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

will walk and run, and blessed be
God, whore there are chasms we will
mount as on wings and fly along,
and with our minds infused with the
thoughts Of Christ we will begin to
think of better things. i
"A man can never 90 right until
he thinks right. A Aman who turns
his happiness on the price of cotton
who lets the price of cotton deter
mine and settle whether he is gloomy
or happy, miserable or peaceful, /
am sorry for that fellow. Bless God,
a man can get enough religion to get
to the point whore he don't know
whether there is any cotton in this
country or not. Looking on one
side of the question, grant you that
you may get miserable along these
lines, but oh, my God, pitch in from
the other side and do your best,
and the Lord God has never
forsaken man here or hereafter
that done his best. When the
world shall think right about
these things, thank God, bankruptcy
and wreck and ruin will be banished
from the earth, and as the children
of God we shall realize what Christ
meant when he said that if man
forsakcs his father aud his mother,
and his land and his home to be NV
disciple, he shall have an hundred
fold and more in this world and life
everlasting in the world to come.
used to hear the preachers quote that
text and say it wasn't so but blessed
be God | have seen it and tested it
and know it to be true. When
left Cartersville twenty-six years
ago and went down on this little
Dallas and Rockmart circuit I left a
little cabin home here, but thank
God now l have a thousand
homes in every State in this Union,
better than any home 1 ever loft. 1
left a kind and good stepmother-
one of the best mothers in heaven
to-day-but thank God I have found
q thousand mothers in overy State
in the Union as good and kind as
they could be to me. I left a few
friends in Cartersville who were my
friends, but God Almighty has given
me ten thousand friends for every
one that I left behind. 1t is the
truth. Oh, brother, oh, ny brother,
God Almighty will give you hun
dredfold more in this life, and I verify
believe everlasting life in tho world
to come. We need TO think right
about these things, and if we think
right we will do right, and doing
right we will walk arm in arm with
God and be guaranteed heaven every
day.
JESUS SPOKE, 81 AM THE WAY"
"The reason we can't preach
Christ better is because nc think think and
speak of Him as the babe at Bethle-
hem 1900 years age; as .; Christ
sitting on the Mount preaching the
cermon that we 80 love to hear; wo
think of Him yonder in tho garden
of Gothsemane, or hanging there on
the GROSS, but, oh brother, the days
shall come in our lives when we
don't have to think about Him as
the babe in the manger or suffering
on the cross, but as the ever-abiding
God in my own heart, revolutioniz-
ing my life, inspiring my thoughts
and guiding my footsteps. If we
preachers had Christ as we ought
we could hold Him up, and He has
said If / be lifted up + will draw all
mon to me- Oh, brother in
the ministry of Jesus Christ,
are you holding Him up as
an indwelling, abiding Saviour
in our own souls? But listen. He
opened His mouth, and as He opened
His mouth the great multitude was
stillcd. They looked and listened.
And Jesus said, Il am and they
caught it up and said, Our fathers
heard that shouted from tho skies
thousands of years ago. He is going
to flood the whole subject with light.
Iisten,' and Jesus spoke and said, Il
am the way Oh, what an announce
mont to an old, sinful world that
had groped in tho Wilderness for four
thousand years. At last it is
awakened to find the way to God,
tho way to truth, the way to heaven.
Thank God thaJ the day ever came
into this world when humanity had
way out of sin, a way out of folly,
way out of weakness, q way from
hell, a way that leaks to the pearly
gates on high.
"And Jesus said further, q am tho
truth { am sorry 1 ever told o lie in