Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-09-15

pack is in full cry after you is proof positive
that You are splendid game and worth
capturing. Therefore,, sarcasm draws
on you its ''finest bead" Therefore the
world goes running for You with its best
Maynard breech-loader. Highest compli-
ment is it to your talent, or your virtue or
Your usefulness Hon will DO aSSaiicd in
proportion to your great achievements. Tho
best and the mGhtieSt being that the world
ever saw. had set after him all the
they Tapped his blood after the Cal
varean massacre. The world paid moth
ing to its Redeemer but Il bramble and
cross. Many who have done their best t.
make the world better have had such Il rough
time of it that all their pleasure is in an lei
patton of the next world, AMI they woud
express their own feelings in the words
of the baroness of Nairn at tie close of her
long life:
"Would you be young again?
So would moi /;
One tear of memory givcn
Onward I'll HE:
Ltfrs dark wave forded Ger.
All but at rest on shore,
Say, would you plunge once mnras
With home so nigh?
''lf you might. would you now
Rvtracc your way?
Wander through stormy Wills,
Faint aud asirsy.
Nights gloomy watches lied,
Morning II! hcaming red.
Ioac'> smile aroi Us shed,
ilcavCn;fl- awaT.
Yes: TO-. some p,crl, i'll this world there
seems no let UP ll:cy are pursue from
vcuUh to manhood. and fronl manhood into
cd age. Very distinguished are Lord
StaEori's hounds an / Queen Victoria pays
ci.hi thousand, live hundred aol'ars per year
TO her Master of Bucahoun,ls. But all Of
them p,it together do not equal i'll number,
or Sreal, or power 10 hunt down, the great
kerne. Of bounds of which SIN aa1 Trouble
are owner and master.
But what is Il re,icf for ali those pursuits
o. trouble and ANNOYANCE. and pun AMI C.
reavement! Ms t-xt gives il 10 YOU in 4
woi,. u: tilree letters. but each let elisa ciiar-
lot il voi wu,l:d triumph, or Il throne Ii You
WANT to he crowned, or a lake ii you would
SAX. your thirst Yea 4 chain ri rirec letters
ID, III. Gnr for whom David .ongedl, AID
tie One whom David founi You might. as
well Me-t Il stac. wiirE. after Its sixth milo
of running at tic tonmost seed through
tiicke. and gorge, and with the breath of
the dogs OH lis heels has coma il full s:ghtof
:ccrcon Lake and tried to cool lis ruieciin5
ard biistcred tongue with 9 dron oil dew from
b.atle Of grass, rs 10 attempt to satisfy
an imnorta! soul, when .:ying from trouble
end sin, with anything less deep. and
HIGH and broad, AMI immense, and Infinite,
and eternal than God. Ills comfort, why 1T
e,nbossoa,s all distress. His arm. it wrcn,lies
OF all bondage. His hand, it wipes away all
tears. His Christly aioncmelt. il makes Us
oil right with the past, AID al right VT tne
future. AMI I'LL right with Goi al right with
man and all right forever. Lam ,rtne
tells lis thst King Ninrod sai:
10 his three sons: Here arc three vases, an:
one is OF clay, another of amber. ano:acr 81
! gold. Choose now which YOU will have
The eldest son. having III, first choice chose
the vase of god, on which was written the
word empire, and when opened III WAS
| found to coniaia human hIoo.l. The
second son, making the next choive;
| chose the vase of amber inscribed
with the word glory and when
opened it contained tile ashes of those who
were once called great. The third son took
the vase of clay, and opening it, found II
empty. brton the bottom OF it was inscribed
the name of God. King Nimrod asked his
courtiers which vase tHey thought weighed
the most. The avaric Gus men Of his court
said the vase of gold, The poets said the one
of amber. But tine wisest men said the empty
vase. because one letter OF the name Of Col
outweighed a universe.
FOR Hin thirst; for His grace beg; on
clnnot be happy. have tried the world,
and it does well enough rs far as it goes, but
it is too uncertain Il world. too evanescent
world. | am not u preiuLlccl witness. l
have nothing against this world. lhave been
one oil the most Fortunate or, to use
more Christian word, one of the most
blessed OF Men, blessed in my parents, blessed
i'll tile place Of my nativity, blessed III my
health, blessed in my field of work, blessed
in my natural temperament, blessed i'll my
family, blessed i'll my opportunities blessed
i'll a comfortable livelihood, blessed in tue
hope that my soul will go to Heaven through
the pardoning mercy of God, and my
body, unless it be lost at sea or crematcd in
some conilagration, will lie down in the gar
dcns of Greenwood among my kindred and
friends, some already gone and others to
come after me. Life to many has been
disappointment but to me it has been
pleasant surprise, and yet declare that if
did not feel that God was my friend and ever
present help l should be wretched and ter
ror struck. But 1want more of Him. |
have thought over this text and preached
this sermon to myself until with all the
soul. l can cry out: "As the hart panteth
after the water brooks, 50 panteth my soul
after Thee, O Col"
Through Jesus Christ make this God your
God and you can withstand anything and
everything, and that which afrrights others
will inspire YOU AS in time Of earthquake
when all old Christian woman was asked
whether she waa scared answered:
No, l am glad that | have God
in financial panic, wien q Christian
merchant was aSkel il he did not fear ne
would break, answered.: eyes, Isllall break
when the iiftieth Psalm breaks in the fiftietll
verse; Gail upon Me in the day Of trouble;
| will deliver thee and thou shalt glorify
Ne. :" Christian men and women, pursued
of annoyances and eXaspcrations, remember
hot il.L rl,otbn .tiIl Inn, hrn
in full cry, will soon be over. Il ever n
whelp looks ashamed and ready to sink out
of sight it is when in tho Adirondacks u
deer by one long, tremendous plunge into
Big Tupper Lake gets away from him. The
but, defeated. swins out again and
cringes with huniliatel yawn Mt
the feet of his master. And how
abashed and ashamed will all your earthly
troubles be when you have dashed into he
river from Under the throne Of God, and tns
you and Your pursuers. We are told
in Revelation, 2?d aud 18th: with
out are dogs" by which I conclude
there is a whole kennel of hounds out
side tho gate Of heaven, or. as when a
master goes IN door, his do- lies Oh the
steps waiting for him to come out, so the
trou LEI OF This life may follow us to the
shining door. but they cannot get in. "With
out arc dos have seen dogs, and Owned
dogs, that would not he chagrinet, to see in
the heavenly city. Some of the grand cd
watch-do2s who are the constabulary OF
Iile homes in solitary places, and for years
have heen the only protection of wife and
child; some of the shepherd dogs that drive
hack the wolves aud bark away the flocks
from going too near the precipce; and some
OF the dogs whose neck and paw Lanl-
seer. the painter, has made i'm
mortal, would not find me shut
ting them cut from the gate of shining
pearl. Some OF those old ST Bernard dogs
that have lifted perishug trave.G7s out of
the Aip ne snow; The dog th.t ican Brown,
the Scotch essayst saw ready to spring at
the surgeon lest. in removing The cancer, he
Too much hurt the poor woman whom the
| dog Lett bound to protact: and dogs