The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-01-14


| Ell, get over the dishonor and the out
rage Of going into glory, and having
helped none up TO the same place. 1t
Will be iound that many Sabbath
school teacher has aiken into heGvc1 her
whole cl.ss; that Daniel Bpker. Ire
evangelist. took thousands into heaven;
that Doddrid@e hs g lkCn IN lundr Is OF
thOus ,nds; that Paul t. * in hundred
millions. How many VII you take in:
If yol get into heaven and find none
the that you sent aud that there are
none 10 come through yoar instrument.
alty, / beg of you TO crawl under some
seat in the buck corner and never come
out lest the redeemed get their eyes on
you and some one cry out. ''That is the
man who never lifted hand or voice Tor
the redemption OF his fellows. Lo,k at
him, all heave J" Better be busy! Bet.
Ter put the plow in deep. Better say
what you have 10 say quickly. Better
cry the alarm. Better fall on your
knees. Better Law hold with b. h hands.
What you now leave undone 'or Christ
will forever be undone. "This year thou
shalt die!u'
In view of the probabilities mentioned,
l. advise all the men aud women not
ready tor eternity 70 get ready. If the
text be true, you have no time to talk
ABOUT Cnonessentials, asking why God let
sln come into the world; or whether the
book OF jonah is inspire /; OF who Mel
chlsedec was; or what about the eternal
deci ees. 1t you are as near eternity as
some OF you seem To be, there is no time
Tor anything but the question, "What
must do to be saved?" The drowning
man, when a plank is thrown him, stops
not 10 ask what sawmill made 1t, or
whether it is oak or cedar, or who threw
1t. The momentlt is thrown, he clutches
II. III THIS year you are TO die, there is
no time for anything but Immediately
laying hold on God. 1t is high time
10 get 1t OF your sins. You say, 81
have committed no great transgres-
SONS" But are you not aware that
y ur lie has been sinful? The snow
comes down on the Alps flake by fake,
ana it is SO light that you may hold it
on tlo OF your linger with out fee ing any
weight; but the fakes gather; icy COM
pact unlil some day Travellers foot
Starts q @ slide, and it goes down in an
avalanche, crushing to death The villa
gers. SO the. sins of your youth, and the
sins OF your manhood, aud the sins of
your wemanhood may have seemed only
slight inaccuracies or trihipg diver.euces
IRON the ri-ht-so slight that they are
hardlv worth mentioning, but they have
been piling up and piling up, packing to-
gether and packing together, until they
make mountain Of sin, and one more
siep of your foot in The wrong dir ctio /
may slide down upon you an avalanche
OF ruin aud condemnation.
Let me announce that Christ, the
Lord, stands ready 10 save any man
who wants to be saved. He waited for
you all last year, and all the before, and
all your lie. He has waited for YOU
with blood on his brow and tears in his
eve, and two outstretched, mangled
hands oflOve. l wish you might know
what a job Jesus underteo,- when he car
RED your case 10 Calvary. They crowded
him 10 the wall. They struck him. They
slat on him. They kicked him. They
cuaed him. They scoHed at him. They
scourged him. They murdered him.
Blood! blood! AS he Scoops down 10
Int you up The cri;nso d. ops upon you
from his brow, from his hands. Do you
not ieel the warm current on your face?
Oh, for Zee the hunger, The .hirst, the
thorn stirg, the suflocation, the dark
ness, The groan, the sweat, the struy-
gle, the death!
a great plague came IN Marselles.
The doctors held a consultation and de-
cided that q corpse must be dissecled or
thev would never know how TO stop The
plague. a DR.. Guyon SAID, Tomorrow
morn lg will proceed to a dissection" :"
He made his will; prepared for death;
went into the hospilal; dlssec ed BODY;
wrote out the results Of t. dissection
and died in twelve houIs. Beautiful
self sacrifice, you say. Our J. )rd Jesus
looked out from heaven and saw a
plague stricken race. Sin must be dis
sected. He made his will, giving every
thing to his people. He con es down
into The reeAlng hospital ofs ~. He
lays his hand 10 the work. Under our
plague he dies-the healthy for the sick,
the pure for the polluted, The innocent
for the guilty. Behold the love! Be.
hold The sacrifice! Behold the rescue!
Decide on this first Sabbath of the
year Wheeler OF not you will have Jesus.
He will not stand forever begging for
your love. With some here his plea
ends right speedily. "This year thou
shalt de-"
This great salvation Of the Gospel
how offer TO every mao, woman and
child. You cannot buy il. You cannot
earn it. A Scotch writer says that a
poor woman one cold winters day looked
through The window Of a kings conse. .
va,ory and saw bunch Of grapes hang.
Ing against ;he glats. She said, ''Oh, if
[ only had that bunch OF grapes for my
sick child at homeW At her spinning
wheel she earned few shilllngs and
went 10 buy the grapes. The kings
gardener lm ust her out very roughly,
aud said he bad no grapes TO sell. She
went of and sold blanket aud got
srme more shillings. and came back and
tried TO buy the grapes. But tho gard
ener roughly assaulted her and I'D her
TO be Of. The kings daughter was
walls q in The garden at the time, aud
she heard the excitement, and seeing
the poor woman. said TO her, "My father
is not merchant to sell, but he is
king and gives Then she reached up
ard pluckcd the grapes and dropped
them in the moor WOman'a anrOp Co