The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-04-20

natural weather. "What kind Of
weather will it be to-day?" said
some one to a farmer. The farmer
replied: SIT will be such weather
as Il like" "What do you mean by
that?" asked the other. "Well," said
the farmer, sit WIN be such weather
as pIeases the Lord, and what pleases
the Lord pleases me-"
Oh, the sunshine, the sunshine of
Christian eX planationl Here is some-
one bending over the grave of the
dead. What is going to be the consola-
ton? The flowers you strew upon the
tomb? Oh, no. The services read at
the grave? Oh, no. The chief consola-
ton on that grave is what falls from
the throne of God. Sunshine, glorious
sunshine! Resurrection sunshine!
Sometimes you wish you could make
the tour of the whole earth, going
}around as others have gone, but you
have not the means. You will make
the tour yet, during one musical pause
in the eternal anthem. / say these
things for the comfort of those people
| who are abridged in their opportuni-
t ties, those people to whom life is hum
drum, who toll and work and aspire
t after knowledge, but have no time to
get it, and say: "If | had the oppor-
tunities which other people have, how
I would fill my mind and soul with
grand thoughts!" Be- not discouraged,
Y my friends. You are going to the uni
= versity yet. Death will only matricu-
f late you into the royal college of the
K universe.
e Besides that, we shall have all the
G pleasures of association. We will go
right up in the front of God without
r any fright. All our sins gone, there
will be nothing to be frightened about.
There our old Christian friends will
troop around us. just as now n of
" your sick friends goes away to Florida,
the land of flowers. or the south of
n France, and you will not see him for
a long while, and after awhile you
a meet him, and the hollows under the
4 eyes are all filled and the appetite has
come back and the crutch has been
thrown away, and he is so changed you
, hardly know him. You say: "Why. 1
. never saw you look so we'll" He says:
81 couldn't help but be we'll. / have
been sailing these rivers and climbing
n thCsC IlOuiithliSt INV 'h" -
this elasticity. / never was SO we'll"
~ Oh, my friends, your departed loved
. ones are only away for their health in
a better climate, and when you meet
them they will be so changed, and
"A after awhile, when you are assured
" that they are your friends, your de-
=. parted friends, you will say: "Why,
~ where is that cough? Where is that
paralysis? Where is that pneumonia?
80 Where is that consumption" And he
" will say: sob, I am entirely well
There are no sick ones in this country
I have been ranging these hills, and
ne hence this elasticity. have been here
III now 20 years, and not one sick one have
ne I seen. We are all well in this eli
mate"
III And then I stand at the gate of the
II Celestial city to see the procession:
al come out, and / see a long procession
% of little children. with their arms full
ut of flowers, and then | see a procession
of kings and priests moving in Celes
NJ tial pageantry-a long procession, bu'
as no black tasseled vehicle, no mourning
US group, and I say: 'How strange 1t is
10 Where is your Greenwood? Where i
ng your Laurel Hill? Where is your West
mt minister abbey?" And they shall cry
"There are no graves here" And thel
ay listen for the tolling of the old belfriei
ial of Heaven, the old belfries of eternity
les listen to hear them toll for the dead
They only strike up a silvery chime
if tower to tower, east gate to west gate
cd as they ring out: "They shall hunge'
'ur no more, neither thirst any more
rim neither shall the sun light on them no
ne any heat. for the Lamb which is in tn
midst of the throne shall lead them 4
ay living fountains of water, and Got
in shall wipe away all tears from thei
wn eyes"
lily Oh, %unglove your hand and give it 4
en- me in congratulation on that scene!
err feel as if [ could shout. l will shout
to Dear Lord, forgive me that / ever com
ain planned about anything. If all this /
Ter before us. who cares for anything bu
God and Heaven and eternal brother
San hood? Take the Grape off the door
.er, bell. Your loved ones are only ava
for their health in a land ambrosia
Come, Lowell Mason; come, Isaa
ire Watts. Give us your best hymn abou
of JOY celestial.
wi What is the use of postponing on
be Heaven any longer? Let it begin nov
and whosoever hath a harp let hir
hat thrum it. and whatsoever hath a trun
to pet let him blow it. and whosoeve
nav hath an organ let him give us n fu
diapason. They crowd down the al
ing spirits blessed, moving in cavalcade {
est. triumph. Their chariot wheels viii
in the Sabbath sunlight. They come
Halt, armies of God! Halt until we al
the ready to join the battalion of plea
ous ures that never die!
led Oh, my friends, it would take a Sc
are mon as long as eternity to tell the JOY
that are coming to us. l just set ope
VIM the sunshiny door. Come in, all ye di
ciples of the world who have found II
the world a mockery. Come in, all we di
g.. ciples of the dance. and see the o