The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-03-03

tnaL Inc news OF revolution in France
Or Spain would be carried to heaven?
These things arc not of enough impart-
aucc, but there is one item that ls sure
to be carried. 1t Is the salvation Of
your soul. Ii is your repentance before
God.
The flying hoofs of Gol's couricrs
clash through the gates and The news
goes from gate to mansion, and from
to temple, aud from temple to
throne, and "thero is JOY in heaven"
among the angels OF God over one sim
ncr forgiven. Itmust be ofvast import
ance TO be OF any moment in heaven,
your salvation, in that land where glad
neSscs are the everyday occurrence, in
that land where the common stones of
the field arc jasper and emerald and
chrysoprasus and carb,nclc and sar-
dOnvN. And yet the news Of your saliva.
ton makes JOY before the throne of God.
You remember years ago, Il stage
driver In The White mountains became
very reckless. lie had large number
OF passengers on the stage, and the
stage was drawn by six horses, wild and
ungoVCrnablc, and hc drove near the
prccipicc, and he drove of, the stage
with It's precious freight rolling down the
cmbankmcnt, and many were slain, but
few were saved. | suppose when they
wrote home they wrote with con-
graduation al their rescue. The
angels of God look down and they
they sec men driving on the edge of
great prccipiccs Of ruin and danger,
drawn by wild, lcaping, leaning aud
unyovernabe perils in this life, and if
any shall escape before they capsize, do
you not suppose the angels of God re-
.ioicc. crying: "Good, good! Saved
| from sin, saved from death, saved from
hell. saved torcvtrW
The supreme court OF the United
States does not adjourn loranythine trltl.
ing. II must be the death of a cabinet
minister, or the death of poesident, or
some matter of very great moment.
| When | find all heaven adiourning its
other JOYS for this ono Joy 1 make ur
my mind 1t is ofvCry great imp pOrtancc
II heaven can afford TO adjourn all other
| festivities to celebrate this one triumph.
DO you wonder that so many of these
| Christian people have toilcd night and
| day IN this work of soul saving, if it is of
| such vast Importance? Do you wonder
that Ncttlcton and Finley aud Bishop
| Asbury and John Wesley and George
| Whithlicld and Paul and angels and
Christ and God stripped themselves for
the work? Around that one soul circles
The mist, the fire, the darkness, the Joy,
the anthem, the wailiny, the hallclujah
and the woe Of Gods universe. If the
soul is saved, then lip comes to trumpet
and fingers To harp and hammer to bell
and "thcrc is JOY among the angels of
God over that one soul forgiven" For
such Il soul plead
Having found in my own experience
that this religion is a comfort and Joy,
stand here to commend it to you. In
the days of my infancy | was carried
by Christian parents to the house of
God, and cOnSccrated in baptism to the
Father, and the Son, and the Holy
Ghost; but that did not save me. In
after time was taught to kneel at the
Christian family altar with father and
mother and brothers and sisters, the
most OF them now in glory; but that did
not save me.
In after time read Doddridgcs "Rise
and progress and BaXter's Call to the
Unconverted," and all the religious
books around my fathers household,
but that did not save me. But one day
the voice OF Christ came into my heart
saying, "Repent, repent; believe, be-
lieve," and accepted the offer of mercy,
and though no doubt there was more
JOY in heaven over the conversion of
other souls t"cause Of their farreaching
influence, | verify believe when | gave
my heart to God there were some spirits
in heaven the gladder for the deed.
"Ihrrc Is JOY in heaven aHCng the an
gels q! GGd ever one sinner that repent
eth Turn tins day to the Lord who
bought you. Let this whole audience
surrender themselves to Jesus Christ.
If for ten, twenty, fifty years you have
not prayed. begin now to pray.
"Oh,' you say" can't pray" Can you
not say, "Go! be mrrcilul to me, Il sin
ner - NO" YOU say, IL can't say that"
Then can You not look TO the throne Of
mercy? NO." you say, "I can't look
up. Can YOU not then give some sig
lad IN the hospital? He was sick and
suffering and dying, and wanted speed
'ly to go away from all suffering and
pain, and he said to his comrades IN the
hospital, at is strange to me that Jesus
doesn't see me when he goes through
here at nights and takes others to him
self. He goes through here and he does
not see me. | must be asleep and he
doesn't know | want to go.
Now, L tell you how III arrange it.
III go to sleep with my hand up and
then when Jesus comes through the
hospital by night he will see my hand
lifted, and he will know by that l want
to go with him." So it was done. For
that night Jesus went through the hos
pital and took the suffering lad, and
the next morning the nurse pass
ing through the wards of the hos
pital saw dead hand lifted braced
on one side against the pillow, and the
left hand holding the elbow of the right
arm. Jesus had seen the signal and
answered 1t. On, sick soul, wounded
soul, dying soul, canst thou not give
some signal? Wilt thou not lift one
hand or one prayer? God grant that
this day there may be JOY in heaven
among the angels Of God over your soul
forgiven!
They Want tho Earth.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19.-The State
Department will be astonished when it
gets in Il few days the formal claim OF
the sailors on the Baltimore who were