The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-07-07
THE MARRIAGE FEAST
Joyous Features of the Christian
Religion Clearly Presented.
DR.. TnImage Invites the Whole
World TO Join in Its Holy
Nerriment-.The Wedding
in Cana.
Copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.1
Washington,

- II habAC ~ hIN
ubiquity of English-speaking people
is furnished by the requests that have
reached DR.. Talmage in northern Eu-
rope for a sermon in out-of-the-way
places where he did not expect TO find
a single person who could understand
him. There, as here, he presents re-
ligion as a festivity and invites all the
world to come as guests and join in
it's holy merriment; text, John H.. 10:
Thou hast kept the good wine until
now"
This chapter invites us to a marriage
celebration. 1t is a wedding in COM
mon life, two plain people having
pledged each other, hand and heart.
and their friends having come in for
congratulation. The joy is not the less
because there is no pretension. In each
other they find all the future they
want. The daisy in the cup on the
table may mean as much as a score of
artistic garlands fresh from the hot
house. When a daughter goes off from
home with nothing but a plain fathers
blessing and a plain mothers love. she
is missed as much as though she We're
a princess. 1t seems hard, after the
parents have sheltered her for IS years,
that in a few short months her af-
fections should have been carried off
by another. but mother remembers
how it was in her own case when she
was Young, and so she braces up IN
til the wedding has passed and the
b%anqueters are gone, and she has a cry
all alone.
WI x - Ia,r NJ 4ha xNnIGinr
q In Cana of Galilee. Jesus and His
mother have been invited. 1t is evil
a dent that there are more people there
than were expected. Either some peo-
pie have come who were not invited
or more invitations have been sent out
han it was supposed would be ac-
cepted. OF course there is not 4 suffi-
cient supply of wine. You know that
there is nothing more embarrassing TO
!, a housekeeper than a scant supply.
- Jesus sees the embarrassment. and he
&c comes up Immediately to relieve it. He
u sees standing six water pots. He or
" ders the servants to fill them with
lie water, then He waves His hand over
O. the water, and Immediately it IS wine
real wine. Taste Of it and see for your
rs selves. No logwood in it, no strychnint
in in it. but first-rate wine. will not nov
IN be diverted to the question so otter
ed discussed in my own country whethel
it is right to drink wine. l am de
IS scribing the scene as it was. When Coz
ill makes wine, He makes the very bes
on wine, and 100 gallons of it standing
rk around in these water pots-wine s
a. good that the ruler of the feast taste
e, it and says: why, this is really bet
%, ter thar anything we have had. Tho
hast kept the good wine until now.
Beautiful miraclel A prize was efereI
" to the person who should write tn
o. best essay about the miracle in Cans
W Long manuscripts were presented j
the competition, but a poet won tn
prize by just this one line descriptiv
'a' of the miracle: THE conscious waite
NJ, saw its God and blushed."
nd We learn from this miracle, in til
e" first place, that Christ has sympath
&C. with housekeepers. You might hav
K. thought hat Jesus would have said
lr; "I cannot be bothered with this house
int hold deficiency of wine. 1t is not fo
ife me, Lord of Heaven and of earth, I
BCCOulC CdlNlCl ~ tAAo tNoSN' l. h1'
lty vaster things than this to attend to,
Not so said Jesus. The wine gave on
Ir. and Jesus by miraculous power can
he to the rescue. Does there ever con
ed a scant supply in your household
md Have YOU to make a very close calculi
ton? 1t is hard work for you to carr
on things decently and respectfully
the If so, don't sit down and cry. Don't 6
DIV, out and fret. but go to Him who stoc
[iss in the house in Jana of Galilee. Pra
AL. in the parlor. Pray in the kitche
ing Let there be no room in your houi
lot unconsecrated by the voice of praye
err. If you have a microscope, put under
one drop of water and see the insec
.d. floating about, and when you see TIL
God makes them and cares for the
and feeds them come to the conclusiC
that He will take care of you and fee
uuo you.
w" 1 learn also from this miracle tn
lhis Christ does things in abundance.
think a small supply of wine wou
nave made up for the deficiency.
ion think. certainly, they must have h;
ses. enough for half the guests. One 81
at. lon of wine will do; certainly five G;
in Ions will be enough; certainly ten. B
70 Jesus goes on, and He gives them
! in gallons and 40 gallons and so gallo
and 20 gallons and 100 gallons and l
gallons of the very best wine. 1t
ted lust like Him-doing everything on t
:, in largest and most generous scale. Do
lose Christ, our Creator, &c forth TO ma
loaves? He makes them by the who
forest full; notched like the fern or S
for vered like the aspen or broad Ill t
200 palm; thickets in the tropics, Greg
the forests. Does He go forth TO ma
the flowers? He makes plenty of thel
ncss they flame from the hedge, they hat
from the top of the grapevine in BIZ
SONS, they roll in the blue wave of t
~, ~violets, they toss their white surf
the spiraea-enough for every chill
'eo hand a fower-enough to make /
> q every brow a chaplet, enough w
lo,,tx. 20 oOvar nm the OhaSthneSs