The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-27

me seem ol llltlt NhlWP 10 many PEG
pie who, even when properly APP,
= preached, are by no means wanting
: i'll generous feelings. Perhaps there
Is no people, in eases nt sickness .4nti
distress, who are moved more readily
in behaIl Of kindly sympathy, than
our citizens. There is nothing which
means can furnish and taste prepare
, for the benefit OF sick friends, which
; is not freely and generously rendered.
: This is "A christian duty, but there are
other ways of doing nice little atten-
tons which, but OF small and intrin-
sic value, sparkle like pendent dew
drops on the wayside of life. II eve
rybody knew just how everybody else
lived, some of our good people would
wonder at the bounty of their own
boards and br amazed at the poverty
Of their neighhors. If there is any
thing that a sensitive MAJ would
hide from himself it is his grinding
poverty, which he bears sometimes
with Spartan abnegation rather than
Stoice Indifference. 1t is impossible
that people in a small city like this
should not know the current resOuI-
ces of each other. Many II time a
pitcher of milk, a loaf of hot, whole
some bread, a waiter of delicacies or
a little fruit placed at the disposal of
neighbOrS who have not such things
at command, go further in softening
the asperities of life's uneven Journey
and opening the little rills Of graft
tude and respect between people of
the same community than Il public
donation Of much greater value.
When christian people shall learn
that a nickel thrown to a beggar to
get rid of him, or from pride lest they
be accounted mean, its moral worth |
in the sight of Him who watches the
sparroWs as they alight, has in it no
claim to His blessings, they will
learn one of the happiest and sweet
est lessons Of christian obligations.
The -~pendthrift, the gambler, the
Iibertine sometimes, puts to blush the
cold routintvharity o the disciples of
Christ, a. was instanced a short time
since in the presence Of a friend of
ours. " hen approached and asked
for Il dime to make up Il small sum
for Il sick man who was wasting away
by the constant gnuWing of that ter
rlble disease rOnsumptIon-then said
this man Of the world: "Take that
dollar, and with it Gods blessing,
| hupe.'
While the christian world is all
agloW at the ~ronquest's Of the cross
at home and abroad while the teem-
ing millions Of Asia are ripe for a
change from their stupid idolatry .
to the grander and higher claims Of
the christian faith; while the tatho- ;
lie Church, with her exclusive dog
mas, Is making extraordinary efforts ,
to send out her priesthood in in
creased numbers in almost newborn
zeal white all the protestant churcl-
eo, with an u~ncXalnpIeu uruuimity, ,
consolidating their forces with
out the friction Of rivalry OF the
chickering's OF sects; while e%Vaugeli-
cal teachers and ministers are seek {
ing halls large enough to hold the
assembled thousands which every
night are turned away for want of
UPON ii hicll the anxious throngs
can stand; while the regular pulpit
Is preaching with al JUNCTION more
sincere aud devout than usual: we
say, while all these Favorable signs
vi mans regeneration are going on
III all parts Of our common country, t
there - q counter movement at work
That seems strange and abnormal, /
Never have We seen murder, man {
slaughter, theft, burglary, suicide |
and various other crimes more on |
the rampage. In One metropolitan {
alone, last week, besides a col
unnn Of atrocious crimes, there were :
three suicides Of respecta-
people, and two Of them coilsum-
with evidences of calm and
Deliberate purpose. We know that {
these crimes have no central force. I
70 us these are curious developments, I
which, in the end, will result in fa-
vor oftrlth and Righteousness,