The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-01-05

word fifty spoken is "like applss
gold in baskets of silver"
So also is a word of inv;tat;ou
tent and beautiful. Who can descrih.
the drawing power of that word
small and yet SO tremendous. "Coma,y
1t Is a short word, but its influence :.
as long as eternity. Not a seson,'
pedalian word, spreading its enerox
over many syllables, but monosvli.
bic. Whether calling in wrong d.
ton r right direction, many hav.
found it irresistible. That one wons
has filled all the places Of d~issipation
n dissoluteness. 1t is responsih,.
for the denominations that curse Nv
earth. Inquire at the door of prison.
what brought the offender there ,ns
at the door Of a~lmshouses what
brought the pauper there, and AZ tbs
oor OF the lost world what was tbs
cause of the incarceration, and IL IN.
inmates speak the truth they viii
say: THE word Comet brought -,
here" Come and drink. Come and
gamble. Come and sin. Come ana
die. Pronounce that word with nm.
kind OF infection and you can hear IN
it the tolling of all the bells of ron
~fagration and woe.
The chief baker in prison in ph,.
raoh's time saw in dream sometime
quite different from apples Of gold in
baskets of silver, for he said to Josepb.
81 also was in a dream, and, behold
1 had three white baskets on nv head
and in the uppermost basket there
was all n of baked meats 70,
Pharaoh, and the birds did eat them
out of the baskets upon my head.r
Joseph interpreted the dream and said
it meant that the chief baker should
be beheaded and the birds would eat
his flesh.
But, oh, the power Of that word
"Come" when Alright uttered! We do
well when we send young men into
schools and colleges and theological
seminaries and by nine years Of in.
struction and drill hope TO prepare
them to sound Alright that sweet and
enrapturing and Heaven descended
word Come. The Gospel we be-
lieve in is a Gospel OF Come"
That word speak all the church.
es. That word is now building
thrones for c%onquerors and bur-
nished coronets for kings and queens.
That word is to sound so clearly and
impressively and divinely that the dAy
is advancing when all nations shall re-
cnAnA. aIVo ro~Afv gyUn ao.-.t
And while the upper sleeps toward
God and Heaven will be thronged with
redeemed souls ascending there will
not be one solitary traveller on the
road Of sin and death.
In the Kremlin at Moscow, Russia,
is what is called the king of BELLS"
but it is a ruined bell, and it has rung
no sound for near 200 years. II is 81
feet in circumference, and in height
it is more than ten times the height of
the average man, and it took a score
of men to swing its brazen tongue. 1t
weighs 200 tons. On the 10Th of June,
1706, in a great fire it fell and broke.
1t broke at the part which was weak
ened by the Jewels which the ladies
of Moscow threw into the liquid metal
at the casting. The voices Of that
bell are forever hushed. 1t will never
ring again, either at wedding or OBJ
sequy or coronation. What majestic
and overpowering silence! Enthroned
and everlasting quietude! One walks
around it full of wonder and histor-
ical reminiscence and solemnity. On
it are figures in relief representing
car and empress and Christ and Mary
and the evangelists. But as | stood
before it last summer ] bethought my
self of a greater bell and one still
ringing. 1t is the Gospel bell, ages
ago hung on the beam of the cross.
1t has vaster circumference and with
mightier tongue sounds across seas
and continents and awakens echoes
amid Alpine and Himalayan and Ser
ra Nevadan ranges. The jewels of af-
lection thrown into it at its casting
by ransomed souls of earth ana
Heaven have not weakened it, but
made it stronger and more glorious.
Evangelists and apostles ring it, and
martyrs HIteu their hahuS 'he
the flames to give it another sound
ing. 1t will ring on until all nations
hear It and accept its invitations;
"Comei Comet" 1t will not fall as
did that of Moscow. No storm can
stop it. No earthquake can rock II
down. When the fires of the last DAY
blaze into the heavens, amid the crash
of mountains and the groan of dying
seas, it's clear, ~resounding voice Will
be heard calling to the last inhapi'-
ant of the burning planet; Comet
Comet" .
But it requires now no great
strength to ring the bell. with TINS
weak hand, yesterday formed n 10,
morrow turned to dust, | lay hold
that Gospel bell in invitation 10 al
to whom these words shall come on
r whatever land or whatever sea- IN
! high places or low. l ring out the
word: "Come, come!" Come ana
have your sorrows solaced. Come ana
have your wounds healed. Come anu
|, have your blindness illumined Sople
) and have your fatigues rested ONE
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