near hlm speak? Now think WHAT il
is. shall first want TO hrnr t.'., ','rU tr,, ~
edy of his last hours, and then Inkns
account or the ciuciIiXion, and Marks
account OF the crucIiixion, and .Iohn's
account or the cruciixion will be moth.
ing, Whlle from the living lips Of Christ
the story shall be told Of the yloomth,t
tell, and the devils that arose, and the
TACT that upon his endurance dennndaG
the rescue OF race, and there w,s
darkness IN the sky, and there wns
darkness in the soul, and the pain be
came more sharp, and the burdens be-
came more heavy, until the mob began |
10 swim away from the dying vision of |
christ, and the cursing of the mob
came to his ears more family, and his
landS were fastened to the horizontal |
piece OF the cross, and his feet were fast.
'ned to the perpendicular piece of the
cross, and his head fell forward i'm 4
'woon as he uttered the last moan and |
cried, at Is finished" All heaven will |
stop to listen until the story is done
lnd every harp will be put down, and
'Yery lip closed, and ali eyes fixed upon |
he divine narrator until the ST orv is
lone; and then, at the tap Of the baton.
he eternal orchestra will rouse up: fin.
ger on STING of harp, and lips To the
mouth OF trumpet. there shall roll forth
he oratorlo of the Messiah, "Worthy
8 the Lamb that was slain to receive
and riches and honor and glory
md power, world without end.'
What he endured Oh, who can tell,
10 save our souls from death and hell.
When there was between Paul aud
hat magnificent Parsonage only the
,hlnneSS of the sharp edge OF the sword |
IT the executioner, 40 you wonder that
le wanted to go? o my Lord Jesus.
ct one wave of that glory roll over us!
lark. | hear the wedding bells of hcay-
IN ring now. The marriage of the
lamb has come, and the bride hath
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