The Grenada sentinel., 1894-06-16

traortiinary times. The whole land
was ripe for insurrection. The Sicarii.
band Of assassins, were already
prowling around the palace, and l SUP.
pose he thought, Il can't attend to re.
iigion while am SO pressed by affairs
OF state 1t was business, among
other things, that ruined his soul. and
suppose there are thousands of people
who are not children of God because
thev have SO much business. It is
business in the store-losses, gains,
anfalthful employees. 1t is business
IN your law Ofice-subpnnas, writs
you have to write out, papers Won
nave to file. arguments you have to
make. IT is your medical profession,
with Its broken nights, and the ex-
hausted anxieties of life hanging upon
your treatment. It is your real estate
oftice, your business with landlords and
tenants, and the failure of men to meet
their obligations with you, Az, with
some OF those who are here, it is the
annoyance of the kitchen, and the sit
ting room and the parlor-the wearing
economy OF trying to meet large ex-
penses with small income. Ten thou.
sand voices of business, business, busi-
ness" drown the voice of the eternal
spirit, silencing the voice of the
advancing Judgment day, over
coming the voice of eternity; and they
can not hear, they con not listen. They
say: "Go thy way for this time.' Some
OF you look upon your goods, look
upon your profession, you look upon
your nemorandum-books, and you see
the demands that are made this very
week upon your time and your ratience
and Your money: and while l am en-
treating you about your soul. and the
danger of procrastination, you say:
"Go thy way for this time: when
have convenient season will call for
thee" Oh, Felix, why be bothered bout
the affairs of this world so much
more than about the affairs of eterni-
ty? DO you not know that when death
comes You will have to stop business.
though it he in the most exciting pe-
riod of it-between the payment Of the
money and the taking OF the receipt?
The moment he comes you will have to
90. Death waits for no man, however.
high. howeve.' low. viii you put your
office. will you put your shop, in COM
parison with the affairs of an eternal
world? Affairs that involve thrones.
palaces, dominions eternal? Will YOU
put two hundred acres of ground
against immensity? viii you put forty
or fifty years of your life against
millions of ages? Oh. Felix. you
might better postpone everything else!
For do you not know that the uphol-
stering of Tyrian purple in your palace
will fade. and the marble blocks of
tesarea will crumble. and the break
water at the beach, made of great
block stone sixty feet long. must give
way before the perpetual wash of the
sea: but the redemption that Paul of
fers you will he forever? And yet. and
yet, and yet you wave him back to the
guard room. saying: go thy way for
this time: when | have a convenient
season. will call for thee
Again, Felix adjourned this subject
If religion and put off Paul's argument,
because he could not give up the honors
If the world. lie was afraid somehow
le would be compromised himself in
his matter Remarks he made after.
ward showed him to be intensely am
oitious Oh, how he hugged the favor
,f men!
never saw the honors Of this world
n their hollowncss and hypocrisy SO
much as in the life and death of that
wonderful man. Charles Sumner. As
le went toward the place Of burial.
ven Independence hall, in Philadel-
'hia, asked that his remains stop there
n their way to Boston. The flags
we're at half-mast. and the minute guns
N Boston Common throbbed after his
leart had ceased to beat. Was it ul-
Ways so? While he lived. how CEN
ured of Legislative resolutions. how
aricatured of the pictorials; how
harged with every motive mean and
idiculous: how all the urns of scorn
nd hatred billingsgate emptied upon
is head: how, when struck down in
enate chamber. there were hundreds of
thousands of people who said, Good
or him, served him right" how he had
o put the ocean between him and his
,aligners, that he might have little
eace. and how, when he went off sick.
hey said he was broken-heartcd be-
ause he could not get to be presi-
ent or secretary Of state. Oh, com
of Massachusetts! who is
hat man that sleeps in your public
all, covered with garlands and
trapped in the Stars and Stripes? Is
hat the man who, only q few months
efore, you denounced as the foe of re-
ublican and democratic institutions? .
J that the same man? We American
eople, We could not, by one week of
ineral eulogium and newspaper lead !
rs, which the dead senator could
either read nor hear, atone for twsn- {
,-fve years Of maltreatlnent and car {
ature. When see man like that.
lrsued by all the hounds OF the polit- ,
al kennel 50 long as he lives. and then .
lried under o great pile of garlands,
I'd amidst the lamentations OF whole {
atiOn l saw to myself: What an Nh. =: