Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-09-30

and cry out to our God and see if
He still lives aud reigns above u.s.
and the great multitude of human
beings gathered again ana looked up
into the darkness Of the clouds
and cried to know if God still
lived end ro;gned !; and as they
opened their ears, from the darkness
above them voice shouted back
and said 4 am that ]! am and they
cried exultantly: GLORY to His name.
He has spoken to lis more than He
did to our fathers before ue He
still lives and reigns = Than&; God
that in the darkest ages of this world
thoy have heard the voice of God
and felt tie pulsation of His great,
loving, fatherly heart. You may
say what you please, the children of
a great King cannot be satisfied long
with suppression. Oh, my! how we
have pinod away here in Carters-
vile how we have hung our hearts
upon the willows how wo have said
to each other as we met one another
on the street, 'Has God forgotten
usP Have the days of good time
and righteous enjoyment passed
away from usr And we grew
anxious and gathered up here
in this old tabernacle and
cried unto God and he has
spoken to us in words of sympathy
and kindness and pardon and to-day
we start out with fresh courage to
fight life's battles, to 60 through life's
pilgrimage and to wear a crown in
the bright and beautiful world
beyond. Thank God for every impe-
tus we get toward heaven; thank
God for every impulse that makes us
love God more and love men more.
Thank God that he has ever made a
track in Cartersville, and that He has
spoken to us in words of sympathy
and love-to us, the wayward chill
dren of men. Blessed be God, amid
all our sinfulness and our follies and
our waywardncss, he has put his
arms around us and spoken to us
from His loving heart and told us
that whenever our, fathers and
mothers forsake us He will take us
up.
If YOU WOULD KNOW CHRIST.
"But the world grew restless again
and the time came in their lives
when they must know moro of God,
and just in the fulness of time, when
humanity was most expectant and
eager, tho Lord Jesus Christ stood
forth among men and they grouped
about Him, and directly one in the
multitude said, tBe quiet now, He is
going to speak, And I tell you,
brethren, tho greatest day this old
world ever saw was when the Lord
Jesus Christ opened His lips and be-
gan to talk to His brethren end tc tel!
us the things that the world was dying
to know and to impart unto us the
knowledge that would make us wise
unto salvation. If I would know
who Christ is and what Christ is |
would go to His own lips and learn
the lesson. You may talk about the
historic Christ who was born
of the Virgin Mary who suf.
fered under Pontius Plate who
was crucified !; who died and rose
again but that is the mere repeat
ing of history in its occurrences
among the children of men. If you
would know Christ you should not
60 to the man who has written the
best life of Christ, and ponder among
the pages of his work, nor study Him
in His miraculous power, or in the
hieroglyphics of the past, Or in the
streets of Jerusalem; you should 90
to His own lips and learn of him.
Some men study the miracles of
Christ and say, How could he do
works like thatP 1t is very supor-
flcial mind that staggors there. My
friend, do you wonder and stagger
and turn into infidolity when you
see my divine Lord healing the sick
woman and restoring sight to tho
blind? DO you wonder at that9
Come with me little further and
let's sit down and listen to Christ
talk-wonderful words Of life. Every
word that Jesus ever uttered fairly
glistcns and glimmers and burns
under tho presence of tho meaning
in it. But if you think His
works are wonderful and His
words arc wonderful, / tell
you you will cease to wonder at His
works and words if you will stop up
and put your heart against the heart
of Christ and your forehead against
tho forehead Of Christ and think like
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