The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-10-27


tain last summer. 1t was tour had
TOR many years anticipated. With the
themes OF the Gospel l confronted
more people than ever before in the
same length Of time--multitudes after
multltudes, and beyond anything can
describe. The throngs in all the cities
were SO great that they could be con-
trolled only by platoons of police, SO
that none should be hurt by the pres
sure, each service indoors followed by
a service for the waiting throngs out
aoors ana both by handshakings to the
last point Of physical endurance.
From the day in which l arrived at
noon In Liverpool, and that night ad-
dressing two vast assemblages, until |
got through my evangelistic journey,
1t was a scene of blessing to my own
soul and hope to others. l missed
but three engagements of all the sum-
| mer, and those from being too tired to
stand up. At all the assemblages large
collections were taken-Jhe money be-
| Ing given to local charities, feeble
churches, orphan asylums or Young
Mems Christian AsSociationS-my ser. :.
vices being entirely gratuitons. But
what summer! There must have
| been much praying here and elsewhere
1or my welfare, or no mortal could
have gone through all went through
In every city and town | had mes
Sages poured into my ears for families
| In America. Oh, sons of Scotchmen.
| Englishmen, Welshmen and Irishmen.
| there are hearts on the other side of
the sea beating in affection for you and
praying for your present and eternal
welfare. They wanted me to give you
their love, and here it is by the whole
sale, Tor cannot give it 10y retail. Dis
appoint not the old folks on the other
side the Atlantic. You will probably
never see them again in this world
| Ihelr hair is whitening, and their step
is not as firm as when you saw them
last. So live that you may meet them
in heaven. Write home often, and
while you know they are praying for
you, do not forget TO remember in your
prayers those who were your first
| friends, and friends than whom YOU
| wilt never have bGtter--I mean your
| old father and mother.
Hy the memories of the old Scotch
k!rk, where you were baptized, and Of
tA@ English reside, by which YOU
played, and Of the Welsh hills and val
legs, among which you roamed, and
The old homes on the banks of the
Tweed and the Shannon and the Clyde.
charge you be honorable and true and
Christian. You have good ancestral
blood in your veins. Prove yourself
worthy. 1t seems to me that the Cos
Pei IS making mighty strides over
there.
only one thing | saw in the chapels
AMI churches did not like. That is a
lacN OF appreciation OF each other as
between the national church and the
oS5enterS. Now each is doing great
work that the other cannot do. God
speed them all-they Of the episcopacy
and they OF the dissenters! Some need
the ritual OF the national church and
others the Spontaneity of the WESLEYAN.
In the kingdom of God there is room
LOT all to work and each In his own
way. Some people are born Episcopal
lans and others Methodists and Others
l}aptists and others Presbyterians. and
40 not let uH force our notions on
| others.
AS for myself, was born so near the
line that l feel as much at home in one
denomination as another, and when in
the Episcopal church the liturgy stirs
my soul SO that cannot keep back the
tears, ana 1T OVerwhelms me with its
solemnity and its power. When in an
| old fashioned Methodist church the re-
sponses of "AmenP and "IIalleluiahr
lift me until, like Paul, am in blessed
DeWllderment as to whether in the
body or out of the body, God knoweth." :"
And rs for the Baptists, though have
never been anything but sprinkled, /
have immersed hundreds and expect to
immerse hundreds more in the baptis.
try under this pulpit where | now
stand.
What is the use of controversy about
anything. except how we shall keep
close to the cross and do the most for
helplng people for this world and the
next? May there come in England
more cordiality between the national
church and the dissenters. Although
| would be called a dissenter there, al
most my first step in England was into
a banqueting hall-the lord mayors
banquet. given to the bishops and high
officials Of the national church, the
great and good and genial archbishop
or Canterbury at their head, and a
more magnificent group of folks, intel
lectually and spiritually, / never got
among, and L found that though we had
never met before the archbishop and
myself were old friends. But all up
and down Great Britain found a mui
tltude that no man can number enlisted
Tor God and eternity, and tell you the
Kingdom is coming.
II the pessimistS would get out of the
way-the people who snivel and prOan
| 'N 'A'AiiN SNOi thIllS Has gone TO the
| dOgS or Is about to gO-I say if these
pessimists would only get out of the
way, the world would soon see the sal
Hatlon of God. Christianity is only
announcer name for elevated optimism.
as ISAIAH an Optimist? See his de-
srrts incarnadined with red roses and
slowed under with white lilies and his
amb asleep between the paws of n
non. hon, WAS St, John an optimist? /?
heau the uplltuug splendors in the
| Apocalypse and The halleluiah chorus
with ', Inch the old book, which they
cannot kill, closes
The greatest thing | can think of
| would be to haye triple alliance of
America, England and Russia in com
piete augmentation, and then to have
| upon az OF them come deluge of the
| Holy Ghost. Let the defamation of
other nations cease. Peace and good
VIII 10 men! FOR that glorious CON
summation, which may be nearer than
we think, let us pray, rememherjnu