Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-09-15

lsness and yet get to the end of the
Christian race you are SC awfuliy ms
taken that, in the name of God, this
morning shatter the delasion.
Still further, the road spoken OF Is
s. plain road. 1.-The wayfaring men,
though fools, shall not err therein
that is, if man is three-fourths an
idiot he can find this road just as well
as if he were a philosopher. The I'M
becile boy, the laughingstock OF the
street, and followed by mob hootlng
at him, has only just to knock once at
the gate of heaven and it swings open,
while there has been many man who
can lecture about pneumatics and chem
istry, and tell the story of Faradays
theory Of electrical polarization, and yet
has been shut out of heaven. There has
been many man who stood in an OBJ
servatory and swept the heavens with
his telescope, and yet he has not been
able to see the Morning Star.
Many man has been familiar with
all the higher branches OF mathematics
and yet could not do the simple sum,
..What shall it profit man if he gain
the whole world and lose his own SOUL?
MANY man has been a fine reader OF
tragedies and poems al get could nc:
s.read his title clear to mansions in the
skies" Many man has botanized
across the continent and yet did not
know the sRose Of Sharon and the Lily
of the Valley" But if one shall come
in the right spirit, asking the way to
heaven, he will find il plain way. The
pardon is plain. Tae peace is plain
Everything is plain.
He who tries to get on the road to
heaven through the New Testament
teaching Will get on beautifully. he
who goes through philosophical discus
sion will not get on at all. Christ says,
"Come to me, and / will take all your
sins away, and l will take all your
troubles away" Now, what is the use
of my discussing it any more? Is not
that plain? If you wanted to 50 to Lon
don, and l pointed you out highway
thoroughly laid out, would ! be wise In
OBTAINING you by geological discussion
about the gravel you will pass over. o,
I, physiological discussion aeo=+-the
muscles you will have to bring into play:
No. After this Bible has pointed you
the way to heaven, is It wise for me tc
detain you with any discussion about the
nature of the human will, or whether
the atonement is limited OF unlimited:
There is the road-go on it. It's plain
way.
This is a faithful saying, and worthy
of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus
came into the world to save sinners.
And that is you, and that is me. Any
little child here can understand this as
we'll as can. "Unless you become as
little child, you cannot see the king.
dom of God" If you are saved, it will
not be as philosopher, It will be as a
little child. "Of such IS the kingdom
of heaven" Unless you get the spirit
of little children, you will never come
out at their glorious destiny.
TIE SAFE ROAD.
Still further, this road to heaven is a
safe road. Sometimes the traveller in
those ancient highways would think
himself perfectly secure, not knowing
there was lion by the way burying his
head deep between his paws, and then
when the right moment came, under the
fearful spring, the mans life was gone
and thAEe was mauled carcass by 2ne
roadsloe. says ny text, ~ non
shall be there" wish l could make
YOU feel this morning your entire Sc
curity. tell you plainly that one min
ute after d Ian has become a child of
God he is as safe as though he had been
ten thousand years,in heayan. He may
Nip, ne may slide, he may stumble, but
he cannot be destroyed. Kept by the
power of God through faith unto COM
plete salvation. EverlasfSpgly safe.
The severest trial to which you can
subject Christian man is to kill HIM,
and that is glory. In other words, the
worst thing that car happen child OF
God is heaven Tie body is only the
old slippers that he throws aside just
before putting on the sandals of light.
His soul, you cannot hurt it. No fires
can consume it. No floods can drown
it. No devils can capture it.
Firm and unmoved are they
Who rest their souls on God;
Fixed us the ground wh=:c David stood
.l..- y. bo3
--.--soril is safe. His reputation IS
.yerything ;s. safe. But" you
say, suppose his store burns up:"
Why, then it will only be change of
investments from earthly to heavenly
securities. But" you say, suppose
his, name goes down under the koof of
scorn and contempt:" The name viii be
SO ,nnch h,=igsssse11-iiii gg sssse11 ii glory. suppose
his physical health fails:1 God will
pour into him the Goods of everlasting
health. and it will not make any differ
ence. Earthly subtraction is heavenly
addition The tears Of earth are the
crystals of heaven. As they take rags
and tatters and put them through the
paper mill and they come out beautiful
white sheets Of paper, SO often the rags
of earthly destitution, under the cylin-
ders of death, come out white scroll
upon which shall be written eternal
emancipation.
There was one passage of Scripture
the force OF which | never understood
until one day at Chamounix, with Mont
Blanc Blanc on one SIDE and Montanvent on
the other, opened my Bible and read,
"As the mountains are around about
Jerusalem, so is the Lord around about
them that fear him. The surroundings
We're an omnipotent commentary.
Though troubles sssail and dangers alright.
Though friends should all fail and foes all
unite
Yet one thing secures US, whatever betide-
The Scriptures assure Us the Lord will provide.
PLEASANT ROAD.
Still further, the road spoken of is a
pleasant road. God gives bond of in
aemnity against all evil to every man
that treads it. 'All things work to-
gether for good to those who love God"
40 weapon formed against them can
prosper. That is the bond, signed,
sealed and delivered by the President of
the universe. What is the use of your
fretting, 0 child of God, about food:
Behold the fowls of the air, for they
SOW not, neither do they reap, nor gather
INTO barns, yet your heavenly Father
feedeth them" And will he take care of
the sparrow, will he take care of the
hawk, and let you die? What is the use of
your fretting about clothes? Consider