The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-11-02

Hamlet" wrote with his own hand
his last will and testament, beginning
il with the words: In the name of
God, amen, l, William Shakespeare, OF
Standardization. in the county of
Warwick, in perfect health and MEM
DRY, God be praised, do make and or
dain this my last will and testament
through the only merits of Jesus
Christ, my Saviour, to be made par
taker of life everlasting n my body
to the earth whereof it is made?"
Had Shakespeare lost his reason when
he wrote his faith in Christ and the
great atonement? Put your antag-
onist a few questions like that. and
you will find him excusing himself for
an engagement he must meet imme-
diately or he will start on a retreat
like that which Il northern troops
made for yonder Long bridge after
the battle of Manassas. y discourse
on Gods omnipotence and mans linn
itations would not have had such an
effect upon Job as the interrogation
of the text: "Canst thou bind the
sweet influence of the Pleiades?"
lneSe WOTuS dlSO hiNS hoA
reaching influences. job probably
had no adequate idea of the distance
of the worlds mentioned from u
world, but he kney- them to be far
off, and we, who have the advantage
of modern sidereal Investigation,
ought to be still more impressed
than was Job with the question of
! ~. ...+ - - x,,+. Aofnr.a ne thn f1 pt
that worlds hundreds of thousands
of miles distant have a grip on our
world. There are sweet influences
which hold Us from afar. There may
have been in our ancestral line per-
haps 200 years ago some c~onsecrated
man or woman who has held over
all the generations since an influence
for good which we have no power to
realize, and we in turn, by our
virtue or vice, may influence those
who shall live 200 years from now.
Moral gra~vitation is as powerful as
material gravitation, and if. as my
text teaches and science confirms.
the Pleiades, which are millions of
miles from our earth, influence the
earth we ought to be impressed with
how we may be influenced by others
far away back and how we may in
fuence others far down the future.
That rill away up among the Ale
ghanies, so thin you think it will
hardly find it's way down the rocks,
becomes the mighty Ohio rolling into
the Mississippi and rolling into the
sea. That word you utter, that deed
you do, may augment itself as the
years go by until rivers cease to roll
and the ocean itself shall be dried
up in the burning of the world,
Paul, who was all the time saying
important things, said nothing more
s%tartlingly suggestive than when he
declared: None of us liveth OF
dieth to himself" Words, thoughts
actions, have an eternity of fight
AS Job could not bind the sweet in
huences of the Seven Stars, as they
were called, so we cannot arrest OF
turn aside the good projected long
ago. Those influences were started
centuries before our cradle was
rocked and will reign centuries after
our graves are dug. Oh, it is a tire
mendous thing to live! God help III
to live Alright.
Astronomers can easily locate the
Pleiades. They will take you into
their ~observatories on a clear nigh
and aim their revealing instrument
toward the part in the heavens wher,
those seven stars have their habi
tude, and they will point to the con
%stellation Taurus, and you can SCI
for yourself. But it is impossible
to point to influences far back tina
have affected our character and will
affect our destiny. We know the in
fuences near by-paternal, maternal
conjugal-but by the time we hav
gone back two generations or a
most three our Investigations falte
and fail. Through the modern in
teresting habit Of searching back t.
find the ancestral tree we may fin
a long list of names, but they ar
only names. The conservation O
abandonment of some one 200 year
ago was not recorded. 1t would no
be so important if you and I by GU
good or bad behavior blessed O
blasted only those ~immediatel
around us, but our goodness or GU
badness will reach as far as tn
strongest rays of Alcyone - yea
across the eternities. Under thi
consideration what do you think G
those who give themselves up t
| frivolity or idleness and throw ava
so years of their existence as thong
they were shells or pebbles or pod
= instead of embryo eternities?
, Notice also in my text the infl
1 ence of other worlds upon this worl'
We all regard the effect which on
. continent has upon other continent
or one hemisphere upon the otht
= hemisphere. Great harvest or drougl
4 affects the other side of our worl
- A panic in Wall street, New York, hs
e it's echo in Lombard street and tt
bourse. The nations of the cart
f cablegrammed together all feel tt
same thrill of delight or shock of wo
o But we do not appreciate the inf
y ence of other worlds upon our worl