The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-11-30

- hNNlDIISt, we al
have stock in every house that il
builded and in every public convey
ance that is constructed and in every
ship that is sailed. When we Sc,
the Woodworking men of the land liv
ing in comfortable abodes, with lux
uries upon their tables that one,
even kings could not afford, having
the advantage of thorough education
OF accomplishment and art, we are
all ready at this season to unite with
them in praise to God for His good.
ness.
Now, 1 come to speak of the con.
quests of the pen. This is the sym.
Dol Of all intellectually. The paint.
er's pencil and the sculptor's chisel
and the philosophers laboratory are
all brothers to the pen, and there.
fore this may be used as a symbol
OF intellectual advancement. There
are those disposed to decry everv-
thing American. Having seen Mel
rose and Glastonbury by moonlight,
they never behold among us an i'm
pressive structure; or, having ~strolled
through the picture galleries of the
Louvre and the Luxembourg, they
are disguised with our academies of
art. 1t makes me sick to hear these
people who have been to Europe come
home talking with a foreign accent
and aping foreign customs and talk.
ing of moonlight on castles by the
sea. l think the biggest fool in the
country is the Travelled fool.
But, considering the youth of our
nation and the fact that compare
lively few persons devote themselves
entirely to literature, l think we
nave great reason to thank God for
the progress of our American litera.
ture. AS historians have VIE not had
IN the past such men as Bancroft
n Prescott, as essayists Irving and
Emerson, as ~jurists Story and Mar
shall and Kent, as theologians Ed
wards and Hodge. al poets Pierre
and Sprague and Longfellow
and Bryant. as sculptors Powers and
men as West and Cole and In
and Kensett? And among the
ilvlng Americans what galaxies of in
splendor and power! Ed
ward Eggleston and Will Carleton
and Mark Twain and John Kendrick
Bangs and Marion Harland and Mar
garet Sangster and Stockton and
Churchill and Hopkinson Smith and
Bachelor and Julia Ward
and Amelia Barr and Brander
Matthews and Thomas Nelson Page
and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Will
lam Dean Howells and a score of
others, some of them fixed stars and
meteors.
How things have marvelously
changed! We used to cry because we
had to go to school. Now children cry
+ they cannot go. Many of them can
intelligently discuss political topics
.ong before they have seen a ballot box
Dr., teased by some poetic muse. can
compose articles for the
Philosophy and astronomy and chem
stry have been so improved that he
must be a genius at dullness who
nothing about them. On n
shelf of a poor mans library is more
PRACTICAL knowledge than in the AGO.
100 volumes Of ancient Alexandria, and
education is possible for the most in
and no legislature or congress
or the last SO years has assembled
which has not had in it rail splitters
md farmers and drovers or men who
rave been accustomed to toiling with
he hand and the foot.
The grainfields have passed their
Iarvests above the veto of drought and
The freight cars are not large
'nough to bring down the grain to the |
eaboard. The canalboats are crowd
d with breadstuffs. Hark to the rush
ng of the wheat through the great
corn elevatorsi Hark to the
of the hogsheads of the Cincin-
att pork packersl Enough to eat and
t low prices. Enough to wear and of
ONE manufacture. If some have and
ONE have not, then may God help
hose who have to hand over to those
Who have not! Clear the track for the
all trains that rush on, bringing the
and the cotton and the rice and
he barley and the oats and the hops
nd the lumber and the leather and
v%erything for man and everything
or beast.
Lift up your eyes, o nation of Gods
light hand, at the glorious prospects!
'uild larger your barns for the har-
ests. Dig deeper the watts for the
poll Of the vineyards. Enlarge the
warehouses; for the merchandise. Null
iply galleries of art for the pictures
nd statues. Advance, o nation of
DDS right hand, but remember that
a%tional wealth, if unsanctified is
umptuous waste, is moral ruin, is
magnificent woe, is splendid rotten
ess, is gilded death. Woe to us for the
5ine watts if drunkenness wallows in
hem! Woe to us for the harvest il
reed sickles them! Woe to us for the
lerchandise if a~varice swallows it!
zoe to us for the cities if misrule
'alss them! Woe to the land if God
crime debauches it'll Our only
more Bibles, more churches,
lore free schools, more good men and
good women, more consecrated
presses, more of the glorious
the Son of God, which will vet