The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-09-13

tor my text brings rue up to this point,
"Thou shalt be saved" 1t means n
happy lifeahere and q pfacsful death aud
a blisstul eternity. 1t is grand thing
TO go TO sleep at night and TO got up in
the morning and to do business all day
feeling thnt ali is right between my
heart aud God. No accident, no sick
ness, no persecution, no poril, no sword
can do mo any permanent damage.
am q forgiven child of God, and ho is
bound TO see me through. lie has sworn
ho will SEQ mo through. The noun
tains may depart, tho earth may burn,
tho light of the stars may bo blown out
by the blast Of the judgment hurricane,
but life and death, things present and
things TO coma are mine. Yea, further
than that, II means peaceful death.
Mrs. lemans, Mrs. Sigourncy, DR..
Young and almost all the poets have
saio handsome things about death.
Ihere ls nothing beautiful about it.
When we stand by the white rigid fea-
lures OF those whom We love and they
give no answering pressure of the hand
and no returning kiss of the lip, We do
not want anybody poet'zlng around
about us. Death is loathsomoness and
midnight and the wringipg Of The heart
until the tendrils snap and curl IN the
torture unless Oh rist shall be with us
confess TO you an infinite fear, cor
suming horror Of death mless Christ
shall be with me. l would rather 90
down into cave OF " lid bensts or q iun.
gle OF reptiles than into the grave unless
Christ COOS with mo. Will YOU tell mo
that L am TO be carried out from nv
bright homo and put away in The dark
ness? l cannot bear darkness. At tho
first coming Of tho evening l must
haYe the gas lighted, and the ierther on
in life L get tn Q moro like to have nv
friends round about mo.
Aud am to Ee put of for thousands
Of years in dark place, with no ono to
speak to? When the holidays come aud
the gifts arc distributed, shall 1 add no
10y TO the "Merry Christmuso or tho
"IIaypy New Year2" All do not point
down TO the hole in The ground, the grave
and call ii a beautiful place. Unless
there be g ne supernatural illumination
| shudder back from it.. NV whole na-
ture reVolLs at IL. But now this glori.
ous lamp ls lifted above the grave, and
oil tho darkness is gone, and the way is
cloar. look into it now without sim
g o shudder. Now my anxiety is not
about death. My anxiety is that l may
live arlght, for l know that if my life is
conslstont, when L come TO the last hour
and this voice is 8ilent, and these cyes
are closed, and these hands with which
beg Tor your eternal salvation to day are
folded oyer the still heart, that then [
only begin TO live.
What power is there in ANYTHING TO
chill me i'll the last hour if Christ wraps
around me the skirt Of his own garment?
What darkness can fall upon nv eyelids
then, amid the heavenly daybrcak? OIL
death, will not fear thee then! Back
to thy cavern Of darkness, thou robber
OF all the earth. Fly, thou dospo of
families. With this batl!eax | how thcc
IN TWAIN from helmet 10 sandal, the voice
OF Chrlst sounding all over Tho earth and
through the heavens: go death, | will
ie thy plague. Q grave, will be thy
de1truction."
To bo savcd is TO wake up in tha rres
once OF Christ. You know when jesus
was upon The earth how happy ho made
eVofy mouse he wont into, and when he
brings us up TO his house in heaven how
gtoa'1shail be our glec! Ills voico has
more music III IL than is to be heard in
al the oratorlos of eternity. Talk not
ABOUT banks dashed with en- ,rcscence. |
Jesus ls the Chief bloom oi heaven. We
shall sec the Very face that beamed sym.
pnthy III Bethany and take the very hand |
that dropped its blood from the short
heam OF The cross. Oh, want to stand
in eternity with him. Toward that har
Dor steer. Toward that goal run. |
shall be satisfied when l awake in mis-
likeness.
Oh. broken hearted men and women,
how sweet IL will be IN that good land to
pour all your hardshps and breavements
and losscs into the loving car Of Christ
and then have him explain why il was
best for you to be sick, and Why it was
best for you TO bo widowed, and why
IL was best for you TO be prosecuted, and
why it was best for you to ba tried, and
have him point to an elevation propor.
tionate TO your disQuiotude hero saying,
"You suffered with mo on earth; como
up now and be glorliel with mo IN hea-
ven.'
Some one went into house where
tbere had been good deal of trouble
and said to tho woman there, "You
seem TO be lonely" eyes" she said:
VI am lonely" "IIow many in the
tamlly?" "Olly myself" "IIavo YOU
had any cmldren?" 81 had seven chill.
dren." "Whero arc the,?" "Gonc.n
"All gone?' "All." "An deaG?"
AL" Then she breathed lore sigh
into the loneliness and SAID, "Oh, sir, |
have been good mother to tho grave -
Aud so there are hearts here that arc
utterly broken down by tho bereavs.
monts OF life. | plont you today to the
eternal balm Of heaven. Oh, aged mon
and women who have knelt at the thorne
OF grace for thre escore year and ten, will
not your decrep.itude change for the leap
OF n heart when you como TO look face
TO iAce upon him whom having not seen
you love? On, that will be the Good
Shepherd, not on! III tho night and
watching TO keep of tho wolves, but
with lamb reclining OH the sunlit hill.
That will be the Captain of our saliva.
tlon not amid the roar and crash and
boom OF battle, but amid his disbanded
troops keeping victorious fcstivity. That
will be tho Bridegroom of the church
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