The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-02-01
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| CracCS or eXQOrC ID prayer WeeLlus9
preach in pulpit as satan is gaining
ground. To rebuke that pesslmism
the gospel Of smashup, l preach this
sermon, showing that you are On the
winning side. Go ahead! Fight on!
] What I want to make out, today is that
our ammunition is not exhausted; that
all which has been accomplished has
been only the skirmishing before the
great Armageddon; that not more than
one of the thousand fountains of beau
tY in the Kings park begun to play;
that not more than one brigade of the
innumerable hosts to be marshaled by
the rider on the white horse has yet
taken the field; that what God has done
yet has been with arm folded il flowing
robe, but that the time is coming when
he will rise from his throne, and throw
off that robe, and come out of the pal
aces of eternity, and come down the
stairs of heven with all conquerlng step
and halt in the presence OF expectant
nations, and flashing his omnisclent
eyes across the work to be done will put
back the sleeve of his right arm to the
shoulder and roll it up thers and for toe
worlds final and complete rescue make
| bare his arm. Who can doubt the result
when according to my text Jehovah
does his best when the last reserve force
of omnipotence takes the fled, When the
last sword of eternal might leaps from
J its scabbard? d. you Know what de-
cided the battle of Sedan? Fhe bills a
thousand feet high. E'even hundred
cannon on the hills. Arti!lary on the
heights of Givonne and II German bat
teries on the heights Of La Moncelio
The crown price OF Saxony watched the
scene from the heights of Marry. Be-
tween a quarter to 8 o'clock IN the
morning and l o'clock in the afternoon
of Sep. 2. 1870, the hills dropped the
shells that shattered the French host in
the valley. The French emperor aud
the $1,000 of his army captured b. the
hills. so in this conflict now raging be-
tween holiness and sin "our eyes are
unto the hills" Down here III sthe
valleys of earth we must be valiant
soldiers of the cross, buG the Command.
er Of our hosts walks the heights and
views the scene far better than we can
In the valleys, and at the right hour all
heaven will open its batteries on our
side, and the commander Of the hosts OF
unrishteousnes with all his followers
Will surrender and it Will take eternity
to fully celebrate the universal victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ. "Our
eyes are unto the hills" II is so Ger
tain tu be accomplished that Isaiah IN
nv text looks down through the held-
glass of Drophecy and speaks of 1t as
already accomplished and l take my
stand where the prophet took bis stand
and look at it as ali done. "HalleluJah
Its done. See those cities without a
tear! Lo k! Those continents with
out q pang! Behold! Those hemls-
pheres without sin. Why those des-
erts-Arabian desert, American desert
and Great Sahara desevt-are all lrrlgat
ed into gardens where God walks in the
cool of the day. The atmosphere that
encircles our globe floating not one
groan. All the rivers ard lakes and
oceans dimp!ed with not one falling
tear. The climates OF the earth have
dropped out Of them the rlgors of the
cold and the blasts of the heat. and it's
universal spring. Lst US change the
old worlds name. Let us no more be
called the earth, as when it was reeking
with everything pestiferous and male
VIOLENT, scarletted with battlefelds and
gashed with graves, but now 50
changed, so aromatic with gardens and
80 resonant with song and so rubescent
with beauty, let us call it 1mmanuels
Land or Beaulah or millennial gardens
or paradise regained or heaven! And
to God, the only wise, the only good,
the only great, be glory forever. Amen.