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

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following from the third chapter,
tenth verse, of Philippians:
"That l might know him and the
power of his resurrection and the
fellowship of bis sufforings, being
made conformable unto His DEATH"
Ills sermon was as follows:
eve have in the text tho aspira-
tions and tho supreme desire brcathed
forth of the greatest man in all his
tory, for when l look at this man
Saul Of Tarsus, ST. Paul tho divine,
from tho standpoint of glorious,
grand manhood, can scarcely find
his peer in all history. St. Paul was
great i'll tie three essentials of great
ness. He was first great in head
he had clear, strong, vigorous mind
that sought truth in all of it's rela-
tions a man with every faculty in
perfect harmony with every other
faculty, perception, conception, me-
mory, judgment, reason, imagina-
ton, and every faculty of his great
mind in rs full play as the machinery
of locomotive engine. And then
he had a great heart, pouring his
sympathies like the gush of q river
through every avenue of his great
mind and then he was great in
the other essential of greatness
he was great in achievement. He
had accomplished something in tho
world in which he had lived.
The more o man knows and the
more a man feels and the moro o
man docs, the greater is that man in
the sight of God and the angels; and
st. Paul was great in these three
essentials. With a mind vigorous
and strong, with a heart broad
enough to take in universe, and
with muscles and blood and mind
and body vigorously at work from
sunup to sundown every day, MAX
ing the world better, no wonder he
could say, as his eyes swept tho past,
4 have fought the good fight, I have
finished my course, l have kept the
faith. Iionceforth there is laid I'D
lor me crown of righteousness
which the Lord, the righteous Judge,
will give to me in that day; and not
unto me only, but unto all them that
love Ills appearing
"Whcn great man like that
stands up and breathes out the
supreme desire of his soul, his
supreme wish, I am going to hear
what that desire is. St. Paul OK
pressed his supreme desire in the
words of our text to-day.
"In the first words OF the tcxt he
says, 'That | might know Brcth-
ren, there never was day 80 dark
in the ages of the past when men
who wero men were not cropping out
after God. There never was a day
when man looked at himself and Lis
surroundings and environments and
looked upward without wanting to
know something Of tho great eternal
God. lie wants to get closer to God
and to know more of God. In the
darkest history of this world human
ity has been anxious along these
lines. AS wo go back down the
vista of timo about 1900 years we
see humanity cropping in the dark
ness, despairing in the wilderness
and the byways of earth, lost to God,
lost to higher knowledge, lost to
pride; and as they thus grappled
with environment and gropcd in the
darkness there was a day when ali
humanity gathered together in one
seething mass of ignorance, of sinful
mon aid women, and in that great
soothing multitude the supreme wish
was to see God, and they all
looked up as one man and cried: 'Oh,
God, dost thou live and reign! Dost
thou govern menf Oh, God, speak !!
Let us know that thou dost live. Let
us know that We are not orphans,
wandering through this world lost
to time and chance And as they
looked in the darkness above them
a voice shouted out of the clouds say
ing: 4 ami And they caught it up
with glad refrain and said: Our
Father lives and roigns above US.
We arc not orphans lost to time
and chance. Glory to Thee, oh God p
And go humanity lived for q thou
sand years longer satisfied with this
revelation, but tho day CAME whom
tho children of mon, again cropping
in the darkness and despair, said to
themselves; we will gather again