The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-08-10

tables and dry statistics. Our reli
to c~assia, but never to nightshade
1t is a bundle of myrrh. 1t is a dasl
of holy light. 1t is a sparkle of coo
fountains. 1t is al opening of opal
inc gates. 1t is a collection of spices
Would God hat we were as wise il
taking spices to our Divine King a.
Queen Balkis was wise in taking the
spices to the earthly Solomon.
The fact is that the duties and
cares of this life, coming to us from
time to time, are stupid often and
iuane and intolerable. Here are men
who have been battering, climbing
pounding, hammering, for 20 years
40 years, so years. One great, long
drudgery has their life been, their
faces anxious, their feelings be.
numbed, their days monotonous,
What is necessary to brighten up
that mans life and to sweeten that
acid disposition and to put sparkle
into the mans spirits? The spicery
of our holy religion. Why, if between
the losses of life there dashed the
CLEAN of an eternal gain, if between
the betrayals of life there came the
CLEAN of the undying friendship of
Christ, if in dull times in business we
found ministering spirits flying to
and fro in our Office and store and
shop, everyday life instead of being
a stupid monotone would be a glor-
ious inspiration, penduluming be-
tween calm satisfaction and high rap
ture.
How any woman keeps house with
out the religion of Christ to help her
is a mystery to me. To have to spend
the greater part of ones life, as many
women do, in planning for the meals
and stitching garments that will soon
be rem again and ~deploring breakages
and supervising tardy subordinates
and driving off dust that soon again
will settle and doing the same thing
day in and day out and year in and
year out until the hair %silvers and the
back stoops and the s~pectacles crawl
to the eyes and the grave breaks open
under the thin sole of the shoe-oh,
"a.
~ os mous Du Nhen
80 ~ ~ anu
hi'cnen anu comes 10 II
80 aEu oo"es 10 inc u"e4iing'
49,. ,neeiy oecoine an "onianly
Ht'I 'ne - never aione now.
i'na sets 'hrough lreItihg anu
joins Mary at the feet of Jesus. All
day long Deborah is happy because she
mp N"pie''h' iahnd BECAUSE
80 naAe " oo'' y souhS 0ahn-
49, 80" oeIauSe she can "a'ch
miami pro'her' hdehei because
neip ner .a.her water the
Tue wiuow oi oareP'a because
~ oiuse Vi OH is oelhg rePienlshed
o 30 na'ins ,youl pantry a
% DoAes containing III klnus OF
y. N' why nave you not trled
-, nea!' anu me the sPlcery OF
u holy re"sion' martina, Martina
nv a,' careful anu ABOUT
nHy 'nlnSs' ou' one thihg Is
"ai' NAN cnosen that gooo part
49, shaii NOT De taken away from
must CONFESS that a great deal OF
ne religlon OF this day is utterly in
s,Plo' 1here Is nothing piquant or
eieVating about 1t. Men and women
20 arouna hummlng psalms in a minor
Key ana cultlvatlng melancholy, and
~ "orsniP mas IN IL more signs
thah raptures. we do not doubt their
pfety. Oh, mol! But they are sitting
at a feast where the cook has for
to season the food. Eyervtbing
is fiat in their experience and in their
conversation. Emancipated from sin
and death and hell and on their wav
to a magnificent Heaven, they act as
though they were trudging on toward
an everlasting Botany Bay. RELIGION
not seem to agree with them. II
seems to catch in the windpipe and
become a tight strangulation instead
of an exhilaration. All the infdel
books that have been written from
Voltaire down to Herbert Snencer
have not done SO much DAMAGE to orr
Christianity as lugubrious Christians
Who wants a religion woven ont of
the shadows of the nipbtq WIN 10
growing on your wav to cele stiaI sn.
t~hronement? Come out of that cave
and sit down in the warm LIGHT Of 49,
Sun of Righteousness. Awov III
your odes to melancholy and Hervev,s