The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-07-29
What..the harvest shall be will de-
pend mainly on what we plant and SOW.

What..the harvest shall be will de-
pend mainly on what we plant and SOW
Do any of us know the power of in
1uence? Give a child his first years in
a loving Christian home, a good noble
mother, a consecrated, loving father,
all tremendously working together for
the good of all mankind, that home
may be humble, but home in the truest
sense of the word. And after years
may bring temptations and trials and
cares but the influence of that home
can never be blotted out nor the power
for good ever overestimated. Surely
environment is stronger than education.
First influences will last until life it.
self is gone If our influence counts for
so much, ought we ever to grow weary
striving to make that influence strong
for good? But how soon, when we have
made good resolutions and promised to
sc more thoughtful and kind, do we
fall back into the old listlessness and
let opportunities for good pass by, that
would make us rich with their blessings.
A happy home is within reach of ev-
cry family if they only choose to make
t so.
Interesting pictures should adorn the
walls of every home; they are loopholes
of escape to the soul, leading to other
scenes: they are books, histories and
sermons that may be read without turn
ing leaves.
"Love is not easily provoked" What
a panacea for every irritation of home
life. How it wards off those hasty i'm
pulses and prevents the escape of harsh
rebuke. How it bends low the heart
until the storm passes, and then how
much brighter is the suns glow when
the mist has cleared away. Let this
love illuminate your home and you will
behold in it the counterpart of heaven.
When once a home is regarded as on
ly a place to eat, drink and sleep in,
the work is begun that ends in gamb-
ling houses and reckless degradation.
Young people must have fun and relax
alton somewhere; if they do not find it
at home they will seek it at other and
less profitable places. Therefore, let
the fire burn brightly at night in winter
and let the doors be cheerfully thrown
open in summer and make the home
stead delightful with al! those little arts
that parents so we'll understand.
People who have warm friends are
healthier and happier than those who
have none. A single real friend is a
treasure worth more than gold or prec-
Gus stones. Money can buy many things
good and evil. All the wealth of the
world could not buy a friend, or pay
you for the loss of one, and we are the
weakest and worst of spendthrifts If
let a friend drop off through inatten-
ton, or let one push away another, or
if we hold aloof from one for petty
jealousy or needless slight. One good
friend is not to be weighed against all
the jewels of earth.
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Try to make others all around you
happier. This is religion. This is Gods
kind of religion. Protect girls in the
virtue, boys in their manhood, adults in
their earning, and man in his sublime
right to think as far, as fast, and in az
many directions as it is possible to
pierce the gloom. Be active. Get up
and get. Do not sit in the house day
after day trying your best to be sick.
Do not grunt or growl every time a lit
tie pain or ache lights on you, or camps
in your door yard to be nursed into act
i've beligerency. Do not think that you
are the only n who has money. The
only one who has land, The only one
who has sickness. The only n to whom
sickness as the process of disso-
| luton goes on.