The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1911-11-30
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the sunshine, II you're hated you
brace up IKE pine tee in the gale
bus if you are laughed at you'll with
er and wfE. You dislike April !.
soYe youngster may pin a card on
your coat. A farmer found his lost wal
let on the street on April fools day.
Hundreds passed by, but all snifed
the. ar or walked around it with
'you can't fool me" air Of WISDOM.
They dreaded being laughed at. Sir
Walter Scott said ridicule was the
dread Of mis- childhood. It broke poor
Keats heart. There are young men
who'd risk ruin and downfall rather
than risk ridicule. Boys stop going TO
Sunday school, men to church, II some
worthless corner lounger sneers. HAD
John Alexander Dowie been beaten In
the streets Of New York and a couple
Of Ills followers been burned at Inc
stake he would have returned to zion
City with thousand converts ana
S1,o0o,o00, but the newspapers iaugn-
ed at him. The result is history,
The Moekery Of Sin.
sConseouences are Implying" said
George Eliot. A fearful sentence!
asoul death is the consequence of SIN
That is what the old book declares
sThe wages Of sin is death" Man IS
an engine built to run threescore
wears and ten. Sin cuts down MS
time one-half. Sin is cerebro-spinal
meningitis that battles earthly cure.
Sin Is q boomerang. Strikes when the
danger seems over. Sin is trail OF
powder We lay from our house to the
train track where the sparks fajL
Then ne forget. Some day the unex-
pected happens. The spark and the
trail Of powder do their work. Yes,
consequences are Implying. The aero
bat who stood on his head at the edge
OF st, in the Yosemite, with
feeta s clear drop beneath him.
"a the boatman who tries TO see how
Sr he can go toward Buckhorn island,
lid the Niagara river above the falls
Ire fair types Of the man playing with
svsin. Some day the rocks Of Yosemite
j and the Maid Of the Mist will laugh at
the foolhardy. Consequences are un-
plying. Repeat it over and over
again as you would your A B or
your multiplication table. 1.-THE wages
Mof sin is death" Wages! 1t isn't
Throwing dice; no gamhlet's luck. It's
0yaSgg.-s9deed, >se1ne are so anxious
TO give the deyf Sis dues that they-
pay in advance. 'sFools mock at sin,"
/. says the word Yes, and sin gibes at
fools too.
The Laughter OF the Almighty.
It's an awful thing to have God
mocking at you. Gods smile is pleas
ure. Gods laughter IS derisive. He
often works through natural agencies,
Captain Philip Of the Texas said the
side which fires first shot in Sunday
battle has slways been defeated. Ger
vera deliberately chose the hour when
the American feet were at worship
for his cunning fight. His battered
huIks stn lie bleaching on the Antl-
lean shore. Every asylum, prseas
almshouse, is Gods laughter at men
who defed him. Men laugh at sani-
tary laws and typhoid gibes at them.
They laugh at social laws and ostra-
cism taunts them. They laugh at
moral law and loathsome disease
plaques them. Did l say law was
gibing at them? Possibly the LawgiYer
that stitch in the heavens was hold
ing them in derision.
God Is Not Mocked"-
It Is so easy to laugh at Gods serv-
ants and their warnings. Men laughed
at Noah. He was the jest Of his day
the old dolt, building his ungainly ark.
Many gibe he endured. Then the
heat lightning Of Gods displeasure
flashed its banner across the darken-
ing sky. Eae&sw mutter Of the thun-
der turnedto crashing in the heavens.
Then the fountains Of the deep were
osenad SA food? No; Gods laughter!
Lot goes through the streets Of Sodom
al midnight. warning. Men laugh
the old crank, the old fanatic. Was 1t
FIRE and birthstone cracking in the
sulphurous atmosphere? No; Gods
laughter! Is that shrek in the pal
ace? No; the laughter Of God! There's
shout Of horsemen and rumble OF
chariot wheels "Kill men! Capture
women! Whet your swords!' The
chariots drag; the he-ses stumble; the
drivers curse; the waters are return
ing. Is that mocking? Who IS laugh
| ing? Godi He that sitteth in the
Sleavens has them In derision. Christ
sEarns the Jewish rulers Of the com
Of Titus and Yespasian and the
struction Of the temple and that
rusalem will lie in dust and ashes.
uh! No one believes that. But the
Snost dreadful siege in human history
tslIs of the mockery Of him who is the
GoG Of judgment All Of Gods pre-
dicHlons Of judgment on individual and
nation have come true to the let
ter. Men escape preaching and laugh
amusedly at the church. But they
cannot escape God that way. Preach
ers often wish they could get all the
careless and Indifferent to the gospel
call. BUT there is to be meeting that
every mfdel will attend, and every
impenitent sinner, every stingy, un-
forgiving, excuse making church men,
Der will attend, and I hear the judg-
ment Of destruction. Men are crafty
mocking God, and he that sitteth in
the heavens Is laughing at them!
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