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

me-. But that same man died at
Poughkeepsie a drunken pauper. Bet
ter underrate than overrate our
selves.
Notice also my text takes it for
granted that you must put on the har-
ness, else how can you take it off? Life
is a battle-a 80 years, a 40 years or a
60 years war. Helmet you must have,
for the battleaxes of skepticism and
~agnosticism are aimed at your head.
Every possible effort will be made to
make you think wrong. The young
man who gets his head filled with
wrong notions about God, about Christ,
about the soul, about the great beyond,
is already captured. Put on the helmet,
the latchet well adjusted under the
chin. Think right and you will act
right. Yes, breastplate for the heart.
That is the most important part to be
defended. That decides what you love
and what you hate, what you hope for
and what you despise. That decides
earthly happiness and eternal destiny.
Keep the heart pure and the life will
be pure. Have the heart corrupt and
your actions will be corrupt. Oh, that
all of us might have a new heart COW
cred with a divinely wrought breast
plate! Yes, greaves for the feet. So
many dangerous roads are we COM
PEELED to walk. So many people tread
on sharp prongs of temptation and go
lame and limping all the rest of their
days. Iron mailed shoes for the feet.
Young man, see that you have on Q
complete armor. 1t looks bright now,
and it seems as if you could march
right on without opposition or attack,
but be not deceived. There are hidden
foes ready to halt you on your way.
The same cup that Benhadad drank out
of Just before his defeat will be offered
to effect your defeat. His intoxicated
brain saw victory when there was
nothing but out and ruin. What work
Benhadad's cup made for Benhadad''
army! What shipwrecks on the sea
what disasters on the land, caused by
inlaming liquids put upon the tongue
to set seething the brain! How many
kings of thought and influence, will
crowns brighter than the one Ben
hadad wore, have by strong drink beef
put into fight as base as that in whlcl
Benhadad rode! give them to me,
saws the demon of inebriacy. "Giv'
them to me; hand them down-th
brightest legislators of the land.
will thicken their tongue; l will bloa
their cheeks; l will stagger thei
I steps; | will damn their soul. Han
them down to me-the physician OF
of his laboratory, the attorney fro
the courtroom, the minister OF tn
/ Gospel from the affairs of God. Han
I them down to me, the queens OF II
I drawing-room, and l will disgra'
: their names and blast their homes ar
throw them down farther than Jezeb
i fell to the dogs that crunched her ca
cass."
Il We hold our breath in horror as on
in awhile we hear of some one, eth
q by accident or suicide, going over \
apara falls, but the tides, the deptf
the awful surges of intemperance a
every hour of the day rushing scor
= of immortals dawn into the unfat
=. omed abysm. Suicides by the hundre
. of thousands! Suicides by the millio
.. Beware of the cup out of which BE
hadad drank personal and nation
demolition.
AZ I congratulate all those who {
:. now in the thickest of life's bat
Ia hat the time is coming when
struggle will end and you will put
"a harness off, helmet and greaves a
~ br~eastplate having fulfilled their II
sion. You cannot in one visit to Il
don Tower see all. You must go ag
~ and again to that place which is
ISOLATED with the story of Lady il
Grey and Anne Boleyn n wal
80 Raleigh and Sir Thomas More. J
will see the crowns of kings
81. oueens. the robe worn by the Bl
Prince, and silver baptismal 10
from which royal infants were Oh
ny tened, and the block on which l.
Loyat was beheaded. But no par
London Tower will more interest
than the armory, in which is skill
" and impressively arranged a col
"a tiop of all styles of m worn
anu tween the thirteenth and eightee
ueA centuries, suggesting 500 years
nc coufiict-cuirass and neck guard
rep chin piece and lance rest and gaur
and girdle and mailed apron. You
iers inst how from head to heel o
ecu time warriors were defended aga
iers sharp weapons that would u
thrust or bruise and allowing t
= is 70 come out of battle unhurt v
han otherwise they would have been S
irge O We soldiers of Jesus Christ, v
iast the war of life is over and the VIC
rest in the soldiers home on
lrist heavenly heights, perhaps there
pro- he in the city of the sun a tow
iers, sniritual armor such as incased
life warriors for Christ in earthly
'ton' hat. Some day we may be IN
cow ormory and heal the heroes ia.
the how they fought the good hgi
tell faith and see them with the sea
the wounds forever healed and loo
the weapons of offense and de
Dug with which they became more
force conouerors. In that tower OF lie
!, to &c tho weapons of the spiritual