The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-09-29

In the Lorp's army there is order lor
promotion, but you cannot be general
until you have been captain, lieu.
tenant and colonel. 1t is step by
step, 1t is inch by inch, it is stroke by
stroke that our Christian character Is
buildcd. Therefore be content to do
whath God commands you TO do.
God is not ashamed to do small
things. He is not ashamed to be found
chiseling grain of sand, OF helping q
honeybee to construct its cell with
mathematical accuracy, or tingoing a
shell in the surf, or shaping the bill of
Il chaf1inch. What God does he does
well. What you do. do well, be it u
great work or a small work. If ten
talents, employ all the ten. If five
talents, employ all the five. If one tai
ent, employ the one. If only the thou
sandth part of a talent, employ that.
"Be thou faithful unto death, and will
give thee the crown Of life" tell you
if you are not faithful to God in small
sphere you would be indolent and in
significant in large sphere.
Again, my text teaches me that perse-
verance will mount into the kings
palace. 1t must have seemed long
distance for that spider to climb in
/ Solomon's splendid residence, but it
started at the very foot Of the wall and
went up over the panels of Lebanon
cedar, higher and higher, until it stood
higher than the highest throne in all
the nations-the throne Of Solomon
And SO God has decreed it that many of
those who are down in the dust of sin
and dishOnor shall gradually attain to
the Kings palace. We see 1t in world
ly things.
Who is that banker in Philadelphia? :?
Why, he used to be the boy that held the
horses of Stephen Girard while the mil
lionaire went in to collect his dividends
Arkwright tolls OH up from a BARRIERS
shop until he gets INTO the palace OF in
ventiOn. SeXtus Y tolls on up from the
olllce Of swineherd until he gets into
the palace Of Rome. Fletcher tolls on
up from the most insignificant family
position until he gets into the palace of
Christian elOquence. lIogarth, en-
on up until he reaches the palace of
world renowned art.
And God hath decided that though
you may be weak of arm and slow of
tongue, and be struck through with q
great many mental and moral deficits,
10y his almighty grace you shall yet ar
rive In the Kings palace-nOt such
| one as is spoken Of in the taxi. not one
| of marble, not one adorned with pillars
| iiagons Of FURNISHED gold, but "a palace
in which God is the King and the angels
of heaven are the cupbearers.
The spider crawling up the wall of
Solomon's palace was not worth looking
| after or considering as compared with
the fact that we, who are worms of the
dust, may at last ascend into the palace
| OF the King Immortal. by the grace
OF God may we all reach it. Oh. heaven
is not dull place. 1t is not a wornout
mansion, with faded curtains and out
landiSh chairs and cracked ware No;
| it is as fresh and fair and beautiful as
though were completed but yesterday.
The kings Of the earth shall bring their
honor and glory into it.
a palace means splendor of apart
ments. Now, | do not know where
heaven is, and do not know how it
! ! looi,s, but II our bodies are to be resur-
| rected in the last day | think heaven
| must haye a material Splendor as we'll |
| as spiritual grandeur. On, what gran
deur Of apartments when that divine |
hand which pluDges the sea into blue,
and the foliage into green. and sets the |
sunset on fire shall gather all the beau
ti1ul colors Of earth around his throne, |
| and when that arm which lifted the |
pillars of Alpine rock and bent the arch |
| of the sky shall raise before our soul |
the eternal architecture, and that hand |
which hung with loops of fire the cur
tainS of morning shall prepare the up
holstery of our kingly residence,
| A palace also means splendor of as
sociations. The poor man, the outcast |
cannot get into Windsor castle The |
sentinel Of the queen stands there and |
| cries "llalt!" as he tries to enter. But
in the palace OF which speak we may
all become residents, and we shall all be |
princes and kings. We may have been
beggars, we may have been Outcasts,
we may have been wandering and lost
as we all have been, but there we shall
take our regal power. What COM
panlonshlp III heaven! To walk side 10y
side with JOhl' and James and Peter
and Paul and Moses and Joshua and
Caleb and Ezekiel and Jeremiah and
Micah and Iechariah and Wilberforce
and Oliver Cromwell and Philip Dod-
bridge and Edward payson and John
Milton and Elizabeth Fry and Hannah
More and Charlotte Elizabeth, and all
the other kings and queens of heaven
ON, my soul, what a cOmpanionship!
| do not know but that Christ refer
red to the real juice of the grape when
he said that we should drink new wine
in our Fathers kingdom, but not the
intoxicating stuff Of this worlds brew
ing. | do not say it is SO, but | have as
much right for thinking it is so as you
have for thinking the other way. At
amy rate. 1T will be il glorious banquet.
lark! the chariOtS rumbling in the
distance. | really believe the guests
are coming now. The gates swing open.
the guests dismount, the palace is fill.
Ing. and all the challces, flashing with
pearl and amethyst and carDuncle, are
lifted to the lips of the myrial ban
| queters, while standing in robes Of
snowy white they drink to the honor
of the glorious King.
"Oh." you say, that is too grand
place for you and for me-" No tits not.
If spider. according to the text, could
crawl up on the walls of SoIomOnn's pal
ace, shall not our poor souls, through
the blood OF Christ, mount up from the
depths Of their sin and shame and fin
ally reach the palace Of the eternal
King? "Where sin abounded, grace
shall much more abound, that whereas