The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-03-23
NUMBER 81.

movement through the 1nkhornS
of all Christendom, each writer dip
ping from the inkhorn nearest him
letter of gospel invitation, gospel
hope. gospel warning, gospel in.
struction. The ink is all ready on .
hundred thousand tables, and beside
it are the implements with which to
dip it out. Why not, through such
process, have millions of souls brought
to God before next summer? By let
ter you could make the invitation
more effective than by word of mouth.
The invitation from your lips may be
argued back, may evoke querulous
reply, may be answered by joke, but
good, warm, gospel letter, written in
prayer and started with prayer and
followed by prayer, will be read over
and over again and cannot be an
swered in a frivolous way. 1t will
speak from the table by day and night
or, If pettishly torn up, will. in it's
scattered fragments, speak louder
than when it remained whole. Within
arms reach of where you sit there
may be fluid that you may put on
wing with message of light and love.
The other angels spoken of in my
text were destroying angels, and each
had what the Bible calls "slaugh-
ter weapon" in his hand. It was
lance or battleax or a sword. God
hasten the time when the last lance
shall be shivered and the last bat
tleax dulled and the last sword
sheathed, never again to leave the
scabbard, and the angel of the text,
xpb Ma+t
Lord Jesus Christ, shall, from the
full inkhorn of His mercy, give a saw
ing call to all nations. That day may
be far off, but it is helpful to think
of its coming. AS DR.. Raleigh de-
ciared that when so miles at sea
eff the coast of New England the
cattle on board the ship, as well 5
himself. scented the clover on the
New England hills, so we, amid all
the tossing waves of the worlds con-
troversies, inhale the redolence of ths
white lilies of universal peace. Is
it not time that the boasted inven-
tion of new and more explosive and
T more widely devastating weapons of
; death be stopped forever and the
T. Gospel have a chance and the ques-
'''" Oe nv ~" iiH" 9IrO'S
can pe hreu III minute ouI now
many SOUS may De ranSolheu III
. gay Inc "or4u neeus less poNuer
t more churches, less power to destroy
"nu HloIe power 70 save. Uh' am
D sick Of the war cries and the extin-
guished eyesight and the splintered
! bones and the grave trenches and
'nt Wluo"Hoou anu orPhanaSe ana
chliuIesSneSS "hlch SOD ana eroan
, anu uIe III 'Iie WaAe OF 'ne armies on
oo'h sldes OF 'he sea- On Tor 1ess
o! tne sld .er weapon anu more
ol 'ne NHnseiiAlhS Hnhhorn' On,
lor 'ne stopping ol .ne science OF
! dSsdNSiii"' 'ion' 'H"t ilIle VI cIi!nes'
thaV woe ol woes 'nat horror OF nor
io.S 'i"V zen u war "Hirn
tnIs moment S,aHuS reeAlnS win
DIoou anu u'HS I'Seli III TEARS
anu oidS SpIeIiiiilS 'ne htaNe euS anu
Pushlns Oh 'he euge Oh TINS tlIe men
, VINO nave as iiluch rISHV TO i've as
, you anu l nave anu piaSt tlhe MONIES
, III NH'0' 'iele u" eiIS as hluon loNeh-
ness as III our own "ouiu 'hat the
: mereliuI anger OF my text take the
, last weapon Oh war ana nlnS IL or
ana nlhg II uoWh WIN such force
, phaV /" snall eiahs on 'ne lowest
rouho OF 'he Perul'lon "here the
nrst Keen euge OF human strhe was
snarPeneu, war N tne name Oh
AlmlghtS uou ana OF an tne nome
steaus IL mas destroyed ana Is now
destroying nate IT, oehounce IT,
curse II.
II our piole Is 'rue-anu no ouher
oook that was ever prlhteu Is as
true as .ha' oooh' Wnich MOSES pe-
gan ana oohl liiiisneu-'heh the tlme
VIII CONT men al tne weapons OF
cruei'S WIN sop anu 'ne ihN'orhS
OF eNanseli%a''oh VIII nave 'helr way
IN the museums OF 'he Wor'u me
) c"Ioine anu 'iie cannon anu 'he oolilo
VIII oe hePV as curlosllleS' ana emil
urTn WIN pe lhereGulous as parents
tell 'hem that clVlhzea nauonS once