The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-02-17

cules, show the giant in the cradle,
have more to answer for than those
who are the subjects of lifelong intirm-
tiles.
How often 1t is that you do not find
physical energy indicative of spiritual
power! If a clear head is worth more
than one dizzy with perpetual vertigo,
if muscles with the play of health in
them are worth more than those drawn
up in chronic ''rheumatics," if an eye
quick to catch passing objects is better
than one with vision DIN and uncertain,
then God will require of US efficiency
just in proportion to what He has given
us. Physical energy ought to be a
type of moral power. We ought to have
as good digestion of truth as we have
capacity to assimilate food. Our spir-
itual hearing ought to be as good as
our physical hearing. Our spiritual
taste ought to be as clear as our tongue.
Samsons in body, we ought to be giants
in moral power.
It is a most shameful fact that much
of the business of the church and of the
world must be done by those compare
lively invalid. Richard Baxter, by rea-
son of his diseases, all his days sitting
in the door of his tomb, yet writing
more than 100 volumes and sending out
an influence for God that will endure
aslongasthe Saints Everlasting Rest"
Edward Payson, never knowing a well
day, yet how he preached and how he
wrote. helping thousands of dying
souls like himself to swim in the sea of
glory. And Robert McCheyne, a walk
ing skeleton, yet you know what he did
in Dundee and how he shook Scotland
with zeal for God. Philip Doddridge,
advised by his friends because of his i'll
ness not to enter the ministry, yet you
know what he did for the rise and
Progress of Religion" in the church of
the world.
1t is not the small, weak men of the
day who do the damage. These small
men who go swearing and loafipg about
your stores and shops and banking
houses, assailing Christ and the Bible
and the church-they do not do the
damage. They have no influence. They
are vermin that you crush with your
foot. But ii is the giants of the day,
the misguided giants, giants in physic-
al power, or giants in mental acumen.
or giants in social position. or giants in
wealth, who do the damage-the men
with sharp pens that stab religion and
throw their poison all through our lit
erature, the men who use the power of
wealth to sanction iniquity and bride
justice, and make truth and honor bow
to their golden scepter. Misguided gil
ants-look out forthem. In the middle
and latter part of the last century no
doubt there were thousands of men in
Paris and Edinburgh and London who
hated God and blasphemed the name of
the Almighty; but they did but little
mischief-they were small men, insig-
nificant men. Yet there were giants in
those days. Who can calculate the soul
havoc of a Rousseau. going on with a
very enthusiasm of iniquity, with fiery
Imagination selling upon all the impul-
sive natures of his day. or David Hume
who employed his life as a spider EN-.
ploys its summer in spinning out silk
en- webs to trap the unwary, or Noltaire
the most learned man of his day, mar.
shaling a great host of skeptics and
leading them out in the dark land of in.
fidelity, or Gibbon, who showed IN un,
comfortable grudge against religion II
his history of one of the most fascinat
ing periods of the worlds existence
The Decline ard Fall of the Roman
Empire"-a book in which, with all The
splendor of his genius, he magnifed til,
errors Of Christian disciples, while Will
a sparseness of notice that never can b.
forgiven he treated of the Christian he
roes of whom the world was no
worthy?
Oh, men of stout physical health
men of great mental stature, men o
high social position, men of great pow
er Of any sort, | want you to under
stand your power, and | want you Il
know that that power devoted to Go,
will be a crown on earth, to you typica
of a crown in Heaven, but misguided
b~edraggled in sin, administrative o
evil, God will thunder against 20
WIN LIS IL INT Gay Nit.
millionaire and pauper, master an
slave, king and subject, shall stan
side by side in the judgment an
money bags and judicial ermine an
royal robe shall be riven with the light
!, nings.
You who are seated in your Christia
homes, comprised by moral and rel
gious restraints, do not realize til
. gulf of iniquity that bounds you on tn
north and the south and the east an
the west. While 1 speak there al
tens of thousands of men and won
en- going over the awful plunge of a
impure life, and while I cry to God fl
Y mercy upon their souls I cry to you
marshal in the defense of your homo
2 your church and your nation. There
n b%anqueting hall that you have new,
t heard described. Youk1ow all about IL
S feast of Ahasuerus, where 1000 lort
h sat. You know all about Belshazzar
y carousal, where the blood of the mu
dered king spurted into the faces
the baGqueters. You know of the seer
of riot and wassail where there w,