The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-03-29
the gospel. People are having demon

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they are taking Christianity, tho oni, mi,
sympathetic religion that ever came
into the world. S
ou just take your scientific conso
iatlon into that room where q mother
mas lost her child. Try In that case
your splendid doctrine Of the "suryiya
or the littest.' Tell her that child dice
because 1t was not wolth rs much as
the other children. That Is your sur
vival of the attest." Go to that dying
man and tell him to pluck up courage
Tor the future. Use your trans
cepdental phraseology upon him
Tell linn he ought to be con.
confident in the great to be-" and the
"everlasting now" and the "eternal
what is It," Just try your transcend
entalism, and your science on him.
Go to that widowed soul and tell her
1t was Il geological necessity thnt her
companion should be taken away
from her. just as In tho course of the
worlds history the emegatherium had
to pass out Of existence, and then you
go on in your scientific consolation
until you get to the sublime fact that
5OOOOO0O years from now we ourselves
may be scientific specimens on geolo-
glcal shelf--potriliod specimens of On
extinct human race,
And after you have got all though
with your consolation, If the poor af.
flicted SOULS not crazed by it, l will
send forth from this church the plain.
est Christian we have, and with one
half hour of prayer and reading Of
scripture promises the tears
will be wiped away, and the houes
from floor to cupola will be Hooded
with the calmness of an Indian sum-
mer sunset. There Is where sec the
triumph Of Christianity. People are
dissatisfied with everything else. They
want God. They want Jesus Christ.
Ta!k about the exact scinces; there
Is only one exact science. 1t is
not mathematics. Taylor's logarithms
have many imperfectiOns. The French
metric system has many imperfections.
The only e. act scince Is Christinenity
the only thing under which you can
strandum." You tell me that two and
two make four. do not dispute 1t,
but 1t Is not so plain that two anu two
make four as that tho Lord God AL
mighty made this world, and for q man
the sinner he sent his only begotten
Son to die.
Iput on tie witness stand to testify
in behalf of Christianity the church
on earth and all the church in heaven
n OF 90, not 900, not 100000 but all
the church on earth and all the re-
deemed in heaven.
You tell me James A Garfield was
lnaugurated president Of the United
States on the 4th of Mach, 1881. How
90 l know 1t? You tell me there were
10000 persons Who distinctly herad his
inaugural address. 1 deny that he was
lnaugurated. / deny that his inaugur
al address was delivered. You ask
why. L did not see 1t. l did not heOO
1t. But you say that there were 2OOIt
persons who did see and hear him. a
say 1 cannot take it anyhow; 1 did nor
see and hear him. Whose testimony
will you takep You will not take my
testimony. You say:"You know moth
ing about 1t. You were not there. Let
persons who stood before tho capitol
and heard that magnificent inaugural
why OF course that Is as your common
sense dictates.
NOW, here are some men who say
they never seen Christ crowned in tho
heart, and they do not believe 1t is ever
done. There is group OF men who |
say they have never heard the voice of |
Christ. They have never heard the |
1oice of God. They do not believe it
'Ver Jranspire or was ever head-that
like it ever occurred. 1 point
o 70, 100, 600 or 100000 people who
ay: "Christ was crowned in our hearts
Injections. We have seen him and
cit him in our soul, and we have heard
lis voice. We have heard it in storm
md darkness. We have heard it again
md agaiD." Whose testimony Will you
AXE? These men who say they have
lot heard the voice of Christ, have not |
een the coronation, or will you take |
n %
;ians who testify Of what they sa W
With their own eyes and heard W ith |
heir own ears2
Yonder is an aged Chris tian after so |
years experience Of the pow er of god
,lnesS In his soul. Ask this man
whether, when he he buried his dead, |
he religion Of Jesus Christ was not a |
consolation. Ask him IL through the
ong years of his pilgrimage the Lord
sver forsook him. Ask him when he |
ooks forward to the future if ho has |
lot paece, and JOY, and consolation |
'he world cannot take away. Put his |
testimony OF what he has seen and |
what he has felt opposite. the testimony
anything on the subject, or felt any.
hing on the subject. Will you take
The testimony OF people who have not
seen or people who have seen2
You say morphta puts one to sloep.
I on say in time of sicknes It Is very |
Useful. | deny it. Morphia never
puts anybody to sleep. 1t never al
eyiates pain. You ask me why l say
hat. [ have never tried it. / never
took 1t. l deny that morphia Is any
soothing to the nerves or any quiet In
ines OF sickness. l deny that morphis
'ver put anybody to sleep. But here
IRE 20 persons who say they have all
'elt the soothing effects of a physicians
morphine. Whose testimony
viii you take-those who took the med
cine or my testimony, never having
AIKEN the medicine? Here Is the gospel
It Jesus Christian anodyne for all
ronble, the mightiest medicine that
very came down to earth. Here is
man who says: "I don't believe in it,
There is no power, In it," Here are
ther people who say: "We have fcu nd
ut It's power and know its sooJhi ng
influence. 1t has cured u.s." Whose
estimony will you take in regard to
his healing medicine2
l feel that 1 have convinced every
nan In this house that IL Is utter follv