The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-02-08

| P..nS'Ar Whyh WulOh tu0 HuS0A I0CpEuS liz
vlctory---and then with my hand atruns
| dipped IN the light of the morning will
write it out in capitals of love, "J.E-
S-U.S." It IS this ono, infinitely far,
| to whom you are invited. Christ is
waiting for you, waiting as banap eter
waits for the delayed guest-the meats
smoking, tho beakers brimming, the
minstrels with fingers on tho stiff string,
waiting tor the clash Of the hoofs at the
gateway.
Waiting for you as q mother waits for
her sou who .aent on 10 years ago drag
| ping her bleeding heart along with him
Wa, iu9! On, give me comparison
intense enough, ho. enough, importu.
nate enough - express my meaning
! somc,hiug high as heaven, and deep Us
hell, ard long as eternity, Not bopiug
II at YOU con help me with such com.
parlson, / will say, He is waiting as
ONLY the all sympathetic Christ can
wait tor the coming back OF lost soul"
Bow the knee and kiss the Son.
! Come, and welcome, sinner, come.
Again, the Holy Spirit is ready. Why
| is i! that so many sermons drop dead;
that Christian songs do not got their
wing under the people; that 60 often
pray Ner eoo,no higher than hunter's
"hallOs?" 1t is bccau>e there is q link
wnnlng-the work OF tho Holy Spirit.
Uulcss that Spirit give graphing hooks
"a sermon and lit tho prayer and wait
tre song everything is a dead failure.
Thnt Spirit 10 willing to come at your
call aud lead you to eternal lie, or
realty t." con,e with the same power
"i'' which he uuhorscd Saul on the Ds
n'nscus turnpike and broke down Lydia
IN her fi'e store and lifted the 8 900
from midnight into midnoon at the Pen.
tac"sL. With that power tho Spirit of
G now bcats nj the gate OF your soul
Have YOU pot DOtlcrd what hOmely and
mfiHniljcaut iT,strumeutalitY the Spirit of
GGh employ for mans convers,cn9
IEure was Il man on q Hudson river
beat /" whom tract was offered. With
Indignation he tore it up and threw it
overheard. But one fragment lodged
on bis coat sleeve, and he saw on il the
word "eternity," and he found no peace
until he was prepared Tor that great fu
.ure. Do you know what passage 1t
was thai caused Martin Luther to see
Ibo trutl? The just shall live by
faith" Do you know there is one
just one-passage that brought Angus.
line from n life OF dssapation2 "Put
ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and mako
no provision for the flesh TO fulfill the
lusts thereof" 1t was lust one passage
that converted Hedley Wears, the great
soldier, TO Christ, THE blood Of Jesus
Christ cleanseth from all sin." Do yon
know that the Holy Spirit used one pas
sage Of Scripture TO save Jonathan Ed
wards? GLOW unto the King eternal,
immertal, Invisible, The only wiso God,
our Saviour, be glory"
One year ago on Thanksgiving day
rend for my text, "Oh, give thanks un.
| to the Lord, for .he is good; for his mere,
cndurcth forever" And there is Q
Dung man in the house TO whose hoart
tho Holy Spirit took that text for his
eternal redemption. L might speak ol
my own case. 1 will tell you 1 was
brought to the peace of the gospel
through the Syro-Phesnician woman's
cry to Christ. "Eveu the dogs eat Of the
crumbs that fall from tho masters ia.
ble."
DO you know that the Holy Spirit
always uses insignificant means9 Eio-
quent sermons never save anybody;
metaphysical sermons never save any.
body; philosophical sermons never save
anybody. But The minister comes somo
Sabbath to his pulpit, worn out with en-
eagements and Lhe jangling ola frcnzled
doorhell; he has only text and two or
three ideas, but he saye: 30 Lord help
me! Hero nre good many people
may never meet again. l have not
much to say. Speak thou through my
poor lips,o and before the service is
done there are fearful eyes and solem.
nifty like the judgement.
The great French orator, when tho
dead king lay before him, looked up and
cried, "God only Ia great" And the
triumph of his eloQuence has heon told
by The historians. But havo not heard
that one soul was saved by the nratoric-
al flourish. Worldly critics may think
that the early preaching of Thomas
Chalmers was masterpiece. But
Thomas Chalmers says he never began
to preach until he came out of the sick
room, white and emaciated, and told
men the simple story Of Jesus.
found that the most souls have been
III ouSlI W CilllSl IL " NY Guo DOSSuoIS
and Massillons and Bourdaloues, but by
humble men, who in The strength OF G ID
and believing in tho eternal Spirit, in.
vited mon to Jesus. There were wise
salves, there were excellent ointments,
| suppose, III the time Of Christ for blind
or il famed eyes. But Jr3us turned his
back upon them and put the tip of his
iiuGer TO his tongue and then with the
spitlle that adhered to the finger he
anomtcd the eyes of tho blind man, aud
daylight poured into his blinded eoul.
So il is now that the spirit of God takes
humble prayer meeting talk, which
seems to be the very saliva of Christian
influence, and anoints the eyes OF the
blind and poura the sunlight of pard on
and peace upon the soul.
Oh, my friend, I wish we could feel it
more aud more that it any good is done
it is by the power OF GODS omnipotent
>pir,i. / do not know what h ,mn may
hrlnE YOU to Jesus. l do not know
what words of the Scripture lessons
l read may save your soul. Perhaps
hU spirit Of God may hurl the very text