The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-01-19
FOR GODS CHILDREN.
A Warm Welcome Awaits Those
Who Faithfully Serve Him.
DR.. Talmnge Tells what the True
Disciple of Christ May Expect
In the Next World - Re-
ward of fSeif-Sncrihce.

war0 OF
Copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch. N. ~
Washington,
In very novel way DR.. Taimage in
| this discourse describes what may be
expected in the next world by those
who here bend all their energies in
| the right direction; text, IL Peter
/, II: For SO an entrance shall be
ministered unto you abundantly."
Different styles of welcome at the
gate of Heaven are here suggested.
| We all hope to enter that supernal
capital through the grace that is
ready to save even the chief of sim
ners. But not now. No man healthy
of body and mind wants to go now.
The man who hurls himself out OF
this life is either an agnostic or IS
demented or finds life insufferable
and does not care where he lands.
This is the best world we ever got
got into, and we want to stay here
as long as God will let us stay. But
when the last page of the volume OF
our earthly life is ended we want en-
rollment in Heavenly citizenship. We
want to get in easily. We do not
l want to be challenged at the gate and
: asked to show our passports. we DO
: not want the gatekeeper in doubt as
to whether we ought to go in at all.
We do not want to be kept in the
I portico of the temple until consulta-
ton is made as to where we came
a from and who we are and whether
1t is safe to admit us, lest we be
J discord in the eternal harmonies or
e lower the spirit of Heavenly worship.
|. When the apostle Peter in the text
4 addresses the people: For so an en-
:, trance shall be administered unto
- you abundantly," he implies thai
some will find admission into Heaven
l. easy, rapturous and acclamatory
:, while others will have to squeeze
through the gate of Heaven, if they
"a get in at all They will arrive anX
ID ious and excited and apprehensive ant
l. wondering whether it will be Come!
an or "Go!" The Bible speaks of sucl
persons as "scarceiy saved" and Il
another place as '"saved as by fire,
t. and in another place as escaped 30.
o the skin of the teeth"
= Carrying out the suggestion of m
text, l propose to show you wha
III classes of Christians will get int
We Heaven with hard push and thos
n who, will bound in amid salutation
os infinite. In the first class l put tha
man who gets into the kingdom G
IA God at the close of life all give
to worldliness and sin. Years ago h
w. made the resolution that he woul
serve himself and serve the world III
80 til body, mind and soul were exhaus
re ed and then, just before going out
le this life, would seek God and pr
th pare to enter Heaven. He carries OF
:, his resolution. He genuinely repent
the last day or the last hour or tf
nt last minute of his life. He takes II
M last seat in the last car of the la
IN. train bound Heavenward. His r
oh leased and immortal spirit ascend
Not one wing bears down toward hi
as' with a welcome. No sign of g.adne
at his arrival. None there obligat'
no to him for kindness Gone or aims di
- tributed or spiritual help admin
oy' tered. He will find some place
III stay, but do not envy that man /
ost Heaven. Ho got in, but it was n
for an abundant entrance.
"A Sometimes in our pulpits we gi
~" a wrong turn to the story of t
AS diving thief to whom Christ sal
on, This day shalt thou be with me
q Paradise" We ought to admire I
ho mercy of Christ that pardoned him
w the last hour, but do not let us {
| sAf ha ~
arrested, think his pockets were f
on of stolen coin, and the coat he h
on his back was not his own.
stole right on until he was arrest
'ur- for his crimes. He repented, a
off through great mercy arose to Pa
ma disc, but he was no example to
a. low. What gigantic meanness
uis devote the wondrous equipment
IN brain and nerve and muscle and be
tied with which we are endowed, tn
will miracles of sight and hearing 9
t-o speech, to purposes unworthy or P
oie fame, and then, through hasty repe
cog ance at the last, enter Heav
Cheating God all ones lifetime 1
- then taking advantage of bankr
law and made free of all nabilit
.ho / should think that some men wo
'ged be ashamed to enter Heaven or wo
lnds prefer some medium place in the W
,o;ol universe where the palaces are
so effulgent and the trees bear
5 ol more than six instead of twelve II
y Is ner of fruits and the social life is
Iar- so exalted.
lion Again, the bigot will not have W
"a. my text calls an abundant entra
leui- He has his bedwarfed opinion as
lded what all must believe and do in OF
that to gain celestial residence. He has
,nce creed in one pocket and his catecf
:, in another pocket, and it may
good creed and a good catechism,
Nee he uses them as sharp swords aga
forts those who will not accept his theo
You must be baptized in his wa
some to him through apostolic SUE