The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-06-29
DESERVING THE WIND
-r.,ns of Prompt Action in Any
hing Undertaken Is Shown.
.,,re Draw n Lesson from .
Dr. Passage Generally
Observation-Disclosures Of
oyerprudence.
..r,ght. 1901, by Louis Klopsch. N. ~
ICop' Washington,

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massage of Scripture unob-
III hv most readers, DR.. Talmage
,kis discourse shows the impor-
m Of prompt action in anything
Sore to do for ourselves or 9TH
.rs. text, Ecclesiastes ll:4: Ii nat
.eorveth the wind shall not SOW"
What do YOU find in this packed
-.ntence of Solomon's ~monologue? l
snd in il a farmer at his front door
Hnomining the weather. 1t is seed
.;,ei His fields have been plowed
snd narrowed. The wheat is i n the
harm in sacks, ready to be taken
.ssld and scattered. Now is the time
~ COW. But the wind is not favor
.hle It may blow up a storm before
rigbt. and he may get wet if he starts
ont for the sowing; or it may be a
,onc storm, hat will wash out the
coed from the soil; or there may have
heen A long drought, and the wind
nav continue to blow dry weather.
The marched fields may not take in
tbe grain, and the birds may pick it
an and the la bor as well as the seed
NAV be wasted. So he gives up the
work for that day and goes into the
house and waits to see what it will
no on the morrow. On the morrow
,be wind is still in the wrong direc-
tion. and for a whole week and for a
month. Did you ever see such a long
smell of bad weather? The lethargic
-,,. aud liIntnru anri.
culturist allows the season to pass
without sowing, and no sowing, of
course. no harvest. That is what
solomon means when he says in his
text: "He that observeth the wind
shall not SOW"
As much in u time as in Solomon
ic times there is abroad a fatal hest
fancy, n disposition to let little
things stop us, a ruinous adjourn
ment. We all want to do some good
in the world, but how easily we are
halted in our endeavors. Perhaps we
are solicitors for some great charity.
There is a good man who has large
means, and he is accustomed to give
literally to asylums, to hospitals, to
reform organizations, to schools, to
churches, to communities desolated
with flood or devastated with fires.
But that good man, like many a good
man, is mercurial in his temperament.
He is depressed by atmospheric
changes. He is always victimized by
the east wind. For this or that rea'
son you postpone the charitable so
licitation. Meanwhile the suffering
that you wish to alleviate does its
awful work, and the opportunity fol
relief is past. If the wind had beer
from the west or northwest, 20,
would have entered the %philanthro
pist's counting-room and sought thu
gift, but the wind was blowing from
the east or northeast, and you die
not make the attempt, and you thor
oughly illustrated my text: "He tina
observeth the wind shall not SOW"
There comes a dark Sabbath morn
Ing. The pastor looks out of tn
window and sees the clouds gathe
and then discharge their burdens o
rain. Instead of a full church it wi
be a handful of people with wet fee
and the dripping umbrella at tn
doorway or in the end of the pew
The pastor has prepared n of hi
best sermons. 1t has cost him grea
research, and he has been much |
prayer while preparing it. He put
the sermon aside for a clear day an
talks platitudes and goes home quit
depressed, but at the same time fee
ing that he has done his duty. II
did not realize that in that small al
dience there were at least two person
who ought to have had better trea
ment. One of those hearers was
man in a crisis of struggle with ey
appetite. A carefully prepared di
course under the Divine blessir
would have been to him complete vi
tory. The fires of sin would ha'
been extinguished, and his keen al
brilliant mind would have been co
secrated to the Gospel ministry, al
ne would have been a mighty evangt
ana tens of thousands of souls o
nave under the spell of his Christi;
e'oquence, given up sin and start
a new life, and throughout all t
heavens there would have been co
graduation and hosanna, and aft
many ages of eternity had pass
'here would be celebr alton amol
the ransomed of what was accol
pushed n stormy Sunday in
church on earth under a mighty CO
pei sermon delivered to Is or 20 pc
PIE But the crisis l speak of was II
properly met. The man in struge
with evil habit heard that stormy d
no word that moved him. He we
out in the rain unlimited and I
nelped back to his evil way and do
10 ms overthrow. Had it been a S,
shlny Sabbath he would have hea
something worth hearing. But I
WIND blew from a stormy directi
mat sabbath day. That Gospel h
sandman noticed it and acted up
as suggestion, and may discover so
uay ms great mistake.
lhere was another person in Il
stormy Sunday audience that
served something better from Il
laS'or than extemporized nothil
ness. 1t was a mother who was h
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