The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1897-03-10

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their sabers, compelled tho gardener,
William von Ky!som, to draw water
very puro water. But tho battle ragod,
md 300 dead and half dead Toro
flung into the we'll for quick and easy
burial, so that tho we'll Of refreshment
became tho we'll OF death. and long af-
ter people looked down;nto the we'll,
and they saw the bleachcd skulls, but
no water. So the human soul was a
we'll Of good, but the armies of sin
have fought around It ana fought
across it and been slain, and it has be-
como q we'll Of skeletons. Dead hopes,
dead resolutions, dead opportunities,
dead ambitions. An abandoned we'll
unless Christ shall reopen and purify
and fill itas the we'll ofBelgium never
was. Unclean, unclean.
Another feraphic posture in the
toxt, with twain he covered the
face" That means reverence God.
ward. Never so much irreverence
abroad in the world as today. You
see it in the defaced statuary, in the
cutting out Of figures from ne paint.
ings, in the chipping Of monuments
for mennonite, in the fact that mill.
tary guard must stand at the grave Of
Lincoln and Garfield, and that old
shade trees must be cut down for fire
wood, though so George p. Morrises
beg the woodmen 10 spare tho tree,
and that calls corpse oadaye, and
that speaks OF death as going over to
the majority and substitutes for the
reverend terms father and mother ''the
old man" and "the old woman" and
finds nothing impressive in tho ruins
of Baalbec or the columns Of Karnac,
and sees no difference in the Saba ath
from other days except it allows more
dissipation, and reads the Bible in
what is called higher criticism, MAX
ing it not the word of God, but a
good book with some fine things in it.
lrreverence never so much abroad.
How many take the name Of God in
vain, how many trivial things said
about the Almighty Not willing to
have God in the world, they roll up
an idea of sentimentality and humani.
tarianism and impudencean nd imbecili
ty and call it God. No wings Of re-
verenco over the face, no taking off of
shoes on holy ground. You can
tell from the way they talk they
could have made better world
than this, and that the God
OF the Bible shocks every sense Of pro-
priety. They talk OF the love Of God
in a way that shows you they believe
it does not mako any difference how
bad q man is here he will come in al
tho shining gate. They talk of the
love Of God in way which shows
you they think it is q general jq.l dc.
livery for all the abandoned and the
scoundrelly Of the universe No pun
ishment hereafter for any wrong done
here.
The Bible gives two descriptions OF
God, and they are just opposite, and
they are both true. In ono place the
Bible says God is love. In another
place the Bible says God is q consum-
ing fire. The explanation is plain as
love. God out Of Christ is fire. To
win the ono ana to escape tho other
we. have only to throw ourselves,
body, mind and soul, into Christs
keeping. mo" says irreverence, II
want no atonement; I want no par
don; ] want no intervention. will
go up and face God, and l will chal-
lenge him, and | will defy him, and
will ask him what he wants to do
with me. SO tho infinite confronts
the Infinite, SO q tack hammer tries to
break thunderbolt, so the breath of
q human nostril deiles the everlasting
God, while the hierarchs OF heaven
bow the head and bend the knee as
the Kings chariot goes by, and the
archangel turns away because he can.
not endure the splendor. and the cho,
rus of all the empires of hea ven comes
in with full diapason, ''IIoly, holy,
holy |"
Reverence for sham, reverence fo1
the old merely because it is old, rev.
erence for stupidity, however learned,
reverence for incapacity, however
finely inaugurated, I have none.
But we want more reverence for God,
more reverence for the sacraments''
more reverence for the Bible, more
reverence for the pure, more reverence
for the good. Reverence a character
istic Of all great natures. " ou hear it
in the roll of the master oratorios.
You see it in the Rephaels and Titians
and Ghirlandaios. You study it in
the architecture OF the Aholiabs and
Christopher Wrens. Do not be flip.
pant about God. Do not joke about
death. Do not make fun Of the Bible.
Do not deride the Eternal. Tho
brightest and mightiest search cannot
look unabashed upon him. Involun-
tarily the wings come up. "With
twain he covered his face.''
u Win 10 fbic nod l,ofonn -, - -, ~, -
arrogant and intractable refuse row
erencel There was an engineer of
the name OF Strasicrates who was in
the employ of Alexander the Great,
and he offered to hew a mountain in
the shape Of his master, the emperor,
the enormous figure to hold in the
left hand a city Of 1000 inhabitants,
while with the right and it was to
hold a basin large enough to collect
oil the mountain torrents. Alexander
a applauded him for his ingenuity, but
fobade the enterprise because of its
costliness. Yet have to tell YOU that
our King holds in one hand all the
cities OF the earth and all the oceans,
while he has tho stars Of heaven for
his tiara.
Earthly power goes from hand 10
hand, from Henry I to Henry III and
Henry III, from CHARLES I to Charles
II. from Louis to Louis II and Louis
III, but from everlasting to everlast-
ing is God. God the first, God the
last, God the only. He has one tele-
scope, with which he sees everything
his omniscience. lie has one bridge
with which he crosses everything--
his omnipresence. He has one ham.
NOR, with which he builds everything
his. .omnipotence. Put2 tablespoonfuls
of water in the palm of your hand,