The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-05-18
how many of us hide under tn.

/ cnuTcn pew OF lIlt COniiihiiOh eaDiOs
There is so much invested in it we
are afraid to assault it. Millions OF
dollars in barrels, in watts, in spigots,
in corkscrews, in gin palaces with
marble floors and Italian top tables
and chased ice coolers, and in the
strychnine and the logwood and the
tartaric acid and the nux vomica that
go to make up our "pure" American
drinks. / looked with wondering eyes
on the heidelberg tun," 1t is the
great liquor vat of Germany, which in
said to hold 500 hogsheads of wine,
and only three times in 100 years it
has been filed. But as 1 stood and
looked at it 1 said to myself: THAT
is nothing-s0o hogsheads. Why, our
American vat holds 10, 200 1000 barrels
of strong drinks and we keep 100000
men with nothing to do but to see
that it is filed"
Oh, to attack the great monster of
intemperance and the kindred mon
sters of fraud and u~ncleanliness re-
quires you to rally all your Christian
courage. Through the press, through
the pulpit, through the platform you
must assault it. Would to God that
all our American Christians would
band together, not for crack-brained
fanaticism. but for holy Christian re-
form! L think it was in 1893 that
there went put from Lucknow, India,
under the sovereign, the greatest
hunting party that was ever project
ed. There were 10000 armed men in
that hunting party. There were cam
els and horses and elephants. On
some princes rode, and royal ladies
under exquisite housings, and 500
coolies waited upon the train, and
the desolate places of India were in
vaded by this excursion, and the rhi-
noceros and deer and elephant fell
under the stroke of the saber and
bullet. After awhile the party
brought back trophies worth $4,000
rupees, having left the wilderness of
India CHASTITY with the slain bodies of
wild beasts. Would to God hat in
stead of here and there a straggler
sters of iniquity in our country the
millions of membership in our
churches would band together and
hew in twain these great crimes that
make the land frightful with their
roar and are fattening upon the
bodies and souls of immortal men!
Who is ready for such a party as
that? Who will be a mighty hunter
for the Lord?
I remark, again, # you want to be
successful in spiritual archery you
need not only to bring down game,
but bring it in. l think one of the
most beautiful pictures of Thorwald-
sen is his Autumn" 1t represents a
sportsman coming home and stand
ing under a grapevine. He has a
staff over his shoulder, and on the
other end of hat staff are hung a
rabbit and a brace of birds. Every
hunter brings home the game. No
one would think of bringing down a
. roebuck or whipping up a stream for
trout and letting them lie in the
woods. At eventide the camp is
6 adorned with the treasures of the
forest-beak and fin and antler.
. If you go out to hunt for immortal
souls, not only bring them down I'M
, der the arrow of the Gospel, but bring
, them into the church of God, the
: grand home and encampment we have
, pitched this side the skies. Fetch
/, them in; do not let them lie out in
the open field. They need our
prayers and sympathies and help,
That is the meaning of the church of
God-help. o ye hunters for the
Lord, not only bring down the game,
but bring it in.
= If Mithridates liked hunting SO well
that for seven years he never went
, indoors, what enthusiasm ought we
, to have who are hunting for immor.
tai souls! If Domitian practiced arch.
cry until he could stand a boy down
/? in the Roman amphitheater with
, hand out, the fingers spread apart
, and then the king could shoot al ar.
n row between the fingers without
wounding them, to what drill and
; what practice ought we to subject
ourselves in order to become spirit
h ual archers and mighty hunters be-
6 fore the Lord!" But let me say yor
will never work any better than you
pray. The ola archers took the bow
put n end of it down beside the
foot, elevated the other end, and il
4 was the rule that the bow should be
\ just the size OF the archer. If it were
c just his size, then he would go into
the battle with confidence. Let mt
say that your power to project goot
q in the world will correspond exactly
h to your own spiritual stature. II
n other words, the first thing in prep
" a~ration for Christian work is person
al conservation.
n oh, for a closer walk with God.
A calm and heavenly frame.
Il A light to shine upon the road
h That leads me 10 the lamb!
IL There is in a forest in Germany
place they call the deer ~leap"-twt
d crags, about is yards apart; between
l. them a fearful chasm. This is caliet
the deer leap" because once a hunt