Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-07-28

is left of them save Just enough to Illus
trato the direfnl overthrow of hell and our
.Ioshuas eternal vitory. On his head oa all
the crowns In his hand be all tho sceptcrs;
At his feet DO all the human hearts; ana
here. Lord is che OF them.
Lesson the second: The triumph of tho
wicked is short. Did you ever see an army
in panic, There is nothing so rmcontro-
liable. If YOU had sto1d ut Long Bridge.
Washinston during the opening of our sad
civil war, YOU would know what it is to see
an army run Aud when those men of Al
looked out and saw those men at joshua IN
stampede. thoy expected easy work. Ihry
woult, scatter them rs tho equinox Tho
leaves @. tho g:eeful and iubllant de-
scent of tho men OF Al upon tho men
of Joshua. But their eXhilnraton was
brief, for the titlo of battle turned.
and these quondam conQuerers left their
miserable carcaSscs in the wilderness o.
Bcthaven. So it always is. Tho triumph OF
the wicked is short You make $50, 90 ut the
gaming table Do you expect to keep its You
will tlie in the poorhousa. on madca fortune
by inQuitous traffic. 10 YOU expect to keep it:
Nour money will scatter, or it will stay long
enough to curse your children after you arc
dead Call over the roll Of bad men who
prosoS red and STE how short was their pros
peritv. For while like the men of III
thoy went from conquest to conquest,
bat after a whole disaster rolled back upon
them and they were divided into three
Parts; misfortune took their property, tho
grave took their body, and the lost
world took their soul. | am always inter
ested in the building of theatres and the
building of dissi2ating saloons. like to
have them built o; the best granite and have
tho rooms made large, and to have tue pillars
made very firm. God is going to conquer
them, and they will be turned into asylums,
..1,n h.,c t
in vii ch fraudulent mn do business, the
splendid banking Institutions. wherc the
pres dent and cashier put all their property
in their wives names and then fail for
SEQ. O0O-.all these institutions are to no.
come tt places where honest Christian men
do business.
How long will it take your boys to get
through your ill.gotten gains! The wicked
do not live out half their days. For while
they swagger and strut and make q great
splash in the newspapers, but after while
it all dwindles down into n brief paragraph:
"Dicd suddenly. July %. ISIS. Mt 10 years of
age Relatives and friends of the family are
invited to attend the funeral, on Wodnc' tav,
mt = block. from his late residence on Madi-
son square Intermanta ~ GREENWOOD" Somo
of them jumped oil the docks. Some of them
took prussic acid. Some of them fell under
tile snap OF q Derringer pistol Some of
them spent their last days i'll 4 lunatic aSy-
ium. Where are William Tweed and his
associates! Where arc ketcham and Swart-
won't, absconding swindlers: Where is
james Fisk, the libert ne: Where Is jean
Wilkes Pooth, the assassin, and all the other
mislemeauantS! The wicked do not live out
half their days Disembo,ue, world OF
darkness. Come up Hiliebranl and Henry
l l. and RobcSpierrc, and with bstering and
disappearing and ashen lips hiss out: 1.-The
triumph: of the wicked is Short!' Alas Tor
the men of Al when Joshua stretches out his
spear towarl, the city.
Lesson the third: How much may be ac-
compishei Nv lying i'll ambu;h for oppor-
tunities. Are you iiypc:critical of Jcs,luaS
vancouver: DO you say that it was cheating
for him to take that city by ambuscade:
Was it Wrong for Washington to kindls
camp fires on New jersey Heights, giving
the impression 10 the opposing force that Il
great army was eneam2ed there when there
was none at all! answer, if the war was
right, then Joshua was right in his stratagem
He violated no flag of truce. lie broke no
treaty, but by lawful anlbuscade captured
the CITY of Al. Oh. TINT we all knew how 10
lie in ambush for opp rSnnities to serve God
The best of our opportunities donot lie on the
surface, but are sccretei: by tact by STRATA
GEM by Christian ambuscade. YOU may take
almost any castle Of SIN for Christ. Come up
toward men with regular bcsiesement of
argument, anil You will be defeated; but Just
wait nn.it the door Of their hearts is set alar,
OF they are or their guard, or their severe
caution is away from home. aud then drop Ill
en- item from Christian ambuScale There
has lecn many man up to his chin in scien-
t;fc portfolios which proved there was no
Christ and no divine revelation his pen
scimetar flung into the heart of theological
opponents, who, nevertheless. has been dis
comfitcd and captured for God by some little
three ycar.old child, who has got up and put
her snowy arms around his snewy neck and
asked some simple question about God and
heaven.
