The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-08-04
THOUGHT.


Life holds no higher Joy than the da
~ exercise Of ones talents. Happiness
Is not In owning; 1t is In getting an
giving.-Rev. DR.. Newell Dwight Hi
lis, Congregationalist, Brooklyn.
The Unseen.
The power to realize the unseen is a,
truly a part of our human nature a
u instinct for right, which we cal
conscjence.-Rev. I. j. Van Ness, Bap
fist, Ashville, Tenn.
Work Of Culture.
Culture, In q word, brings more o.
the man, most Of the man, into PLAY
and puts his maximum into work an(
gets the maximum in real values on
OF that work. Rabbi Leon Harrison
st. Louis.
A Hard Problem.
To save this world is q hard problem,
the hardest, perhaps. that God ever un.
dertook to solve. but not too hard for
him. He Is the omnipotent God. All
things are possible with him.-Rev. A.
Il. Holderby, Presbyterian, Atlanta, Ga.
Value Of Courage.
Men without courage constitute the
weak set in every community. It is
the strong, courageous men everywhere
that succeed. The strength of a nation
Is not in the number Of its Inhabitants,
but in the proportion Of its men and
women who dare to think and have the
courage of their convictions.-Rev. W.
Martin, Methodist, Brooklyn.
The Need Of Sympathy.
We are social beings; we were Great
ed to live in society. No man is sufi-
cient unto himself. We are mutually
on n another. AS an in
to n organ involves a shock to
the entire human system, so should
the community at large feel a prac-
teal sympathy for their fellow beings
any grievance expressing them
Cardinal Gibbons, Roman Catholic,
A Divine Monitor.
Conscience wounded becomes an ad-
der's tongue that will sting to the
1eath. Let no man hope to evade the
Nemesis that follows the ignoring of
his divine monitor.
No fortunes which the poets feign
match the fierce, intolerable pain
lie feels who, night n day devoid Of
rest,
his own accuser in his breast.
Rev. Junius B. Remensnyder, Luther
an, New York.
Divine Service.
The true divine service is-what?
Iot the worship Of God, as we ordi-
larily think Of it; not the PROSTATE
NEE, the uplifted eye, the clasped
lands Of devotion; not observance Of
itual, stately or simple; not plant Of
'enitence or pleading Of prayer or
Of praise; not hearing Of SER /
Mons; not even the mystery and the
weetness Of the realized presence in
be blessed eucharist. All these have |
heir place, their value, their benedic- |
Dry power; all are, 1 trust, familiar, |
recious means Of grace to us, but |
rimarily Jesus Christ's idea of the |
ivine service is love, self sacrifice, |
Ministry. - Rev. DR.. Lindsay Parker, |
Brooklyn.
The Use Of Religious Freedom.
In the early stages of the religious
fe of men and nations, when they be-
In to think about themselves and rea-
On about themselves, they discover
lat they are In bondage. The family,
he tribe, the creed, the church, the
tate, have already set limits to the
fought Of a This comes about nat
through the effort Of men to es-
lblish and keep whatever they find toll
e good. By experience they have
armed that some things tend to make
len wise and good and happy. AS a
'ndition Of social stability and prog
,ss they at once try to fix these things
the minds and habits Of men-in
oems, In songs, In stories, in creeds, n
ties, In ceremonies, In habits Of the
oily life. They try to keep In mind
nd to work into practice that which
'ems to be good or wise OF true. But
time surely comes when further ex-
teaches that there are better
lings to be had. A few learn that
ERE Is n chance to become still more
Use and good and happy. They have
belled against external authority in
alters Of religious faith and practice.
hey are emancipated. They have be-
freed men. They rejoice greatly
their freedom. They often, like
eed men of all kinds, think they have
on more than they really have, for as
slavery and freedom slavery
positive, while freedom Is negative.
avery means external compulsion
I'd c~onstraint; freedom means the alb
nee Of cOmpulsion and restraint -
at is, nothing. After this fashion one
ay In religion be free and be neither
lse nor strong o good. One Of the
eakest and most helpless Of all hu-
an creatures is often a newly eman-
)ated slave. At best he has the uses
his powers yet to learn. It takes
to discover that freedom Is not a
rec, but a condition. We cannot too
eatly emphasize the fact that In re-
ion we are now free and that with
r freedom duty and our RESPONSE
lity are just beginning. But to learn
meaning Of true religion, received