The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-06-08

what an honor to his household, what
n pillar to the church of God, what a
specimen of truth and integrity and all
r~oundness of character! Is there any
comparison in usefulness between
that man with the one talent of hon
esty and the dashing operators OF tho
money market?
The chief work of the peopls with
many talents is to excite wonderDent
and TO startle and electrify the world.
What use is there in all that? No use
at all. l have not so much interest in
the one man out of the million as l
have in the million. Get the great
masses of the world right and it does
not make much difference about what
the exceptional people are doing
Have all the people with one talent en-
listed for God and Righteousness, and
let all those with five or ten talents mi
crate to the north star or the moon,
and this world would get on splendid
ly. The hardworking, industrious
classes of America are all right and
would give no trouble, but it is the
genius who gives up work and on a
big salary goes around to excite dis
satisfaction and embodiment, the
genius who quits work and steps on
the stage or political platform, eats
beafsteak and quail on toast and
causes the common laborers, COM
PEELED to idleness, to put their hands
into empty pockets and eat gristle and
gnaw bones. The world would be
nightly improved if it could slough
off about 5000 geniuses, for there are
more than that on our planet. Their
the man or woman of one talent would
take possession of the world and rule
it in a sense and Christian
way. There would be less to amaze
and startle, but more to give equipoise
to church and state and world. ITO
another one"
Among the 114,000 words of Noah
Webster's vocabulary and the thou
sands of words since then added to our
English vocabulary there is one out
mastering word the power of which
cannot be estimated, and it reaches so
far up and so far down, and that is the
word come" 1t has drawn more peo-
pie away from the wrong and toward
the right than any word | now hin
of. 1t has at times crowded all the
IL gates of Heaven with fresh arriv-
ais. 1t will yet rob the path of death
of the last pedestrians. 1t will yet
chime so loudly and gladly that all the
tolling bells of sorrow will be drowned
with the music. 1t is piled up in the
Bibles climax and p%eroration: And
the Spirit and the bride say, Come, and
let him that heareth say, Come and let
him that is athirst come" Have it on
the point of your pen, have it on the
tip of your tongue. Monosyllables are
mightier than polysyllables, and that
word come" is the mightiest of mon
osyllables.
After the resurrection day and all
Heaven is made up, resurrected bod
les Joined to ransomed souls, and the
gates which were so long open are
shut there may be some day when
all the redeemed may pass in review
before the great white throne. If so,
| think the hosts passing before the
King will move in different divisions.
With the first division will pass the
mighty ones of earth who were as
good and useful as they were great.
In this division will pass before the
throne all the Martin Luthers, the
John KnoXes, the Wesleys, the Rich
ard Cecils, the Millions, the Chrysos.
the George Peabodys, the Abbot Law.
rences and all the consecrated Chris
tan men and women who were great
in literature, in law, in medicine, in
philosophy, in commerce. Their
genius never spoiled them. They
were as humble as they were gifted
or opulent. They were great Oh
earth, and now they are great in
Heaven. Their surprising and mag.
nificent talents were all used for tn.
worlds betterment. AS they pass in
review before the King on the great
white throne to higher and higher
rewards it makes me think Of the
parable of the talents: "To another
ten" l stand and watch the other
divisions as they go by, division after
division, until the largest of all the
divisions comes in sight. 1t is a hun
dred to one, a thousand to one, ter
thousand to one, larger than the
other divisions. 1t is made up O
men who never did anything but sup
port their families and give whatever
of their limited means they could
spare for the relief of poverty ant
sickness and the salvation of tn,
world, mothers who took good car,
of children by example and precep
starting them on the road to HEAVIER
millions of Sabbath school teacher!
who sacrificed an afternoons siest;
for the listening class of yong i'm
mortals, women who declined tn,
making of homes for themselves tina
they might take care of father an.
mother in the weaknesses of old age
ministers of the Gospel who on mig
gardly stipend preached in the back
woods, meeting houses, souls who TO
long years did nothing but suffer
yet suffered with so much Cheerful
patience that it became a helpful les
son to all who heard of it; those VIII,