Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-08-25
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our quiet and sympathetic homes. But there
is many man who has the reputation OF
having homo when he has none. Through
unth;nkineness or precipitation there arc
many matches made that ought never to
have been made An officiating priest can
not alone unite a couple. Tho Lord Al
mighty must proclaim bannS. There Is
many a home in which there is no sympathy,
and no happiness and no good cheer. Inc
clamor oil tho battle may not have been
heard outside, but God knows, notwitlstand.,,
ing all the playing OF the wedding Marcn,
and all tho odor of tho orange blossoms,
and the beneliction of the officiating pastor
there has been no marriage.
Sometimes men have awakened to find on
one side of them the rock OF persecution, anu
on tho other side the rock OF domestic IN
felicity. What shall such one do! 10 rs
Jonathan dd-climb Get up the heights oil
Gods consolation from which we may look
down III triumph upon outside persecution
and home trouble. While god and great
John Wesley was being Silcncel by tho mag
isratcs, and having his name written on tho
board fences OF London in doggerel, OF that
very time his wife was making him us in:s"r-
abe us size coud-acting Us though she were
possessed with the devil, rs suppose she was;
never doing him q liini2oSs until tbs day. s!is
ran away, so that he wrote in his dairy these
WUrlS. L UlQ uOU lOISstkS IlCI ueitS i1pp
dismissed her: will not recall her" Plant
ing one foot--John Wesley did-upon outside
persecution, and the other foot on home
trouble, ho climbed up into the heights of
Christian JOY, and after preaching forty
thousand sermons, and travelling two hun.
dred and seventy thousand miles, reached
the heights of heaven, though i'll this world
he had it hard cnough-'a sharp rock on the
one side, and Il sharp rock on tho other"
hat Sf1
the text who has bereavement and strug-
Gle for n livelihood at the Same time With
out mentioning names, speak from obser-
walton. All, it is hard thing for n woman
to make an honest living, oven when her
heart is not troubled, ana Sho has fair
check and the magnetism OF an exquisite
presence. But now the husband, or the
father. is dead. The expenses OF the obSoqules
have absorbed all that was left III
the savings bank; and wan and wasted
with weeping. she goes forth-a grave,
hearSe, q coffin, behind her-to contend for
her existence and the existence OF her chit
dren. When see such battle as that open
| shut my eyes ut tho ghastlinesS OF the
spectacle. Men sit with embroidered slip
pcrS and write heartieSs essays about womenS
wages; but that question Is made up o.
tears and blood. and there is moro blood than
tears. Oh, give women free access TO all the
realms where she can get Il livelihood, IRON
the telegraph Office to the pulpit Let mems
wages be cut down before hers are cut down.
Men have iron in their souls and can stand
it. Make the way free to her OF the broken
heart May Col putinto my hand the cold,
bitter cup of privation, and give me nothing
but a windowleSs hut for shelter for many
Years, rather than that after | am dead there
should go out from my home luto the pltlless
world a wonianS arm to fight the Gettysburg,
tl.c Austeriitz, tire Waterloo OF life for
Dread
And vet how many women there arc
seated between the rock of bereavement on
tue one side, and the rock of restitution on
tie other-Hozez and Seneh interlocking their
SHADOW and dropping them upon l.er miser-
abe way. There is Il sharp rock OH the one
side. ana sharp rock on the other side"
What are such TO do. Somehow, let them
Climb up into the heights OF the glorious
promise: Leave thy fatherless children;
will preserve them alive, and let thy willows
trustin Me-" Or get up into the heights OF
thar other glorious promise: The Lord
presevvcth the stranger and relieveth tie
widow and the fatlerless." O. We sewing
| woman Oh starving wa@e;. o. We widows
turned out from the once beautiful home. q.
We female teachers, kept Oh niSaardly
stipend o.! We despa;ring woman seeking in
vain Tor work, wandering along the docks, an
thinking to throw yourself into the river last
aching sides, and short breath and broken
heart. you need something more than human
sympathy: YOU need the sympathy OF God.
Climb up into His arms. He knows 1t all,
and He loves you more than father or
mother or husband ever could CT ever did;
and instead of sitting down, wriEging your
hands in despair. yoa had better begin to
climb. There arc heights of consolation for
YOU, though now there is a sharp rock OIL
the one side, and q sharp rock on the other
side
Again, that man is in the crisis of the text
WHO has a wasted life OIL the Ole side, and
an Illuminated eternity on the other. Though
a man may ali his life have cultured deihera-
ton and self-poiSe, il he gets into that posi-
ton all his selt-pos;e sSion is gone. There are
all the wrong thoughts Of his existence, all
the wrong deeds all the wrong wordS-strata
above strata, granite, ponderous, over
shadowing That rock call BoSez. On the
other side arc all the yctributions of tho frl-
ture, the thrones o. judgment, the eternal
ages, angry with his long defiance. That
rock l call Scneh. Between these two rocks
Lord Byron psrlshcd, and Alcibiades persisted,
and IIerod per.Shed, and ten thousand times
ten thonsantl have p.risEeI. O. man imaaor-
tai, man re leemel, man blood bought climb
up cut Of those shadows Climb up By the
way OF the Gross. Have your wasted lie
forgiven: have your eternal life secured.
THIS morning just take one look to the past
and see what it las been, and TAKE one look
to the future AMI see what il threatens to be.
y on can afford 10 lose your health, you can
afford to lose your property, you can Afford
to lose your reputation; but you cannot al
ford to lose your soul. That bright. gleam-
ing. glorious, precious, eternal possession you
must carry aloft i'll the day when the earth
burns up and the heavens burst.
You see from my subject that when man
goes into the safety and peace of the Gospel,
he does not demean himself. There is moth
ing in religion that leads to meanness or I'M
manliness. The Gospel of Jesus Christ only
asks you to climb as Jonathan did-clmb to-
ward God, Climb toward heaven, climb into
the sunshine Of Gods favor. To become q
Christian is not TO go meanly down; it is to
come gloriously up-up into the communion
of saints. up into the peace that passcth all
understanding, up into the companionship OF
angels. He lives up; he diesup.
O.. then, accept the wholesale invitation
which make this morning to all the people.
Come up from between your invalidism and
financial embarrassmenss. Come up from
between q wasted life and an unillumined
eternity. Like Jonathan, climb with all
your might, instead OF sitting down to wiring
your hands in the shadow and i'll the dark
Mesa sharp rock on the one side, and
sharp rock on the other side"
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