The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-06-29

tlon which was to her a solicitude. A
good, strong sermon under the Di-
vine blessing would have led her into
the Kingdom of God and afterward
her whole family. The children,
whether they became farmers or me-
chanic or merchants or artists or
men of learned profession or women
at the head of households, would
have done their work in a Christian
way and after lives of usefulness on
earth would have taken thrones in
Heaven. 1t would have been a whole
family saved for time and saved for
eternity. But the pastor had ad-
Journed the strong and effective
discourse to a clear Sunday. The
mother went home chilled in body,
mind and soul, and concluded not to
trouble herself or her household
about the future, and to let to-mor-
row take care of itself and keep on
doing as they had been doing. No
God in that home. No religious con
ISOLATION in time of bereavement. No
formation of thorough Christian
character in the lives of those grow
ing up boys and girls. They will go
out into the world to meet it's vicis-
STUDIES without any sublime reen-
forcement of the Gospel. What a pity
it was that he did not put down the
manuscript of his we'll prepared SER
mon on the Bible if he preached from
notes or pour it out of his soul if he
had lodged it there through careful
preparation! No. He allowed that
opportunity, which could never re-
turn, to pass into eternity unim-
proved. He observed by the way the
rain dashed against the windows of
the parsonage and the windows of the
church that the wind was from the
east or the northeast, and he did not
sow, or sowed that which was not
worth sowing.
In all departments of life there are
those hindered by the wind of public
opinion. 1t has become an aphorisn
in politics and in all great movements
"He is waiting to see which way thu
wind blows" And it is no easy thins
to defy public opinion, to be run dowr
by newspapers, to be overhauled in so
cial circles, to be mathematical b,
those who heretofore were you
friends and admirers. 1t requires
heroism which few possess. Yet n
great reformatory or %elevating move
ment has ever been accomplished un
til some one was willing to defy wha
the world should think or say or dc
But there have been men and wome,
of hat kind. They stand all up an
, down the corridors of history, exam
!, pies for us to follow. Charles Sun
| ner in the United States senate, A
exander H. Stephens in Georgia col
| vention, S~avonarola stalking his life |
time of persecution, Martin Luthc
/, fighting the battle for religious FREE
, dom against the mightiest anathema
: that were eve hurled, William Care
leading the missionary movement
> save a heather world while churcht
s denounced him as a fanatic and wit
r attempting an impossibility; JENNIE
the hero of medicine, ~caricatured fl
/, his attempt by vaccination to bel
back the worst disease that smote Il
nations. They who watch the wind
, public opinion will lot sow. 1t is Q
A uncertain indication and is apt to bio
the wrong way.
t How many there are who give t.
much time to watching the wealth.
l. vane and studying the baromete
e Make up your mind what you are g
ing to do and then go ahead and do
If There always will be h~indrances. 1t
IL a moral disaster if you allow pruden
It to oveSmaster all the other grace
The Bible makes more of courage al
v. faith and perseverance than it does
ia caution. 1t is not once a year tn
the great ocean steamers fail to 81
at the appointed time because OF t
Ia storm signals. Let the weather bure
n prophesy what hurricane or cyclone
re- may, next Wednesday,, next Thursda
j. next Saturday, the steamers will p
Ia out from New York and Philadelpf
and Boston harbors and will reach l.
erpool and Southampton and Glasgt
r. and Bremen, their arrivals as certa
as their e~mbarkation. They cannot
vii lOAd " NOhshlb "AhNi =
in your life voyage.
lg Young man, you have planned WI
ic- you are going to be and do in I
We world, but you are waiting for circu
nd stances to become more favorat
n You are, like the farmer in the tie
nd observing the wind. Better ST
ell, now. Obstacles will help you If y
Id conquer them. Cut your way throui
an Peter Cooper, the millionaire phil
ed thropist, who will bless all succeed
he centuries with the institution
founded, worked five years for 81
.er wear and his board. Henry Wis
led the Christian statesman who &C
ng manded the United States sen
M with the gavel of the vice presiden
a wrote of his early days: Want
os- by my cradle. l know what it IS
ask a mother for bread when she
lot none to give. 1 left my home at
gle years of age and served an apr
ticeship of II years, receiving
snt months schooling each year, and
I'M the end of IL years of hard wor
wn woke of oxen and six sheep, WI