The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-01-19
NUMBER %.
soon grow and must have som hin e

No selection of good books. The neigh
bors calling in are full OF the same
grinding routine. No wonder so many
of them go into dementia!
Now. the mother of whom / speak as
living on the banks of that river in
Ohio az Alabama or Maine has gone
through all the drudgery mentioned,
and her children have turned out well,
good and useful men and women, orna-
ments of society, pillars in the house
/ of God, and that whole family, after
/ the years have passed by and their
work is done will meet in the Heaven
" country. From such family some
will certainly have preceded her. and
the time of her expected arrival will be
announced to all the members of that
family already glorifed and 10 the old
earthly neighbors who put down their
tolls little sooner than she did. and
she will have the warmest kind of home
coming.
There is another kind OF spirit who
will have radiant admission to the
upper dominion. There is fact
which ought TO have most emphatic
pronouncement. All over the world
to-day there are men and women OF
consecrated wealth. They are multi
plyine bv the day and hour-people
? who feel themselves the Lords stew
ards. and from their opulencs they
! are making a distribution which
= pleases the Heavens The check
e book in the office drawer of that
e man has on its stubs a story OF be-
A: neficence clear up into the sublime.
e In all the round of the worlds SAT-
d fering and ignorance and woe ysu
cannot mention one worthy object
i to which that prosperous and good
r man has not made contribution. He
IS is not irritated. as many are, by So
4 licitations for aims. In some poor
p woman in thin shawl, holding in her
IS arms a child with rheum in its eyes,
p this good man sees the Christ who
is said: "Inasmuch as We have done it
J. unto one of the least of these, ye have
le done it unto me-"
If Well, this man of consecrated af1u-
i'll ence is about to go out of this world.
to He feels in brain and nerve the strain
be of the early struggles by which he
We won his fortune, and at e. or 20 years
i'll collapses under the eXhaustions OF
"a the twenties and thirties of his life
time When the morning papers an
To- nounce that he is gone. there is ex-
Elf citement not only on the avenues
no where the mansions stand, but all
in through the hospitals and asylums
on and the homes of those who will
he henceforth have no helper. But the
ne excitement of sadness on earth is
he very tame affair compared with the
if. excitement of gladness in Heaven.
If
is. mans life swept by his dying pillow
in the night before, and on swift wing
no. upward announced that in a few
To hours he would arrive, and there is
an. mighty stir in Heaven He comes!"
.bo cries seraph to seraph. The Kings
ve. heralds are at the gate TO say:
en- Come. We blessed" and souls who
lis were saved through the churches that
by good man supported and hundreds
it who went up after being by him
We helped in their earthly struggle Will
act come down off their thrones and out
has of their palaces and through the
ion streets 10 hail him INTO the land which
9th they reached some time before
ned through his Christian philanthropy.
e n why. that is the man who, when l
, 60 was a-hungered, gave me bread!
use ''Why, that is the man" says another
and "who encouraged me when l was in
ned the hard struggle of business life!'
aan "Whv, that is the man says another
"who paid my rent when l had moth
ing with which to pay" why. thai
hel is the man through whose mission
are ary spirit | heard the GOSPEL call IL
'his Bombay" "Why. that is the man,
u'a- says another. "who helped send th'
ihce Gospel of Christ to the abOrigines o
'un- America and caused me to eNchang'
Will the war whoop of the savage for tn
tier song of Christian deliverance!
anu stand back" commands the gate
on keeper of Heaven, all We throngs re
oosA deemed through this mans instru
MY. mentalities. Make way for him to tn
anu feet of the King, where he will cas-
rlier his crown, and then make way 10
lany him to the throne, where he sha
'use- reign forever and ever." Now, tina
Per- is what l call an abundant entrance
rical You see, it is not necessary to be
ring failure on earth in order to be SUI
tt III cess in Heaven.
le VI But I am to-day chiefly addressin
ason those who are started for Heaven ar
as! would have them know that while v
r pa are "pt II,,I.o,, s+raa, ,,,.a,er ,ree
ings. as having an abundant entranc
~ " and Alfred Goodman, the flaming eva
IN ~; ~ gelist, as having an abundant e
trance; and Thomas Welch and Fletc
an,r. IL, ~ er. the glorious preachers of the Go
ep! pel. as having an abundant entran<
~ and John Rogers and Latimer al
IT. | Ridley ascending, like Elijah, in
- chariot Of fire, as having an abunda
- entrance, you also, if you love a
serve the Lord and fulfill your missiC
i,. nela whether ii be applauded or unknov
~ will have, when your work on earth
-. ended and you are called to come
her is nis si' - gu ,'i. o,.+ronoa