The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-02-24

. one less suicide. 0 nervous and feveris'
o people OF the world, try this Almight,
+ sedative. You will live rs years longe
under its soothing power. 1t is no
choral that you want or morphine tina
/, you want. 1t is the Gospel of Jesu
, Christ with long life will 1 satisf,
him."
Again, practical religion is a frient
of longevity in the fact that it removes
all corroding carr about a future ex
istence. Every man wants to know
what is to become of him. Ifyou get OF
board a rail train, you want to know
at what depot it is going to stop. Il
you get on board a ship, you want te
know into what harbor 1t is going to
run, and if you should tell me you have
no interest in what is to be your future
destiny / would in as polite a way as ]
know tell you I did not believe you.
Before l had this matter settled with
reference to my future existence the
question almost worried me into ruined
health. The anxieties men have upon
this subject put together would make
a martyrdom. This is a state of awful
unhealthiness. There are people who
fret themselves to death for fear of
dying.
l want to take the strain off YOU
nerves and the depression off your soul,
and make we or three experiments.
Experiment the first: When you go out
of this world, it does not make any diff
ference whether you have been good OF
bad, or whether you believed truth or
error, you will go straight to glory.
Impossible" you say. MY common
sense as well as my religion teaches that
the bad and the good cannot live to-
gether forever. You give me no com
fort in that experiment" Experiment
the second: When you leave this world,
you will go into an intermediate state
where you can get converted and pre-
pared for Heaven. Impossible" you
say; "as the tree falleth, so it must lie,
and 1 cannot postpone to an intermedi-
ate state that reformation which ought
to have been effected in this state"
Experiment the third: There is no fn-
ture world. When a man dies. that is
the last of him. Do not worry about
what you are to 90 in a future state Of
being; you will not do anything. I'm
possible" you say. "There is some
thing that tells me that death is not the
appendix, but the preface; there is
something that tells me that on this
side of the grave 1 only get started and
that l shall go on forever. My power
to think says forever, my affections say
forever, my capacity to enjoy or suffer
forever"
Well, you defeat me in my three ex-
periments. l have only one more to
make, and if you defeat me in that 1 am
exhausted. A mighty one on a knoll
back Of Jerusalem one day, the skies
filled with forked lightnings and the
earth filled with volcanic disturbances,
turned His pale and agonized face to-
ward the Heavens and said: 81 take
the sins and sorrows of the ages into my
heart. l am the expiration. Wit
ness earth and Heaven and hell, / am
the expiation." And the hammer
struck Him and the spears punctured
him, and Heaven Numbered. .Tbe
wages of sin is DEATH" 1.-THE soul that
it shall die." 81 will by no
means clear The guilty." Then there
silence for half an hour, and the
lightnings were drawn back into the
scabbard of the sky and the earth
to culver ard all the colors of the
began TO shift themselves into a
RAINBOW woven out of the falling tears
of Jesus, and there was red as of the
bloodshedding and there was blue as of
the bruising and there was green as of
the Heavenly foliage and there was or
ange as of the day dawn. And along
line of the blue / saw the words,
L was bruised for their iniuuities."
And along the line If the red | saw the
words, The blood of Jesus Christ
from all sin" And along the
inc of the green I saw the words. 1.-The
caves OF the tree of life for the healing
the nations" And along the line of
he orange saw the words, THE day.
from On high hath visited u.s."
And then | saw the storm was over,
the rainbow rose higher and higher
lrtil it seemed retreating to another
Heaven, and planting one column of its
;olors on one side the eternal hill and
planting the other column of its colors ]
the ether side the eternal hill it rose
and upward, and, behold. there
a rainbow about the throne.
Accept that sacrifice and quit WORRY
ng. Take the tonic, the inspiration. d,
he longevity, of this truth. Religion ,
5 sunshine: that is health. Religion is
air and pure water; they are :
Iealthy. Religion is warmth; that is .
leafhy. Ask all the doctors, and thew ;
vii tell you that a quiet conscience ,
nd pheasant anticipations are hygienic. :
offer you perfect peace now and here .
fter. :
what DO you want in the future 9
'orld? Tell me, and you shall have If. ,
richards? There are the trees with - !,
ianner of fruits, yielding fruit every :
Month. Water scenery? There is the ,
lVer OF life, from under the throne Of ,
o. clear as crystal, and the sea of =
lass mingled with fire. Do you want Z
lusic? There are the oratorio of the =
Creation" led on by Adam md III '