The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-01-19

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splenetic until the time of his depar-
ture is at hand. He has enough of
the salt of grace TO save him, but his
entrance into Heaven will be some
thing worth watching. What do they
want with him in Heaven. where they
have all gone into eternal catholicity,
one grand commingling of Methodists
and Baptists and Episcopalians and
Lutherans and Congregationalists and
Presbyterians and score of other de-
nominations just as good as any l |
have mentioned? They all join in the /
hallelujah chorus, accompanied by |
harpers on their harps and trumpet
ers on their trumpets: Worthy 5 |
the Lamb that was slain to receive
blessing and riches and honor and
glory and power
The bigot ascends with just enough
grace to save him. As he comes up
to the shining gate he sees standing
inside of it some whom he used to
meet every Sunday morning on the
street going to some other church of
some other denomination, and he
cries out: Are you there?" l never
expected to see you in such glorious
place. You were all wrong in your
religious theories on earth and in
YOUR form of church government.
How did you get in?" Saved by
grace" is the Heavenly reply. Saved
by grace!" The bigot is embarrassed
T and feels for his creed and his cate
chism, and 10, they were left on the
, banks of the River Jordan as he
t passed through, and he cries out:
| i think will have TO enter on the
, same terms. Saved by s-ace! Saved
S by grace"
}. Again, the penurious Christian will
e not have an abundant entrance. Per-
: haps he was not converted until al his
e habits of tight-fstedness were hxed
r beyond recovery. The people who are
a generous were taught to be generous
T. in childhood. You can tell from the
}. way the boy divides the apple what HI:
t characteristics for generosity or mean
l. ness will be for the next so years, if h'
o lives so long. If he eat it all himsel
Il while others look wistfully on. he viii
II be a Shylock; sif he give half of it tt
!, some one who has no apple, he will b
ze an ordinarily generous man; if he CIV
y three-fourths of it TO another he Wi
Y be a Baron Hirsch or George Pea
I'd body
For 30 years this man has been pra'
IN ticing an economy which prided ltse
II, i, on never passing pin without pickln
> it up, and if he responded at all l
y church would put on the collectio
plate so insignificant a coin that
ny held his hand over it so that no on
st could discover the smallness of tn
to denomination. Somewhere in the ii
Sc ties or sixties of his life, during r
ms vival of religion, he became Chri
at tian. He is very much changed
OF most respects. but his all-absorbing
en- auisitiveness still influences him. i
ne extract from him gift for an orpha
lld age or church or poor woman WI
IN has just been burned out is an achiev
ST. ment. You and l know very good me
OF their Christian character beyond di
re- pute, and yet they are pronounced
'ut all as penurious, and they know
ITS themselves and pray against it. v
he all have our bad habits, and yet eXpe
ne to get to Heaven, and this skinfiint h
ast his mighty temptation. The passi'
re- of avarice well illustrated its streng
ds' when in one of the houses of eNhum
nm Pompeii was found the skeleton OF
ess man who was trying to escape with
Ieo coins and a silver saucepan. For tho
ms valuables he dared the ashes
MS scora of Nesuvius which overwheim
10 him, and many a good man has be
ms held nightly by ayarice.
But that brings me to the otf
.;ro thought of my text, that there
tbs those who will. when they leave I
"a. life, bound into Heaven amid salu
!, tions infinite. For so an entral
49, shall be administered unto you abb
=; dantly." Such exultant admission v
ID await those who enter Heaven af
,,a on earth living a life for others a
f,,,I without reference to conspicuity.
,.a the banks of the Ohio or the Tuscalo
ua or the Androscoggin is large fam
,tad all of whom have been carefully ;
and religleuslV re"reu inc
ara stages of that family there were mi
fol- privatons. The mother of the ho'
, TO hold never had any amusements.
of haps once in a year poor theatr
nome play was enacted in the neighbor
bese schoolhouse or a squawking concer
and the town hall, and that was all the
nro- version afforded for the winter sea
ent- l asked the manager of an insane ;
ven, lum in kentucky: From what elias
and persons do you get most of your
rupt tients?" and he said: From farm
ties wives" / asked the same question
ould the manager of an insane asylum
ould Pennsylvania, and the same ques
wide of the manager of an insane asyluI
not Massachusetts,, and got the same re
not 1--WE have on our rolls for treatn
man. more farmers wives than per
, not coming from any other class"
answer will be a surprise to som'
what was no surprise to me. The simple
ance. son is, farmers wives as a gen
$ to thing have no diversion. 1t is br
order fast, dinner and supper, sewing, SC
IS his ing, scrubbing, knitting, men'
hism year in and year out. That moth