The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-05-24

| connection with this leaving of the ole
home. First, we ha se taken du,
thought of moving day and planned ac
cordingly, and secondly, we have en-
gagged another home to which to &c
who did not give due heed to these two
matters we would judge guilty of tn,
greatest folly. Yet how exactly sim
liar is the position of the soul which
recognizes tie certainty of moving
day, and nevertheless gives no thought
to moving day nor to the making sure
of another home. What folly. How
suicidal, as we hear some one say: I'll
take my chances" To such the author
of the book from which IL text is
taken says: Rejoice, o young man, in
thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee
in the days of thy youth, and walk in
the ways of thine heart, and in the
sight of thine eyes; but know, thou,
hat for all these things God will bring
thee into judgment" The rich fool has
his followers in the world to-day, and
they are carelessly and heedlessly
plunging forward to that fatal night
when their souls shall be required of
them, and all unprepared they will be
ushered into the presence of their
Maker. The words of our Lord plead
with every soul: Seek first the King
dom of God and His righteousness
that is, first make your preparations
for the moving day Of the soul, secure
your lease, signed with the precious
blood of Jesus Christ, for a mansion in
Heaven, and then you are ready to live
in this world; land all these things will
be added to you" which are now TAX
ing first place in your life and heart.
Never were truer words spoken than
that one is not prepared to live until
he is prepared to die.
In what a minor strain of disappoint-
ing failure and solemn. measured tread
the preacher in Ecclesiastes ushers in
the death scene in the twelfth chapter.
Life has been experienced in all it's
varying phazes as the soul has en-
deavored to find enjoyment and salts
faction in the things under the sun,
and not in God. Everything is tried
and the cry each time, as the utter
emptiness of this worlds seeking is
realized, is vanity of vanities, all is
vanity" In the presence of death man
realizes his utter weakness and i'm
potency. As the friends and loved mes
gather around the bier of the dear de-
parted n and realize that the soul
had occupied that lifeless CLAW
as a home while in tkis world has gone
into eternity and is face to face with
its realities, how the conversation
loves to linger over the preparedness
of that soul to meet its God and find
an entrance into Heaven. How we re-
call words and deeds to reassure our
hearts. We love to think of the loved
one as in Heaven.
The New Home. Our text calls IL
Mans long home" that is, his endur-
ing or perpetual home. Bunvan's
Christian, whom we have all followed
in his pilgrimage with such intense in
and blessed comfort, was ever
lo~urneying towards the home in the
Kingdom, and all other
places in life through which he passed
but temporary Ravens Of rest and
'etreshment. The reality of the eter-
lal home could not be obscured bv tbe
ylltter of gold, the pleasures of the
Norldnorthe sophistry and arguments
his friends, for he endured as see
- II l
ng Him who is invisible" Abraham
vas but a s~ojourner in this world. "for
lie looked for a city which hath founda-
IONS whose builder and maker is God"
for such God hath prepared n
Into that city finally returned
he Lord Jesus Himself after the plan
u salvation had been wrought out bv
lis yicarious death, and amidst the
welcoming chorus of the cherubim and
eraphlm, and the legions of angels
nd the hosts of the redeemed. He set
bout fulfilling His promise. left as a
eacon light in the world, that in His
ather's House where were many man
ions, He went to prepare a place for
nose who accepted Him as their
aviour.
The Furnishing of the New Homo
10 you ever catch the full signif-
ance OF Christ's comforting words
quoted? The mansions He ,e.
'rs to as being already in Gods
eayen. He says: 81 go to prepare
place for you" As I watched q
eayily-loaded moving van pass the
day, | noted that it was alden
lth furniture old and new. but all
1t with marks of service in the ,
d home from which it had been I
ken. The old furniture wal to be {
'ed in fitting out the new home I
h, how differently has God planned
r you and me, Jesus Christ. who '
watching us day by day. is pre- t
ring u mansions with lust tho {
lngs we need most and like best e
beautifully expressed in a poem en- t
led MY Home" by Rev. Frances = T
'wnsley: +
ie knows what things 7 love the best. d
" mar tokens Of His grace | long to sher re-. h
Knows my weakness and my need of 4
rest, N VI q
'nu no" 10 answer each unspokeu prayer. I