The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15

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| ever got drunk or went to compromls.
| ing places or was guilty of assault n
| battery or ever uttered a slanderous
| word or ever did any n a hurt, al
| though / knew my heart was sinful
enough, and / said to myself: There
is no use of my trying to do any good'
for l never went through those de-
PRAYED experiences" But afterward l
saw consolation in the thought that
no one gained any ordination by the
laying on of the hands of dissoluteness
and infamy.
And though an ordinary moral h1e'
ending in a Christian life, may not be
as dramatic a story to tell about, let us
be grateful to God rather than worry
about it if we have never plunged into
outward denominations. 1t may be APP
propriate in a meeting of reformed
drunkards or reformed debauchees to
quote for those not reformed how des-
perate and nasty you once were, but do
not drive a scavenger's cart into as
semblages of people the most of whom
have always been decent and respect
able. But l have been sometimes in
great evangelical meetings where peo-
pie went into particulars about the
sins that they once committed, so
much so that / felt like putting my
hand on my pocketbook or calling for
the police lest these reformed men
might fall from grace and go at their
old business Of theft or drunkenness
or cu~tthroatery. If your sins have
been forgiven and your life purified,
forget the waywardness of the past
and allow others to forget it.
But what I most want in the light OF
this text to impress is that we have a
sin forgetting God. Suppose that on
the last day-called the last day be-
cause the sun will never again rise up
on our earth, the earth itself being
flung into fiery demolition--supposing
that on that last day a group of in
fernal spirits should somehow get
near enough the gate of heaven and
challenge our entrance and say: "How
canst Thou, the just Lord, let those
souls into the realm of supernal glad
ness? Why, they said a great many
things they never ought to have said,
and they did a great many things they
ought never to have done. Sinners are
they-sinners ALL"
There are certain names so magnetic
that their pronunciation thrills all who
hear them. Such is the name of the
soldier and liberator, Carl
baldi. Marching with his troops, he
met a shepherd who was in great dis
because he had lost a lamb.
said to his troops: "Let us
help this poor shepherd find his lamb"
And SO, with lanterns and torches, they
explored the mountains, but did not
find the lamb, and after an unsuccess-
search late at night they went to
their encampment. The next morn
ing Garibaldi was found asleep far on
nto the day, and they wakened him
or some purpose and found that he
not given up the search when the
soldiers did, but had kept on still fur
into the night and had found it,
inc he pulled down the blankets from
lis couch, and there lay the lamb,
which Garibaldi ordered Immediately
aiken to its owner. So the Commander
all the hosts of heaven turned aside
rom'His glorious and victorious march
the centuries of heaven and
said: II will go and that lost
and that race of whom Adam W.
he progenitor, and let all who will &C.
company me-" And through the night
hey came, but I do not see that the
'ngelic escort came any farther than
clouds, but their most illustrious
came all the way down, and by
he time His errand is done our little
world, our wandering and lost world,
world feecy with the light, will be
'ound in the bosom of the Great Shep-
lerd, and then all Heaven will take up
he cantata and sing: "The lost sheep
ound!"
So 1 set open the wide gate Of my
ext, inviting you all to come into the
mercy and pardon of God-yea, still
urther, into the ruins of the place
where once was kept the knowledge Of
our iniquities. The place has been
orn down and the records DESTROYED,
nd you will find the ruins more dilapi-
and broken and PROSTATE than
he ruins of Melrose or Kenilworth, for
rom these last ruins you can pick up
ONE fragment of a sculptured stone
+ you can see the curve of some
roken arch, but after your repent
nee and your forgiveness you cannot
nd in all the memory of God n frag-
lent of your pardoned sins so laVe
S a needles point. "Their sins and
heir iniquities will l remember no
Six different kinds of sounds were
card on that night which was inter-
into the daylight of Christ's as
a%ssination. The neighing of the
'arhorses-for some of the soldiers
ere in the saddle-was one sound.
he bang of the hammers was a second
ound, the jeer of malignants was q
lird sound, the weeping of friends and
blowers was a fourth sound, the
of blood on the rocks was a fifth
ound, and the groan of the expiring
ord was a sixth sound. And they all
ommingled into one sadness. Over a