The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-01-06

Ht'ft' Up u bCIlNb oh ANOluiH8 cdU
stand before such a story of personal
rescue. personal transformation, per-
sonal illumination. The mightiest and
most skillful argument against Chris
tianity collapses under the INGRAM
NAUTICAL but sincere statement. The
atheistic professor of natural philoso-
ply goes down under the story of that
backwoodsman's conversion.
The New Testament suggests the
power OF the tale shat is told" Christ
was the most effective story teller OF
all the ages. The parallels are only
tales well told. Ma,chless stories:
That of the traveller cut up by the
thieves and the Samaritan paying his
board bill at the tavern; that of the big
dinner, 10 which the invited guests sent
in fictitious regrets; that of the shep-
herd answering the bleat of the lost
sheep and all the rural n~eighbors that
night helping him celebrate the fac,
that it was safe in the %barnyard: that
OF the bad boy, reduced TO the swines'
trough. greeted home with such ban
quoting and jewelry that il stuffed the
49, III wiz JCdlOdsf III dlSEI
ment; that of the Pharisee full of brag.
gadocio and the publican shifting his
breast with a stroke that brought down
the heavens in considerations: stories
about leprosy, about paralysis, about
catalepsy. about dropsy, about ophthal-
mia-stories that be SO well told that
they have rolled down to the present
and will roll down through the entire
future.
The most of the Old Testament IS
made up of inspired anecdotes about
Adam and Eve, about Jacob, about
Esau. about Ahab and .Jezebel. about
| Jonah, about Daniel. about Deborah.
about Vashti, about men and women of
whom the story gave an accurate pboto-
graph long before human pbotograpbv
was born. Let all Christian workers,
prayer meeting takers, Sunday school
teachers and preachers know the power
of that which my text calls the tale
that is told"
If Won have had experiences of mar
don and comfort and disenthrallmert.
tell of il. Tell it in the most pointed
and dramatic way Won con ronoce
Tell il soon. or you NAV never tell it at
all. Oh, the power of 1.-The tale that is
told!" An hours discourse about the
fact that blasphemous behavior is
sometimes punished in this world
would not impress us rs much as the
simple story that in n town of New
York state. at the close of the last CEN
fury, 80 profane men formed them
selves into a club, calling them
selves Society of the Druids." Tbey
met regularly to deride and damage
Christianity. One night in their awful
meeting they burned a Bible and ad-
ministered the sacrament to a dog.
Two of them died that night. Within
three days three were drowned. In
five years all the sc came TO a bad end.
Before justices of the peace it was
sworn that two were starved 10 death,
seven were drowned, eight were shot.
five committed suicide, seven died on
the gallows. one was frozen TO death.
and three died accidentally. Incidents
like that. sworn to, would balk any pro-
posed irreverent and ~blasphemous be-
havior.
In what way could the fact that in
fidelity will not hello anyone die we'll
be so powerfully presented as by he
incident concerning a man falling i'll in
Paris inst after the death OF Voltaire.
when a professional nurse WAS called in
and she asked: rs the gentleman a
Christian" WHY do YOU ask that?"
said the messenger. Il am the nurse