The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-01-26
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the doctors since the time OF Escula-
Mus. BE obliging and just make the
experiment. If you are not acquainted
with the ordinary modes of prayer, say
in substance: 20 Lord Jesus, this is q
strange thing for me to do. ! know
nothing about the formulas of reli-
gion. These Christian people have been
talking so long about what thou canst
do for me l am ready to do whatever
commanded me. If there be any
power in religion, as these people say, |
let me have the advantage of it," Will
YOU not try that experiment?
/ do not now say there is anything
in religion. Do not take my counsel
or the counsel of any clergyman, for
you may dislike clergymen. Perhaps
we may talk professionally. Perhaps
we may be prejudiced in the matter.
Perhaps our advice is not worth taxi
ing. Then take the counsel Of some
very respectable layman, as John Mil
ton, the poet; as William Wherefore,
the emancipator; as Isaac Newton, the
astronomer; as Robert Boyle, the phil
osopher; as Locke, the metaphysician;
as Morse, the telegrapher; as Washing
ton, the statesman. They never
preached or pretended to preach, yet.
putting down one his telescope and an
other his parliamentarian's scroll and
another his electricians wire, came
forth and commended the religion of
Christ as the best thing for the cure
of the worlds woes. If you will not
take the recommendation of ministers
of the Gospel, take the recommendation
of highly respectable laymen.
Oh, men, skeptical and struck
through with unrest! I beg you to
come off hat great Sahara desert of
doubt into the bright and luxuriant
land of Gospel hope and peace. You
do not want your children to come
up in that skepticism. If you do not
believe in anything else, you believe
FIN love-a fathers love, a mothers
love, a wife's love, a child's love. Then
let me tell you hat God loves you
more than all these together. The
great heart of Christ aches to have
| you come in, and He looks into your
eyes this moment, saying: "Other
sheep l have which are not of this
fold"
Again, l remark that the Heavenly
Shepherd is going to find a great
many of the sheep among those who
have been full of evil habit. They
were all cheated into sin. The spider
does not say Il the fly: Come into
the web where l kill insects" Oh,
no. The spider says: Dearest fly,
come and talk a morning walk with
me on this suspension bridge of gos-
samer glittering with diamonds Of
dew" DO not be hard on those gone
astray. 1t makes me sad to see Chris
tian people give up a prodigal as lost
There are those who talk as though
the grace of God were a chain Of 40
or so links and hat when they had
run out there was nothing left to
touch a bad case. If they were hunt
ing and got off the track of the deer,
they would look longer among the
brakes and bushes Tor the lost game
than they would look for that lost
soul.
They talk about the catacombs OF
Naples and the catacombs of Rome
and the catacombs of Egypt, the
great burial places under the city
where is the dust of many genera
tions passed on, but 1 tell you New
York has it's catacombs and Washing
ton its catacombs and all our cite.
their catacombs. They are under
ground liquor dives, full of dead mems
bonas apd oil pclaan1ipac Tbera |,
no need of going into the art gallery
| to see in skillful sculpture that won
derful representation of a man ant
his sons wound round with serpents
There are families represented herr
to-day that are wrapped in the mar
tyrdom of fang and scale and venom
a living LAGOON of ghastliness ant
horror.
!, There is only n class of person
. about whom ! am disheartened, an,
they are the Gospel hardened. The,
: have been faithful in attendance a
churches for 90, 30 and 40 years, We
never have surrendered themselves t
a God. As Christ says: "Publicans an
harlots go into the kingdom of heay
e en- before them" They have ~resiste
o all the importantly of divine mere
e and have gone through most power
u full earthquakes of religious feeling
> and they are farther away from Go
than ever. After awhile they will Ii
down sick, and some day it will b
told that they are dead. No hope!
l. But / turn to outsiders with an e,
IT pectation that thrills through m,
body and soul. "Other sheep l hav,
is which are not of this fold" You al
Ie not Gospel hardened. You have nc
n heard many sermons during the las
few years. You feel the Holy Ghos
this moment in your heart. You d
:, not weep, but the tear is not far OF
You sigh, and you have noticed ths
:, there is always a sigh in the wind b
fore the rain falls. There are thos
=, here who would give anything If the
- could find relief in tears. They say
"Oh, my wasted life! Oh, the bitt,
-, past! oh, the graves over which
~ have stumbledi Whittier shall Az