The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-08-24

| After a clergyman had preached Il ser
mon in regard to the glories of heaven
and the sp'endors Of the scene an aged
woman said "lf all that is to 60 on in
heaven, don't know what will become
of my poor head" On, my friends,
there will be 80 many things going on
IN heaven ! have sometimes wondered
If the Lord would not forget you and
me.
Perhaps Paul said sometimes: m
wonder God does not forget me down
here in Antioch, and in the prison, and
in the shipWreck. There are SO many
sailors. so many wayfarers, 80 many
prisoners. so many heartbroken men"
says Paul, perhaps God mny forget
me. ana then l am so vile IA sinner
How whipped those Christians! With
what vengeance l mounted that cayal-
Ty horse and dashed up to Damascusl
On! 1t will take mighty attorney to
plead my cause and get me free" Hut
Just at that moment there came in upon
IaulS soul something mightier than
the surges that dashed his shin into
Melita, sWifter than the horse he rode
TO Damascus. 1t was the swift and
overwhelming thought OF Christs in
tercession.
My friends, we must have AN advo-
cate. a poor lawyer is worse than no
lawyer at all. We must have one who
IS able successfully to present our cause
Defore God. Where is he? Who Is he ?
Ihere Is only one advocate in all the
universe that can plead our cause in
the last Judgment, that can plead our
cause before God in the great tribunal.
sometimes in earthly courts attOr-
neys nave speclaltieS, and one man sue
ceeds better in patent cases, another in
insurance cases, another IN criminal
| In I,,NI
Will cases, and his success generally de-
pends upon his sticking to that spccial-
ty. have to tell you that Christ can
, 40 many things, hut it seems to me
. that his speciality is to take the bad
, case or the sinner and plead it before
God until he gets eternal acquIttal.
, On! we must have him tor our advo-
cate.
But what plea can he make? Some
. times an attorney in court will plead
the Innocence of the prisoner. That
would be inappropriate for us; we are
all guilty. guilty! Unclean, rnclean!
Christ, our advocate, will not plead our
innocence. Sometimes the attorney in
court tries to prove an alibi. lie SAYS:
"Thls prisoner was not at the scene.
lie was III some other place at the
time. Such plea will not do in our
case. The Lord found us in all our
sins and IN the very place of our ini-
quity. 1t is impossible to prove an al.
lOi. SOMETIMES an attorney will plead
the insanity Of the prisoner and say he
} Is irresponsible on that account. That
plea Will never do in our case. We
slnhed against light, against know.
( ledge, against the dictates of our own
consclences; we knew what we were
doing. What then shall the plea be?
}, Inc plea for our eternal dpllverance
Will be ChriSt'S own maltyrdOm. He
T VIII say: "Lo0k at all these wounds.
Dy all these snfIerings | demand the
rescue OF this man from sin and death
ana hell. Constable, knock off the
} snackles- lot the prisoner go free"
"Who Is he that condemneth? 1t ls
Chrlst That died, yea, rather that Is
nand or God. WhOialsO maketh intcrces-
: sion for us"
But why all this gladness on the faces
OF these sons and daughters of the
Lord Aimlghtyp l know what you
are thinking of. A. Saviour dead; "A
Saviour risen; a Saviour exalted; a Say
lonr lnterccding. "What." say you, ''is
all that for me?' All! all! Never let
me near you complaining about any
thing again. with your pardoned sin
Dehlnu you, and a successful Christ |
pleading above you, and a glorious
heaven before you, how can you be de. |
spondent about anything?
But, says some man in the audi |
ence, "all that is very good and very |
True 1or those who are inside the king |
dom, but how about those of us WHO |
are outsider" Then | say. come into |
the kingdom, come out of the prison |
house into the glorious sunlight of
GODS mercy and pardon and come now.
II ~ I,,nE .1nx, 4
or terror, the year 1893. Hundreds and |
thousands had perished under the
french gu1llotine. France groaned
with the tyrannies of Robespierre and
the Jacobin club. The last group of
sufferers had had their locks shOrn by
MonchOtte, the prison barber, so that
the neck might be bare to the keen
knife Of the guillotine
The carts came up to the prison, the
poor Wretchts were placed in the carts
and driven off toward the scaH Old
But while they we're going toward
the scatfOld there was an Outcry in the
street, and then the shock of firearms.
and then the cry: "Robespierre has
fallen! Down with the .Jac0bins! Let
France be free" But the armed sol
diers rode In upon these rescuers, so
that the poor wretches in the carts
were taken on to the ScatfOlh and hOrri-
bly, died.
But that very night these monsters
or persecution were seized, and Rob
esplerre perished under the verv guilI0.
tine that he had reared for others, all
France clapping their hands with i0y
as his head rolled into the executioner's 8
basket. Then the axes of the excited
populace were heard pounding against
the gates of the prison, and the poor
prisoners walked out free. My friends
sin Is the worst of all Robespierres. It Is
the tyrant of tyrants. 1t has built pri-
son house for our souls. 1t plots our |
death. 1t has Shorn us for the sacrifice:
put, blessed be God, this morning we
near the axes of Gods gracious deliver.
ance pounding against the door of
our prison.
Dellyerance has come. Light breaka
through all the wards of the prison. +
revolution! Revolution! "Where ain I
acknowledgement does much more abound
that whereas sin reigned unto death