The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-06-21


ties OF lite hanging upon your treatment.
1t is your real estate Office, your busl
ness with landlords and teuantS. aud the
failure of men TO meet their obligations
with you. Aye, with some of those who
arc here, it is tho annoyance OF the
kitchen, and the sitting room, and the
parlor-the wearing economy Of trying
TO meet large eXpenses with small in
come. Ten thousand voices Of "Eusi-
ness business business" drown tho voice
OF the eternal Spirit, silenctng tho voice
OF the advancing judgment day, overcom-
ing tho voice Of eternity, and they can
not listen. They say, "Go thy way for
this time."
Some Of you look upon your goods,
look upon your profession, you look upon
your memorandum books, and you soc
tho demands that are made this very
week upon your lime, and your patience,
and your money, and while am entreat-
ing you about your soul and the danger
OF procrastination you say: "Go thy
way for this time. When l have q con-
venleuL season, will call for thee" 0
Felix, why be bothered about the affairs
OF this world so much moro than about
The affairs ofeternitS? DO you not know
that when oeath comes you will have to
stop business, though it be in The most
exacting period oflt-between The pay.
mcnt OF tho money and tho taking Of the
receipt? The momont he comes you
will have to 60. Death waits fur no
man, however high, however low. Will
you put your office, will you put your
shop in comparison with tho affairs of an
eternal world, affairs that involves
thrones, palaces, dominions eternal?
Will you put 200 acros Of ground against
mmensitI2 Will you put 10 Or so
years Of your life against millions of
ages?
o Felix, you might better postpone
everything else! For do you not know
that the upholstering Of Tyrian pur-
plo in your palnce will tade, and the
marble blocks of Casa will crumbe,
aud the brcaKwater at the bench, rnade
OF great blocks Of stone GO foot long
must give way before the perpetual wash
OF I 10 sea, but tho redemption that Paul
offers you will bs forever? Aud yet and
yot aud yet You wave him back to the
guardroom, saying: "Go thy way for
this time. When L have convenient
season, | will call fof thee.O
Again, Felix adjourned This subject OF
rolgon and put oil Paul's argument be.
cause he could not give up tho honors Of
The world. He was afraid somehow he
would be compromised himself in this
matter. ltemarke he made aiterWard
showed him to be intensely ambitious.
On, how he hugged the favor Of men!
never saw the honors OF this world
i'll their ho)lowness and hypocrisy 80
much as III the life and death Of that
wonderful man, Charles Sumner. AS he
went towards the place Of burial even
Independence hall IN Philadelphia asked
that his romans stop there on their way
to Boston, The flags were at half mast
and the minute guns on Boston com.
mon throbbed after his heart had ceased
TO beat. Was 1t always &C? While he |
lived, how censured Of legislative reso-
lutlons, how chricatured Of the pictorials |
how charged with every motive mean
and ridiculous; how all the urns of scorn
and hatred and billingsgate empted up- |
on his head; how, when struck down in |
senate chamber, there were hundreds of |
thousands OF people who said, "Good |
Tor HIM; serves him right" how he had |
put the OCEAN between him aud his ma
ligners, that he might have n little peace
and how, when he went Off sick, thew |
sald he was broken hearted because ho |
could not get to be president or sec.eta-
ry of state.
o commonwealth of Massachusetts.
who is that man that sleeps in your pub.
lie hall, covered with garlands and |
wrapped in the stars and stripes? Is
that the man who, only few months
before, You denounced as the foe OF re.
publican and democratic institutions? Ia
that the same man? Ye American peo-
pie, ye could not, BY one week OF fun
cral euloglum and newspaper leaders,
which the dead senator could poither
read nor hear, atone for IS yoars eli nal.
treatment and carlcature. When T acc
a man like that, pursued by all The
hounds Of the political kennel so long as
he lives and then buried under great
pile of garlands and amid the lamenta-
tlons OF whole nation, say to myself:
what an unutterably hypocrltical thing
Ia all human applause and human favori
You took rs years in trying to pull down
his fame and then take Is Years in trv.
ing to build his monument.
NV friends, was there cvera better
commentary on tie holIowness Of all |
earthly tavo,? If thero are young mon
who read this who arc postponing re.
lliglon in order that they may have the
favors of this world, let mo persuade |
them of their complete folly. IF YOU
looking forward to gubernatorisl, sena-
torlal or presidential chair, lot me show
you your great mistake. Can it be that |
there ls now any young man saying:
Let me have political Office. let mo |
have some Of the high positions of trust |
and power, and then will attend to |
religion, but not now. 60 thy way for
this time. When have convenient
season, will call for thee!'"
And now my subject takes deeper
tone, and it shows what dangerous
thing is this deferring Of religion. When
faul's chain ratified down the marble |
stars OF Felix that was Felix's last
chance Tor heaven. Judging from his
character afterward, he was reprobate
and abandoned. And 80 was Drusilla,
One day in southern Italy thero was a |
trembling OF the earth, and the ar GOT
black with smoke intershot with LIQUID |
rocks, and Vesuvius ralned upon Dru.