The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-07-14

our track. might lose it and 60 howliOa
back with disappointment!
But, remark again, that the pr.o..
God is like the salt in its preseryatv.
quality. You know that salt abso-,'
the moisture of articles of food and ;s
fuses them with brine. which preserve.
them for a long while. Salt is N.
great antiputrefactor of the world
Experimenters, in preserving food
have tried sugar and smoke and al,
tight Jars and everything else, but n.
long as the world stands Christ's words
will be suggestive, and men will adm.
that as a great preservative "salt l.
good" But for the grace of God IN.
earth would have become a stale car.
cass long before this. That grace is tbs
only preservative of laws and c~onsti,r.
tions and literatures. Just as soon a.
a government loses this salt of diyi,a
grace it p~erishes. The philosophy q,
this day, so far as it is antagonistic IN
this religion, putrefies and stinks. Thu
great want of our schools of ~learnin,
and our institutions of science to-dov
is, not o Leyden jars and galyanio
batteries and ~spectroscopes and mil.
osophical apparatus. but more of that
grace that will teach our men NJ
science that the God of the universe il
the God Of the Bible. How strange M
that in all their magnificent sweep NJ
the telescope they have not seen the
morning star of Jesus and that in all
their experiments with light and heat
they have not seen the light and fen
the warmth of the Sun of Righteous.
ness! We want more of the salt ~
Gods grace in our homes, in our
schools, in our colleges, in our social
life, in our Christianity. And that
which has it will live; that which has
it not will die. Iproclaim the tendep.
cy of everything earthly to p%utreiac.
ton and death-the religion Of Christ
the only preservative.
My subject is mi of great congratu.
lation to those who have within their
souls this gospel a%ntiseptic. This sat
will preserve them through the tempta.
tions and sorrows of life and through
the ages of eternity. I do not mean to
say that you will have a smooth time
because you are a Christian. On the
contrary, if you do your whole duty,I
will promise you a rough time. You
march through an enemy's country,
and they will try to double up both
TANKS and to cut you off from your
source of supplies. The war you wage
will not be with toy arrows, but sword
plunged to the hilt and squirting on
your steed owe heaps of the slain, But
l think that God omnipotent will see
you through. Think He will. But why
do 1 talk like an atheist when | ought
to say / know He will? kept by the
power of God through faith unto COM
plete salvation"
When Gov. Geary, of Pennsylvania,
died, years ago, l lost a good friend.
He impressed me nightly with the
horrors of war. In the eight hours
that we rode together in the cars hs
recited to me the Genes through
which he had passed in the civil war.
He said that there came one battle
upon which everything seemed to
pivot. kilograms from Washington
said that the life of the nation de-
pended on that struggle. He said 10
me: ~ went into that battle, sir,
with my son. His mother and |
= thought everything of him. You
know how n father will feel toward
his son who is coming up manly and
r brave and good. Well, the battle
----- - -.-~A1 anI - wa
1 awful. Horses and riders bent and
! twisted and piled up together. 1t was
S awful, sir. We quit firing and took
to the point of the bayonet. Well,
sir, l didn't feel like myself that day.
I had prayed to God for strength for
that particular battle, and went into
it feeling that ! had in my right arm
t the strength of ten giants And as
I the governor brought his arm down
e on the back of the seat it fairly made
the car tremble. swell" he said, the
5 battle was desperate, but after awhile
we gained a little, and we marched
e on a little. l turned round to the
S troops and shouted: Come on,
boys.' and I stepped across a dead
l. soldier, and, 10, it was my SON. |
saw at the first glance he was dead
and yet l did not dare to stop a mln'
II ute, for the crisis had come in tho
A. battle. So I just got down on my
" knees, and / threw my arms arouna
y him, and I gave him one good KISS
and said, Good-by, dear and sprang
4 up and shouted Come on. boys
is So it is in the Christian confiict-n u
D. a fierce fight. Eternal ages seem de'
y pending on the strife. Heaven u
d waiting for the bulletins to announce
'e the tremendous issue. Hail OF sho''
lie cash of saber, fall of battle az groan'
ing on every side. We cannot s.OP
II for loss or bereavement or anything
r else. With one ardent embrace anu
81 one loving kiss we utter our iaiv
L wells and then cry: Come on po'''
he There are other heights to be cay
I'd tured; there are other foes to be eon'
m quered; there are other crowns 10 w
III won"
he Yet, as one of the Lords surgeons
s. / must bind up two or three wouHu"