The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-04-27

4 III oltlt 1880 H@D
solitude and the barrenness would
come the sweet notes of heavenly
minstrelsy.
Gordon Hall, far from home, dying
in the door of a heather temple, SAID:
"Glorv to Thee, o God!" h did
diving Wilberforce say to his wife!
"Come and sit beside me and let US
talk of Heaven. I never knew whas
bappiness was until 1 found Christ.
What did dying Hannah More sayt
"To GO to Heaven, think what that
is, To go to Christ, who died that
might live! Oh, glorious grave! On,
what a glorious thing it is to die:
Oh. the love of Christ, the love OF
christi" What did Mr.. Toplady, the
GREAT hymnmaker, say in his last
hour? "Who can measure the depth
of the third Heaven? Oh, the sun
shine that fills my soul! l shall soon
be gone, fer surely no N can live
here after such glories as God has
manifested to my soul"
What did the dying Janeway sayr
"I can as easily die as close my eyes
or turn my head in sleep. Before a
few hours have passed l shall stand
on Mount Zion with the n hum
dred and forty-four thousand and
with the just men made perfect,
and we shall ascribe riches and honor
and glory and majesty and dominion
unto God and the Lamb" DR.. lay
lor, condemned to burn at the stake,
on his way thither broke away from
the guardsmcn and vent bounding
and Ieaping and jumping toward the
fire, glad to go to Jesus and to die
for Him. Sir Charles Hare in his
last moment had such rapturous vi
sion that he cried: upward, upward,
~upward!" And so great was the peace
of one Of Christ's disciples that he
put his fingers upon the pulse in his
, wrist and counted it and observed
, its hating beats until his life had
, ended here to begin in Heaven. But
. grander than that was the testimony
. Of the wornout missionary, when in
Z the Mamartine dungeon he cried: Il
am now ready to be offered, and the
, time of my departure is at hand. l
have fought the good fight, l have
! finished my course, I have kept the
I faith. Henceforward there is laid up
for me a crown of Righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous judge
will give me in that day, and not to
J me only, but to all them hat love
y His appearing!" Do you not see that
n Christ is above all in dying allevia-
y tions?
Toward the last hour of our earth
4 ly residence we are speeding. When
q 7 see the sprinp blossoms scattered,
7 sov. "Another season gone for
q ever" When 7 close the Bible on
Ga bbatb night. T saw: "Another Sab
# hath denarted." When I bury a
lie fr;.nd SOW. "Another earthly at
u traction zone forever" What nimble
- feet the years have! The roebucks
y and the lightnings run not so fast
~ From decade to decade, from sky to
~ sky. they go at a bound. There is
a place for us, whether marked OF
u not. where you and 1 will sleep the
re last sleep. and the men are now living
'u who will. with solemn tread, carry
IL us to our resting place. Brighter
than a b~anqueting hall through which
eu the 1ight feet of the dancers go VI
ne and down to the sound of trumpeteri
will he the sepulcher through who's,
Is riffs the holy lioht of Heavel
ST streometb. God will watch YOU. II
us will send His ANGELS to guard YOU
us s1umhering ground until. at Christ
behest. they shall roll away the stone
UT So also Christ is above ali in HEAVIER
ir- The Bible distinctly saws that Christ
ce. tho chief theme of the Celestial ascriI
In ton. all the thrones facing his throne
hn all the palms waved before lis fac,
lst all the crowns down at his feet. Cher,
,er him to cherubim. seraphim (
ed eeronbiu redeemed shirt TO redeeme
hit spirit shall recite the Saviour's eartl
ay, lv sacrifice.
of stand ON conn b;ob hill, If Heave,
en- "A - Ii 49, ~oa;ant ru,oon tha mo,
ito glorious object will he .Jesus. Mvriad
mol SAoi'o"S oDJNS' wa"