The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-04-20

case it is better that you go, nd,
leaving the shawls on the second
floor, you go to the parlor to give for
mai salutation to the host and the
hostess and then move around, spend
ing the whole evening in the discus
sion of the weather and in apology
for treading on long trains and in
effort to keep the corners of the
mouth up to the syn of pleasure, and
going around with an idiotic he-he
about nothing until the collation. is
served, and then, after the collation.
is served, going back into the parlor
to resume the weather, and then at
the close going at a very late hour to
the host and hostess and assuring
them that you have had a most de-
lightful evening, and then passing
down off the front steps, the slam of
the door the only satisfaction of the
evening.
I know there is a great deal of talk
about the self-denials of the Chris
tian. l have to tell you that where
the Christian has II self-denial the
man of the world has a thousand
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commanded to surrender anything
that is worth keeping. But what
does a man deny himself who de-
MES himself the religion of Christ?
He denies himself pardon for sin,
he denies himself peace Of conscience,
he denies himself the joy of the Holy
Ghost, he denies himself a comfort
able death pillow, he denies himself
the glory of Heaven. Do not talk
to me about the self-denial of the
Christian life. Where there is one
in the Christian life there is a thou
sand in the life of the world. Her
ways are ways of pleasantness."
Again, 1 find a great deal of re-
ligious sunshine in Christian and d.
vine explanation. To a great many
people life is an ~inexplicable tangle.
Things turn out differently from
what was supposed. There is a use
less oma in perfect health. There
is an industrious and consecrated
woman a complete invalid. Explain
that. There is a bad man with $780,
900 of income. There is a good mar
with $500 of income. Why is that?
There is a foe of society who lives on
doing all the damage he can, to 7;
: years of age, and here is a Christian
father, faithful in every department
of life, at IS years of age taken away
by death, his family left helpless
Explain that. Oh, there is no sen
tence hat oftener drops from you
lips than this: 81 cannot understand
it. / cannot understand it,"
: Well, now religion comes in just a
that point with it's illumination ant
it's explanation. There is a business
man who has lost his entire fortune
The week before he lost his FORUM
, there were 20 carriages that stoppe'
: at the door of his mansion. TIL
, week after he lost his fortune al
: the carriages you could count on on
= finger. The week before fnancia
trouble began people all took o.
their hats to him as he passed dow
y the street. The week his ~fnancia
prospects were under discussion pee
> pie just touched their hats withou
u anywise bending the rim. The wee
! that he was pronounced ~insolver
{ people just jolted their heads q
: they passed, not tipping their hat
; at all, and the week the sheriff sol
: him out all his friends were lookin
in the store windows as they wer
: down past him.
Now, while the world goes ava
from a man while he is in financi;
: distress, the religion of Christ come
. to him and says: you are sick, an
your sickness is to be moral purit
cation; YOU are bereaved. &c
wanted in some way to take yor
/, family to Heaven, and He must begi
- somewhere, and so He took the or
;, that was most beautiful and W.
:, most ready to 60" 1 do not 50
, that religion explains everything
this life, but l do say it lays dow
8 certain principles which are grand.
. ~consolatory. You know business mt
~ often telegraph in cipher. The me
l. chant in San Francisco telegraphs
~ the merchant in New York certa
30 information in cipher which no 9th
Nc man in that line of business can u
derstand, but the merchant in ST
40 Francisco has the key to the ciphe
70 and the merchant in New York h
h the key to the cipher, and on tn
q information transmitted there a
III enterprises involving hundreds
thousands of dollars. Now, the pro-
dences of life sometimes seem to
a senseless %rigmarole, a mysterio
cipher; but God has a key to tn
be cipher and the Christian a key
or that cipher. and, though he M
hardly be able to spell out the mea
all ing, he gets enough of the meanii
ri to understand hat it is for the be.
Vt Now. is there not sunshine in tina
ge Is there not pleasure in that? +
N. beyond laughter, it is nearer t
Nv fountain of tears than boistero
ne demonstration. Have you never cri
ms for joy? There are tears which a
eternal rapture in distillation.
of Thnre are hundreds of people w
we are walking day by day in the 81
7 lime satisfaction hat all is for t
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