The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-11-09

No! So far from that / shall show
you h a we ourselves start the cor
Gle of good or bad actions and that
it will surely come around again to
us unless by Divine intervention it be
hindered. Those bad or good actions
may make the circuit of many years,
but come back to us they will as GER
tainly as that God sits on the circle
of the earth.
Jezebel, the worst woman of the
Bible, Shakespeare copying his Lady
Macbeth from her picture, slew
Naboth because she wanted his vine
yard. While the dogs were eating
the body of Naboth, Elijah, the
prophet, put down his compass and
marked a circle from those dogs clear
around to the dogs that should eat
the body of Jezebel, the murderess.
"Impossible!" the people said. THAT
will never happen" Who is that be-
ing flung out of the palace window?
Jezebel. A few hours after they came
around, hoping to bury her. They
find only the palms of the hands and
the skull. The dogs that devoured
Jezebel and the dogs that devoured
Naboth-oh, what a swift, what an
awful circuit!
But do not become impatient be-
cause you cannot see. the curve OF
events and therefore conclude that
Gods government is going to break
down. History tells us that in the
making of the pyramids it took 1000
men two years to drag one great
stone from the quarry and put it into
the pyramids. If men short lived can
afford to work so slowly as that, can
not God in the building of eternities
afford to wait?
What though God should take 10000
our little watch, which we have tc
wind up every night lest it run down
and hold it up beside the clock of eter
nal ages? If, according to the Bible
a thousand years are in Gods sigh
as one day, then, according to tina
calculation, the 5000 years of thu
worlds existence has been only tt
God as from Monday to Saturday.
But it is often the case that the re
bound is quicker, the return is muci
quicker, than that. The circle is soon
err completed. You resolve that yo,
will do what good you can. In on
week you put a word of counsel in tn
heart of a Sabbath school child. Dur
ing that same week you give a lette
of introduction to a young man strug
Cling in business. During the sam
..-rnlr ,ao1ra a, AvhAr n tinn in
| prayer meeting. 1t is all gone. Yo'
will never hear of it perhaps, yo
> think. A few years after a mar come
ur to you and says: you don't kno'
: me, do you?" You say: "No; / don
j remember ever to have seen you.
= why" he says, 81 was in the Sabbat
I school class over which you were tn
: teacher. One Sunday you invited m
to Christ. l accepted the offer. 70
see that church with two towers yol
der?" "Yes," you say. He says
d THAT is where I preach" or: 81
d you see that governors house? Ths
e is where I live"
X One day a man comes to you an
e says: Good morning" You look
him and say: "Why, you have the al
a vantage of me. l canno place you
n He says: Don't you remember
years ago giving a letter of introdu
ton to a young mana letter of intr
S duction to William f. DODGE" "Ye
d yes; l do" He says: 81 am the ma
it That was my first step toward a 70
tune, but l have retired from busine
a. now and am giving my time to phila
'e thropies and public interests. Con
up to my house and see me-"
lie Or a man comes to you and say
l. az want to introduce myself to 20
II I went into a prayer meeting son
years ago. l sat back by the doc
You arose to make an eXhortatio
is That talk changed the course Of n
n life, and if / ever get to Heaven Il
I'd der God l will owe my salvation
lie you" In only ten, twenty or thir
n years the circle swept out and W
i'd back again to your w grateful heal
lie But sometimes it is a wider Giro
TT and does not return for a great viii
r l saw a bill of expenses for burnt
X Latimer and Ridley. The Bill of e
6, penses has these items among other
lie Shilling Pen
" Carriage for four loads of wood.
as Item, a
ix Item, two chains..
Item, two staples ..................-
Item. four laborers.
making in all 25s. Sd. That was che
fire, considering all the circumstanc
ry but it kindled a light which shone
around the world and aroused t
We martyr spirit, and out from that bul
er ing of Latimer and Ridley rolled /
OF circle wider and wider, starting OIL
circles, concluding, ~overrunning, c
g. cumscribing, oyerreaching, all Heav'
M a circle.
TO- But what is true of the good is j
it as true of the bad. You utter a 81;
elk der against your neighbor. 1t /
of gone forth from your teeth. 1t v
lat never come back, you think. You hi
done the man all the mischief you c
You rejoice to zee him vince. \
say: Didn't l give it to him!" II
he word has gone out-that slanderC
Of d its poisonous and bias