The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-07-21
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W iooA into tne CAIN facs OF the sleen-
ing be~nefactress. Reclaimed yapr,ni
comes and kisses the cold brow az ~.
who charmed it away from sin. .ns
all through the streets of Joppa the.
is mourning-mourhing because d..
a is dead When Josephine of Frana-
was carried out to her grave, tbers
were a great many men and womao
OF pomp and pride and position th..
went out after her, but l am mo-.
affected by the story Of history ths.
on that day there were 10000 of ~.
poor of France who followed her oas
fin, weeping and wailing until the al.
rang again, because when thew ,o..
Josephine they lost their last EARTH.
friend. oh, who would not ratb.,
have such obsequies than all the te.r.
that were ever poured in the lach-
rymals that have been exhumed frorn
ancient cities? There may be no mas.
for the dead; there may be no costlr
sarcophagus; there may be no elan,
crate m~ausoleum, but in the damp eel,
lars of the city and through the lonelv
huts OF the mountain glen there vii,
be mourning, mourning, mourning bs.
cause Dorcas is dead: BLESSED Nv.
the dead who die in the Lord: tbsu
rest from their labors. and thei,
works do follow them"
/ speak to you of Dorcas the respr
rected. The apostle came to wher.
she was and said: "Arise, and sbs
sat up!" In what n short commas,
the great writer put that "She sat mn
oh, what a time there must have been
around that town when the apostls
brought her out among her ola
friends! How the tears of low must
have started! What a clapping Of
hands there must have been! What
singing! What laughter! Sound IA
all through that lanel Shout it down
that dark alley! Let all Joppa hear
it'll Dorcas is resurrectedi
You and I have seen the same thin,
many a time; not a dead body re.
suscitated, but the deceased coming
up again after death in the good ac.
complished. If a man labors up to N
years of age, serving God, and then
dies, we are apt to think that HIS
earthly work is done. No. His in
iuence on earth will continue till the
world ceases. Services rendered for
Christ never stop. A Christian won.
an tolls for the u%pbuilding of a church
through many anxieties, through
many self-denials, with prayers and
tears, and then she dies. 1t is Is
years since she went away. Now the
spirit of God descends upon that
church, hundreds of souls stand up
and confess the faith of Christ. Has
that Christian woman, who went away
Is years ago, nothing to do with these
things? I see the Towering out Of
her noble heart. l hear the echo of
her footsteps in all the songs over sins
forgiven, in all the prosperity of the
church. The good that seemed TO be
buried has come up again. Dorcas is
resurrectedi
After awhile these womanly friends
of Christ will put down their needls
forever. After making garments for
others, some one will make a garment
for them; the last robe we ever wear
the robe for the grave. You will have
heard the last cry of pain. You will
have witnessed the last ~orphanage.
You will have come in worn out from
your last round of mercy. I do not
know where you will sleep, nor what
your epitaph will be. but there will be
a lamp burning at that tomb, and an
angel of God guarding 1t, and through
all the long night no rude loot will dis
turb the dust. Sleep on, sleep on.
Soft bed, pleasant shadows, undis.
turbed repose! Sleep on!
Asleep in Jesus! Blessed sleep
From which none ever wake to weep!
Then one day there will be a sky
rending and a whirr of wheels and the
fash of a pageant, armies marching,
chains clanking, banners waving, thun-
ders booming. and that Christian WON
an will rise from the dust, and she will
be suddenly acknowledgements
by the wanderers of the street whom
she reclaimed, surrounded by the
wounded souls to whom she had ad'
m~inistered. Daughter of God, SC
strangely surrounded, what mean.
this? 1t means hat reward has come
that the victory is won, that the crown
is ready, that the banquet is spread
Shout it through all the crumblins
earth. Sing it through all the flying
Heavens. Dorcas is resurrected
In 1855. when some of the soldier
came back from the Crimean war Il
London, the queen of England distrib
uted among them beautiful medal
called Crimean medals. Galleries wer'
erected for the two houses of parlia
! ment and the royal family to sit in
There was a great audience to witnes
the distribution of the medals. !
colonel who had lost both feet in tn
battle of Inkermann was pulled in Of
a wheel chair; others came in limpin'
on their crutches. Then the queen o
England arose before them in the nam
, of her government and uttered word
: of commentator to the officers an
!. men and distributed those medals, IN
: scribed with the four great battlefield
!. Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann and =
vastopol. As the queen gave these I
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