The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-08-17
rs VERY REFRESHING
Dr. Talmage, in This Discourse, So
Represents Religion.
n. Invites All h World to Conc Iand
Receive It-Christ's EtcrnaI
Fountains Satisfy the
Soul.
rcopyright. 1901, by Louis Klopsch. N. VI
Washington,

.ents religion as a great refreshment,
and invites all the world to come and
receive it; text, Genesis, 1878. "We
cannot until all the focks be gathered
together and till they roll the stone
from the wells mouth; then we water
the sheep"
scene in Mesopotamia, beautifully
pastoral. A well of water of great
value in that region. The fields around
about it white with three fiocks of
sheep lying down waiting for the wa
tering. / hear their bleating coming
on the bright air and the laughter of
young men and maidens INDUCING in
rustic repartee. l look off, and l see
other focks of sheep coming. Mean
while Jacob, a stranger, IN the inter-
esting errand of looking for a wife,
comes to the we'll. A beautiful shep-
herdess comes to the same well. I see
her approaching, followed by her ia
theirs sheep. 1t was a memorable
meeting. Jacob married that shep-
herdess. The Bible recount of it is:
"Jacob kissed Rachel and lifted up his
voice and wept." 1t has always been a
mystery to me what he found to cry
about. But before hat scene &C.
Cured Jacob accosts the shepherds and
asks them why they postpone the
shaking of the thirst of their sheep
and why they did not Immediately pro-
coed to water them. The shepherds
reply to the effect: ave are all good
n%eighbors, and as a matter of cour-
tesy we wait until all the sheep of the
neighborhood come up. Besides that,
this stone on the wells mouth is some
what heavy, and several of us take hold
of it and push it aside, and then the
buckets and the troughs are filled and
the sheep are satisfied" "We cannot
until all the f1ocks are gathered to-
gether and till they roll the stone from
the wells mouth; then we water the
sheep"
Oh, this is a thirsty world! Hot for
the head, and blistering for the feet,
and parching for the tongue. The
worlds great want is a cool. refresh
ing, satisfying draft. We wander
around and we find the cistern empty.
Long and tedious drought has dried
up the worlds fountain, but cen
turtles ago a Shepherd, with crook in
the shape of a cross and feet cut to
the bleeding, explored the desert pas
sages of the world and one day came
across a we'll a thousand feet deep
bubbling and bright and opalescent
and looked to the north, and the south
and the east, and the west, and criet
out with a voice strong and musical
that rang through the ages: "Ho
everyone that thirsteth, come We to the
waters!"
Now a great flock OF sheep to-day
gather around this Gospel well. Their,
are a great many thirsty souls. Iwon
der why the fl, cks of all nations d.
not gather, why so many stay thirsty
and while l am wondering about it m,
text breaks forth in the explanation
saying: "We cannot until all the flock
be gathered together and till they rol
the stone from the wells mouth; the
we water the sheep"
If a herd of swine come to a wei
they angrily jostle each other for tn
precedence; if a drove of cattle com
to a well, they hook each other bac
the wafer, Dut Nucn q HUI u
sheep come, though a hundred of ther
shall be disappointed, they only e,
press 1t by sad beating, they come tc
gether peaceably. We want a grea
multitude to come around the Gospt
well. l know there are those who d
not like a crowd; they think a crow
is vulgar. If they are oppressed fo
room in church, it makes them pos
lively impatient and belligerent. W
have had people permanently leay
church because so many other poop
came to it. Not SO did these orienti
shepherds. They waited until all th
focks were gathered, and the moi
focks that came the better they like
1t. And SO we ought to be anXio,
that all the people should come. G
out into the highways and the hedg'
and compel them to come in. Go
the rich and tell them they are inc
gent without the Gospel of Jesus. {
to the poor and tell them the af1uen,
there is in Christ. Go to the bin
and tell them of the touch that Civ
eternal illumination. Go to the Ian
and tell them of the Joy hat will ma
the lame man leap like a hart. Gath
all the sheep off all the mountain
None so torn of the dogs, none so sic
none so worried, none so dying as
be omitted. Why not gather a gre
flock? All this city is a flock, all Ne
York is a flock, all London is a foc
all the world is a flock.
This well of the Gospel is de
enough to put out the burning thir
of the 1000, O00, 900 of the race. ]
not let the church by a spirit of e
cl~usiveness keep the world out. L
down all the bars, swing open all t
gates, scatter all the invitation
whatsoever will, let him come" Cen
white and black. Come, red men
the forest. Come L~aplander, o
of the snow. Come P%atagonian, out
the south. Come ir>furs. Come pal
ing under palm leaves. Come Of
Come all. Come now. AS at this W
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