The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-03-01

f and In my remarks had Occasion to re-
call q snowy night in farmhouse
, when was a boy and an evangelist
spending night at my fathers house
who said something 80 tender and beau
tiful and impressive that it led me into
the Kingdom of God and decided my
destiny for this world and the next.
You will before "a hours go by, meet
some man or woman with big pack of
care and trouble, and you may say
something to him or her thlt will en-
dure until this world shall have been 50
far lost In the past that nothing but
the stretch of angelic memory will be
able to realize that it ever existed at
all.
l am mot talking OF remarkable men
and womeD,but OF what ordinary folks
Can do. | am not speaking Of the
|phOSphoreScenco in the wake of q Com
paniy, but Of tho phosphorescence in
the track Of a Newfoundland fishing
smack. God makes thunderbolts out
OF sparks, and out OF the small words
and deeds of small life he can launch
4 power that WIN fash and burn and
thunder through the eLernities.
uo" do you like this prolOugation of
your earthly life by deathless in.
| llueuce? Many a babe that died at 6
mouths Of ago by the anxiety created
| in the parent 8 heart to meet that Child
In realms seraphlc Is living yet in the
| transformed heart and life of those
parents and will live on forever in the
history of that family. If this be the
opportunity of ordinary souls, what IS
the opportunity OF these who have es-
pecial Intellectual or social or none.
| tary eq, ipment?
ri nii nv Of
estimating the iuflueEce or our good
and gracious friend who 4 few days
ago went up to re3t.-GeOrgo w. Childs
OF Philadelphia ? From newspaper
that was printed for 80 years without
one word Of defamation or Scurrility
or scandal and putting chief emphasis
on virtue and charity aud clean iutelli-
genCc he reaped u fortune for himself
andthen distributed q vast amount Of it
among tho poor and struggling, putting
his invalid and aged reporters on PEN
sions, until his name stands every
where for large heartedneS5 and SYM
paLhy and help and highest style Of
Christian gentleman.
In an era which had In the chairs Of
its journalism a Horace Greeley, and a
Henry j. Raymond, aud Il James Cor
dor Bennett, and an Era3tus Brooks,
and a George William Curtis, and an
| Irenaeus Prime, none of them will be
longer remembered than George w.
Childs. Staying away from the unveil-
ing OF the monument he had reared al
large expense in our Greenwood in
memory of Professor Proctor, the as.
tronomer, lest should say something
In praise Of the man who had paid for
the monument. by all acknowledged
q representative Of the highest Ameri-
can Journalism.
If you would calculate his influence
for good, you must count how many
sheets Of his newspapers have been pub
llShed in the last quarter Of q century,
!; and how many people have road them
ands the effect nOS only upon those
readers, but upon all whom they shall
. influence for all time. while you add tC
, all that the work of the churches he
{ help build, and Of the institutions OF
mercy he help found. Better give uI
before you start the measuring Of the
l phosphorescence in the wake of that
8 ship of the Celestial line. Who can
4 tell the post mOrtem influence of g
p Savonarola,a "a Wlnklereid, Gutenberg
/ q Marlborough, a Decatur, Toussaiht
q Bolivar, q Clarksun, a Robert Rai1es
1, a Harlan Page, who had 125 Sabbath
!, scholars, 81 Of whom became Christians
a and six of them ministers of the gospel
With gratitude and penitence ant
, worship / mention the grandest life
, that wa3 ever lived. That ship of light
was launched from the heavens nearly
1900 years ago. angelic hosts chanting,
and from the celestial wharYes the
ship sprang into the toughest sea that
ever tossed. Its DiilvWS were made up
or the wrath of men and devils, Hero
die and sanhedrinlc pers :cutions STIR.
ring the deep with red wrath, and all
the hurricanes OF woe smote it until
on the rocks Of Golgotha that life
struck with resound OF agony that
appalled, the earth and the heavens.
But in the wake Of that life what a
phosphorescence of smiles on the cheek
OF souls pardoned, and lives reformed,
and nations redeemed. The millen-
mum itself Is only one roll Of that
trradiated wave of gladness and bone
diction. In the sublmest Of all senses
it may be said OF him, Gle maketh a
path to shine after him."
But cannot look upon that lumi-
Mostly that follows ships without real
izing how fond the Lord is Of life
That fire Of the deep Is life, myriuds Of
creatures all a-swlm and a-play and
a-romp IN parks Of, marine beauty laid
out and Karterred and roseated and
blossomrd by omnipotence. What is
1
naturalistS crustaceans" and "c0pe
pods, not more than one out Of hun.
dredS Of billions of which are ever seen
by human eye ? God created them fol
the same reason that he creates flowers
, in places where no human foot even
makes them tremble, and no human
Dostril ever inhales their redolence, anC
no human eye ever sees their charm
In the botanical world they prove that
God loves flowers, as in the marine
world the phosphori prove that he loves
life, and he loves life In play, life iI
brilliancy Of gladnesa, life in exuber
anCe.
And so am led to belisve that ht
loves our life if we fulfill our mission
as fully as the phosphori fulfill theirs
The Son of God came that we might
. have life, and have it more abundant
ly." But am glad to tell you that oul
! God is not the God sometimes de