The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-09-06

'ah riuicisco, upon which alterations |
and improvements were to be made
amounting to 5000, 900, and the con-
tracts for the work only awaiting the
return of the young couple to be
signed and the work begun. How full
and real and certain seemed life as
they glided with the swiftness of the
wine across the country to the gay
scenes of Paris. How dim and unlikely |
seemed death and the threshold of
eternity. The peasants stopping in
their work and leaning on their hoes
gazed after them and envied them
their lot, and thought of the years
which yet seemed before them and of
all the luxury and travel and pleasure
that would be counted off to them in
the days of the years as they rolled
around one by one. And 10, while they
are gazing the rushing auto swerves
to one side, and with the suddenness
of the lightning flash the crash comes,
deaths silence settles down upon the
fair young pair as they lie amidst the
w~reckage, and their souls are in eter-
nifty.
Four Important Points.-There are
four essential points to our text. AS
Mr.. Moody used to put it: l. There is
one God. 2. We are accountable to Him.
3. We must meet Him. 4. We need
preparation to meet Him. Let us turn
our thoughts to the first point. There
is one God. One God, the Creator. One
God, the Ruler of the universe. One
God, the lover of mems souls and the
hater of sin. One God, the Saviour OF
men. One God who is all this, And
because He is the one and only God.
Thou shalt have no other gods before
Me-" Is this a message for to-day?
We carry it to the heather lands,
where the hideous little gods have
their place in every home and receive
the worship and alteration of its in
mates. We know it is a message for
those darkened lands, but ours is a
Christian land, with no shrines in our
homes and no ugly images before
which we fall down and worship. And
because of this are there no strange
gods that are claiming our worship
dHu OhI StINltt. INV dbOub bilC Soh
of pleasure, the god of gold, the god
of social supremacy, the god of self
will and self-indulgence, the god Of
pride and worldly ambition, the god
of religious forms and ceremonies.
Read the last half of the fifth chapter
of Amos if you want to see how Jealous
in outward religious activity the chill
dren of Israel were. They had their
feast days, their burnt offerings and
meat offerings. and peace offerings as
in days of yore, when they ascended
as a sweet smelling SAVIOR to the Lord
from consecrated hearts. But GOD
says: 81 hate, l despise your feast
days, and l will not smell your solemn
assemblies" They had their fine
church music, but God says: Take
thou away from Me the noise of thy
songs: for | will not hear the melody
of thy VOLS" Why wa this? Because
there was no longer one God before
them, but "Moloch and Chiun, YOU
images, the star of your god, which "
made TO yourselves" Gods of theil
own making and which were being
!, served in the form of their many re
ligious activities. There is a goo
in every heart, there is a god in ever.
, home, there is a god in every church il
the land. If it is not the one God o
: Spiritual power and presence, it is
god of human making, and abhorren
to the one God of Heaven.
e The second point before us is tina
we are accountable to Him. Cain wa
accountable to God for the killing o
d his brother Abel. 1t is significant tina
o Scripture gives no record of the PAL
e ents calling their son to account TO
his awful sin, but tells of the wicke
t. youth being brought face to face wit
II his God, the one to whom he was frs
accountable and from whose search
ing gaze he could not escape. The al
lie important question was not wha
lie would father or mother say or d
but what does God think about it, wha
st will He do? The all-important que
Is. ton to you, my friend, is not yor
il standing in the community, not whf
h your friends or relatives say or thin
about you, but what is my standlr
Is, before God, whom l am to meet son
in day face to face? David with tt
IS crimes of murder and adultery blac
nix ening his soul was accountable to Go
or lie realized it after he had hidden h
as sin for months and tried to account
ms his family and his nation for his S
wv by making the widow of the mar
at had cruelty slain in battle his vii
re, When David got into the presence
en- the Lord, upon his face, he erie
an against Thee, Thee only, have
,rd sinned, and done this evil in Thy sigh
on God is the final auditor of all accoun
nd We cannot escape His searching eye
Iad the record of Heaven. Fine speech
,ut before the throne of God will not pl
be vail. We may plead: Lord, Lol
,ur have we not prophesied in Thy nam
Mt and in Thy name have cast out devil
and in Thy name done many wonder
ION works." But the ord will look de-
18th err than the mere outward protest.
zen of the life and will say to many a so
depart from me, ye that work