The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-11-16
obs and abs and forever and forever
amensi Go to God and crv for helm.

amensl Go to God and cry for help.
1 remember that in the civil war I
was at Antietam, with other members
of the Christian commission, to look
after the wounded. l went into the
hospital after the battle, and I said
to a man: where are you hurt?" He
made no answer, but held up his arm,
swollen and splintered. I saw where
he was hurt. The simple fact is, when
a man has a wounded soul all he has to
do is to hold it up before a sympathetic
Lord and get it healed. 1t does not
take any long prayer. Just hold up
the wound. 1t is no small thing when
a man is nervous and weak and ex-
hausted. coming from his evil ways,
to feel that God puts two omnipotent
arms about him and says:
young man, 1 will stand by you.
The mountains may depart and the
hills be removed, but I will never fail
you" And then, as the sou thinks the
news is too good to be true and cannot
believe it and looks up in Gods face,
God lifts His right hand and takes
an affidavit, makes an oath, saying:
"As l live" saith the Lord, 81 have no
pleasure in the death of the wicked"
Blessed be God for such Gospel as thisl
"Cut the slices thin" says the wife
to the husband, "for there will not
be enough to go around for all the
children. Cut the slices thin" Blessed
be God, there is a full loaf for every
one that wants it. Bread and enough
to spare! No thin slices on the Lords
table!
remember that while living in Phil
adelphia, at the time 1 spoke of a min
ute ago, the Master Street hospital
was opened, and a telegram was re-
ceived, saying: "There will be 300
wounded men tonight. Please take
care of them" From my church there
went out 20 or 30 men and women. AS
the poor, wounded men were brought
in no one asked them from what state
they came or what was their parent
age. There was a wounded soldier,
and the only question was how to take
off the rags most gently and put on
the cool bandage and administer the
cordial. And when a SOU comes to
God He does not ask where you came
from or what your ancestry was. Heal
ing balm for all your wounds; pardon
for all your guilt; comfort for all your
troubles!
Then, also, I counsel you, il you
want to get back, quit all your bad
associates. One unholy intimacy will
fill your soul with moral distemper.
In all the ages of the church there
has not been an instance where a man
kept one evil associate and was re-
formed-among the 1000, 900, 900 of the
race, not one instance. Give up your
bad companions or give up heaven. It
is not ten bad companions ~thatdestroy
a man nor five bad companions nor
three, but one.
What chance is there for the young
man l saw along the street, four or
five young men with him, in front OF
a grog,shop, urging him to go in, he
resisting vehemently, resisting, until,
after awhile they forced him to GO
in? 1t was a summer night, and the
, door was left open, and 1 saw the
:. process. They held him fast, and they
put the cup to his lips, and they forced
. down the strong drink. What chance
is there for such a young man?
I counsel you also to seek Christian
advice. Every Christian man is bound
to help you. If he declines to help you
he is not a Christian. Now gather uI
: all your energies of body, minc
: and soul, and, appealing to Goo
for success, declare this day ever
y, lasting war against all evil in
! f~uences. A half work will amount
to nothing; it must be a Waterloo
o Shrink back now and you are lost
: Push on and you are saved. A Spar
h tan general fell at the vary momen'
of victory, but he dipped his finger il
his own blood and wrote on a rocl
n neal which he was dying: Sparta hai
g conquered" Though your struggle tt
get rid of sin may seem to be almost
& death struggle, you can dip your finge,
d in your own blood and write on tn
Rock of Ages: "victory through on
Is Lord Jesus Christ"
Some one said to a Grecian gen
eral: "What was the proudest me
It ment of your life?" He thought
1t moment and said: 1.-THE proudes
1T moment was when I sent word HON
ii to my parents that I had gained tn
victory" And the gladdest and mos
Id brilliant moment in your life will b
the moment when you car send wor
n to your parents hat you have col
III quered the evil habits by the grace c
ne God and become eternal victor.
IN Oh, despise not parental anxiety
The time will come when you wi
have neither father nor mother, an
ne you will go around the place whel
he they used to watch you and find the
gone from the house and gone fro
an the field and gone from the neighbo
at hood. Cry as loud for forgiveness
you may over the mound in Il
r: churchyard, they cannot answe
gu Dead! Dead! And then you w
.st take out the white lock of hair tn,
i'm was cut from your mothers bro
IN. just before they buried her, and "
if will take the cane with which yo'
or father used to walk, and you w
of think and think and wish that "