The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-06-29

| A silent, watching band,
On low couch a suffering child
GraSping her mOthorS hand.
But mid tho gasp and struggle
With Shuddcring lips she cried,
| Mother, oh, dearest mother,
| Bury mo by your side"
| Only one wish she uttered,
| As lif0 was cbbing fast,
'Slecp by my side, dear mother,
And rise with me at last"
Oh, yes, we want to be buried to
Sether. Sweet antelope OF everlasting
residence in each others companion
ship.
When the wreckcr went down into the
cabin OF the lost steamer, he found tho
mother and child in each others arms
1t was sad, but it was beautiful, aud il
was appropriate. Together they went
dowD. Together they will rise. One
on earth. One IN heaven. Is there not
something cheering in all This thought,
aud something to impress upon us the
idea that Lhe.departed are ours veL--ours
| forever?
But console you again with The fact
OF your present acquaintanccship and
communication with your departed
friends. l have no sympathy, need
not say, with the ideas of modern spir.
| ltualism, but what mean IS the theory
set forth by the apostle, when Inc says,
| "Wc arc surrounded by a great cloud
OF witncsscs.' Just as in the ancient
amphlthcatCr there were 50, 900 or lOO,-
600 people looking down from the gal.
lcrcs upon the combatants in the
center, 81, says Paul, there is Il great
host OF friends in all the galleries Ot the
sky looking down upon our earthly
struggles. 1t Is n sweet, 4 cons )llu., IL
| Scrlptural idea. With wing Of ANGEL,
earth and heaven arc in constant cOm.
munlcatIOn. Does not the Bible say,
Are they not sent forth "a minist nrlny
spirits to those who shall he heirs o:
saivaton?" And when minstcriny
spirits come down and see us. d they
not take some message back:
1t is impossible to realize, know, the
idea that there is such rapid an per
pctual mtcrcommunicatiOn OF ear ii aYd
heaven, but il is a glorious reality. "ou
take rail train, and the train in full
motion, and an >ther train from the op-
posLc direction dashcs past you 81 swift
~ that you are startled. All the way
between here and heaven is filled with
the up trains and the down trains
|
gong coming going. That friend of
yours who died last month--do you not
suppose he told all the family news a D)ut
you IN the good land 90 the friends who
are gone: ID you not suppose that
when there are hundreds OF op2orluAl-
TIES every day Tor them in heaven /,
hear from you that they As2: about \ol,
that lhcy know your tears, Your t"mNLI.
liohS, your Slrnr"lcH, your v'r'urin~I
Aye, they do.
IcrhapS during the Last war yOu Lli
a BOY IN the army, and you got Il pass.
ana You went through the lines. and Won
found him, and the regiment comiur
from your h"'ghborhood Won knew mos,
OF the boys there. One day You started
Tor home. You SAID. "Weu, now,
have You any letters to send? ANY
messages to send?' And they filled
| your pockets with letters, and YOU started
home. Arriving home, the neiyhbors
came in, and one said, "Did YOU see nv
Jom:' and others, Did lou see
Gcorgc." "DD you kuow ANYTHING
about my Frank" Aud then YOU
brought out the letters and gave them
The messages of which you had been the
bearer. Do You suppose that angels Of
God, coming down to this vful battle.
llcld OF SIN and sorrow and death aad
meeting lis and seeing us and finding out
all ABOUT uS, carry back no message to
the skicx
On, there is consolation in it! You
are IN present communication with that
| lahd. Ihcy are IN sympathy with you
| now more than they ever were, and they
are waiting for the moment when the
hammer stroke shall shGttcr the last
chain OF your earthly bondage and your
soul shall spring upward, and they will
ST md on the heights of heaven and see
you come, and when you are within hail
ing distance your other friends will be
callcd out, and as you Cash through the
| pearl hung gate their shouts will mako
the hills lremble, "IIail ransOmcd spirit,
10 the city of the blessed"
| console you still further with tbc
idea OF a resurrection. know there
are great many people who do not ac
cept this because they cannot understand
1t; but, my friends, there are two sl0ut
passagcs-I could bring hundred, but
one sWarthY passages are enOuph-and
t"o E DaVld VIII strike down the largest
uolaVh. Marvel not at this, for the
| ~ NohiliS Wllcn AL VINO are IN their
graves shall come FORTH" The other
s"arthy passage is this: "Thc Iorj
shall descend from heaven with n shout.
ana the voice of the archangcI, and the
snp trump OF God, and the dead in Christ
shall ! rise first" Oh, there wiIi be surh
tnih9as a resurrection.
- ou ask me a great many rucstioro
4, Youoo" answer about this resurrection.
q ousay, tor instance, ''Ira mans hoIn
f. ssvona 90 constantly changing, and evcry y
v SSI,''n ho",, year he has an entirely nnS
y ooaY, 1 and he lives on To- 20 ycars Of "um neo
~ anu az ,ho 40 has had 10 different bodies ' "9 "9J
- o.i o Inc hour of his death there is nn, anu
- bastlcls of flesh on hm that 1t'v was ,s NOT @
y - .n Inc days OF his chidhood- was ,,o .ocre
q surrectlon which of the 10 bodioa m en' re- re,
. come up, Or will they all risesW '''" VIII
i GU say, Suppose a man d,os .,
ms pody Is scattered in the dust. ond ",'" o",
OF that dust vegetables grow. onI 'u rca,. ou.
: eat the vegetables, and canniblas ,iat aia
Ihese men and eat them, and conn,hals y
light with canniabls until at last ,b"ro
shall be 100 men who shall have within
them PARTICLES that started from the dead