The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-10-05
Is long in the appreciation Of others az

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As long as the throne of God will stand.
Another defeat of oblivion will be
found in the character OF those whom
rescue, uplift or save. Character
is eternal. Suppose by a right infu-
ence we aid in transforming a bad man
into a good man, a dolorous man into
a happy man, a disheartened man into
a courageous man, every stroke OF
that work done win be immortalized.
There may never be so much as one
line in q newspaper regarding it or
no mortal tongue may ever whisper it
into human ear, but wherever that soul
go your work upon it shall go,
wherever that soul rises your work
on it will rise, and so long as that soul
will last your work on it will last. Do
you suppose there win ever come such
an idiotic lapse in the history of that
soul in Heaven hat it shall forget that
you invited him to Christ; that you,
by prayer or Gospel word, turned him
round from the wrong way to the right
way? No such insanity will ever smite
a heavenly citizen. 1t is not half as
well on earth known that Christopher
Wren planned and built St. Paul's as
it will be known in all Heaven that you
were the fundamentally of building
a temple for the sky. We teach a
Sabbath class or put a Christian tract
in the hand of a passerby or testify
for Christ in a prayer-meeting or
preach a sermon and go home discour-
aged, as though nothing had been ac-
complished, when we had been char
acter building with a material that no
frost or earthquake or rolling Of the
centuries can damage or bring down.
Oh, this character building! The
structure lasting independent OF
passing centuries, independent OF
crumbling mausoleums, independent
of the whole planetary system. Aye,
If the material universe, which seems
all bound together like n piece of
machinery, should some day meet with
an accident hat should send worlds
crashing into each other like tele-
scoped railway trains, and all the
wheels of consultations and galaxies
should stop, and down into one chasm
of immensely all the suns and moons
and stars should tumble like the mid
night express at Asbtabula, that would
not touch us and would not hurt God,
for God is a spirit, and character and
memory are immortal, and over that
grave of a wrecked material universe
might truthfully be written: "The
righteous shall be held in everlasting
remembrance" o Time, we defy thee!
o Death, we stamp thee in the dust of
thine own sepulchers! OEternity, roll
on till the last star has stopped rotat-
ing and the last sun is extinguished on
the sapphire pathway and the last
moon has illuminated the last night
and as many years have passed as all
the scribes that ever took pen could de-
scribe by as many figures as they could
write in all the centuries of all time.
but thou shalt have no power to efface
from any soul in glory the memory OF
anything we have done to bring it to
God and Heaven.
What JOY, what honor, can there be
comparable to that of being remem'
bered by the mightiest and most at
fectionate being in the universe
Think of it. to hold an everlasting
place in the heart of God! The hear
of God! The most beautiful palace il
the universe. Let the archangel built
some palace as grand as hat if hi
can. Let him crumble up all the star
of ye%sternight and tomorrow nigh
and put them together as mosaics FOL
such a palace floor. Let him take al
l.. the sunrises and sunsets of all the day
and the auroras. of all the nights ant
' hang them up as upholstery at its win
dows. Let him take all the rivers an
all the lakes and all the oceans and tos
. them into the fountains of this pal
p. ace court. Let him take all the gol
? of all the hills and hang it in its chan
1 deliers and all the pearls of the sea
J and all the diamonds of ali the field!
and with them arch the doorways o
that palace and then invite into a
the glories that Esther ever saw at
n Persian banquet or Daniel ever wake
e among in Babylonian castles or JC
r seph ever witnessed in Pharaoh
:. throneroom and then yourself ente
t this palace of archangelic constructio
/: and see how poor a palace it is con
u Dareu Will the SlSdbSi PaAaSS ZIG
r some of you have already found
d the heart of a loving and pardonin
r God and into which all the music and a
e the prayers and all the sermonic col
Il siderations of this day are trying
e introduce you through the blood of ii
J. slain Lamb.
e Oh, where is oblivion now? Frol
'e the dark and overshadowing word til;
Q it seemed when l began it has becon
something which no man or woman {
N child who loves the Lord need ever fea
Oblivion defeated. Oblivion dead. y
r livion sepulchered. But l must n
n. be so hard on this devouring monste
i'd for into its grave go all our sins wht
he the Lord for Christ's sake has 70
is piveu them. Just blow a resurre
ton trumpet over them when once o
10 liyion has snapped them down. N
re one of them rises. Blow again. Not
at stir amid all the pardoned iniquiti
he of a lifetime. Blow again. Not oil
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