The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-06-08

We shall all do as we please in that
radiant place il through the pardonipp
and sanctfying grace Of Christ we ever
get there. What day 1t will be when
we stand on the beach of heaven and
look back on the Red sea of this
worlds sin and trouble and celebrate
tne TACT that we have got through, aud
got over, and got up,Our sins and our
troubles attempting to follow gone
clear down under the waves oh e0b
crimson Hoods, roll over them and
dr0W Wn them, and drown them forever
what a celebration it will ba-our
resurrected bodies standiug on the
oeach, whose peddles are amethyst and
emerald and agate and diainondsl
what a shaking of hands! What a
talking over the old times! What n
jubilee! What an opportunity to visit
In this world we have 80 little time for
tnat. ! am looking forward to eternal
socialities. 70 be with God and never
SIN against him. TO be with Christ
and Tor ever feel his love. TO walk
Cogether III robes Of white with those
Win whom on earth we walked tOgeth-
er in black raiment Of morning. TO
gather up the members of our scattered
lamlles and embrace them with no en-
Darrassmrnt, though all heaven be
looking oa.
a mine iii Scotland caved i'm and
| caught amid the rocks young man
who in Il few days WAS TO have bseu
| united in holy marriage. No one
could get heart to tell his allianced of
the death of her beloved, but some one
made her believe that he had changed
his mind about the marriage and will
fully disappeared. Fifty years passed
on, when one day the miners, ueIvinp
In the earth, suddenly came on the BODY
OF that young man, which had all those
years been kept from the air and looked
just as 1T was the day of the calamity.
Strong, manly, noble youth, he sat
there looking as on the day he died. But
no one recognized the silent form.
After while they called the oldest
inhabitants to come and see il any one
could recognized him. a woman, with
bent form and her hair snowy white
the silent from that had been so com.
pletely preserved gave il bitter cry and
1ell into long sWoOn. 1t was the one
TO whom half Il century before she was
TO have been welded, looking then lust
as when III the days OF their youth
their affections had commingled. But
the emotion of her soul was too great
for mortal endurance, and two days
after those who 80 years before were to
nave JolHeu ndlu3 Ill WeQlOCk were at
last married in the tomb, and side by
side they wait for the resurrection.
My friends, we shall come at last
upon those Of our loved ones who long
ago halted in the journey of life. They
will be as fair and beautiful-yea,
fairer and more beautiful than when
we parted from them. | may be old
age looking upon chill lhocd or youth
On, my Lord, how we have missed
them! Sepreted for 10 years or 20 years
or 30 years, but together at the last,
together at the last! Just think Of It'll
Will it not be glorious? Miriam's
song again. appropriate, for death
riding on the pale horse, with his four
hoots on all our hearts, shall lave been
forever discOmfOrted
see them now-the gloriiied-as
Sembled for a celebration mightier and
more jubilant than that on the banks
or the Red sea, and from all lands and
ages, on beach OF light above beach of
light, gallery above gallery, and thrones
above thrones, in circling sweep Of 1O,-
OO0 miles of surrounding and upheaved
Splendor, while standing before them
on "sea Of glass mingled with fire."
Mlcheal, the archangel, with swinging
scepter, beats time for the multitudl-
nous chorus, crying: "Sing Sing Sing
ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed
gloriously; the horse and his rider
hath he thrown into the sea-"