The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-05-31

III ny teIeSTHtD UbS lUI6IOlQ INC
momeut If his coming. Blu! there are
Amalekitisl disaster, there aro Anal
ekitlsh diseases that sometimes como
d wn uprn ono's homo, making as de-
vastating work as the day when Ziklag
took fire. There are families you repro.
sent broken up. No battering ram smote
In the door, no iconcclast crumbled tho
statues, no flame leaped amid the cur
tans, but 30 tar as oil the Joy and merrl.
ment That one BELONGED TO that house
arc concerned the home has departed.
Armed diseases Came down upon the
que 'ness OF The scene-scarlet levers or
pleurisics or COnsumptions or undefiued
disorders came aud seiz ed upon some
members OF that family and carried tIem
away. L'klag in ashes! And you 20
about, sometimes weeping and some
times erraged, waning to GET back YOUR
loved ones as much as David and his
men wanted TO reconstruct their dc.
spoiled households. Iklag in nshee!
Some OF you went Cfl from home. You
counted tho DAYS Of your absence. Ev-
cry day seemed IA long as a week OA.
how glad you Wero when tho time came
Tor you to go aboard the steamboat or
rail car and start fer homt? You ar.
rived. You went up tho street where
your dwelling was, and in the night put
your hand on the GCorbell, aud, behold!
IL was wrapped with the signal bel cave
'nent, and you found that Amalekitish
death, which has devastated thousand
other houe ehDlds, had blasted Yours.
I ou 90 abCu: weeping amid tho desola
tlop OF your oncs happy home, thinking
OF the bright eyes closed, and the noble
hearts stopped, and the eeutle hands
folded, aud you wecp until you have no
NJ ere rower u weep. Zklag in ashes.
a gentleman went 10 friend of mine
IN tho city OF Washington and asked
That throush BIN he might get consul.
| snip to some foreign port. MY friend
SAID TO him, "Whnt do you want to 90
away from Yonr beautiful homo for iuLo
Il foreign porl?" "On," he replied,
my home Is gone! MY six children are
dond. must got away, sr. l can't
sland III this country any longer"
ASHES OF LIFE.
why these long shadows uf horenve-
mcnt across this audience? Why is il
that in almost every usSem rlago black
ls the predominant color If the aDDur.l?
Ia ii because you G'' not like aatlrnn OF
brown or Vlnle On. n! Y III Say.
"The world is ro' So bright 20 u4 "a
once it was," and there ia stor, Of ri
ltni V,'ices and + s,Ill teei and of loved
"hrh enHs and whcD ,ru lock t.v,r the
hiIls, expecting nHlt beauN ahd lovcii-
ness. y"u tiod "nIS devastat ou nud voc.
Il k'ay in usht :!
%" .dav III Ulster county. N, Y.
the llaye church was decorated uuul
the trag auCc ut he fl bwe,s wus Nmos,
he wllderng The mnideus oi tive VI,
la9e had tmptitd the place + tlnwer>
upon Que marriage altar. O1I Of ,hri,
"wn humber was III uctd {, a 1n,us:,r
at Christ, who had come 10 take her t..
his own home. With bands nned, unid
Il c0nGraluIGtnry audience, tbs vows
were Iaken. L. threo days from tha,
hmo one OF those who stood at ihe altar
exchanged earth FIR heaven. The wed
dug MAJ CHI broke down into the funeral
dirse Thole were not enouuh Il ,wors
Tor tho c''ilin lid, brcause they h"d all
been taken for The bridal hour. The
dead munster Of Christ is brought 10 an :.
other village.
lie had gone cut from them less than
II week before in his strength; now he
comes home llfelcss. The whole church
hewailed him. The solemn procession
moved art und TO lopk upon the sti,i lace
that once Ind beamed 10 message of
salvation. Little children we're lifted ND
to look at him. And some Of those
whom he had comtorted in days OF sor.
TOW, when they passed that silent form.
made the placa dreadful with their w sep-
ing. Another village empticd of its
noWers-some of them put in tho shane
OF cross to symbolic his hope, others
put in the shape Of n crown to symbol,
izc his trump. A hundred lights blown
out III one strong gust from the open
door OF aepuleher. Zklag in ashes!
A RALLY DRY.
prehch the sermon today because |
want TO rally you rs David rallied his
men, f)r the recovery Of tho loved and
tho lost. want not only to win heav-
en-, but l want all this congregation TO
go along with me. l feel somehow |
have responsibility in Your arriving
at that great city. Do YOU really want
TO JON the companlonship of your loved
ones who have gone? Are you as anx.
ious TO join them as David aud his men
welc To join their families? Then I am
here, in the name Of God, to say that
you may and to tell you how.
remark, in the first place, # Won
want to join your loved onta IN glory.
you must travel the same way they
went. No sooner had the half dead
Egyptian been resuscitated than he
pointe2 the way the captors and the CAP.
tives had gone, and David and his men
followed after. SO our Christian fr,enda
have gone into another country, and if
you want to reach their com2unionshiv
we must take the same road. They re
pented; we must repent. They prayed:
we must pray. They trusted in Christ;
we must trust in Christ. They lived a
religious life; we must liye religious
life. Tney were in somo things like
ourselves. 1 know, now that they are
gone. there is Galo around their nance
but they had their faults. They satl
and did things they ought never TO have
said or done. They were sometimes
rebelllous, sometimes cast down. They
were far from beng perfect. SO sup
pose that when we have gone some
things in us that are now only tolerable
may be almost resplendent. But a ,
they were like us in deheienclcs we