The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-05-11
at the start warrant you he had at
least 10 at the close.


boris house to help get up weddino
party. BY calculation she finds out
that the amount, of wine Is not sufficient
tor the guests. She call In Christ for
help, and Christ, not by the slow decay
OF fermentation, but by a word. makes
l3O gallons of pure VINE.
Marine achievements! Ua turns q
whole school Of fish into the net OF men
who were mourning oycr their moor
luck until the boat ls 80 full they have TO
halloo to other boats, aud the other
boats come up, and they are laden to the
water's edge with the game. so that the
sailors have to be cautious IN going from
ship.
Then there comes a suuall down
| through the mountain gorge, and Gen
nesarct, with long locks of white eoam
rises up to battle it, and the boat drops
into trough aud ships IA sea, and the
loosened sails crack in the tornado, and
Christ rises from the back part of the
boat and comes walking across the stag.
gcring ship until he comes to the prov.
and there he wipes the spray from his
brow aud bushes the CRYING storm on
the knee OF his omnipotence. Who
wrestlcd down that curoclydon? Whose
feet trampled the rough GalIlee iuto a
smooth tlool?
Let philosophers and anatomists 90
10 westminster abbey and try to wake
up Queen Elizabeth or Henry VIII
No human power ever wakened the
dead. There IS dead girl III Caperna.
um. What does Christ do? Alas, that
she should have died 50 young and
When the world was so young Only
IL years Of age. Feel her cold brow and
col d hands. Dead, dead. The house
is full of weeping. Christ comes, and
he takes hold OF the hand of the dead
girl, and Instantly her eyes open, her
heart starts. The white lily of death
bushes into the rose of life and health
She ruSheS into the arms of hel reloic-
Ing kindred. Who woke up that death
Who restored her to life? A man
Tell tina: to the lunatics in Blooming
dale asylum. 1t was Christ the God.
BUT there comes test which more
than anything else will show whether
ne was God or man. You remember
lhat great passage which says, ave
must all appear before the Judgment
seat Of Christ" The earth will be
stunned by blow that will make it
stagger In midheaven, the stars will
| circle like dry leaves in an equinox.
the earth will unroll the bodies, and
the sky will unroll the spirits, and soul
and flesh will come into incorruptible
conjunction. Day of smoke and fire
ana darkness and triumph. On one
slue, plled up in galleries of light, the
one hundred and forty and four thous-
and-yea, the uintillions-of the
saved: On the other side, piled up in
galleries OF darkness, the frowning, the
glarlng multitude of those who reject
ed God.
Between these two piled up galleries
a throne, high throne, a throne stand
ing on two FURNISHED pillars-ius tice.
mercy-a throne so bright you had
better hide your eye lest it be extin-
gulshed:With excess of vision. But it
Is an empty throne. Who will come
up and take it? VIII you?
"Ah, no." you say. 81 am but child
or dust. | would not dare to climb that
throne" Would Gabriel climb it? lie
dare not. Who Will ascend it? Here
comes one. His back is to us. lie
goes up step above step, height above
,nlelgnt, until he reaches the apex.
linen he turns around and faces all
nations, and we all see who it is. II is
| Chrlst the God, and all earth, and all
heaven, and all hell kneel CRYING: cit
is a God! 1t is God" We must all
| appear before the Judgment seat of
| Christ.
On, | am SO glad that it is divine
DelLg who comes to pardon all our
sins, to comfort all our sorrows. som.
times our griefs are so great they are
beyond any human sympathy, and we
want Almighty sympathy. On, We
who cried all last night because of be- |
reaYement or loneliness. | want to tell |
you 1T Is an omnipotent Christ who is |
come.
When the children are in the house
and the mother is dead, the father has
TO be more gentle in the home, and he
has to take the Office of father and
mother, and it seems to me Christ
looks out upon your helpleSSneSs, AID
ne proposes TO be father and mother to
your soul. lie comes in the strength of
the one, in the tenderness Of the other
IL says with one breath, "As a father
pltleth his children, so the Lord pitioth
tnem that fear him." and then with
Cne next breath he says, LAS one whom
MS mother comfOrteth so Will | COM
Tort you. do you not feel the hush
OF the divine lullaby?
ON, put your tired head down on the
heaVlng bosom Of divine compassion
while he puts his arms around YOU and
says: 80 widowed soul, will be thy
'iod. O, orphaned soul, vii! be thy
protector DO not cry" Then he
touches your eyelids with his fingers
and sweeps his fingers down your
cheek and wipes away all the tears of
onellness and bereavement. On what
= tender and sympathetic God has
come Tor us. | do not ask you to lay
lold OF him. Perhaps you are not
strong enough for that. DO not ask
you to pray. Perhaps you are too be.
wiidered ior that. | only ask you to
lot go and fall back into the arms of
everlasting love.
Soon you and | will hear the click of
I,i tne latch of the door Of the sepulcher
strong men will take us in their arms
ana carry us down and lay US in the
dust, and they cannot bring us back
again. | should be scared with Infinite
fright If L thought L must stay in the
grave, II even the body were to stay in
the grave. Bnt Christ will come with
glorious iconoclasm and split and
grind up the rocks and let us all come
forth. The Christ of the manger is the
Christ CT the throne.