The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-11-16

slreS LIBERATION from the eutHrdli-
ment of evil and shows how he may
be set free; text, Proverbs 1895:
"When shall l awake? l will seek it
yet again"
With an insight into human nature
such as no other man ever had Sol
ONION in these words is sketching the
mental processes of a man who has
stepped aside from the path of rec
titude and would like to return.
Wishing for something better, he
says: when shall l awake? When
shall | get over this horrible night
mare of iniquity?" But, seized upon
by an uneradicated appetite and
pushed down hill by his passions, he
cries out: 81 will seek it yet again.
/ will try it once more!"
About a mile from Princeton, N.
j., there is a skating pond. One win
ter day, when the ice was very thin,
a farmer living near by. warned the
young men of the danger of skating
at that time. They all took the
warning except one young man. He
in the spirit of bravado, said:
"Boys, one round more" He struck
out on his skates, the ice broke, and
his l~ifeless body was brought up. And
in all matters of temptation and al
lurement it is not a p~rolongation
that is proposed, but only just one
more indulgence, just one more sin.
Then comes the fatality. Alas, for
the one round morel Il will seek it
yet again"
Our libraries are adorned with ele-
CANT literature addressed to young
men pointing out to them all the dam
gers and perils of life-complete
maps of the voyage of life-the
shoals, the rocks, the quicksands.
But suppose a young man is already
shipwrecked, suppose he is already
off the track, suppose he has already
gone astray, how can he get back?
That is a question that remains I'M
answered, and amid all the books of
the Libraries l fnd not one word on
that subject. To hat class of per-
sons l this day address myself.
You compare what you are now
with what you were three or four
years ago, and you are greatly dis
heartened. You are ready with every
passion of your soul to listen to a
discussion like this. Be of good
cheer! Your best days are yet to
come. / offer you the hand of well
conn and rescue. l put the silver
trumpet of the gospel to my lips and
blow Il long, loud blast, saying:
"Whosoever will, let him come, and
let him come now" The church OF
God is ready to spread a banquet
upon your return, and all the
hierarchs of Heaven fall into line OF
hammered procession over your re.
demption.
Years ago, and while yet Albert
Barnes was living, l preached in hi;
pulpit one night to the young mer
of Philadelphia. In the opening o
my discourse L said: 20 Lord, give
me one soul tonight" At the clos,
of the service Mr.. Barnes introduced
a young man saying: This is tn,
young man you prayed for" But
see now it was too limited a prayer
So far as God may help me I pro
pose to show what are the obstacle
to your return and how you are t
surmount those obstacles. The frs
difficulty in the way of your returt
is the force of moral gravitatio1
Just as there is a natural law whic
brings down to earth anything yo
throw into the air, so there is a col
responding moral gravitation.
never shall forget a prayer / heard
young man make in the Young Men
Christian association of New Yorl
With trembling voice and streamin
eyes he said. 80 God Thou knowe.
how easy it is for me to do wron
and how hard it is for me to d
right. God help mel" That ma
knows not his own heart who hi
never felt the power of moral gra
i~tation.
In your boyhood you had good ass
GATES and bad associates. Which mo
impressed you? During the last fe
years you have heard pure anecdot,
and impure anecdotes. Which Il
easiest stuck in your memory? W
have had good habits and bad habit
To which did your soul more east
HItlu ! DuL ina HUI d StdblldtIOl Ill
be resisted. just as you may pick
anything from the earth and hold
in your hand toward heaven, just
by the power of Gods grace, a fall
soul may be lifted toward peace, t
ward pardon, toward salvation. T
force of moral gravitation is in eve
one of US, but also power in Gods gra
to overcome that force,
The next thing in the way of 20
return is the power of evil habit.
know there are those who say it
very easy for them to give up evil ha
its. l cannot believe them. Here j!
man given to intoxication, who kno
it is disgracing his family, destroyi
his property and running him-bot
mind and soul. If that man, an int
ligent man and loving his family, col
give up that habit, would he not
so? The fact that he does not g.
it up proves that it is hard to give
up. 1t is a very easy thing to sail do
stream, the tide carrying you WI
.ao+ foroa. Int xunDose Won turn 1