The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-09-07

NNl~h nv ooa VI A. 'AoAN
That is the joy that makes a hal
leluiah seem stupid. Why do we want
to have peace through our Lord Jesus
Christ? Why, if we had gone on in
10000 years of war against God we
could not have captured so much as
a sword n a cavalry stirrup or
t-isted off one of the wheels of the
chariot of his omnipotence. But the
moment we bring this olive branch
God and all Heaven come on our side.
Peace through our Lord Jesus C-rist,
and no other kind of peace is worth
anything.
But my text takes a step further,
and it says, Go into the mountain
and fetch olive branches and pine
branches and palm branches. Now, the
palm tree was very much honored
by the ancients. 1t had 800 different
uses. The fruit was conserved, the
sap was a beverage, the stems were
ground up for food for camels. The
base of the leaves was turned into
hats and mats and baskets, and from
the root to the top of the highe4
leaf there was usefulness. The tree
grew SIS feet in height sometimes,
and it spread leaves four and five feet
long. 1t meant usefulness, and it
meant victory-usefulness for what
it produced and victory because it
was brought into celebrations of
triumph. And oh, how much we want
the palm branches in the churches
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great many Christians do not amount
to anything. You have to shove
them off the trac4i to let the Lords
chariots come along.
I know the old plan was, the plan
row is, in regard to worldly invest
ments-you hear it, merchants tell
you-do not put everything into one
thing, do not put all your eggs into
one basket. But | have to tell you
in this matter of religion you had
better give your all to God and then
get in yourself. Oh, says some one,
MY business is to sell silks and
cloths" Well, then, my brother, sell
silks and cloths to the glory of God.
And some one says, MY business is
to raise corn and carrots" Then,
my brother, raise corn and carrots to
the glory of God. And some one
says, my business is to manufacture
horseshoe nails" Then manufacture
horseshoe nails to the glory of God
There is nothing for you to do that
you ought to do but for the glory OF
God.
Usefulness is typified by the palm
tree. All, we do not want in the
church any more people that are
merely weeping willows, signing into
the water, standing and admirine
their long lashes in the CLASSY spring
No wild cherry, dropping bitter fruit
We want palm trees, holding some
thing for God, something for angels
something for man. l am tired ant
sick of this fat, tame, insipid, satin
slippered, nambypamby, h~ightytight.
religion! 1t is worth nothing fo1 thi
world, and it is destruction for eter
nifty. Give me 500 men and wome
fully consecrated to Christ, and W
will take this city for God in thre
years. Give me 10000 men an
women fully up to the Christina
standard. In ten years 10000 o
| them would take the whole earth TO
5 God. But when are we going to be
gin? We all want to be useful. Their
: is not a man in the pews that doe
t not want to be useful. When ar
we going to begin?
But the palm branch also NEAR
: victory. You all know that. In a
e ages, in all lands, the palm branc
I means victory. Well, now, we are b
0 nature the servants of satan. II
t stole us, he has his eye on US, /
wants to keep us. But word come
S from our Father thao if we will tt
t to break loose from this doing
wrong our Father will help us, an
o we look the black tyrant in the fac
r and we fly at him, and we wrest
s him down, and we put our heel c
5, his neck, and we grind him in II
e aust, and we say, Victory, victor
e through our Lord Jesus Christ!' {
.e what a grand thing it is to have S
h under our foot and a wasted life b
d hind our backs. blessed is he who
a t-ransgression is forgiven and who
o sin is covered"
p Do you not think we had bett
e. begin now to celebrate the comil
e. victory? In the old meeting hou
e at Somerville my father used to le'
n. the singing, and he had the old fas
re toned tuning fork, and he wou
re strike it upon his knee, and tn
We put the tuning fork to his ear
catch the. right pitch and start t
m HYMN. But, friends, do you not Thu
is we had better be catching the pit
AZ of the everlasting song, the song
is y~ictory, when we shall be more tn
H. conouerors? Had we not better
is gin the rehearsal on earth? 9Th
an shall hunger no more, neither thu
any more; neither shall the S
light on them, nor any heat. For t
,is Lamb which is in the mist OF t
he throne shall feed them and shall lie
n them to living fountains OF waite
we and God shall wipe away all tel
us from their eyes"
Mt But then we must have that otf
an olive branch, peace with man. M