The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-05-03

masons VINO need help. they have
certain signs and handclasps.
AS l grow older l am the more dis.
posed to judge the spiritual condition
of a truly religious church member
by the way he treats those who have
gone astray. He is more apt to con
denim himself than he is to accuse
his unfortunate brother. When q
Sunday school pupil goes astray, the
truly good Sunday school teacher
says: All! that is too bad! / Won
der if l did my full dutyp Perhaps,
if l only had called on the lad and
invited him to my home and had seer
where he spent his evenings, this aw-
full sin would not have happened. I
must not be toe hard upon the lad.
Yes, l too, am to blame"
When a minister goes astray, the
truly good elder does not upbraid
him. All, no! He knows too much
about the weakness of human nature
to do that. The old member of ses-
sion will sit by the fire, with tears
streaming down his furrowed cheeks,
~reproaching himself when he v
Here I have been a p~rofessed fol-
lower of the Lord for 40 years. 1
ought to have looked after the young
man; | ought to have been his guide
and protector" When Peter PLAYED
the coward and denied his connection
with Christ, the Saviour did not call
a meeting of the apostles for a her
esy trial and make Peter demit the
ministry. BY His treatment of Pc
ter's sinful act Christ taught the les
son of forgiveness and mercy for
the penitent wrongdoer. He reor-
dained Peter to go forth and feed His
lambs. Bear We one another's bur.
dens and so fulfill the law of Christ"
is especially an appropriate lesson
for Christians to learn who take no
interest in the welfare of fellow
Christians who are the members OF
the household Of faith.
1t isn't the thing you do, friend,
It's the thing you leave undone
which gives you a bit of h~eartache
AT the setting of the sun.
The tender word forgotten,
The letter you didn't write,
The flower you might have sent, friend,
Are your haunting ghosts at night.
But my text clearly means also
that every one should try in manfuI,
womanly, Christian fashion to bear
his own burdens. We are very apt
to think that u own troubles are
heavier to bear than any other per-
sons troubles. But if we were al
lowed, as in the old legend, to 90 to
the plain of affection and deposit
there our W sorrows, and were
compelled instead to take up the sor-
of some n else, in all prob
ability we would carry away from
the mountain of difficulty the burden
pack which our backs have been ac-
customed to carry. Now, we cannot
help our brother to bear his burdens
by trying to pile Upon his stalwart
u own burdens in addi-
ton.
No man ever becomes a healthy
man, mentally or spiritually, who is
A mendicant by choice, crawling
from door to door, begging and whin-
ng. Yet there are some burdens that
are absolutely impossible for us to
pear in our own strength. Some of
is nave had so much trouble-such
IN awful. awful lot of trouble! We
suffered again and again. We
AVE had to go to the family plot, as
went two weeks ago, and to leave
here a loved one. The grave did
ook so big, and the black hole was
so deep. But there is a way we
AN all carry u own burdens. That
way is to cast them upon the Lord,
He will sustain us. He has prom
sed, and He will do it. If we will
only cast u burdens upon Him, our
hands will be free. Then we
go forth like athletes stripped
or the fray. We car go forth to help
brothers and sisters, our a
and children and all our friends.
their burdens.
Let US return to the good old coun.
try times when every one helped every
other person in the community. In
good old times every one was
to halve a friends sorrows as
well as double a friends joys. When
The wedding bells began to ring the
young girls, the friends of the bride,
to come from the, village, and
decorate the church altar with the
wild flowers which they had picked,
would sew the wedding gar.
nents, friends would serve the wed.
ding sake; friends would help the
young people furnish the new home;
would bear the burdens, the
happy burdens of joy. Then, when
trouble came, the same friends would
in and help the invalid; they
would pour out the medicine; fney
would close the eyelids in the last
sleep; they would sit up all night long
with the dead; they would sew the
and carry the casket and dig
grave. The same friends would
into the grave the sods which
would fall upon the coffin lid. The
friends would raise the head
stone. Friends, the same friends who
once plucked the orange blossoms,
would plant the cypress
Let us be to each other friends Of
hat kind. Together let us helm one