The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-06-29

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or members of the bar or merchants
or citizens in various kinds of BUSH
ness had very poor opportunity at
the start because we had it too easy
too easy. We never appreci-
ated what it is to get an education
because u fathers or older brothers
paid the schooling, and we did not get
the muscle which nothing but hard
work can develop. 1 congratulate
you, young man, if to you life is q
struggle. 1t is out of such cfrcum-
stances God makes heroes, if they
are willing to be made. Cut your
way through. If it were proper to do
SO and you should stand in any board
of bank directors, in any board of
trade, in any legislature, state or ma
tional, and ask all who were brought
up in luxury and ease to lift their
hand, here and there a hand might
be lifted. But ask those who had an
awful hard time at the start to lift
their hands, and most of the hands
would be lifted. The heroes of church
and state were not brought up on
confectionery and cake.
But my subject takes another step.
Through medical science and dentistry
that has improved the worlds masti-
cation and stronger defense against
climatic changes and better under
standing of the laws of health human
life has been greatly prolonged. But
a c%entenarian is still a wonder. How
many people do you know a hundred
years old? 1 do not know one. We
talk of a century as though it were
a very long reach of time. But what
is m century on earth compared
with centuries that we are to live
somewhere, somehow-ten centuries,
a million centuries, a quintillion OF
centuries? We are all determined to
get ready for the longer life we are
to live after our exit from things SUBJ
lunary. We are waiting for more pro-
pitious opportunity. We have too
much business to attend to now or too
much pleasure to allow anything to
interfere with it's brilliant progress.
We are waiting until the wind blows
in the right direction. We are going
to sow, and SOW the very best grain,
and we are going to raise an eternal
harvest of happiness. We like what
YOU say about Heaven, and we are go
ing there, and at the right time w
will get ready. But my lungs are
sound, my digestion is good, the exam
lining physician of the life insurance
company says my heart beats just thu
right number of times a minute, and
49, @o,,@,e about etttipr IN a draft
and / observe all the laws of hygiene
and my father and mother lived to b.
very old, and l come of a long-live'
family. So we adjourn and postpon
: until, like the farmer suggested b.
4 my text. we allow the seedtime t.
pass, and sudden pneumonia or a recb
: less bicycle or an ungoverned automo
bile puts us out of life with all its mag
nifcent opportunities of decidin
o Alright the question of everlasting re'
S idence. A Spanish proverb says; 9Th
h road of By and By leads to the town @
Never"
Whether in your life it is a sout
wind or an east wind that is no
blowing, do you not feel like saying
"This whole subject l now decid
n Lord God, through Thy Son JEST
Christ, my Saviour, I am Thine TO
ever. l throw myself, reckless {
o everything else, into the fathomle:
+ ocean of Thy mercy"
But" says someone in a frivolor
D and rollicking way, 81 am not like II
t. farmer you find in your text. l q
is not watch the wind. What do l cal
re about the weather vane? l am SOY
S. ing now" What are you sowin
ID my brother? Are you sowing eN
If habits? Are you sowing infidel al
1t atheistic beliefs? Are you sowir
ii hatreds, revenges, discontents, Il
he clean thoughts or unclean actions
u If so, you will raise a big crop
it very big crop. The farmer sometim
plants things that do not come u
ut and he has to plant them over agai
ia But those evil things that you ha
v planted will take root and come up
w harvest of disappointment, in harve
in OF pain, in harvest of despair, in hd
f. vest of fire. Go right through sol
of the the unhappy homes of Was
ington and New York and all t
at cities and through the hospitals a
he penitentiaries, and you will fl
n stacked up, piled together, t
lie. sheaves of such an awful harve
It, Hosea, one of the first of all the WI
.rt ing prophets, although four of t
other prophets are put before h
III. in the canon of Scripture, wrote
n astounding metaphor that may
nr quoted as descriptive of those who
he evil: They have sown the viii
a and they shall reap the whilwin'
N. Someone has said: children may
m strangled, but deeds never
tie There are other persons who tru
fully say: 81 am doing the best
,at can. The clouds are thick and I
to wind blows the wrong way, but |
las sowing prayers and sowing XII
en- nesses and sowing ~helpfulness a
sowing hopes of a better worl
a Good for you, my brother, my sist'
at What you plant will come up. w
, a YOU sow will rise into a harvest
ich wealth of which you will not KIN