Oh. make Cank movement; steal 4 march
on the dsvil: cheat tha5 man into heaven.
\ five dollar treatise that will strnd all mp
laws of ho.nilvt;cs may fail TO do tlias wnlch
q penny tract o. C.iri>tian entreaty may ac-
c5.apiiSh. Oh. for more Christians IN am
bns..a te not lY;n, i'll idcaess. tu5 waiting
for quick spring, waiting until IusO otio
right time CORES Do not talk to man
ohout the VANITY Of tbs world on the DAY
when he has ought something at twelve"
and is co:n- to Sc / il al az teen But taiS
10 him aaoue the vanity of the world
CT The Clay when he has longht something
ct fifteen aa1 IS compelled 10 sell at
twelve Do not rub mans dlSpoSition
| the wrong way. Do not take the imperatlye
mood when the subjunct!ve mood VIII , no
| lust as well. Do not talk in perfervld styla
I, TO & phlegmatie. nor try to tickle torrid
! t.mnsrarent with an icce. TUu can take
any man for Christ if You know how to get
| Mt him. Do not send word To him that TO-
morrow at 10 o'clock YOU propose TO open
| YOUR batteries upon him, but come on MN
ly a ssillful, parsevering, God 'directed am
! buscaf'e
Lesson the fourth: The Importance of TAX
Ing GOOD aim There is Joshua, but how are
these people in ambush up yonler to know
| when they are to drop upon the city. ana
| how are these mon around Joshua to know
wien they are to stop their flight and adj.
, vance? There must he some Signal signal
| to stop the one division and to start the
other Joshua, with spear on which were
ordinarily hung the colorS Of brittle, points
toward the city. He stands in such con-
Fpicuous position. and there is so much Of the
morning light dripping from that spear tip
| that all around he horizon thnv see it. 1t was
| as much as to say: "Thera is ths city. Take
it. Take it nov, Fol dnwn from The west.
| Surge I'D from the north IT is ou:S.ihe city or
| All God knows and we know that great
| deal of Christian attack amounts to nothing
simny because we do not take goo aim.
| Nobody knows and we do not :;now our
selves which point we want to take. when
| wa ought TO make up our minds what Got
will have us 10 do. and point our spear in
that dire ton AMI then iiurl or no lv, mini.
| soul, time. eternity NJ that one tar .ct. In
orr pulpits and pcws and Sunday sc'ioo S and
! prayer meetings we want to get a reputation
Tor saving pretty things. AMI so wa point
our spear toward the flowers: or we want
q reputation for saving sublime things,
| and we point our spear towar the stars; or
we want to cot reputation for historical
knowledge and wa paint our SPEAR toward
the rast: or we want to get reputation for
great liberality. so We swing our spear all
around; AMI it strikes all points of tho
horizon, anil you can make ont of it what
ever you please: while there is the Old worll.
proud. rebslliouS and armed against all
Righteousness; and instead Of running any
! further away from its pursuit we ought 10
turn around. plant our foot in the s:ran nth
Of the eternal Col. and lift the oil Gro " and
point it in the direction OF tn, worlds con.
guest till the re leem,d of earth march
/ ing up from one side, AMI the g'orified Of
| heaHen marching down from the other side.