Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-07-07

he live Hare you uuuc III 1sic iiousc.
Put it into the arms of the great Child
Lover. is there sick one in the house.
Think of Him who said: "Damsel, arise. /"
Arc YOU afraid you will come to want! Think
of Him who fed the five thousand. is there
n little one in YOUR house that you are afraid
will be blind or deaf or lame: Think of
Him who touched the blinded eye and
snatcllcd back the boy from eplleptlc con-
vulsion. Oh. He is the best friend. LOOK
over your family friends to-day and find an
other that can be compared to Him. When
we want our friends they arc sometimes
cut of town Christ is always in town.
We find that some will stick to us IN
prosperity who will not in adversely
But Christ comes through darkest night
and amid CHASTITY sorrow, and across
toughest sea- to comfort YOU There are
men and women here who would have beer,
dead twenty years ago but for Jesus. They
have gone through trial enough to exhaust
ten times their physical strength. Their
property went. their health went, their lalhi.
lies We're scattered. God only knows what
they suffered They are on aunaacmcnt to
themselves that they have bton able to stand
it. They look ut their once happy home,
surrounded 10y all comfort. Gonc They
think of the time when they use to rise
strong in the morning and walk vigorously
down the street, and had experienced Il
health they thought inexhaustiblc Gone,
Everything gone but Jesus. lie has pitica
them His eye has watched them. Ills onl-
impotence has defended Them Yes. He has
been with them They have gone through
disaster, and He mas pillar of fire by night
They have gone across stormy Galilce, oit
Christ had His foot on the neck Of the storm.
They felt the waves of trouble coming up
around them gradually and they began to
climb into tho strong rock OF GODS dc,
Tense, and then they sang,-as, they -'ooksd
over the waters: .-~"God is our refuge and
strength, au.sever present help in time OF
trouble -therefore wo will not fear though
the earth be removed, though the mountains
be carricl into the midst of the sea, though
the waters thereof roar and lie troubled,
though tho mountains shake with the swell
Ing thereof. Selah.h Tho other day there
was n sailor who came into the Bethel i'll New
York. and said: "Aly lads The was standing
among sailorSl, ! don't know what's tho
matter with me. used to hear good deal
about religion and about Jesus Christ. l
don't know that | have any religion or that
know anything much about Christ; but
when was in mid-Atlantic | looked up one
day through the rigging. and there seemed to
come light through my soul. have felt Gli-
ferent ever since and love those | once
hated, and | feel II joy | can't tell You.
really don't know what is the matter of me-"
y rough sailor got up and said: "My lad.
know what's the matter of you. You have
found Jesus. Ii is enough TO make any man
happy.
His worth il all the nations knew
Sure the whole Garth would love him too.
remark again: Christ is precious 10 the
believer. as final deliverer You anu
must after awhile get ont Of this world.
Hero and there, one perhaps may come ON to
eighty, to ninety Years of age, but your COM
mon al ,-,u that fila unSt t.ypuiV five
years will land the majority OF this audience
in eternity. The next ten years will thin out
n great MANY of these family circles. This
day mlry 10 the work for some of IL. Now.
why do say this. To scare yoa, No: but
Just rs would Sta,il in your office, il | were
n business man, and t Xix over RISKS. on Ito
not couSi.ler it cowardlr to talk i'll your
store OYER temporal riS;S. Is 1t baSe III us
this morning to talk Il little While owe: the
risks of the soul, that are 70. eternity. In
every congregation death has the last
year been doing great deal OF
work Where is your father: Where
is YOUR mother. Nour child: YOUR brother:
Your sister: o, how cruel does death Sscm
to be. Will he pluck avery flower: VIII he
prison every fountain. Will He put black on
every door knob. VIII He snap every heart
string! Can keep nothing Are there no
charmed weapons with which t. 60 out and
contend against Him. Give Inc some keen
sword sharpened in Coils armorv. with
which I may stab him through. Give me
some battle ax that [. may clutch it, and hew
him from helmet 10 sandal. Thank God,
thank God, that lie that rideth OH the pale
horse hath more than match i'll Him who
ridcth on the white horse st. John heard
the contest, the paving Of the steeds. the
rush. the battle cry. the onset, until the pale
horse came down on his Launches, and his
rider bit the dust, while Christ the con-
queror, with uplifted voice, declared it: 'Oh
death, will he thy plague; grave, l will
lie thy destruction.
The sepulcher is lighted castle on the
shore of heavenly seas, and sentinel angels
walk up and down at the door to guard it.
The dust and the dampness of the grave are
only the spray Of the white surf of celestial
seas, and the long breathing OF the dying
Christian. that YOU call his gasping, is only
the long inhalation of the air OF hearen. Oh,
bless God for what Christ is to the Christian
soul, here and hereafter,
| heard man say some time ago that they
never laugh in heaven. ! do not know where
he got his authority for th1t think they
do laugh in heaven. When vlctorS c"lne
home do we not laugh! When fortunes are
won in day, do we not hugh! After we
have been ten or fifteen years away from
our friends and we greet them again, do we
not laugh: Yes, we will laugh i'll heaven.
Not hollow laughter. not meaningless
laughter, but a full, round clear,
deep. resonant outbreak OF eternal
gladness Oh, the glee of that moment when
we first see Jesus. Think we will take the
first two or three years i'll heaven to look at
Jesus and if, in ten thousanl years, there
hou,d be moment when the doXolo9y
paused, ten thousand souls would cry out:
Sing sing" and when the cry was: wv hat
shall we sing the answer would be: Jesus.
Jcsus.n Oh, YOU may have all the CROWNS in
heaven: do not care so much ahoat them.
You may have all the robes in heaven: | do
not care so much about them. You may
have all the sccptres in heaven; do not care
so much about them. You may have all the
thrones in heaven; do not care so much
about them. But give me .lcsui-tliat is
enough heaven for me. O Jesus! | long TO
see Thee Thou Chief am )ng ten thousand.
the One altogether lovely"
There may he some here who have come
hardly knowing why they come Perhaps it
vas as in PaulS time-you have com! to liear
what this bahbler sayeth: but am glad to
meet you face to face, and TO strike hands
with YOU in one earnest talk atou. your
tleatiess spirit. DO You know, my Trend.
that this world is not good enough for you!
1t cheats 1T fades tides You are immortal.
see it in the dcathlcss spirit looking ont from
your eve IL is q mighty spirit. 1T is an
immortal spirit. 1t beats against The window
Of the cage | come ont to feed it. During
the past week the world has been trying to
feed it with huskS. ccmc out this morning
to feed it with that bread of which if a man
eat he will never hunger. What has the
world done for you: Has it not bruised you:
H, s it not betrayed you. Has it not NAL
treated you. Look me in the eye, Immortal
man, and tell me if that is not so. And yet,
will you trust it: @, wish that you could
forget me, the weak and sinful man-tbat !
might vanish from your sight this morning,
and that Jesus might come in. Aye, he
comes here this morning to plead for your
Soul-comes in all covered with the wounds
Of Calvary. He says: 80, immortal man.
died for Thee pity tllee. l come to save
thee. With these hands, torn and crushed l
will lift thee up into pleasures that never
die" Who will reiect-who will drive linn
back. When Christ was slain on the cross,
l.