Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-30

mp IN all making this aggregate.
Well, my friends, hear SO much
about our mansion in heaven, about its
furniture and tie grand surroundings.
that l want 10 know how much it is all
worth and whaNhas actually been paid
for it. l cannot complete in a month
nor a year the magnificent calculation,
but before l get through today | hope to
give you the figures. "Ye are bought
with a price"
With some friends went to your
Tower to look at the crown jewels. We
walked around. caught Il glimpse Of
them, and being in the procession We're
compelled TO pass ont. wish that /
could take this audience into the tower
of Gods mercy and strength, that you
might walk around just oLce at least,
and see the crown jewels of eternity,
behold their brilliance and estimate
their value. "Ye are bought with a
price"
THE INSTALLMENT PLAN.
Now if You have a large amount of
money to pay, you Go not pr II all at
once, but you pay it by installmentS-So
much the first of January, so much the
first of April, SO much the first OF July,
so much the first of October, until the
entire amount is paid, and l have to tell
this audience that You have been
bought with q price" and that that
price was paid in different installments.
The first inStallment paid for the
clearance Of souls was the lgno-
minious birth OF Christ in Bethlehem.
Though we may W I've carefully
looked after afterward, u advent into
the world is carefully guarded. We
come into the world amid kindly at
tentions. Privacy and silence are at
forded when God launches an immortal
soul into the world. Even the toughest
of men know enough 70 stand back.
But l have to tell you i,:t IN the vii
lage on the side of the hill there was a
very bedlam Of uproar when Jesus was
born.
In a village capable of accommodating
only a few hundred people many thou
sand people We're crowded, and amid
hostlers and muleteers and camel driv-
ers yelling at stupid beasts Of burden
the Messiah appeared. No silence. No
privacy. a better adapted place hath
the eaglet in the eyrie-Eath the whelp
in the lions lair. TIE exile Of heaven
heth down upon straw. The first hight
out from the palace of heaven spent in
an outhouse, One hour after LAYING
aside The robes of heaven, dressed IN a
wrapper Of coarse linen. One would
have supposed that Christ would have
made a more gradual descent, coming
from heaven first to a half way world of
great magnitude, then to C@Sar:s pail
ace, then to a merchants castle IL Cali
lee, then to a private home in Bethany,
then to a fshermans hut, and last Of all
to a stable. No. II was one leap from
the top to the bottom.
Let Us open the door Of the caravan
sary IN Bethlehem and drive away the
camels. Press on through the group of
idlers and loungers. What, oh, Mary.
no light: mo light" she says, save
that which comes through the door"
What, Mary, no food: None" she
says, "only that which was brought in
the sack on the journey" Let the Beth
iehem woman who has OLA in here
with kindly attentions put back the COW
ering from the babe that we may look
upon i. Look. Look. Uncover your
head. Let Us kneel. Let all voices be
hashed. Son Of Mary, Son Of God.
Child of a day-monarch Of eternity.
In that eye the glance Of GOD. On
impotence sheathed IL that babes arm.
That voice TO be changed from the fee
Die plant TO the tone that shall wake
the dead. Hosanna. Hosanna.
Glory be to God that Jesus came from
throne to maDger that we might rise
from manger to throne, and that all the
gates are open, and that the door of
heaven that once swung TINS way to let
Jesus out now swings the other way 10
let us in. Let al the bellmen Of heaven
lay hold the rope and ring out the news,
Behold, l bring you glad tidings OF
great 10Y, which shall be to all people;
for today is born IL the city of David a
Saviour, which is Christ the Lord
BATTLING THE EVIL SPIRIT.
The second installment paid for our
souls clearance was the scene IN Quar-
antania, a mountainous region full Of
caverns, where there are to this day
Partners and wild beasts OF all sorts, so
that you must go there armed with
knife or gun or pistol. 1t was there
that Jesus went to think and TO pray,
and it was there that this monster OF
hen-more sly, more terrific than any
thing that .rowled in that country
satan himself, met Christ.
The rose in the cheek Of Christ-that
Pubhus Lentullus, in his letter to the
Roman senate, ascribed to Jesus-that
rose had scattered its petals. Abstinence
from food had thrown MIN into emacia-
ton. a long abstinence from food re-
corded in profane history is that Of the
crew of the ship Juno; for twenty-three
days they had nothing to eat. But this
sufferer had tasted a month and ten days
before he broke fast. Hunger must have
agonized every fiber of the body and
gnawed on the stomach with teeth Of
death. The thought of a morsel Of
bread OF meat must have thrilled the
body with something Ike feroclty.
Turn out q pack of men hungry as
Christ was a-hungered, and if they had
strength, with 4 yell they would de-
YOUR o as a lion a kid.
1t was in that pang of hunger that
Jesus was accosted and satan said,
"Now change these stones, which look
like bread, into an actual supply Of
bread" Had the temptation come to
you and me, under those circumstances
we would have cried, Dread it shall
ber' and been almost impatient at the
time taken for mastication; but Christ
with one hand beat back the hunger,
and with the other hand beat back the
monarch of darkness. Oh, ye tempted
ones! Christ was tempted. We are
told that Napoleon ordered a coat of
mail made, but ne was not quite certain
that it was impenetrable, so he said to
the manufacturer of the coat of mail,
ssPut it on yourself and let us try it."
and with shot after shot from his own
pistol the emperor found out that It
was Just what it pretendedto bera good
coat Of mail. Then the man received 9
large reward.
] bless God chat the same coat Of mai