The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-02-09

| mlleS away py one stroke Of the wing
you are there, by another stroke of the
wing you are back again, and in less
time than ! can tell you catching it ali
one flash of eternity.
And geology! What place that Will
De TO study geology, when the world is
DelnR picked to pieces rs easily as a
schoolgirl In botanical lessons pulls the
leaf from the corolla! What place to
study architecture, amid the thrones.
ana the palaces, and the cathedrals-
st. Marks and st. Paurs ronkeries in
comparison.
sometimes you wish you could make
the tour Of the whole earth. poino
around as others have gone, but you
nave not the time, you have not the
means. You will make that tour vet
during one musical pause in the eternal
ahthem. L say these things for the
comfort OF those people who are abridg-
Ell In their OppOrtunities-those people
TO whom life is a humdrum. who toll
ana work, and toll and work, and aspire
after knowledge, but have no time to
get 1T. and say, "If l had the opportu-
mites which other people have, how [
would I'LL my mind and soul with
grand thoughts!" BE not discour
aged, my friends. You are going to the
university yet. Death will only ma
circulate you into the royal college of
the universe
What sublime thing it was that DR.,
IhornWell, of South Carolina, uttered
IN his last dying moments! AS he look
ed up he said, at opens; it expands; it
expands. Or as Mr.. Toplady, the au-
thor OF "Rock of Ages" in his last mo-
ment, or during his last hours, looked
up and said, as though he saw some.
thing supernatural, "Iight" and then
as he came on nearer the dying mo-
inent, his countenance more luminous,
he cried, "light." and at the very mo.
ment OF his departure lifted both hands
something supernatural in his couute-
nance as he cried, Light" Only all
other name for sunshine.
| BESIDES that we shall have all the
| pleasures of association. We will 90
right up in the front Of God without
any fright. All our sins gone, there will
be nOthiLg to be frightened about.
There our Old Christian friends will
troop around us. Just as how one of
your sick friends goes away to Florida,
the land 1f flowers, or to the south of
| l. rance, and do not see him for a IOnp
while, and after awhile you meet him
and the hollowS under tn" eyes are ali
illled, and the appetite has come back,
and the crutch has been thrown away,
and he is so changed you hardly know
him. You say, "Whv, | never saw Won
| look so WE'LL lie says 81 couldn't help
but be well. have beeh sailing these
rivers and climbing these III )untains,
and that's how got this elasticity. |
never was 50 WELL"
Oh, my friends, your departed loved
ones are only away for their health in a
better climate, and when you meet
them they wilt be so changed YOU will
hardly know them; they will he so very
much changed, and after awhile, when
| you are assured that they are vour
friends, your departed friends, yen will
.ay: Why, where is that cough? Where
is that paralysis? Where is that pneu-
| monla? Where is that consumption ,"
And he will say: "Oh, am entirely
| we'll; there are no sick ones in this cOun-
try. L have been ranging these hills,
ana hence this elasticity. ! have been
mere now twenty years, and not one
SICK one have Scen--We are all well in
this climate
And then | stand at the gate Of the
celestial city o see the professions come
out, and see long procession of lit le
children with their arms full Of flowers
and then see Il procession Of kings and
priests moving in celestial pageantry-
| ANt'S pi'>S''p'oii, o'll nv DliCk luSStlpu
Vehlcle, no mourning group and say:
"llow strange it is Where is voilr
| Greenwood? Where is your Laurel
hill? Where is your Westminster alb
bey?' And they shall cry, "rhere are
| no graves here" And then listen TO
the tolIing of the old belfries of heaven
the old beltries of eternity. listen To-
hear ttem toll for the dead. But they
toll not for the dead They only strike
up sllVery chime, tower to tower, east
gate TO west gate, as they ring ont,
" "lhey Shall hunger no more neither
thirst amy 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 fom
talnS or water, and God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes"
On, unglove your hand and give il to
me In congratulation on that scene. |
feel as II | would shout | will shout
halleluiah. Dear Lord, forgive that
ever complained about anything. III
all this is before us, VINO cares for any,
thing but GOd and heaven and eternal
brotherhood Take the Grape Off the
doorbell. Your loved ones are ONLY
away for their health in Il land ambros-
ial. Come, Lowell Mason; come Isaac
Watts, and give rs your best hymn
about JOY celestial.
What is the use of postpOning our
heaven any longer? Let it begin now,
and whosOeVer hath Il harp let her
thrum it; and whosoever hath a trum-
pet, let him blow it; and whosoever
hath an organ, let him give full dia-
pason. They crowd down the air, spir-
its blessed, moving in cavalcade OF tri.
umph. Their chariot wheels W hirlin
the Sabbath sunlight. They come.
Halt, armies of GOD! Halt, until we
are ready to join the battalion of pleas
urcS that never die.
On, my friends, it would take ser
mon as long as eternity to tell the Joys
| that are coming to us. just set open
the slnshlny door. Come in, all We dis
clples of the word who have found the
| world mockery. Come in, all ye dis
ciples of the dance and see the bound
ing feet of this heavenly gladness.
Come In ye disciples of worldly amuse-
ment and see the stage where kings are
the actors, and burning worlds the ioot-