The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-05-25
against Christ and the gospel? Why
| the iaYelin Of the worlds hatred and

the javelin of the worlds hatred aud
rage against the harp of heavenly love?
ou know and l KIN Nv men who get
WraJhtully red in the face and foaming
at the mouth, and use the gesture of
the clinched fist, and put down their
feet with indignant emphasis, and in
woke all sarcasm and irony and yituper-
alton and scOrn and spite at the Chris
tlan religion. What has the Christian
religion done that it should be so as
sailed? Whom hath it bitten and left
with hydrOphobiac virus in their veins
that it should sometimes be chased as
| though it were maddened canine?
TO head off and trip up and push
down and corner our religion was the
dominant thought in the life of David
Hume and Voltaire and ShafteSbury
and even the Earl of Rochester until
one day in "A princely house in which
they blasphemouSly put God on trial,
and the Earl of Rochester was the at
torney against God and religion and
received the applause of the whole
company, when suddenly the earl was
struck under conviction and cried
Good God, that man who walks up
rightly, who sees the wonderful works
| OF God and has the uses of his senses
and reason, should use them in defying
his Creator! | wish had been a crawl
ing leper in ditch rather than have
acted toward God as have DONE"
=, JaVelln OF wit, lavelin of irony, jave-
I'm or scurrility, javelin of sOphlStry,
Javelin of human and diabolcal hostil-
lty, have been dying for hundreds of
years and are flying now. But aimed
at what? At something that has come
TO devastatc The world? At something
| Il;
that would maui and trample under
foot and excruciate and cruch the hu.
man race? No, aimed at the gospel
harp-harp on which prophets played
with somewhat lingering and uncertain
llnger5, but harp ON which apostles
played with sublime certainty, and
martyrs played while their fingers were
on fire. Harp that was dripping with
the blood Of the Christ, out of whose
| 1eart-strlngs the harp was chorded and
from whose dying groau the strings
were keyed. on, gospel harp! All thy
nerves u-tremble with stories OF self
sacrifice. Harp thrummed by fingers
long ago turned to dust. Harp that
made heaven listen and will yet make
all the earth hear. Harp that sounded
pardon to my sinful soul and peace
over tne grave where my dead sleep.
Harp that will lead the chant OF the
blood washed throng redeemed around
the throne. May a javelin slay me be
fore l fling a javelin at that Harp
which 1t seems almost too sacred for
me to touch, and SO l call down from
their thrones those who used to finger
it and ask them to touch it now.
Come down, William Cowper, and run
your fingers over the strings of this
harp" lie says, 81 will, and he plays:
There is a fountain filled with blood.
Drawn from lmmanuerS veins.
"Come down, Charles Wesley, and
touch the strings, lie says, 81 will"
and he plays:
Jesus, lover Of my soul.
Let me to thy bosom fly.
"Come down, Augustus Toplady, and
sweep your fingers across this gospel
harp lie says, 81 WILL" and he plays:
Rock of Ages. cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee.
"Come down, Isaac Watts, and take
this harp lie says, 81 WILL" and he
plays:
Alas, and did my Saviour bleed,
And did my Sovereign die?
"P. L. Bliss, come down and thrum this
gospel harp" He says, 81 will" and
he plays:
Halleluiah, 'tis done,
l believe on the Son.
lne1fable harp. Transporting harp!
Harp of earth! Harp or heaven! Harp
SANITY and seraphlc, Harp of God!
On, ike the idea of the old mOnu-
nent In the ancient church at Jllard.
near Kilkenny, Ireland. The sculp,
ture on that monument, though
more than 1000 years ago, as
appropriate today as then, the sculp-
ture representing a harp upon cross.
Ihat Is where l hang it now; that is
where you had better hang it. Let the
Javelin be forever buried, the sharp
edge duwn, but hang the harp upon the
cross.
And now upon our souls let the harps
OF heaven rain music, and as when the
suns rays fall aslant in Switzerland at
the approach of eventide, and the shep.
herd among the Alps puts the horn to
his lips and blows blast and says,
"'Glory be to God" and all the shep-
herds on the Alpine heights or down in
the deep valleys respond with other
blast of horns, saying, GLORY be to
God, and then all the shepherds un-
cover their heads and 'kneel in wor-
ship, and after a few moments of sill
ence some shepherd rises from his
knees and blows another blast Of the
horn and says, Thanks be to God"
and all through the mountains the re-.
sponse comes from other shepherds,
Thanks lie to God" so this moment
let all the valleys of earth respond to
the hills Of heaven with sounds Of
glory and thanks. and it be harp of
earthly worship to harp of heavenly
worship, and the words of st, John in
the Apocalypse be fulfilled, 81 heal a
voice from heaven as the voice of many
waters and as the voice of great
thunder, and heard the voice of harp
ers harping with their harps."
Devastated by Water.
WASHINGTON, May 17.-News from
the flood in Ohio and Pennsylvana con-
Jiuue to come in; the following items are
the most Important:
Meadville, Pa, is suffering the worst
tnundation in Its history. People are
taken from second stories of houses in
boats, New CastIc Pa ia hayino q