The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-08-17

bringing them from q fearless realm
to a realm OIL tears. l couldn't do it,"
Well, then, what do you want? A
thousand voices in the audience cry
out: Comfort. Give us comfort"
| For that reason I have rolled away
the stone from the wells mouth.
Come, all ye wounded of the flock,
pursued of the wolves, come to the
fountain where the Lords sick and
bereft ones have come. "Ah," says
some one, "you are not old enough to
understand my sorrows. You have
not been in the world as long as I
have, and you can't talk to me about
nv misfortunes in the time of old
age" Well, I may not have lived as
long as you, but 1 have been a great
deal among old people, and 1 know
how they feel about their failing
health and about their departed
friends and about the loneliness that
sometimes strikes through their
souls.
After two persons have lived to-
gether for 40 or so years and one is
taken away, what desolation! I shall
not forget the cry of DR.. De Witt, Of
New York, when he stood by the open
grave of his beloved wife and after
the ~obsequies had ended he looked
down into the open place and said:
Farewell, my honored, faithful and
beloved wife. The bond that bound
us is severed. Thou art in glory, and
1 am here on earth. We shall meet
again. Farewell, FAREWELL"
You get a little worried for fear that
some time you will come to want, do
you? Your children and grandchil.
dren sometimes speak a little sharp to
YOU because of your ailments. The
Lord will not speak sharp. Do YOU
:. think you will come to want? What
! do you think the Lord is? Are His
granaries empty? VIII He feed the
: raven and the rabbit and the lion in
, the desert. and forget you? Why, nat
u~ralists tell us that the porpoise will
not forsake its wounded and sick mate.
And do you suppose the Lord of Heaven
and earth has not as much sympathy
l as the fish of the sea? But you say:
. ~ am so near worn out, and | am OF
u no use to God any more" l think the
!, Lord knows whether you are of any
more use or not. If you were of no
5 more use, He would have taken you
{ before this. Do you think God has for
e gotten you because He has taken care
. of you 70 or so years? He thinks more
Ii Of you to-day than He ever did. be-
cause you think more of him. May
the God of Abraham and Isaac and ia.
cob and Paul the aged be your God for
n ever! But I gather all the promises o.
4, day in a group, and I ask the shepherds
1t to drive their focks of lambs and sheer
a. up to the sparkling supply. Behold
u happy is the man whom God correct
le eth" Though He cause grief, yet vii
d He have compassion" MANY are tn,
70 Affections of the righteous. but tn,
y Lord delivereth him out of them ALL
n weeping may endure for a night, Blu
III Joy cometh in the morning" l an
determined that no one shall go out o
ell this house uncontrolled. Yonder i
a timid and shrinking soul who seem
KS to hide away from the consultations
of am uttering as a child with a sor
hand hides away from the physical,
lest he touch the wound too roughly
and the mother has to go and compe
the little patient to come out and Sc
the physician. So 1 come to you
timid and shrinking soul to-day an
ly compel you to come out in the pres
It. ence of the Divine Physician. He wi
r. not hurt you. He has been healin
el wounds for many years, and He wi
a give you gentle and omnipotent med
al cament.
re D.4 raaD1a ,rLap thar \ wa trarh1
OF go anywhere rather than to God. d
nd Quincy took opium to get rid of h
n. troubles. Charles Lamb took t
he punch. Theodore Hook took to som,
lie thing stronger. Edwin Forrest too
'r- to theatrical dissipation. And me
y. have run all around the earth, hopin
no in the quick transit to get away fro
IS, their misfortunes. 1t has been a dea
re failure. There is only one we'll thu
in can slake the thirst of an Athlete
to spirit, and hat is the deep and inc.
'se haustible well of the Gospel.
'es But some one in the audience say
tut Notwithstanding all you have sa
he this morning, 1 find no alienation fl
all my troubles" Well, l am not throus
He vet. l have left the most potent co
all sideration for the last. l am goiI
ire to soothe you with the thought
m Heaven. However talkative we m;
be, there will come a time when Il
all ~stoutest and most emphatic interrog
-ou ton will evoke from us no answer. !
soon as we have closed our lips f
it'll the final silence no power on ear
60 can break that taciturnity. But wheI
lin o Christian, will be your spirit?
a scene of infinite %gladness. T.
our spring morning of Heaven waving
the blossoms in the bright air. Nicto
md fresh from battle showing their seal
the The rain of earthly sorrow stru
o. through with the rainbow of etern
lily joy. In one group Goa and angels a
the the redeemed. Paul and Silas, Latin
be! and Ripley, Isaiah and jeremiah, Pa
son and John Milton, Gabriel and \
the chael the archangel. Long line