The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-01-04

Mountain. Their foot does not ache
to get into the stirrup Of the cavalry
man. They are not longing for the
bareback of the soldiers breakfast
along the C~hickahominy. They have
no desire for another ride in the am
bulance to the field hospital. When the
Spanish war broke out they sometimes
wondered if their rheumatic knee
would allow them to keep step in a
march, and if their sight was good
enough to see an advancing foeman,
and if their ear was alert enough to
hear the command "Charge!" But for
the most part they are glad that there
is no more war for them. SO let all of
the aged in peace with God, through the
blessed Christ, cultivate contentment
and thank the Lord their Sedan has
been fought and the war is over. Let
not him that girdeth on his harness
boast himself as he that putteth it Off"
There are old farmers who cannot
do one more days work. What har-
vests they raised in 1870! They knew
the rotation of crops as well as they
knew the rotations of the eason in
der what blistering suns they swung
the scythe and the cradle! Through
what deep SHOWS they drew the logs
or cut out their way to the foddering
of the cattle! What d%roughts, what
freshets. what insectile invasion, they
remember! To clothe and feed and
educate the household they went
through tolls and self-sacrifices that
the world knew but little about. Rest,
aged mani Let the boys do the shovel
ing and thrashing and cutting and
sweating. You have put the harness
off, and do not try to put it on again.
Then there are aged physicians.
What tragedies of pain and accident
they have witnessed! How much suf-
fering they have %assuaged! How many
brave battles they have fought with
lancet and cataclysm! How many fe-
yers they cooled! How many broken
bones they set! How many paroxysms
they quoted! How many anxious days
they passed when they knew that hui
man lives depended upon their skill and
fidelity! They drove back death from
many a cradle. Instead of becoming
hardened at the sight of suffering their
sympathies deepened, as with aged Dr.
Valentine Mott when, standing before
his students in clinical department and
n child was about to be op'
Grated upon in surgery, he said;
Gentlemen, here are surgeons
who will do this work as wei
as | can, and you will Excuse me it
leave the room, for as l get older
cannot composedly witness pain al
. once | could, especially the suffering
of little children" God comfort an'
l bless the old doctors, allopathic, home
opathic, %hydropathic and eclectic, ant
: make them willing to be out of prac
tice! Before long they will hear sh'
benediction of Him who said; Il wa
sick, and We visited Me-"
Again. l learn from Benhadad's be
:. hayior the unwisdom of boasting c
: what one is going to do. Two me
: sages had he sen to the king OF Ii
rael. both messages full of insolenc
and b~raggadocio. With brimmin
' beaker in hand he is talking with tn
:. royal group about what he will q
with the spoils of the victory he
going to achieve that afternoon. Il
h takes it for granted that Samar
will surrender. He gives commar
h for the capture of some of the inha
itants Of Samaria who are approac
ing. saving: whether they be cor
out for peace take them alive,
y whether they be come out for wa
:. take them. alive" But behold the 1
r. pitive king in frightened retreat
in fore sundown! Better not tell boa
Of ingly what you are going to do. w
NJ until it is done. You do well to
r.. our your plans, but there are so ma
mistakes and disappointments in
that YOU may not be able to cal
cd ont YOUR plans, and there is no ne
ar If invoking the worlds derision a
m caricature. Napoleon was so sure
nv c~onauering England, Scotland q
cd Ireland that he had a medal str,
in celebrating the conquest, which
never made. On that medal was +
Il
Id resented his own crowned head.
es- Dir. Pendleton and Mr.. Saund
off were talking in the time Of perse
tie, tion under Queen Mary. Saund
he was trembling and afraid, but L
dleton said: what! Man, there
his much more cause for me to teal T.
got con. You are small, and l have a la
of bodily frame, but you will see the
S, if niece of this flesh consumed TO as
pre- before | ever forsake Jesus IN
0 go and His truth, which L have
ties fessed." Not long after Saund
you tbe faint hearted, gave up his
ate for Christ's sake, while Pendle
ons, who had talked so big, played {
we're ard and gave up religion when
nore test came. Wherefore did not
ugh what he was going to do with
dis slave trade, but how much ne ac'
live nlisbed is suggested by Lord br
sus- LIS remark concerning Wilberf
your after his decease: HE went
it on Heaven with SOC, 600 broken fette'
+ so, his hand" Some one, trying to
You suade Napoleon from his inVasi
lie of Russia. said: Man proposes, put