The Grenada sentinel., 1898-11-26

y the two rooms you had in house VIII
- you started? Have you not had mo
care and worriment since you won tn
$4,000 than you did before? Some
ID the poorest men have ever known ha,
been those of great fortune. A man
small means may be put in'great bus
ness straits. but the ghastliest Of a
. embarrassments Is that of the man VIII
has large estates. The men who con
nit suicide because of monetary losse
are those who cannot bear the burte
any more because they have only $50
900 left.
. Blessed be God, we have more &C
|, vantages given us than we can reall
= appreciate! We have spiritual bless
S ings offered us in this world which
shall call the neither springs and glorie
: in the world to come which l shall cal
, the upper springs.
. Where shall find words enougl
threaded with light to set forth tn,
pleasures of religion? David. unable t,
describe it in words, played it on I
harp. Mrs. Hemans. not finding enough
power in prose. sings that praise in 6
canto. Christopher Wren. unable to de-
scribe it in language. sprung it into the
arches of St. Paul's. John Bunyan. un.
able to present it in ordinary phrase.
ology, takes all the fascination of allie
CORY. Handel. with ordinary music un-
able to reach the height of the theme,
rouses it up in an oratorio. Oh. there is
no life on earth so happy as a really
Christian life! do not mean a sham
Christian life, but real Christian life.
Where there is thorn there is whole
garland of roses. Where there is one
groan there are three doxologies.
Where there is one day of cloud there is
a whole season of sunshine. Take the
humblest Christian man that you know
angels of God canopy him with their
white wings; the lightnings of Heaven
are his armed allies; the Lord is his
Shepherd, picking out for him green
pastures by still WI ters. If he walk
forth, Heaven is his bodyguard. If he
lie down to sleep. ladders of light. angel
blossoming. are let into his dreams. If
lie be thirsty, the potentates Of Heaven
are his cupbearcrs. If he sit down to
food, his plain table blooms into the
Kings banquet. Men say: "Look at
that odd fellow with the wornout
coat" The angels OF God cry: Lift up
your heads. ye everlasting gates. and |
let him come in!" Fastidious people
cry: Get off my front steps!" The
ooorkeepers of Heaven cry: "Come. ye
blessed of my Father, inherit the King
hom!" When he comes to die, though
he may be carried out in a pine box to
the potter's field, to that potter's field
the chariots of Christ will come down,
and the cavalcade will crowd all the
boulevards of Heaven.
bless Christ for the present satisfac-
tion Of religion. It makes a man all
right with reference to the past; it
makes man all right with reference to
The future. Oh, these neither springs of
comfort! They are perennial. The
foundation OF God standeth sure having
this seal: The Lord knoweth them
hat are His" "The mountains shall
iepart, and the hills be removed, but
ny kindness shall not depart from thee,
neither shall the covenant of my peace
'e removed, saith the Lord, who hath
mercy upon thee" Oh, cluster Of dia-
nonds set in FURNISHED goldl Oh,
'ether springs of comfort bursting {
through all the valleys of trial and trib-
llation! When you see, you Of the
vorld, what satisfaction there is on +
arth in religion, do you not thirst after
as the daughter of Caleb thirsted I
fter the water springs? tits no stag +
ant pond, scummed over with ma
aria, but springs OF water leaping
rom the Rock Of Ages! Take up one ,
up OF that spring water and across the :
'p OF the chalice will float the delicate .
1adows of the Heavenly wall. the yel- :
w Of jasper. the green of emerald, the
lue OF sardonyx. the fire Of jacinth. +
wish I could make you understand =
le joy religion is to some of US. 1t j.
'akes a man happy while he lives and a
lad when he dies. With two feet upon
chair and bursting with dropsies, / .
card an old man in the poorhouse cry :,
ut: "Bless the Lord. oh, my soul!" | a
'oked around and said: what has this :.
IAN got to thank God for?" It makes :,
lie lame man leap as hare and the ! l. l.
umb sing. They say that the old Puri- . .
n religion il a tuiceless and joyless .,
'ligion, but remember reading OF Dr.. =,
oodwin, the celebrated Puritan, who = =
his last moment said: "Is this dy- u
g? Why. my bow abides in strength! a
am swallowed upin God!" "Her ways -
e ways Of pleasantness, and all her ~
this are peace" Oh, you who have -,
Zen trying to satisfy yourselves with =,
e south land" Of this world, do you s.
IT feel that you would this morn :,
g like to have access to the neither -,
rings of spiritual comfort? Would - =,
~ not like to have Jesus Christ bend -, ~
er your cradle and bless your table -,
I'd heal your wounds and strew flowers 49,
consolation all up and down the ~, ~
aves OF your dead? =. =.
IT'S religion that can give y.
Sweetest pleasures while we live. III
'Tis religion can supply &c
Sweetest comfort when we die. es