Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-12-01

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find devil mean enough to do it, and all
brides and threats have failed to get one
willing for tho Internal crusade, no says to
ono of his sergennts: go up to Brooklyn,
| md in such u street, on sucl, corner, get
that gossiping woman, and slie will be glad
to do it," And sure enough, like Il hungry
| fish, she takes the hook i'll her mouth, mud
Satan slactens tho line, and lets her run out
! farther and farther until after awhile he
says: at is time to haul III that line" md
With few strong pulls he brings her to the
beach of fire. What do You sayl That she
/ WINS member of the church, l cannot help
that Whom Satan goes n-flshinG he does not
caro- what school the fish belong to- whether
it Is Presbyterian nnckelel or MI Episcopa-
|, liam salmon. Amidst the thunder crash OF
Sinai, God said: '.Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbor." And in Lo-
yiticus lie says: "Thou shalt not so up aud
down Us n talo bearer" Take not into your
car that scum of hell that people call
little tattle. whatsoever willingly listens to
SANDER is equally guilty with the one who
tells it, and All old writer says they ought
both to be hung, the one by the tongue and
the other by the car. DO not smile upon
such a spaniel, lest, like o pleased dog, he
put his dirty paw upon you. Throw back
saa shutter of your soul, oh Christian men
and women, md see il there be within you a.
vulture with filthy talons and cruel beak.
Let not this unclean thing roost in Your
soul, for my text says: "Ye shall hold in
abonlination among the fowls, the vulture."
THE ERROR OF BEING LIKE a BAT.
Again, taking the suggestion Of the text,
drive out the bat from your SOUL No Won
der God set this bird among the unclcnn. 1t
is MI offense TO every one. Let it fly into the
window of summer night. and-nll tho
hands, young and old, are against it, 1t is
half bird and half mouse. 1t seems mado
partly to walk and partly to fly, and docs
neither we'll; and becomes IN emblem of
those Christians who try to cling to earth
sand heaven at the same time. They want
to walk Oh earth in worldliness, and
yet fly toward heaven in spirituality;
and their soul, between feet and
wings, is constantly perplexed. Oh, my
sbrethren, be one thing or the other
Choose the world, if you prefer it; and see
how many dollars you can win, and how
much applause you can gain, and how large
q business you can establish, and how grand
house you can build, md how fast span
of horses you can drive. You may be pros
pered until you can fail for s50t,0,0, instead
of having the grace to fail for only $40, 0OOas
some unenterprising people do. 1t is quite
reward to be able for ten or twenty years to
sbe called one of tho solid men of Brooklyn or
Boston; and then, to mako your fortune
last Us long Us possible, VIC will give
you SPLENDID funeral, and you shall
have twenty-five carriages following you
with somebody in the most of them, and
your coffin shall hive silver handles OH the
sides, and we will mourn for you in splendid
pocket handkerchicfs bound with Grape, and
with bombazine twenty full yards long, trail
ing half across the parlor, so that all the
company may stand upon it, and we Will
write our letters for the next six months on
paper edged with black. But my friends,
your worldly fortunes will not last. Twill buy
out nov oil that you will be worth in worldly
estate seventy-ive years from now. l have
the money in my pocket with which to do it.
Here 1t isl Two centsl 1t is large sum to
offer for all you will possess at the close of
seyenty-ive years. Choose tho world, if you
want to; but, if not, then choose heaven.
Tint estate lies partly on this side of
the river, but mostly on the other. 1t is ever
accommodating. The prospect of it makes one
independent of earthly misfortunes; SO that
Rogers, the martyr, slept SO soundly- the
night before his burning, they violently
shook him in order to get him awake in time
for the execution; and Paul exults ct tho
thought of the ''joy unspeakable and full Of
glory" Oh, choose earth or heavenl Make
up your mind whether you will walk in
earthly joys, or fly with heavenly cxpecta-
lions. Be not bat, fit neither to walk nor
ny, having just enough of heaven to spoil
tho world and so much Of the world as to
spoil heaven. Christ says that your present
condition nauscates him to positive sickness:
"Because thou art neither cold nor hot
will spew thco out Of my mouth" In
the ruins of Pompeii there was found
petri0ed woman, who, instead Of
trying to ly from the destroyed city,
had spent her time in gathering up
her Jewels. Shc saved Mother her life nor
her Jewels. There arc multitudes making
the same mistake. In trying to get earth
and heaven you lose both. "Yo cannot servo
God and Mammon." 30 one thing or the
other. Tread the earth like lion, or mount
the air like the eagle; for my text says: "Yo
shall have in aboininatlon among tho fowls
the bat"
runycoATs AND DOUBLE FACES AS PUBLIC
EUISAECES.
Again, taking this suggestion Of the text,
drive out the chameleon from your soul. There
is some difference among COOL mcn rs to tho
namo OF this creeping thing which God pro-
nounced uncean, but shall take the opinion
which seems best suited to my purpose. The
chameleon is q reptile, chiefly known by its
changeablencss of color, taking tbs color Of
the thing next to it-somctimeS brown, some
times red and sometimes gray, but always
the color Of its surroundinSs-o type OF tfiut
class of Christians who arc now ono thing III
religious faith and now another, just to
suit circumstances, always taking their
color of religious belief from tho
man they arc talking to. They go to ono
place, and are first rate Unitarians. Jesus
was good man, but nothing more" They
70 to Princeton, and they are Trinitarians;al-
most willing to die for tho divinity OF Jesus.
Among the Universalists they refuse tue idea
of future punismcnt und going among those
Of opposite belief, announce that there is 4
hell with gllsto that makes YOU think they
arc glad OF it. Drive out that unclcan
chameleon from your soul. DO not be ever
changing the color of your faith. My friends,
Liberal Christianity, falsely so called,
believes i'll nothing. God is anything
YOU want to mako him. The Bible
to be believed i'll so far as you
like it, Heaven grand mixing up OF Neros
and Pauls. The man who dies by suicide in
his right mind in lSSS, beating into glory
by ten years the Christian mali who
dies q Christian death in 1903; the sui
eide proving himself wiser than the Chris
tian. Oh, my friends, let us try to believe
i'll something. An inndel was called to tho
bedside of his daughter The daughter said:
'Father which shall believe, you or motheri
Mother took the religion Of Christ and died
in its embrace. You say that religion is d
l.umbug Now l I'm going ia die, and am
very much pcrplexed; shall Eelieve you, or