Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-06-02

1CleS, SO they are nlnuereQ from DONG coll
tinuous days work. A city missionary finds
Thorn up the dark alley, with no fire, with
thin clothing, with very coarse bread. They
never ride in the street car; they cannot
afford the five cents. They never see any pict-
ures savo those in,the show window on the
street, from which they are often jostled
and looked ut by Some one who seemed to
say in the look: Move onl What are you
doing hero looking at picturcsF'
Yet.many of them live on mountains Of
transfSura! ion at their rough table He
who fed the five thousand breaks tho bread.
They talk often of the good times that are
coming This world has no charm for them,
but heaven entrances their spirit They
often, divide their scant crust with some for
lorn wretch who knocks mt their door at
night, and on the blast Of the night wind, as
the door opens to let them in, is heard the:
voice of Him'who said ~ was hungry nHd
80 fed men No cohort Of heaven will, be too
bright to transport them. By Gods. help
they have vanquished the SAssyrian host
They. have divided eamoug them the spoils
Lame, lame, yet they took .tbei sa.ss
Il was riding along tpJ q one:
day, md I saw a,pp.'S. SS's .TeEsss
j sssgs a alevI7 Sion Dealers in have'a
sFtasshs6ipid. 20 anlls ssh said;
youldnts ike to ride rs said I
!; Thank you, would God bless you =:
I When bio sat beside he said You see,9I
am very lame and very;old, but tho LORD; has!
been a good Lord to me- / have buried aid
my children. The Lord gavo them and the
Lord had Alright to take them; away. Blessed
isbe his name: j was very sick and j; had no.
money, and my neighbors came in and took,
care of me, and wanted nothing. suffer
a great deal with pain, but then J have SO.
many mercles left. The Lord has been O
good Lord to me- And before we had got;
far | was in doubt whether was givin:, him
q ride or he was giving me aridel He snid:.
"Now, if you please, rll get out here. just help
! me down on my clutches, IL you please. God
i bless you Thank you, sir. Good morning.
Good morning. You have been feet to the
/ iamo, sir you have. Good morning"
| Swarthy men had gone the road that day.
! I do not know where they came out, but
every hobble of that old man was toward
the shining cato. With his old crutch he
had struck down many Sennacherib of
! temptation which hos mastered you and mo.
Lame, so fearfully lame, so awfully lame;
/ but no took the prey.
a step further. There are in all commune
ties many orphans During our last war and
in the years Immediately following, how
many children we heard say: "OhI my
father was killed In the war" Have you
! ever noticed fear you have not--how well
those children have turned out2 Starting
under the greatest disadvantage, no orphan
asylum could do for them what thcir father
would have done had be lived. The skir-
mishor sat one night by the light Of faSots
] in the swamp, writing letter home, when
! sharpshooter's bullet ended the letter, which.
was mover folded, mover posted and never
| read.
Those children came up under great disad
vantages. No father to fight their way for
; them Perhaps there was In the old family
+ Bible ON old yellow letter, pasted FIST, which
told the story of that's fathers long march
! and how be suffered In the hospital; but they
| looked still further on in the Bible, and they
came to the story of how God is the Father
OF the fathcrless and the widows portion,
and they soon took their fathers place IN
that household They battled the way for.
their mother. They came on up, and many
of them have III the years since. the war
taken positions in church and state
While many of those who suffered nothing
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/ tho lame who took tho prey.
a step further. There are those who would
like to do good They say: "Ohi If only
had wealth, or IL had eloquence, or IL hod
high social position, how much would &c,
complish for God and tue churchP' stand
here today to tell you that you have great
opportunities for usefulness.
Who built the Pyrarnids9 Tho king who
ordered them builtl No; the plain workInen
I.to added stone after stone, and stone after
e.oro who built tho dikcs of Hollanda Tbs
e,,,,ornmont that ordered the enterprise
M. tho plain workmcn who carried tht
earth and rung their trowel on the wan
who are those who have built these vas
, cities9 The capitalistsi No; the carpenters
, tho masons, the plumbers, tho plasterers, TIL
I timers. the roofers dependent on q day
3 WAGES for livelihood And so in the grea
: worl, Of ass,,aging human suffering and en-
0 liehtening human ignorance and haltlng nu
i nan iniuuity. In that great work the chile
. mart is to be done by ordinary mon, with OF
= binary speech, in ON ordinary manner anu
+ ordinary means. The trouble is that i'll I'll
Il armv Of Christ we all want to be captain
Il and colonies and brigadicr generals. we al
st NOT willing to march with the rank and n
n and to do duty with the private soldier: "
It want to belong to the reserve corps, ana rel
obout the hattie while warming ourselves
IS tho camp fires or OH furlough at home, o.
10 foot upon an ottoman, we sagging oacR III
an armchair.
i'd Asvou 20 down the street, you SEQ an
lr cavction and four or five men are worN'll
y: and perhaps twenty or thirty leaning on u
in rail looking over ut them. That IS INC w
Of it is in the church of God today; where y
find ono Christian hard at work. there
Is, fifty men watching the job
10 Obi my friends, why do you not go
Us work and preach this Gospcll You say:
of have no pulpit You have. 1t may DO
CHI carpenters bench, It may DO the maso
or. wall. Tho robe in which you arr to procls
,g- this Gospel may be shoemakers apron,
icy woo unto you if you preach not this Gos
lb, eo,noyhcre. somehow! If this world is e
te- hro,1rht to Christ, it will be through the un
nous and long continued efforts OF n
ork Iyho. waiting for no special endowment
NIB cecrote TO God what they have. Among
Tx, most useless people in tho world ore men
tho to, tolents. while many one with only
DO tolents. or no talent at all is doing e.
polk xrork and SO ..the lame take the prey.
this There nre thousands Of ministers Oh WI
ong YOU have never heard-in log cabins az
rcd west. in mission chapels at the east-wno
zero warning against the legions of dnrkness-
the cessfuliy warning Tract distributors me
hat hy month undermining the citalels OF
t i'll Won do rot know their going or their com
lard but the footballs OF their ministry are III
arp, in the palaces of heaven who , are
ega- workers in our sabbath schools throus
his land today9 Men celebrated, men