The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-02-08

sorrows, brightens our hopes, in
spires u courage, forgives our sim
and saves our souls. 1t takes a maj
VINO is all wrong and makes him al
right. What that Gospel has done TO,
you and me is a story that we car
never fully tell. What it has done
for the world and will yet do for the
nations it will take the thousand
years of the millennium to celebrate,
Inc grandest churches are yet TO be
quilt The mightiest anthems are
yet to be hoisted. The greatest
are yet to be gained. The
most beautiful Madonnas are vet to
De painted. The most triumphant
professions are yet to march. Oh.
what a world this will be when Il ro-
tates in its orbit a redeemed planet,
glrdled with spontaneous harvests
and enriched by orchards whose
fruits are speckless and redundant,
and the last pain will have been BAN
isheo and the last ear wept and the
iast groan uttered, and there shall
d. nothing to hurt or destroy in all
uods holy mountain! All that and
more VIII come to pass, for "the
mouth of the Lord hath spoken it,"
30 far L have mentioned nine of the
ten strings of the instrument of graft
1uue. L now come to the tenth and the
last. l mention it last that it NAV be
the more ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS aptici-
patton. By the grace of God we are
gong to move into a place so much
better rhon tL,c +luA
VIII wonder that we were for so many
years so loath to make the transfer.
After we have seen Christ face to face
asd reJoiced over our departed kindred
there are some mighty spirits we will
want to meet soon after we pass
through the gates. We want to see and
Will see David, a mightier king in
Heaven than he ever was on earth, and
we VIII talk with him about psalmody
and get from him exactly what he |
meant when he talked about the instru-
ment OF ten strings. We will confront
Moses. who will tell of the law giving
on rocking Sinai and of his mysterious
burial, with no one but God present. |
we viii see Joshua, and he will tell us
OF the coming down of the walls of
jericho at the blast of the rams horn
and explain to us that miracle - how
the sun and moon could stand still
demolition of the planetary
We will see Ruth and have
her tell of the harvest field of Boaz, in
which she CLEANED for afflicted Naomi.
We will see Vashti and hear from her
'wn lips the story Of her Punishment
from the Persian palace by infamous
Ahasuerus.
We will see and talk with Daniel,
he will tell us how he saw Bel
shazzar's b%anqueting hall turned into a
slaughter house and how the lions
greeted him with loving fawn instead
Of stroke of cruel paw. We will see
talk with Solomon, whose palaces
Ire gone, but whose inspired epigrams
out stronger and stronger as the
pass. We will see Paul and
lear from him how Felix trembled be-
ore him and the audience of skeptics
IN Mars hill were COMPOUNDED by his
on the brotherhood of man..
he saw at Ephesus and Syracuse
nd Philippi and Rome and how dark
vas the Mamertine dungeon and how
harp the AK that beheaded him on the
DAD TO Ostia. Yea, we will see all the
martyrs, the victims of ak and sword
nd fire and billow. What a thrill of
excitement for us when we gaze upon
he heroes and heroiEes who gave their
YES for the truth. We will see the
gospel proclaimers C~hrysostom and
'ourdaloue and Whitefeld and the
Vesleys and John Knox. We will see
he great Christian poets Milton and
)ante and Watts and Mrs. Hemans
nd Frances Havergal. Yea, all the
eparted Christian men and women of
age or station.
But there will be one focus toward
all eyes will be directed. His
having slept on pillow of
traw; all the hates of the Herodic
overnment planning for his assassi-
atom; in after time whipped as
hough he were a criminal; asleep on :
he cold mountains because no one Of :
cred Him a lodging; though the great 4
st being who ever touched our earth. /
erisively called "this fellow" His last 1
writing on spikes of infinite '
His lacerated form put in sep
then terminated and assembled .
be the center of all heavenly admit 4
that greatest martyr and (
lightiest hero of all the centuries we |
i'll be permitted to look. Put that \
mong your heavenly anticipations. 4
Now take down your harp of ten
and sweep all the chords, max. y
ig all of them tremble with a great 4
l have mentioned lust ten I
food, eyesight. hearing.
ealthful sleep, power of physical To-
motion, illumined nights, mental fac.
ties in equipoise, friendships of life. E
ospel advantages and heavenly antici.
atoms. Let us make less complaint 4
nd offer more thanks, render less Z
rye and more cantata. Take paper \
nd pen and write down in long coll \
ms your blessings. ! have recited 4
lly ten. To express all the mercies &
cd has bestowed you would have to \