The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-08-10

AiNS and Nt
you give them let there BE- CARMEN,
compartment of smiles and Dc al an as
eouragement. Do not stana Ofl,k ,.
10 them about the wretch and tall
their abode, and the bnnaeunea d
ioaks, and the hardness Of ,t Of thst
AN, they know it better tb. sneir lot
ten them. Show them the 1 Sr, you c'a
OF the thing, if there be orlght sid.
Te q t hell them good times will 1 sas
cen eti 1hem that for the cbil5, COM.
God there is immortal resc u,,uren Of
them up out of their stoIiSGt Wax.
inspiring laugh, and while wy BY an
IN help like the queen of Sb sGu send
send in the spices. '"eOa' also
We need more spice and er,;
in u church music. Cbnrotlnelt
discussing whether they Shall sit
choirs or precentors or organs nav.
VOLS or comets. say take tba oass
Will bring out the most ipsnirinSacA
SIC IL we had half as much zsa nu,
spirit in u churches as we ana
the songs of our Sunday scbn na,e IN
would not be long before the ms u
earth would quake with the oo "aol'
God. Why, nine-tenths of h lls
In church do not sing, or tbev feUp4e
feebly that the people at thei, i,lss0
do not know they are singing. ps.D
mouth and humble the praises
God, but there is not more tbon VI
out OF a hundred who makes . i. Ols
noise unto the Rock of Our SaIyoti .u'
Sometimes, when the congreaatII
forgets itself and is all absorbasa
the goodness of God or the clor;o4
Heaven, l get an intimation Of vhO.
church music will be a hundred v.as'
from now, when the coming gersr.'
ton shall wake up to its duty.
Now, l want to impress Won via,
the fact that religion is sweetras.
and perfume and spikenard and 81
iron and cinnamon and coss;o a",
1rankincense and all sweet spices n.
gether. "Oh," you say, 81 have mn,
looked at it as such. I thopgb, !.
was a nuisance. 1t had for me a ~
pulsion. I held my breath as tbough
1t were a malodor. I have been an.
palled at its advance. | have s,ia
If | have any religion at all 7 wan,
to have just as little of it as nossi.
Bile to get through with" Oh. what
a mistake you make, my brotberl
The religion of Christ is a nresep,
and everlasting redolescence. 1t conn.
teracts all trouble. Just put il on III.
stand beside the pillow of sickness
1t catches in the curtains and ner.
fumes the sitting air. 1t sweeten,
the cup of bitter medicine and throws
a glow on the gloom of the turned
lattice. 1t is a balm for the aching
side and a soft bandage for the tenn.
pie stung with pain. 1t lifted Samuel
Rutherford into a revelry of spiritual
delight while he was in physical az.
onies. 1t helped Richard Baxter un.
til, in the midst of such a compiled.
ton of diseases as perhaps no other
man ever suffered, he wrote THE
Saints Everlasting Rest" and it
poured night upon John Bunyan's
dungeon-the light of the shining
gate of the shining city.
Have you read of the Tai Mahal, in
India, in some respects the most ma.
building on earth? Twenty
men were 90 years in build.
ing it. 1t cost about &c. 900 200. The
walls are of marble iDlaid with car.
nelian from Bagdad and turquoise
from Thibet and jasper from the Pun
jab and amethyst from Persia and
all manner of precious stones. A trav-
eler said that it seemed to him like
the shining of the enchanted castle
Of FURNISHED silver. The walls are
PAS feet high, and from the top OF
these springs a dome 30 more feet
high, that dome containing the most
wonderful echo the world has ever
so that ever and anon trav-
slers standing below with flutes and
drums and harps are testing that
echo, and the sounds from below
strike up, and then come down, as it
we're, the voices of angels all around
bout the building. There is around
I a garden of tamarind and banyan
Ind palm and all the floral glories OF
he ransacked earth. But that is only
. tomb of a dead empress, and 1t u
compared with the grandeurs
which God has builded for your living
md immortal spirit.
Oh, home of the blessed! Founda'
ions of gold! Arches of victory!
Japstones of praise! And a dome in
which there are echoing and re-
,choing the halleluiahs of the ages!
md around about that mansion Is q
tarden, the garden of God, n all
he springing fountains are the oo''
led tears of the church in the wilder
less and all the crimson OF the
is the deep hue hat was
aught up from the carnage OF EARN.
v martyrdoms and the fragrance ~
he prayer of all the saints and inc
roma puts into utter f~orgetiu,nes'
he cassia and the %spikenard ana inc
rankincense and the world-renowneu
pices which Queen Balkis OF Aoys'
inia flung at the feet of King SOLO
ION.
shall these eyes thy heaven DUH
walls
And pearly gates behold,
hy bulwarks, with salvation strong
And streets of shining gold?
Through obduracy on ~ part anu
trough the rejection OF tha' ms
Tho makes Heaven possible wonae,
any of us will miss that spectacle.
@Hn MI