The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-09-07

gong anu getting % Ah"NJ
with which to whip your antagonist
your enemy, you had better get up
on the radiant mount where Christ
suffered for His enemies and just
take an olive branch, not stripping
off the soft, cool, fragrant leaves,
leaving them all on, and then try on
them that Gospel switch. 1t will not
hurt them. and it will save you.
Peace be With God. peace with man.
If YOU cannot take those two doc
t%rines, you are no Christian.
Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.
From sorrow, toll and pain
md sin we shall be free,
And perfect love and friendship rsHgn
Through all eternity.
But this evergreen of my text also
suggests the simple fact that religion
is evergreen. What does the pine
branch care for the snow on its
brow? 1t is only a crown of glory.
The winter cannot freeze it out. This
evergreen tree branch is as beautiful
in winter as it is in the summer.
And that is the characteristic of our
holy religion. In the ~sharpest, old
est winter of misfortune ana disaster
it is as good a religion as it is in
the bright summer sunshine. Well,
now, that is a practical truth. For
suppose if l should go up and down
these aisles I would not find in this
house so people who had had no
trouble. But there are some of you
who have especial trouble. God only
knows what you go through with.
Oh, how many bereavements, how
many poverties, how many persecu-
tions, how many misrepresentation!
And now, my brother, you have tried
everything else, why do you not try
this evergreen religion? 1t is just as
good for you now as 1t was in the
day of prosperity. 1t Is better for
you. Perhaps some of you feel al
most like Muckle Backie, the fisher
man, who was chided one day be-
cause he kept on working, although
that very day he buried his child.
They came to him and said: ut Is
indecent for you to be mending that
boat when this afternoon you buried
your child" And the fisherman looked
up and said: "Sir, it is very easy for
you gentlefolks to stay in the house
with your handkerchief to your eyes
in grief; but, sir, ought 1 to let the
other five children starve because one
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maun work, we maun work, though
our hearts beat like this hammer"
You may have had accumulation OF
sorrow and misfortune. They come in
focks, they come in herds, upon your
soul, and yet I have to tell you that
this religion can console you, that il
can help you, that it can deliver you
if nothing else will. Do you tell me
that the riches and the gain of this
world can console you? How was il
with the ecclesiastic who had such &
fondness for money that when he
was sick he ordered a basin of golt
pieces brought to him, and he put hi
equity hands down among the golc
pieces, cooling his hands off in them
l and the rattle and rolling of thes'
: gold pieces were his amusement ant
entertainment. All, the gold and sill
yer, the honors, the emoluments o
l this world, are a poor solace for
perturbed spirit. You van some
r thing better than this world can give
A young prince, when the childre'
came around to play with him, re
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e only with kings" And it would b
supposed that you would throw wi
t all other solace before this regal sat
isfaction, this imperial joy.
h The hill of Zion yields
J A thousand sacred sweets
e Before we reach the heavenly fields
e Or walk the golden streets.
City of eternity, to thy bridal halls
" From this prison would I flee.
= All. glory! That's for you and me!
d My text brings us one step furthe
It says: "Go forth into the mouI
and fetch olive branches and pir
branches and myrtle branches al
palm branches and branches of thic
v, trees" Now, you know very we'll
ii / make this remark under the hef
of branches of thick trees-that
e. booth or arbor made of sligl
Sc branches would not stand. The fir
Sc blast of the tempest would prostra
it. So then the booth or arbor mu
er have four stout poles to hold up Il
10 arbor or booth, and hence for Il
Sc building of the arbor for this wor
I'd we must have stout branches of thi'
h. trees. And so it is in the Gospel a
Id Dor. Blessed be God that we have
en- brewny Christianity, not one east
to upset. The storms OF life will cor
he upon us, and we want strong dc
ak trine; not only love, but justice; n
ell only invitation, but warning. 1t
of n mighty Gospel; it is an Omnipote
an Gospel. These are the stout branch
re- of thick trees.
ey Well, my friends, you see I ha
st omitted one or w points not
I'm cause l forgot to present them, h
he because I have not time to prese
be them. 1 have shown you here is t
ad olive branch of peace, here is
IS; nine branch of Gospel CO