The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-01-27

oAC SONCAC0 WIN a Di6 hiOA XXX
and the drought strikes them the first
year. That builder with contracts
made for the construction of half q
dozen houses and the owners impa.
tient for occupancy is not to be pitied
but give your sympathy to that me
chanic in early acquaintance with
hammer and saw and bit and amid eli
the limitations Of a journeymau.
Go forth to be a busy body in other
mems matters, so far as you car help
ing them out, and help them on. The
world is full Of instances of those who
spend their life in such alterations. but
there is one instance that overtops and
eelipses all others. He had lived in .
palace. Radiant ones waited upon him.
He was eharioted along streets yellow
with gold. and stopped at gates glisten-
ing with pearls. and hosarnaed by i'm
mortals coroneted and in snowy white.
Centuries gave him not a pain. The
sun that rose on him never set. His do
minions could not he enlarged, for they
had no boundaries. and uncontested
was His reign. Upon all that luster and
renown and environment of spiendors
BE turned His back and put down His
crown at the foot of His throne, and on
a bleak December night trod His way
down to a stone house in Bethlehem of
our world. Wrapped in what plain
shawl. and pursued with what enemies
on swift camels, and howled at with
what brigands, and thrust with what
sharp %lances, and hidden in what sepul-
chral crypt, until the subsequent oen.
turtles have tried in vain 10 tell the story
by s%culptured cross, aud painted can
vas. and resounding doxologies. sud
domed cathedral. and redeemed ma
tions.
he could not see a woman doubled up
with rheumatism but He touched her,
and intiamed muscles relaxed. and she
stood straight up. He could not meet q
funeral of a young man but be broke up
the procession and gaze him back to his
widowed mother. With spittie on the
Tip of His finger He surned the mid.
night of total blindness into the mid
noon Of perfect sight. He could not see
a man down on his mattress helpless
with palsy without calling him up to
health and telling him TO shoulder the
mattress and walk off. He could not
find a man tongue-tied but He gave him
immediate articulation. He could not
see a man with the puzzled and inquir-
ing look of the deaf without giving him
capacity to hear the march of life beat
ing or the drum of the ear. He could
not see a crowd of hungry people but
He made enough good bread and a sur
plus that required all the baskets.
He scolded only twice that | remem-
Der. once at the hypocritcs with elon-
gated visage and The other time when
a sinful crowd had arraigned an unfor-
most superb sarcasm that was ever ut
tered. gave permission to anyone who
felt himself entirely commendable to
hurl the first missile. All for others.
His birth for Others. His ministry for
others. His death for others. His as.
cension for others. His enforcement
for others.
That spirit which leads one to be
busy for the betterment of others is 60
ing to .Edenize the round earth. Iha,
spirit induced John Pound to esta bIish
ragged schools" and Father Mathew
10 become a temperance reformer and
Peter Cooper to establish his institute
ard Slater TO contribute his fund for
schools and Baroness Hirsch to leave
more than 100000 900 for the improve
rnent of her race and Cornelius Vaader.
bilt to food churches and charitable
institutions with his benevolence, And
though II means be limited and our
opportunities circumscribed, we can do
The same thing or a small scale. "Other
men matters!" Be busybodies in i'm.
proving them. With kind words, with
earnest prayers, with self-sacriicing
deeds, with charging charities, let US
go forth on a new mission.
And now my words are to the invis.
ible muliitudes ! reach week by week,
but yet will never see 10 this world, but
whom ! expect TO meet at the bar of
God and hope to see in the blessed
Heaven. The last word that Dwight J..
Moody, the great evangelist, said TO me
at Plainfield, N. j., and be repeated the
message for me TO others, was: Never
be tempted under any circumstances
10 give up your weekly publication OF
throughout the world" That
solemn charge ! will heed as long as |
have strength to give them aud the
newspaper types desire TO take them.
Oh, We people back there in the Sheffield
mines of England and ye in the sheep
pastures of Australia and We amid the
pictured terraces of New Zealand and
ye among the cinnamon and color in.
famed groves of Ceylon and We Ar.
menians weeping over the graves OF
murdered households In Asia Minor and
ye amid the idolatries of Benares on
the Ganges and ye dwellers on the
banks of the Androscoggin and the
Alabama and the Mississippi and the
Oregon and the Shannon and the Rhine
and the Tiber and the Danube and the
Nile and the Euphrates and the Cas-.
plan and Yellow seas; ye of the four
corners of the earth who have greeted
me again and again. accept this point