The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-18

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Losds day. for / think that ;s the
ana necessary, but / CAM right
patent blacking." He was d;s"h this
rom n place. A Christian man
ing OF 1T took him into his near
and he went on from ona employ,
another until he was known All AIS to
tne iand for his faith in God over
gUou works as for his worldly sn.. MS
"nen . man has sacrificed AM .ess'
Pcrai' financial good for tbs TEN.
ms spiritual interests the TorS ae OF
ity. 'o' Is a major.
But II you have been much
.ne cities you have also noticed .uee
.ney are full of temptations Of mat
ical character. 1t is not 50 punt
one city tina in all the cities I'm
dreds OF men going down in on nun
every year through the pressr c'ues
politics. Once in awhile : OF
come out In a sort of missionary sn "ni
n say: Il am going into noi p.ils
now TO reform them, and / am cs
70 REFORM the ballot box, and a.. s'.ns
ing to reform all the people 60
contact with" That man IN ~ IN
and love of God goes into politics lear
that idea and with the resolnt;os WIN
ne Will come out uncontaminated uas
as good as when he went in. knt anu
eraiiy the Ease is when a man sen
INTO politics many of the newsnauSp'
try 10 blacken his character and
distort all his past history. and a,
a little while has gone by insta.a
considering himself an honorah,o OF
zen ne Is lost in contemplation ana "
admiration of the fact that he baa "a
long been kept out Of Jail! If >
shah go into politics to reform noli.;o.
and with the right spirit, he will oo~a
out with the right spirit and unbn.'
Ihat was Theodore F~relinpbpvsan
New Jersey. That was GEORGE Pr;sN
OF massachusetts,. That was JUDGE ~
Lean, of Ohio. Nc
Incl look around and see the a.,
iurements to dissipated life. p,a
BOOKS, unknown to father and mo,bss
vile as the reptiles of Egypt. crawlu.
into some of the best families ~ ,hs
community; and boys read them Will
the teacher is looking the other wav
or at recess, or on the corner Of ~.
street when the groups are gathered
These books are read late at n;rh.
satan nnds them a smooth plank nm
which he can slide down into nerd;
ton some of your sons and dangbtar.
Reading bad books-one never Get.
over 1T. The books may be burned
but there is not enough power in all
the a~pothecary's preparations TO wash
OUT the stain from the soul. Fathers,
hands, mothers hands, sisters hand,
will not wash it out; none but ,bs
hand of the Lord can wash II ont
And what is more perilous in repord
to some OF these temptations we NAV
not mention them. While God in His
Bible from chapter to chapter thup.
dered His denunciations agains,
these crimes people expect the pulp;t
and the printing press to be silent on
the subject, and just in proportion a,
people are impure are they fastidious
on this theme. They are so full of de-.
cay and death they do not want their
se~pulchers opened. God will turn in.
to destruction all the unclean, and no
splendors of surrounding can make de.
cent that which He has smitten. God
VIII not excuse sin merely because it
has costly array and beautiful tapes.
try and palatial residence any more
than He will excuse that which crawls
a blotch of sores through the lowest
cellar. Ever and anon through some
lawsuit there flashes upon the people
u great cities what is transpir.
ing in seemingly respectable circles.
o call it high life" you call it
fast living" you call it "people's &c.
centricity." And while we kick of
the sidewalk the poor wretch who has
not h means to garnish his i%niquity,
these lords and ladies, wrapped in
purple and in linen, go u~nwhipped OF
public justice. All, the most dread
full part of the whole thing is that
there are persons abroad whose whole
business it is to despoil the young.
"h SeSAhity SUCH d man VIII
As the door opens to receive
him thousands of voices will cry out:
See here, what have you done?" and
the wretch will wrap himself with
fiercer flame and leap into deeper
darkness, and the multitude he has
destroyed will pursue him and hurl at
him the long, bitter, relentless, ever
curse of their own anguish.
Ii there be n cup of eternal dark
o bitter than another, they
will have to drink it to the dregs. II
all the ocean Of the lost world that
comes billowing up there be one wave
fierce than another, it will dash
v them. But there is hope for all
who will turn.
I stood one day at Niagara falls, and
| saw what you may have seen there
rafnbows bending over that ire
plunge. / never saw any
thing like it before or since. Six
beautiful rainbows arching that great
cataract! And SO over the rapids and
angry precipices of sin, where so
many have been dashed down, Gods