The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-14

woes TO compassionate. blessed
Christ, descend! Scared temple, take
the crown! Bruised hand, take the
scepter! Wounded feet, step on the
throne! Thine is the kingdom"
These things I say because l want
you to be alert. | wan you to be
watching all these wonders unrolling
from the heavens and the earth. God
has classified them, whether calamit-
Gus or pleasing. The Divine purposes
are harnessed in traces hat cannot
break and in girths that cannot slip
and in buckles that cannot loosen
and are driven by reins they must
answer. l preach no fatalism. A
swarthy engineer at one of the
depots at Dakota said: when will
you get on the locomotive and take
n ride with us?" We'll" | said, |
snow, if that suits you" So | got
on one side of the locomotive, and a
Methodist minister, who wa also in
vited, got on the other side, and be-
tween us were the engineer and the
stoker. The train started. The en-
gineer had his hand on the agitated
pulse OF the great engine. The
stoker shoveled in the coal and shut
The door with a loud clang. A vast
plain slipped under us, and the hills
swept by, and that great monster on
which we rode trembed and bounded
and snorted and ragged as it hurled
us on. / said to the Methodist min
lister on the other side of the loco
motive; my brother, why should
ministers quarrel about the DEGREES
and free agency? You see that
track, that firm track, that iron
track; that is the dccyee. You see
this engineers arm; that is free
agency. How beautifully they work
together! They are going to take us
through. We could not do without
the track. and we could not do with
out the engineer"
So I rejoice day by day. Work for
all to do, and we may turn the crank
of the Christian machinery this way
or that, for we are free agents. But
there is the track laid so long ago
no one remembers it-laid by the
hand of the Almighty God in sockets
that no terrestrial or Satanic pres
sure can ever affect. And along the
track the car of the worlds redemp-
ton will roll and roll to the Grand
Central depot of the millennium. |
have no anxiety about the track. l
am only afraid that for our indo-
lence and unfaithfulness God will dis
charge us and get some other stoker
and some other engineer. The train
is going through with us or without
us. SO, my brethren, watch all the
events that are going by. If things
seem to turn out right, give wings
: to your joy. If things seem to turn
= out wrong, throw out the anchor OF
, faith and hold fast.
e When Titans play quoits, they pitch
? mountains. but who owns these gigan-
= tic natural forces we are constantly
reading about? Whose hand is on the
throttle valveof the volcanoes? Whose
I foot, suddenly planted on the foot
/ stool. makes the continents CULVER
God! l must be at peace with Him
n Through the Lord Jesus Christ, thi:
q God is mine and He is yours. | put thu
{ earthquake that shook Palestine a
the crucitiXion against all the dow
\ BOOKINGS of the centuries. This Goo
on our side. we may challenge all thu
+ centuries OF time and all the cycles o
g eternity.
Years ago / was at Fire Island
e L. l., and | went up in the cupol'
from which they telegraph Il
g New York the approach of vessel
S hours before they com into port
There is an opening in the wall, an
the operator puts his telescop
4 through that opening and looks GU
+ and sees vessels far out at sea. Will
| was talking with him he went u
and looked out. lie said; 1--WE are eS
. pecting the Arizona tonight"
Il said: us it possible you know a
those vessels? Do you know them a
YOU know a mans face?" He said
''Yes. | never make a mistake. BE
fore | see the hulls often know thel
by the masts. | know them all-Ihav
=, watched them so long" Oh, what
=. Grand thing it is to have ships tel,
oraphed and heralded long befor
:, they come to port. that friends ma
~ come down to the wharf and welcom
:, their long-absent ones! So to-day W
~ take our stand in the watch-towe
', and through the glass of inspiratio
- we look off and see a who
. feet of ships coming in. That
~ the ship of peace, with the sta
- of bethlehem floating above II
- TOP g~allants. That is the ship of II
!" church, mark of salt water high upo
9 the smokestack, showing she has ha
% rough weather, but the Captain
Salvation commands her, and all
r well with her. The ship of heave'
mirhtiest craft ever launched, III
d. lions of passengers waiting for m
IS lions more, prophets and apostles al
IN martyrs in the cabin, conquerors
III the foot of the mast, while from Il
IL RIGGING hands are waving this way
ne if they knew us, and we wave baC
mp again, for they are ours. They wei
s! out from our own households. Our
n Hail, hail! Put off the black and p
ty on the white. Stop t~olling the funer
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