The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1904-09-07

men in debased coin, and honesty and In
tegrity and justice are being eXteiminht-
ed, and there is growing up people with
lying king and lying merchants and false
and says: "A false measure is an ahnm-
ination unto the Lord" ANY fa,sehoo0 in
commerce at last .poisons the very foun-
dation of civilization. The city ard the
nation and the individual man who have
forgotten God and His laws do not stand
for long time in the world of commerce.
The laws of wealth are the laws Of
righteousness If YOU would become rich
II yon would attain prosperity, if YOU would
multiply houses and lands and banks. il
the rose, let Christ bc Your teacher. "Secl;
first the Kingdom OF His Righteousness and
all these things shall be added unto YOU"
what is knowledge! low do we gain
knowledge? There sits Momas Carlyle.
the loncsomcst man IN England, and ono
OF the poorest, feeding his shaggy intellect
on French revolution, storm Of modern
ages. When he speaks we ca! him our
greatest prophet and scholar. And his
message is: 81 have found God reicning
us the laws of divine retrihution which
run through the nation. Like thc old
Scandinavian Titan that he is, he drinks
the liquid fire Of divine wrath out of the
skull of .perished empire. And lie smnckcd
his Puritan lips as though it was savory
wine knowledge is finding out divine
laws. There is Charles Dickens He is
not satisfied to meet people on the street
as we do and shake hands with them and
learn their. names. But. looking into their
with sympathy, with path5s and with rar-
est humor, he writes his books. These
books become sort of Bible of the sub
merged tenth of society, and in them we
find written down the, greo5 divine laws
which govern action and conduct and char
acter He is the poor mans prophet, be-
cause he found on the heart of the poor
man the handwriting OF God. All know
edge is revelation.
Seeking the way God made tho stars go.
Kcper became an astronomer Seeking the
way the word was made. Wallace became
scientist Seeking the mysteries ana Sc.
crets of the human soul and Gods doing
therein: Kant became philosopher. Seek
ing to find out how God wrought upon hu.
man nature, Shakespeare penetrated into
the soul depths of Iago, Hamlet, Desde
mona, Richard, Henry ard Lear and
transcribing into words what he found
written there, he has given us his great
dramas. Lo! the dramas of Shakespeare
are almost another book OF God in which
we find written the divine law of rctrrbu-
tior and forgiveness and sacrifice and re-
demption. Augustine comes and his one
word is law. but it is the law of God
Browning comes and his one word is in
spiraton. but it is the inspiration of God
And Beccher and Phillips Brooks come and
their one word is love, but it is tho love
OF God Save he bring us Il word of God
the wisdom OF the schoap i; foo!shncss.
Have you ever seen the shimmcrng of
q lake when the sun playing in it's
surface? Have YOU seen the CLEANS OF sun
light dancing like angels on the water?
Gou know the glory was in the SUM- not
in the water. The sun was the source: the
waters were clothed in borrowed glory
If you have ever stood in a great valley
surrounded nv end board fhn
echoes repeated from moant to mount,
some loud some soft, some distant. some
near at hand YOU know the voice was not
in the mountains. The mountaias only
carried the voice. So great scholars are
only waters and mountain peak. 1t is
God Almighty who speaks. Vt is his glory
that shines. There is dGfcrenc. in men.
The difference between great men and lit
tie men always consist IN this-thc great
man is always listening for the voice Of
God. The litt.e man i taken up wi.h the
sound OF his carth,% Outgoing. The Jews
heard n sound and said: ct thunlcrcd."
Jesus standing with them Encw 1T was an
angel that bad spo,.cn unto Him Wis.
dom is revelation. There is no other way
if YOU wouid he a scholar. il yol would
wear a scholars crown and have a Scho-
ars power. YOU must sRc,; and know face
to face and to find out His ways, which
are above our ways, and His words. which
arc above our words. Here is the prcscrip-
ton for all scholarship: "S:cl; first the
Kingdom OF God and His Righteousness
and all these things Shall De added unto
YOU"
In every age men believe that fame can
be bought Tor a price, and so they tear
down their warehouses and huid larger.
So they mu.tp.y their feet, until their
white sails covcv every sea; 80 they get for
themselves houses aud lands aad stocks
and bonds. When they die the market
drops down for Il dav. or a wccl, and then
the world goes on. YOU do not know the
names OF any rich mea IN MIC or Rome
OF Thcbcs or Babylon. lol may know the
name of some orator or some scholar who
had wealth, but You do do not knew the
name OF any man who lad nothing bat
wealth. There was m%n VINO laid the
foundation Of his forum" IN the days of
the Stuarts. lie was a powder MIaaiac.
turer. lie drove his coach and -four and
lived in a palace. He built s.il;cn nests
for his children, He la! been ~ arlent
! Royalist, but wh"n the Revolution came,
he said: There is SIDE in the affairs of
men, which, il taken in It's food, leads on
to fortune" And hc cut of his powdered
curls and !e.t off his jcwolcd sword. Tie
even sang psalms. lie turned pwitan. lie
turned his back on tine cathedral and went
to worship in n Puritan convcntcc lie
had his reward. lie got the contract ior
making powder ior Cromwolis army and
became mult:.miIiion&.Tc. And when the
restoration came he grew Ggaln his Van
Dyke beard, he aGSin wore his vcsvct doub.
let. he again went to chUrch with prayer
book and cruciiX. He even Stood 10y and
applaudcd when Cromwc,!'s bones were
hung up to dry on Tynurn Hill. lie quick.
ly became cavalier and he had his re-
ward For lo Charles made lin Knight
of the Garter and he s,ill had the contract
for making powder for the English Army.
What was his name? You do not know.
Nobody knows. You cannot tlld 1t WRIT
ten down in any book. But in that same
Puritan under the first StuartS, WHO was
Puritan secret tary OF commonwealth un-
der Cromwell. and vino was a P"ritan
blind and poor. an c%i.c threatened with
ms life under the rcy"yAcd StUarts. lie