The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-02-25

NIHcydruS anu OrCIlaTOS Ol heaven crown
the table. The world has been Invited
TO come, and they look in, and they are
hungry, and people would pour in by the
millions to this worldwide table, but the
door is blocked up by controversies and
men with whole libraries on their backs
and dlsputing as to what proportion OF
sweet oil and cayenne pepper should
make up the creed. cry, "Get out OF
the way and let the hungry world come
in.n
The Christian church will have to
change Its tack, or it will run on the
rocks OF demolition. The worlds popu-
latlon annually increases $4,000 600.
NO one pretends that half that number
OF people are converted to God. There
are more than twice as many Buddhists
as Protcstants; more than twice as MANY
Buddhists as Roman Catholics. Pro-
tcstants, 1875, 100000; Catholics, 1861
600, 200; Buddhists, 400, 900, 900. There
are It's 100000 Mohamlnedans and
22O, 100000 Brahmins. Meanwhile,
many OF the churches are only religious
clubhouses, where few people 90 on
Sunday morning, averaging one person
TO a pew or one person to a half dozen
pews, and leaving the minister at night
TO sweat through sermon with here
and there lone traveller, unless, by a
Sunday evening sacred concert, he can
get out an audience of respectable size.
The vast maj orlty of the church men,
bership around the world puts forth no
direct effort for the salvation of men.
DID say there would have to be a
change? I correct that and say, There
will be a change. Ii there be fifteen
million persons added every year to the
worlds population, then there will be
thirty million added to the church and
forty million and fifty million and sixty
million. How will it be done? It will
be done when the church will meet
Christ on the plain. Come down out OF
the mountain of exclusiveness. Come
down out Of the mountain of pride,
Come down out of the mountain of for
malism. Come down out of the noun
tain of freezing indifference.
Astronomers have been busy measur-
ing worlds, and they have told us how
great is the circumference of this world
and how great is it's diameter. Yea,
they have kept on until they have
weighed our planet and found its weight
to be six seXtillion tons. But by no
science has the weight of this worlds
trouble been weighed. Now, Christ
standing on the level of our humanity
stands in sympathy with every trouble.
There are 80 many aching heads. His
ached under the thorns. There are 80
many weary feet. His were worn with
the long journey up and down the land
that received him not. There are so
many prosecuted souls. Every hour of
his life was under human outrage. The
world had no better place to receive
him than cattle pen, and it's farewell
was slap on his cheek and spear in
his side.
SO Intensely human was he that there
has not been in all our race a grlefor in
Trinity or exhaustion or pang that did
not touch him once and that does not
touch him now. The lepers, the pa
lytics, the imbcclle, the maniac, the
courtesan, tho repentant brigand-which
one did he turn of, which one did he
not pity, which one did he not help?
The universal trouble Of the world is be-
reavemcnt. One may escape all the
other troubles, but that 70 soul escape.
Out OF that bitter cup every one must
take drink. For instance, in order
that all mightknow how he sympathizcs
with those who have lost a daughter,
Christ comes to the house Of Jairus.
There is such big crowd around the
door he and his disciples have to push
theli way IN. From the throng of peo-
pie conclude that this girl must have
been very popular; she was one Of those
children whom everybody likes.
oF ca.
so full Of life few days ago,
and now 80 still! Oh, what it IS to have
a daughter dead! The room is full OF
folks, but yonder is the room where the
young sleeperssis. The crowd cannot 90
in there. Only six persons enter-fyc
besides Christ-three friends, and of
course the father and mother. They
have the first right to go in. The hea-
West part Of the grief was theirs. All
eyes IN that room are on the face Of this
girl. There lay the beautiful hand, white
and finely shapen, but it was not lifted
In greeting to any of the group.
Christ stepped forward and took hold
OF that hand and said, with a tone and
accumulation charged with tenderness
ana command, "Damsel, 1 say unto
thee, ariseW And without a moments
oelay she arose, her eyes wide open, her
cheeks turning from white lily to red
rose, and the parents cry, ''She lives!
She llVes!" and in the next room thew
take up the sound, "She lives! She
llves!" and the throng in front of the
doorway repeatit, "She lives. She lives!"
Will not all those who have lost q
daughter leel that such Christ as that
can sympathizc?
Oh another occasion he showed how
he felt about the loss of a son. Here
are the obsequies. A long pocession, a
widowed mother following her only son.
know not how long the husband and
lather had been gone, but upon this son,
VINO had now come TO be young man
the leadership of that household had
iallen. L think he had got to be the
brcadwnner. He was proud of his
mother, and she should never lack any
thing as long as he lived. And there
is no grander spectacle on earth than a
young man standing between want and q
widowed mother. But that young man
had fallen lifeless under accident or
disaster, anl he was being carried out.
Only a very few hours in that land are