The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-02-08

~ MS loqueHce ana aWed the Athen
an philosophers on Mars hill and wa
the only COO headed man in the Ale1
andria cornship that went to pieces o
the rocks of Miletus, once the might
prosecutor of Saul, afterward the gloI
ious evangelist Paul, for three day
not able to take a safe step wtihou
guidance!
Have you ever given thanks for tw'
eyes-media between the soul insid
and the world outside, media that n,
one but the infinite God could create
The eye, the window of our immorta
nature, the gate through which al
colors march, the picture gallery o.
the soul! Without the eye this world
is a big dungeon. l fear that many
of us have never given one hearty ex
preston of gratitude for treasure OF
sight, the loss of which is the great
est disaster possible unless it be the
loss of the mind. Those wondrous
seven muscles that turn the eye up
or down, to right or left or around.
No one but God could have created
the retina. If we have ever appreci-
ated what God did when he gave us
two eyes, it was when we saw others
with obliterated vision. Alas, that
only through the privation of others
we came to a realization of our own
blessing! If you had harp in hand
N swept all the strings of graft
tude, you would have struck this,
which is one of the most dulcet of the
ten strings.
Further, there are many who never
recognize how much God gives them
when He gives them sleep. Insomnia
is a calamity wider known in our land
thar in any other. By midlife vast
multitudes have their nerves so over
wrought that slumber has to be coaxed,
and many are the victims of choral
and morphine. Sleeplessness is an
American disorder. If it has not
touched you and you can rest for
seven or eight hours without waking
If for that length Of time in every "a
hours you can be free Of all care and
worriment and your nerves are re-
turned and your limbs escape from all
fatigue and the rising sun finds you
a new man. body, mind and soul-you
have an advantage that ought to be
put in prayer and song and congratu-
lation. The French financier, almost
wealthy enough to purchase a king
but the victim ofinsomnia, wrote:
No slumber to be bought in any mar
ket. He was right. Sleep is a gra-
tuity from Him who never sleeps. Oh,
The felicities Of slumber, Let all who
have this real benefaction celebrated it.
That is one of the sweetest strings in
all the instrument Of ten strings.
Further, celebrate on the instru-
ment of ten strings our illumined
nights. They spread their tents over
u.s. and some of us hardly go out to
at them. During the nights 9TH
n worlds come in sight. The author
my text chimed the silver bells in
tower of the midnight heavens,
When l consider the heav-
ms, the work of Thy fingers; the
noon and the stars, which Thou hast
'rdalned, what is nan hat Thou art
mindful of him?" We thank God for
he day; we ought also to thank Him
or the night. Worlds on worlds in
light of the naked eye, but more
worlds revealed by telescope. At
east one night in his lifetime every
nan ought to go into astronomical
and see what has been
by the great World Builder.
Thank God for lunar and stellar il
animation,
Another string of this instrument
now touch-friendships, deep and
-blding, by which | refer to those
who, when good or bad motive
nay be ascribed to you, ascribe the
God; those concerning whom YOU do
OF wonder which side they will take
you are under discussions; those
Tho would more gladly serve O
han serve themselves; those to
7hom you can tell everything with
ut reserve; those who are first in
our home by person or by telegram
ihen you have trouble. Oh, what n
lessing to have plenty of friendsl
we, if you have only one good friend.
are blessed in that glad possess
ion. With one such friend you can ,
ely the world. But he must be a +
ried friend. You cannot tell who are
our real friends till disasters come.
5 long as you collect vast dividends
nd have health jocund and popular
y ~unbounded you will have crowds
seeming friends, but let bank ,
uptcy and invalidism and defama- ,
ION come, and the number of your A.,
riends will be 05 per cent off. If
have been through some great
risis and you have one friend left, {;
God and celebrate it on the i,
weetest harpstring. !
While all this is So" saws some !
ne, there are so many things that G
theirs nave which | have not" | re- ,
ly, it is not what we get, but what {
e are that decides our happiness. ,
18th the bare necessities of life :
ANY are unspeakably happy, while d
with all the luxuries are i'm. q
ersonations of misery. In the Ro- 3,
an empire there was no man more .
retched than the Nero who ruled il. r
M q