The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-11-10

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sons converted in Scripture busy at
the time of their being converted. Mat
thew attending to his custom house
duties; the prodigal son feeding swine;
Lydia selling purple; Simon reter
hauling in the net from the sea; Saul
squirting his horse toward Damascus,
going down on his law business: Busy,
busy! Daniel with all the affairs of
state weighing down upon his soul, and
yet three times a day worshiping the
God of Heaven.
Again l learn from this subject
that a man may take religion into his
politics. Daniel had all the affairs of
state on hand, yet a servant Ct God.
He could not have kept his elevated
position unless he had been a thor
ough politician, and yet all the
thrusts of officials and all the danger
of disgrace did not make him yield
one iota of his high toned religious
principle. He stood before that age:
he stands before all ages, a specimen
of a godly politician. So there have
been in our day and in the days Of
our fathers men as eminent in the
service of God as they have been EN-.
inent in the service OF the state. Such
was benjamin r. Butler, attorney
general OF New York n the time OF
your fathers. Such was John Nc
Lean, of the supreme court OF the
United states. Such was George
Briggs, oil massachusetts. Such VAS
theodore freInghuysen, OF New Jer-
sey- iaitn.ui TO tne state, at the
same Time iai.hlu 10 uoo. III is ao-
suru 70 expect 'nat men VINO nave
oeen ihi"erseo IN Poiiticai wickeoness
U oo VI years snail come 70 reior-
hia,ioh, anu our nope Is IN the young
men VINO are coming up that they
nave pa'rio.ic principe an" ohrlstlan
PriheiPie sue py sioe wnen tney come
10 'ne paiio. Don ana cast their nrst
vote inc ,nat ,hey swear allegiance TO
,he government OF heaven as well as
10 ,he government OF d united
~ "ouiu na'e nunher M.
re' . " y, IMAM Oa'airy, ahu
. iess 'nah ne'hiehein
~ "e o"u men
~ 'i'' y ID no reason
Wy ~ e snoui" re''ea'
no - en" Inc ias, 'inne you
ousn' s"e up your emu OF iorsahe
o" "
ny Oh .hocta"s' ana the
.aS. suireue, .he oaiio. ooA
Is "nen ! - surrouhueu ny iinpurity
anu uisnones'y anu all sor,s Oh WICK
eule
Dahiel STOOD on a most unpopular
PLATFORM ne stooo nrmly, though
the ucmagogues OF the day Missed at
MI u ana .rleu 10 overthrow him. we
must carry our reigion INTO our pol
ltlcs' but there are a great many
men VINO are IN favor OF taking re-
lsloh INTO hatiohal poltics VINO DO
not see the Importance OF taking 1t
MO clty pontics, as though a man
were mteihgent about h welfare OF
MS neighporhood I'M hau no concern
ABOUT MS W nome.
My subject also impresses me with
the TACT that lions cannot hurt a
good man. No man ever got into
worse company than Daniel got when
he was thrown into the den. What
a rare morsel that fair young man
would have been for the hungry mon
sters! Ii they had plunged at him
he could not have climbed into a niche
beyond h reach of their paw or the
snatch OF their tooth. They came,
pleased, all around him, as hunters
hounds at the w~ell-known whistle
come bounding to his feet. You need
not go to Numidia to get many lions.
o all have them after you-the lion
of financial distress, the lion of sick
ness, the lion of persecution. You
saw that lion OF financial panic put
ting his mouth down to the earth, and
he roared until all the banks and all
the insurance companies quaked.
With his nostril he scattered the
ashes on the domestic hearth. You
have had trial after trial, misfortune
after misfortune, lion after lion, and
yet they have never hurt you, if you
mt yOur trust in God. and they never