The Grenada sentinel., 1888-08-25

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dollars in Government securities, and a
block Of stores and three ships.
"Well" the man says to himself, sit is
silly for me to pray Give me this day my
daily bread when my pantry is full and
the canals from the West are crowded
with breadstuffs destined for my store
| houses"
Oh, my friends, If the combined mis-
fortunes and disasters Of life have made
| you climb up into the arms Of SYM
pathetic and compassionate God, through
all eternity you will bless Him that in this
world
There was q sharp rock on the one side and
o sharp rock on the other side.
Again, that man is in the crisis Of the
text who has home troubles and outside
persecution at the same time. The world
treats a man well just as long as it pays
| best to treat him we'll. AS long as it can
manufacture success out of his bone and
brain and muscle it favors him. The
| world fattens the horse it wants to drive.
| But let man see 1t his duty to cross the
track Of the world then every bush is full
of horns and tusks thrust at him. They
will belittle him. They will caricature
him. They will call his generosity self
aggrandizement and his piety sanctimoni-
business. The very worst persecution will
some time come upon him from those who
! profess to be Christians.
John MiltOn-great and good John Mil
| ton-so forgot himself as to pray, in so
many words, that his enemies might be
eternally thrown down into the darkest
and deepest gulf of hell, and be the un-
| / -. I A..
est down ,vassals Of perdition, Aud Mar
tin Luther so far forgot himself as to
say, in regard to his theological oppo-
| nents:
"Put them in whatever sauce you
please, roasted, or fried, or baked, or
stewed, or boiled, or hashed, they are
nothing but asses"
All, my friends, if John Milton or Mar
tin Luther could come down to such sour
rility, what may you not expect from less
elevated opponents? Now the world
sometimes takes after them; the news
papers takes after them; public opinion
| takes after them: and the unfortunate
man is lied about until all the dictionary
of Billiusgate is exhausted on him. You
often see a man whom you know to be
good, and pure, and honest, set upon by
the world and mauled by whole COmmu-
mites while vicious men take on a super
cilious air in condemnation Of him; as
though Lord Jeffreys should write an es-
say on gentleness, or Henry VIII. talk
about purify, or Herod take to blessing 2
little children.
Now certain amount % persecution
rouses a mans defiance, stirs his blood
for magnificent battle and makes him
fifty times more a man than he would
have been without the persecution. So it
was with the great TefOrmer when lie
said:
81 will not be put down; I will be
| heard"
And so it was with Millard, the preach
er in the time of Louis XI, When Louis
XI. sent word to him that unless he
stopped preaching in that style he would
throw him into the river, he replied:
Tell the King that will reach Heaven
sooner by water than he will reach it by
fast horses"
A certain amount of persecution is a
tonic and inspiration, but too much Of II,
and too long continued, becomes the rock
Bozez. throwing a dark shadow over &
mans life What is he to do then? Go
home, YOU say. Good advice, that. Tha'
is just the place for man to 90 when the
world abuses him. Go home. Blessed be
God for our quiet and sympathetic homes
But there is many a man VINO has the
reputation Of having a home when he has
none. Through unthinkingness or pre-
cipitatjon, there are many matches made
that ought never to have been made Al
officiating priest can not alone unite
couple. The Lord Almighty must pro
claim banns. There is many home II
which there is no sympathy and no hap
I piness and no good cheer. The clamor OF
l the battle may not have been heard out
side, but God knows, Notwithstanding a.
Y the playing of the "Wedding March" ano
a all the odor Of the orange blossoms anl
, the beuediction of the officiating pastor
y there has been no marriage.
q Sometimes men have awakened to finl
on one side Of them the rock Of perSecu
e tior. and on the other side the rock Of do
o mestic infideLtv, What shall such a
one doe Do AS Jonathan did-cIimb. &c
; IN the heights Of Gods cons ISOLATION, frol
: which we may look down in triumph uD
Il a, fine outsidn Dprsecutiou and hom
V +rouIla While rooi and great JONI
. Wesley was being silenced by the mariS
q +rates. and having his name written ol
5 fine board fences of London in doggere,
5 at that very time his wife was maxim
4 him as miserable as she could-qCting a