The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-03-30
NUMBER 80.


ground to powder.
But I think, after all, the greatest
obstacle to revivals throughout
Christendom is an unconverted minis
try. We must believe that the vast
majority of those who officiate at
sacred affairs are regenerated, but 1
suppose there may float into the
ministry Of all the denominations Of
Christians men whose hearts have
never been changed by grace. They
are all antagonistic to nevivals. How
did they get into the ministry? Per-
haps some of them chose it as re-
spectacle profession. Perhaps some
of them were sincere, but were mis-
taken. AS Thomas Chalmers said, he
had been many years preaching the
Gospel before his heart had been
changed, and as many ministers OF
the Gospel declare they we've preach
| ing and had been ordained to sacred
orders years and years before their
| hearts were regenerated. Gracious
God, what solemn thought for those
| of us who minister at the altar
With the present ministry in the
present temperature of piety, this
| land will never be enveloped with re-
vivals. While the pews on one side
the altar cry for mercy, the pulpits
on the other side of the altar must
crv for mercy. Ministers quarrelng.
Ministers irving to pull each other
down. Ministers struggling for eccle-
, siasticaI place. Ministers, lethargic
with whole congregations dying on
, their hands. What spectacle!
, 1t is a significant fact that the man
: who invented the telegraph was an
old-fashioned Christian, Prof. Morse,
and that the man who put the tele-
o graph under the sea was an old-fash-
. ioned Christian. Cyrus W. Field, and
n that the president Of the most IA
, nous of the telegraph companies OF
= this country was an oldfashioned
. Christian, William Orton, going from
. the communion table on earth
. straight to his home in Heaven. What
> does all that mean?
., do not suppose that the telegraph
. was invented merely to let us know
whether -four is up or down or which
- horse won the race at the Derby or
y. which marksman beat at the latest
contest l suppose the telegraph was
invented and built to call the world
=
- 70 God.
10 In some of the attributes Of the
10 Lord we seem to share on small
SS scale. For instance, in His love and
IL His kindness. But until OF late fore
>" knowledge, omniscience. omniPres-
'h ence. omnipotence, seem to have been
u exclusively Gods possession. God, de-
string to make the race like Himself.
Df . U
10 in the weather probabilities, gives Ia
II a species of omniscience in telegraphy,
60 gives us a species of omnipresence IN
'e the telephone, gives us species OF
I'll omnipotence in the steam power. Dis
10 coveries and inventions all around
about us, people are asking what next
Il I will tell you what next. Next, a
ut stupendous religious movement. Next
en- the end of war. Next, the crash OF
VS. despotism. Next, the world S Uxpurga'
n. tion. Next, the Christlike dominion
i'd Next, the Judgment What becomes
go of the world after that l care not
Sc It will have suffered and achieved
M enough for one world Lay it up il
ret the drvdocks of eternity, like an ole
Mt man of war gone out of service, or n
vn il up like a Constellation to carry
bread of relief to some other suffering
ng planet or let it be demolished. Fare
lst we'll, dear old world, that began will
oc- paradise and ended with judgmen
ist confagration.
he Last summer l stood on the Isle o
oly Wight, and l had pointed out to m
,er the place where the Eurydice san
ne. with 200 or 800 young men who wer
ak in training for the British navy. No'
ak remember when that training shil
hi went down there was thrill of horro
ng all over the world. Since then ther
nst was another training ship missing
The The Atalanta. gone down with all o
nat board. BY order of her malesty's gov
the erument vessels went cruising up an
eth down the Atlantic trying to find tina
the lost training ship in which there wer
en-. so many young men preparing 70
rid the British navy. Alas, for the los
ple Atalanta, Oh, my friends, this worl
di- is only a training ship! On 1t we ar
training for Heaven. The old shi
inc sails up and down the ocean of in
hat mensity, now through the dark wave
, 10 of midnight, now through the golde
al crested wave of the morn, but sal
.+a on and sails on. After awhile h,
Ike work will be done, and the inha abitun
orc of Heaven will look out and find
tho world missing. The cry will b
~ where is that earth where Chri
rbc died and the human race was eman,
y pated? Send out fleets of angels
,oor- find the missing craft" Let them 81
oor up and down, cruise up and down t
,rir ocean of eternity, and they will cat
noiI not one glimpse of her mountain mas
nj or her topgallants of floating cloy
ho, Gone down, The training ship OF
Do world perished in the last torna'
.or, Oh, let it not be that she goes do'
,oY with all on board, but rather may it
not said of her passengers, as it was 81
rlt, of the drenched passengers of the
- exandrian corn ship that crashed il
the breakers of Melita: "They ali
on capped safe to land!'