Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-02-02

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can afford to adjourn astronomy and
geology and many of the sciences to the
Aext world, because we shall there have
better apparatus and better opportunity.
must study these sciences SO far as
to help me in my work, but beyond that
1 must give myself to saving my own
soul and saving the souls of others,
knowing that in one fash Of eternity we
will catch it ALL Oh, what an observa-
tory in which to study astronomy heaven
will be, not by power of telescope, but
by supernatural vision; and if there be
something doubtful 100000 miles
away, by one stroke of the wing you are
there, by another stroke of the wing you
are back again, and allin less time than
tell you, catching it all in one flash of
eternity.
THE SCIENCE OF HEAVEN.
And geology. What place that will
be to study geology, when the world is
being picked to pieces as easily as
schoolgirl in botanical lessons pulls the
leaf from the corona! What place to
study architecture. amid the thrones, and
the palaces, and the cathedrals-St.
Marks and ST. Pauls rookeries in COM
parison.
Sometimes you wish you could make
the tour of the whole earth, going around
as others have gone, but you have not
the time; you have not the means. You
will make that tour yet during one
musical pause in the eternal anthem. l
say these things for the comfort Of those
people who are abridged in their opportu-
nities-those people to whom life is
humdrum, who toll and work, and toll
and work, and aspire after knowledge,
but have no time to get it, and say, IF |
had the opportunities which other people
have, how would fill my mind and soul
with grand thoughts" Be not discour-
aged, my friends. You are going to the
university yet Death will only matricu-
late you into the royal college of the uni
verse.
What sublime thing it was that DR..
Thornwell, of South Carolina, uttered in
his last dying moments! As he looked
up he said, 1T opens; it expands; it ex-
pands." Or as Mr.. Toplady, the author
of Crock of Ages" in his last moment,
or during his last hours, looked up
and said, as though he saw something
supernatural, Light and the, as he
came on nearer the dying moment, his
countenance more luminous. he cried,
Light" and at the very moment of
his departure lifted both hands, some
thing supernatural in his countenance as
he cried, Light" Only another name
for sunshine.
Besides that we shall have all the
pleasures of association. We will go
right up in the front of God without any
fright. All our sins gone, there will be
nothing to be frightened about. There
our old Christian friends will troop
around us Just as row one of your
sick friends goes away to Florida. the
land of flowers, or to the south of France,
and you do not see him for long while,
and alter awhile you meet him, and the
horows under the eyes are all filed, and
the appetite has come back, and the
crutch has been thrown away, and he is
SO changed you hardly know him. You
say, Why, l never saw you look so
we'll" He says: Il couldn't help but be
well. / have been sailing these rivers
and climbing hesemountains, and that's
how l got this elasticity. l never was
so we'll
Oh, my friends, your departed loved
ones are only away for their health in a
better climate, and when YOU meet them
they will be SC changed you will hardly
know them-they will be so very much
changed, and after awhile, when you
are assured that they are your friends,
your departed friends, You will say:
why, where is that cough: Where is
that paralysis: Where is that pneumo-
MIA: Where is that consumption" And
he will say: "Oh, am entirely well.
There are no sick ones in this country.
have been ranging these hills, and hence
this elasticity. 1 have been here now
twenty years, and not one sick one have
/ Seen-we are all well in this climate,
THE ETERNAL JOY.
And then stand at the gate OF the
celestial city to see the professions come
ont. and see long procession OF little
children with their arms full of flowers.
and then l see procession of kings and
priests moving in celestial pageantry-a
long procession, but no black tasseled
vehicle. no mourning group, and say:
How strangeitis. Where's Your Green
wood? where is Your Laurel Hill? where
is Your Westminster abbey" And they
shall CRY, There are no graves here"
And then listen for the tolling Of the
old belfries of heaven. the old belfries of
eternity. listen to hear them toll for
the dead. but they toll not for the dead.
They only strike up silvery chime,
tower to tower, east gate to west gate,
as they ring out, They shall hunger no
more, neither thirst any more, neither
shall the sun light on them, nor any heat,
for the Lamb which is in the midst of
the throne shall lead them to living foun-
tains of water, and God shall wipe away
all tears from their eyes"
Oh, unglove Your hand and give it to
me in congratulation on that scene! /
feel as if | would shout will shout
halleluiah. Dear Lord, forgive me that
1 ever complained about anything. If all
this is before US, who cares for anything
but God and heaven and eternal broth
erhood: Take the Grape off the doorbeu.
Your loved ones are only away for their
health in land ambrosial. Come, Low
ell Mason; come, Isaac Watts, and give
Us your best hymn about JOY celestial.
What is the use of postponinS our
heaven any longer: Let it beo:'. now,
and whosoever hath harp let her thrum
it, and whcsoever hath a trumpet let
him blow it, and whosoever hath an or
gan let him give Us a full diapason.
They crowd down the air, spirits blessed,
moving in cavalcade of triumph. Their
chariot wheels whirl in the Sabbath sun
light. They come. Halt, armies Of
God. Halt until we are ready to join
the battalion of pleasures that never die.
Oh, my friends, it would take ser
mon as long as eternity to tell the joys
that are coming to US. l just set open
the sunshiny door. Come in, all We dis
ciples of the world who have found the
world a mockery Come il, all ye disci-
pies of the dance, and see the bounding
feet of this heavenly gladness. Come in,
ye disciples of worldly amusement, and
see the stage where kings are the actors,
and burning worlds the footlights, and
thrones the spectacular.
Arise. ye dead in sin, for this is the