The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-03-23

are lub ISdTS WHICH suffer-
ing froZa as they fell. On, there is q
; river Of difficulty between us,and every
earthly achievement. You know that.
You admit that.
You know this is 50 with regard to
the acquisition of knowledge. The an
clients used to say that Vulcan struck
Jupiter on the head, and the goddess of
wisdom Jumped out, illustrating the
truth that wisdom comes by hard
KNOCKS. There was river of difficulty
netWesn Shakespeare, the boy, holding
the horses at the door of the London
theater, and that Shakespeare, the
great dramatlst, winning the applause
OF all audiences by his tragedies. There
was river between BENJAMIN Frank
lin, with aloaf of bread undet his arm.
walking the streets Of philadelphia'
ana that same Benjamin Franklin. the
philosopher, just outside of Boston tly-
ing kite in the thunder storm.
An idler was cured Of his bad habit
py looking through his window night
a1ter night at a naa who seemed sit
ting at his desk turning eff one sheet
OF writing after another until almost
the dawn Of the morning. The man
sitting there writing until morning
was industrious Walter Scott; the man
, VINO looked at him through the win
, dow was LOckhart, his illustriOus Iii.
ographtr afterWard. Lord Mansfield
pursued by the press and by the p0pu
lace because OF u certain line OF duty.
went on to discharge the duty, and
"hilc the mob were around him de-
1dfhg the taking Of his life he shook
ms MS tlst IN the face of the mob and said
SlTS, when Cne'S last end come J. it. can
not come too soon if he falls in defer, q
OF law and the liberty of his country"
ana so there is, my friends, a tug, q
CuSsle, a trial, Il push, an anxiety.
) through which every man must go be.
, lore he comes to worldly success and
worldly achievement. You admit it.
, NOW, be wise enough to apply II in re-
!, ilglon. Eminent Christian character
, y only gained by the Jordanic pas
= S'Ge; no man JUST happened tC get good
, why GOES tha5 man know so much
about the Scriptures? He was study.
ing The Bible while you were reading q
mover. lie was on fire with the sub
limltles OF the Bible while you we're
> sound asleep. by tug, Gussle, pushing
5 and running in the Christian life thai
l man got 50 strong for GCd; in 4 hun
. dred Solteriuo3 he learned how to light:
3 IN hundrcd slipWrcCtSa he learned
l now 10 SWIM. Tears over sin, tears
, over IIoll5 deS2la'loL, tears over the
lmpenlLcnt, tears over The graves made.
are the Jordan which that man had
passed, Sorrow paies the cheek, and
ladeS The eye, and wrinkles the brow,
; and WltherS the hands. There are
mourning garments in the wardrobe.
and there are deaths in every family
3 record-ail around are the relics of the
deau. VIZ
The Christian has passed the Red sea
y OF trouOlc, and set he thinks there is Il
c 1oroTn OF death between him and heav-
" en-. IL" comes down to that Jordan, of
= death and thinks how MANY havr h.nn
= lost there. When Molvneux was cx'
II plorinG the Jordan in Palestine h~ had
/. MS Dnh'S al Knocked to pieces in the
l"plu5 OF lh@L RIVER. And there are :,
~, Stcil, many men WhD have gone dawn
-, IN thc aver oi ,t"ath: lha Atlantic and
) racine nave not swallowed SO many
10 10 II Is ~ awful thing 10 make shiD.
III wrecks o.? the rock Uf ruin; mNsts fail.
u ing, hurr!caneS flying, death coming
y slo"nlil@S III thc water, meanings in
the wind, thunder in the sky, While
n. GOd with the tiuger CT the Jirhtnino
ri writes al over tha sky. Il viii tread
n them Ia my wrath, and will trampit
80 them IL my furY'
- The Christian comes down 70 this
~ raging torrent, and he knows he must
l: pass out, ana as ho comes toward thn
- time MS D!EAlh gets shorter and his
l. iaSt breath leaves him us he steps into
: the stream, and 20 sooner does he tOurh
C the stream than it is parted and hn
+ goes through dry Sh0I while all the
. waters wave Their nlumes, crying: 90
. death, where Is thy sting? o grave,
where is thy rlcJory?" COD shall Wiue
away all tears from their eyes, and
, Chpre ShAi! be 80 more weeping. and
, there Shall be no more death.
Some Oh your children have already
gone up the ether bank. You let them
Gown on this side OF the bank; they
VIII De on the other bank to help you
up with supernatural strength. The
other morning at my table, all nv fam
liy present, | thought TO myself how
pleasant IL would be if could put all
into boat AID then go in with them,
and we cOlld pull across the river TO
the next world and be there all to-.
gether. No family parting, no gloomy
obSequies. 1t wouldn't take five min
utes TO go from bank TO bank, and then
IN that bt tier world to he together for
ever, wouldn't 1t be pleasant for you
10 take all your family INTO that blessed
country II you could all go tOgetherp
| remember my mother in her dying
J hour said to my father, Father,
wouldn't 1T be pleasant if we could ali
GO tOgethCr?' But we cannot all 90
together. We must go one by one, and
we must be grateful! if we get there at
all. What Il heaven it viii be if we
have all OUr families there to look
around andsec all the children are pres
> cnt!s You would rather have them all
there, and you SO with bare brow for.
; ever, than that one should be missing
to compete the garIands Of heaven for
your co.onal. The LOrd God of JOSH
give them Safo Jordanic paSSage
Even children Will go through dry
shCd. Those Of us who were brought
up in the country remember, when the
summer was coming on in our boy
hood days, We always longed for the
day when we were TO 60 bareroOted,
and after teasing our mothers in re-
gard TO 1t for q good while, and they
consented, wo remember the delicious
sensation OF the cool grass when we
, put our uncovered foot on it.
, And The timo will come when these
I Shoes l,Ct I, e