The Grenada sentinel., 1896-11-14


neigh borhood, and here and there you
think of one. What unction they had
in prayer? What power they had In
exhortation! If they walked into =
home every member OF it felt holy
thrill. and il they walked into q
prayer meeting the dullness and sto''
idity instantly vaniahed. One OF them
would wake up . whole church. One
OF them would sometimes electrify .
whole city.
But the most wonderful one OF that
characterization the world ever saw or
heard or felt was peasant In the lar
east, wearing plain blouse like sn.in-
verted wheat sack, with three open.
inRs, one for the neck, and the other
two for the arma. His father, . wheel
wright and house.builder, and given
to various carpentry. His mother. at
first under suspicion because OF the
circumstances Of his nativity, and no
chased by q Herodic mania out OF his
native land. to live awhile under the
shadows Of the sphinx and Pyramid
Of Gizeh, afterwards confoundinR
the LIDS Of Jerusalem. then
stopping tile paroxysm of temp
est and Of madman. His path
strewn with slain dropsies and
catale psies and ophthPlmias, trans.
figured on one mountain, preaching
on another mountain, dying on an
other mountain, and ascending from
another mountain-the greatest, the
loveliest, the mightiest, the kindest,
tho most self-sacridcing, most beauti.
full being whose feet ever touched the
earth. Tell us, ye deserts who heard
our Saviour's prayer; tell us, ye seas
that drenched Him with your serf;
tell us, ye multitudes who heard Him
preach on deck, on beach, on hillside;
tell us. Golgotha, who heard the
stroke of the hammer on the spike
heads, and the dying groan in that
midnight that dropped on midnoon.
did anyone like Jesus have this pas
sion for soulsY
But. breaking right in upon me is
the questions: How can we get some
thing of this Pauline and Christly
longing for saved immortalities? lam
swer: BY better appreciating the pro-
longation of the souls existence coin
pared with everything physical and
material. How l hope that surgeon
will successfully remove the cataract
from that mans eye! 1t is such sad
thing to be blind. Let us pray while
the doctor is busy with the delicate
operation. But for how long time
will he be able to give his patient eye
sight? Well, If the patient be 40 years
of age, he will add to his happiness
perhaps fifty years Of eyesight, and
that will bring tho man to 80
years. and it is not probable
that he will live longer than
that, or that he will live SO long. But
what is good eyesight for so years
more as compared with clear vision
for the soul a billion of centuries? l
hope the effort to drive back the ty-
phoid fever from yonder home will be
successful. God help the doctors! We
will wait in great anxiety until the
fires Of that fever are extinguished,
and when the man rises from his pill
low and walks out, with what hearth
ness we will welcome him into the
fresh air and the church and business
circle. He is 30 years Of age, and If he
shall live 60 years more that will make
him 80. But what are 90 years more
Of earthly vigor compared with
the souls health for qnadrillion mil
leniums-a millennium, as you know.
1000 years? This world, since fitted
up for mans residence, has existed
about 5000 years. How much longer
will it exist? We will suppose it will
last Is much longer, which Is very
doubtful. That will make its exist.
ence l2,OOo years. But what are or will
be 12,OOO years compared with the
eternity preceding those years and the
eternity following them? Time, az
compared to eternity, like the dew
drop Of the night new sha ken from the
top Of grassblade by cows hoof on
Its way afield this morning, as CON-
pared with Mediterranean, and Ara.
bian. and Atlantic, and Pacific watery
doninions.
see the author Of my text seated in
the house Of Gaius, who entertained
him at Corinth, not far from the over.
hanging fortress Of Acro-Corinthus,
and meditating on the longevity Of the
soul, and getting more and more agi.
tated about its value and the awful
risk some of his kindred were running
concerning 1t, and he writes this letter
containing the text which Chrysostom
admired SO much he had it read to him
twice a week, and among other things
he says those daring and startling
words Of my text: ~ could wish that
myself were accursed from Christ FOL
my brethern, my kinsmen, according
to the flesh"
Another way to get something Of ths
Paulian longing for redeemed immor
talities Ii by examining the vast ma
chinery arranged to save this innel
aud spiritual nature. That machinery
started to revolvc on the edge Of tn,
Garden Of Eden, just after the cyclone
Of sin prostratsd it, svcamorss sns
tamalisAs, and willows, and will no
cease to rcvolve until the last soul o
earth shall get rid Of its last sin snt
enter the heavenly Eden. On tha