Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-03-17
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into a time where it would be smooth
and easy, but the time does not come,
and it will never come in this world.
By the time King og is used up so
that he cannot get into his iron bed
stead, some other giant of opposition
looms up to dispute our way. Let us
stop looking for an easy time and
make it a thirty years war, or asi6ty
years war, or a hundred years war,
if we live so long.
Must 1 be carried to the skies
On fowery beds Of ease,
While others fought to win the prize
And sailed through bloody seas?
Do YOU know the name of the big
gest giant that you can possibly
meet-and you VIII meet him? He
is not eleven feet high, but one hun
dred feet high. His bedstead is as
long as the continent. His name is
Doubt. His common food IS infdel
books and skeptical lectures and min
listers who do not know whether the
Bible is inspired at all or inspired in
spots, and Christians who are more
infdel than Christian. You will
never reach the Promised Land IN
less you slay that giant. Kill Doubt
or Doubt will kill you. How toover-
come this gianta Pray for faith, go
with people who have faith, read
everything that encourages faith,
avoid as you would ship fever and
smallpox the people who lack faith
In this battle against King Og use
not for weapons the crutch of a limp
ing Christian or the sharp pen of a
controversialist, but the sword of
truth, which is the word of God. The
word IF" is made up of the same
number ofletters as the sword Cog
and it is just as big a giant. IF" the
Bible be true. IF" the soul be i'm
mortal. eff" Christ be God. "If'
our belief and behavior here decide
our future destiny. Of" IF" If"
1 hate that word ''If." Noah Webster
says it is a conjunction; l sayi it is an
armed giant. Satan breathed upon
it a curse when he said to Christ: If
thou be the Son of God" What a
dastardly and Infamous IF" Against
that giant IF" hurl Jobs Il know"
and Paul's Il know II know that
nv Redeemer hveth." Il know in
whom 1 have believed" Down with
the If" and up with Il know
Oh, that giant Doubt is such a
cruel giant! 1t attacks many in the
last hour. 1t could not let my mother
alone even in her dying moments.
After a life of holiness and consecra-
ton such as I never heard of in any
one else, she said to ny father,
Father, what if, after all, our
prayers and struggles should go for
nothing" Why could she not, after
all the trials and sicknesses and be-
reavements of a long life and the in
frmities of old age, be allowed to go
without such a cruel stroke from
Doubt, the giant2 Do you wonder !
have a grudge against the monster?
If I could l would give him a bigger
bounce than satan got when, hurled
out of heaven, the first thing he
struck was the bottom Of perdition.
OPPOSITION CANNOT HINDER THE
CHURCH.
Another impression from my sub
ject-the march of the church car
not be impeded by gigantic opposi-
ton. That IsIaelitish host led on by
Moses was the church, and when Og
the giant. him of the iron bedstead.
came out against him with another
host-a fresh host against one that
seemed worn Cuttings must have
looked bad for Israel. No account is
given of the bedstead Of Moses ex-
cept that one in which he first slept
the cradle CT aquatic vegetation on
the Nile, where the wife of Che
nephres, the king, found the floating
babe, and having no child of her
own adopted him. Moses Of ord-
nary size against Og Of extraordi-
nary dimensions.
Besides that Og was backed up by
sixty fortified cities. Moses was
backed up seemingly by nothing but
the desert that had worn him AMI
his army into a group of undiscr
plined and exhausted stragglers. But
the Israelites triumphed. If you spell
the name of Og backward you turn
it into the word Go" and Og was
turned backward and made to go.
With Og,sdownfall all the sixty cities
surrendered. Nothing was left of
the giant except his iron bedstead,
which was kept in a museum at Rab
bath to show how tall and stout he
once was.
SO shall the last giant of opposition
in the church's march succumb. Not
sixty cities captured. but all the cit
les. Not only on one side of Jordan,
but on both sides of all the rivers.
The day is coming. Hear it all ye
who are doing something for the COZ
quest of the world for God and the
truth, the time will come when, as
there was nothing left of Og the
giant, but the iron bedstead kept at
Rabbathas a curiosity, there will b..
nothing left of the giants of iniquity
except something for the relic hunt
ers to examine.
Which of the giants will be the last
slain l know not, but there will be a
museum somewhere to hold the relics
of what they once We're. A rusted
sword will be hung up-the only relic
of the giant Of war. A demijohn-
the only relic of the giant of Inebria
ton. A roulette ball-the only reic
of the giant of Hazard. A pictured
certificate of watered stock-the only
relic of the giant of Stock Gambling.
A broken knife-the only relic of the
giant of Assassination. A yellow
copy of Tom Paine-the only relic Of
the giant of Unbelief. And that mu-
seam will do for the later ages of tae
world what the iron bedstead at Rab-
bath did for the earlier ages.
Do you not see it makes all the diff
ference in the world whether we are