The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-01-28

er people of the household stop for
awhile. The theory acted on though
perhaps not announced: 1.-THE children
will have to do as l did and take their
chances. Life ls lottery anyhow, and
some draw prizes and some draw blanks,
and we will trust to luck"
Skip twenty years and come back to
tho neighborhood where that family used
to live. You meet Oh tue street or on
the road an old inhabitant of that Deigh-
borhood, and you say, "Cau you .ell me
anything about the PetersCns who used
to live here:" Ycs," says the old inha-
bltant; II remember them very we'll,
The father and mother have been dead
dren? Whay1k8 become ofthem?" The
Old inhabitaut replies: "Thev turned
out badly. You kown the old man was
about half all inlitlel aud the BOYS were
all lnfidels. The oldest son married,
but got into drinking habits, and In a
lew years his wife was net able 10 live
with him any longer and his children
were taken by relatives, and he died Of
ccllrlum tTcmens on Blackwell's 'sland.
His Other son forged the name Of hi,
employer and fled TO Canada.
One Of the daughters OF the old folks
married an inebrato with the idea Of re-
forming him, and you know how that
always euds.-in The ruin of both The cx-
rerimenter and and one experimcnted
with. The other daughter disap Deared
mysterlously and has not been heard of.
There was ii young woman picked out
of the East river and put in the morcuc -,
and some thought it was her, but can
l-,.t
YES, it is possible. The fam y IS a
complete wreck" My hearers, That is
Just what might have been expected.
All this IS only the Echo, the dismal
Echo, the awful Echo, the dreadful Echo
Of parental obliquity aud :thulucss.
The Old folks heaped up a mountain of
wrong Influences, and this is only what
my text calls 1.-The sounding of the
mountains"
Indeed Our entire behavior in this
world will have resound. While OBJ
portunities fly i'll a straight line and lust
touch It's once and are gone never to re-
turn, the wrongs we practice upon 9TH
els lily in circle, and they come back
to The place from which they started
Doctor Guillo.ine thought il smart to
Introduce the Instrument Of death uame !
after him, but did not like it SO we'll
when lis own head was chopped oirwith
the gullotine.
SO also the Judgment Day will be an
Echo OF all our other days. The uni
verse needs such Il day, for there arc so
many things III The world that need TO
be tlNed up and explained. If God had
not appointed such day all the nations
would cry out, "Oh. God, give us a
Judgment Day." But we are ant to
think OF it and speak about it as a day
away Oft in the future, having no spec.
ial connection with this day or any other
day. The fact is that we are now maxi
ing up Its voices; its trumpets will only
sound back again TO us what we now
say and do. That is The meaning of all
that Scripture which says that Christ
will on that day address the soul, saw
ln9, II was naked and We clothed me; [
was sick and in prison and ye visited
me.'
All the footsteps in that prison corr-
dor as the Christian reformer walks TO
the wicket Of the incarcerated, yea all
the whispers Of coincidence in the ear of
that poor soul dying in that garrct, yea
all the kndncsses arc being caught I'D
ana rolled on until they dash against the
Judgment Throne and then they will be
struck back into the ears Of these sons
and daughters Of mercy. Louder than
The crash OF Mount Washington falling
on its face In the world wide catastro-
phe, and the boiling Of the sea over the
furnaces OF universal cOntlagratOn will
be the Echo and Re-echo Of the good
deeds>done and the sympathetic words
uttered and the mighty benetactions
wrought.
On that day all the charities. all thc
scli-eacrilices, all the philanthrOpjcs. oil
the beneicctt last wills and testamcnis
all the Christian work of all the aces,
Will hc pulled up into mountains. and
those who lave served God ana served
the suffering human race VIII hear what
my teNt STYLES, "Thc sounding of tho
mountains"
Mv suhicct odvor,os 10 ton ,n,, uo.
e,amjty t3elI is onIv on ocho ~, ,;,'," r',,'O
Mad YOU, the ano1nGv warroniS 90 U w, ~ u,.'u'
ing this, The echo ~ not aIroya a"5 o,:nc, 9s'S
" IN kind Ike thc snunl nria;no2i, ,"n,
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