The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-04-14
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IS Toshuo,s m-aneuverp Do Won saw
,ho, n yos cheating for him to take
thot c;tv nv ambuscade? Was If wrong
CO.., WASHINGTON to kindle campfires on
Jeree, heights. giving the impression
40 tbe onnosinu force that a great
army was encamped there when there
was none Mt ALI? answer. if the war
was right. then Joshua was right in his
strataSem. He violated no flag of
truce. He broke no treaty, but by a
lawful ambuscade captured the CITY
of All. Oh. that we all knew how to lie
in ambush for opportunities to serve
God. The best of our opportunities do
not lie on the surface, but are secreted.
By tact. by stratagem, by Christian
ambuscade. YOU may take almost any
castle of sin for Christ. Come up to-
ward men with a regular besiegement
of argument and YOU will be defeated,
but lust wait until the door of their
hearts is set aiar. or they are off their
guard. or their severe caution is away
from home. and then drop in on them
from a Christian ambuscade. There
las been r.any a man UP to his chin in
scientific portfolios which proved
there was no Christ and no divine
revelation. his pen a scimiter flung
into the heart of theological op-
moments. who nevertheless has been
discounted and captured for God by
some little th~ree-year-old child who
has cot I'M and nut her SNOWY arms
around his sinewy neck and asked
some simple question about God.
Oh. make q flank movement! Steal a
march on the devil! Cheat that man
into Heaven, A five-dollar treatise
that will stand all the laws of homilet-
los may fail to do hat which a penn
tract of Christian e~ntreaty may ac-
complish. Oh. for more Christians in
ambuscade-not lying in idleness, but
waiting for a quick spring, waiting un-
1l inst the right time comes! Do not
talk to a man about the vanity of this
world on the day when he has bought
something at "12" and is going to sell
il at "15." But talk to him about the
vanity of the world on the day when he
has bought something at as" and is
compelled to sell it at 1927" Do not
rub a mans disposition the wrong
way; do not take the imperative mood
when the %subjunctive mood will do
lust as well; do not talk in perfervid
style to a phlegmatic nor try to TICKLE
a torrid temperament with an icicle.
You can take any man for Christi if you
know how to get at him. Do not send
word to him that tomorrow at ten
o'clock YOU propose to open your bat
ferries upon him. but come on him by a
skillful, ~persevering, God directed am
buscade.
have heard it said: "Look out for q
man who has only one idea; he is ire
sistible." | say look out for the man
who has one idea, and that a determine
ton for soul-saving. 1 believe God
would strike me dead if l dared to
point the spear in any other direction.
Oh, for some of the courage and en-
thusiasm of Joshua! He flung two
armies from the tip of that spear. 1t
is sinful for us to rest unless it is to get
stronger muscle and fresher brain and
purer heart for Gods work. / feel on
my head the hands of Christ in a new
ordination. Do you not feel the same
omnipotent pressure? There is a work
for all of us. Oh, that we might stand
up side by side and point the spear to-
ward the city! 1t ought to be taken.
1t will be taken. Our cities are drifting
off toward loose religion or WHAT is
called liberal Christianity" which is
so liberal that it gives up all the cardi.