The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-04-26


questions that need delicate treatment.
Tyrany and arbitrary decision have
no place IN household. If the parents
love GOD, there will be spirit of self.
sacrlnce, and spirit Of forgiveness, and
kindness which will throw it's charm
over the entire household. Christ will
come INTO that household aud will say:
husbands love your wives and be not
OTTER against them. Wives, sec that
you reverence your husbands. Children
obey our parents in the Lord. Servants
ne obedtent TO your masters" and the
family Will be like garden on summer
mornipg--the grass plot and the flowers
ana The vines, and tho arch Of honey.
suckle standing in the sunlight glitter.
ing with dew.
But there will be sorrows that will
come to the household. There are but
lew families that escape the stroke of 4.
nanclal misfortune. Financial misfor.
tune comes to house whore there ia nc
religion. They kick against divine al
iottments, they curse God for the iucom
ing calamity, they withdraw from the
world because they cannot hold as hlpl
position in society as they once did,
anu They fret, and they scowl, and they
sorrow and they die. During the pasi
low years there have been tens of thous-
ands OF men destroyed by their financial
distresses.
But misfortune comes to the Chris
tain household. If religion has full
sway In that home, they stoop grace.
| fully. They saws, "This Is right" The
rather says, "Perhaps money was get
ting to be my idol. Perhaps God is
gong TO make me q better Christian by
putting me: through the furnace Of
tr1D1lation. Besides that, why should
fret anyhow? He who oWneth the cat
whose hand all the fowls of heaven
peck their food is my Father. He
clothe me the lilies Of the field; he will
cloth me. If he takes caro- Of the raven
| and the hawk, and the Vulture. most
certainly he will take care of me, his
Sorer troubles come-sickness and
death. Loved ones sleep the last
sleep. a child is buried out
OF ght. You say: "Alas, for
this bitter day! God has dealt very
severely with me; l can never look up.
0 God, | cannot bear It'll" Christ comes
IN, and he says: "IIush, o trouble soul:
it Is well with the child! will streng.
then thee In all thy troubles. NV grace
is sufficient. When thou passeth
through the waters. | will bo with
thee"
When through tho deep wators l call tkce
The rivers Of sorrow shall not overflow
FOR VIII be with thee, thy troubles to
bless,
And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.
But there are hundreds OF families
represented here this morning where
religion has been q great comfort.
Ihere are in your homes the pictures
OIL your departed and things that have
no wonderful value OF themselves, but
you keep them previously and carefully
because hands now still once touched
them. a father has gone out of this
household. mother has gone out of
THIS, daughter just after her gradua-
Llon, 4 son just as he was entering on |
yhe duties Of life.
And to other homes trouble will |
come. | say 1t is not that YOU
may be forebodinR, not that YOU
may do the unwise thing of
taking trouble by the forelock, but that
you may be ready. We must 60 one by
one. There will be partings in all our
households. We must say farewell. We
must die. And yet there arc triumph.
accents; there are anthems that
Whelm the dirge. Heaven is full of the |
shout or delivered captives. and to the |
great wide field OF human sorrow there |
come now the reaper angels with koen |
'lckle3 TO harvest the SheaYes of heay-
IN.
Saints will to end the endure;
Saftey will the shepard keep
Those ho purchased for his sheep.
Il Il
ng on your MONDAY meal. Tonight
let up the family altar. DO not wait
Until you become Christian yourself.
This day unite Christ to your house
lold, for the Bible distinctly says that
iod will pour out his fury upon the
antilles = It call not upon his name.
)pen the Bible and read chapter; that
viii make you strong. Kneel down and
ffer the ilrst prayer In your household
t may be a broken petition, 1t may be
'nly God be merciful to me, q sinner"
'ut God will stoop, and spirits will lis-
en-, and angles Will chant, "Behold, he
)raysl"
DO not retire from this house this
morning until YOU have resolved upon
his matter. You will be- gone. | will
'e gone, many years will pass, and per-
laps your younger children may forget
iN'0 o'Si JCilihB oUottt you, DlC 4U ,
ears from now, in some Sabbath twi-
lght, your daughter will be sitting
With the family Bible on her lap read
ng to her children, when she will stop,
nd peculiar soemnity will come to
ler face. and a tear will start, and the
hildren will say, "Mothcr, what makes
ou cry?" and she will say, "Nothing
My | was thinking that this Is tie
cry Bible out Of which my father and
mother used to read at morning and
vening prayer"
All other things about you they may
orget, but train them up for God and
eaven. They will not forget that.
When a queen died, her three sons
'rought an Offering to the grave. One
on brought gold, another brought
liver, but the third son came and stood
'Yer the grave and opened one of his
'lens and let the blood drop upon his
nother's tomb, and all who saw it said
was the greatest demonstration of
Election. My friends, what Is the
rIandest gift we can bring to the sep
llchers OF Christian ancestryp 1t is
life all consecrated to the God who
made us and the Christ who redeemed
Is. cannot but believe that there are