Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-10-05
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the shears with Which men are every
day made powerlcss. They have
strewn the earth with the carcasses Of
giants and filled the great prison house
with destroyed Samsons, who: sit
grinding the mills OF despair, their
locks shorn and their eyes out. If pa
rents only knew to what temptations
their children were subjected they
would be more earnest in their prayers
and more careful about their example.
No young man escapes having tho
pathway of sin pictured in bright col,
ors before him.
The first time l ever saw city-it
was the city OF Philadelphia was :.
mere lad. | stopped at a hotel, and [
remember in the eventide corrupt
man piled me with his Internal art.
He saw was green. lie wanted to
show me the sights of the town. He
painted the path OF sin until it looked
like emerald; but was afraid OF him.
| showed back from the basilisk. l
made up my mind he was q basilisk. l
remember how he reeled his chair
round in front Of me and with con-
contrnted and diabolical effort attempt
ed To destoy MY soul; but there, were
good angels in the air that night. It
was no good resolution OH my part,
butt was the all encompassing grace
OF good God that delivered me. Be
ware ,hewarel Q young man
Eliero tSasSgsS that SSeeTueth right
ufit o VI III al
death. If'all tIIesyict Tins! OF saTIiinpdre::
life in all lands and ages could be
gathered together, they would make a.
Host vaster, THAN that which Xerxes
led across the Hcllespont. than III
mour led across India than William
the Conqueror led across England,
than ..bou-Bekr led across Syria; and
if tiey could be stretched out in
single file across this continent, L
think the vanguard OF the host would
stand on the beach 0f the Pacific while
yet the rear guard stood on tile beach
Of the Atlantic.
A WORD TO THE WISE.
say this not because | expect to re-
claim any one that has gone astray in
this fearful path, but because want
to utter warning for those who still
maintain their integrity. The cases
of reclamation Of those who have
given themselves fully up to an
impure life are so few. probably
you do not know one of them.
| lave seen good many start
out on that road. How many have
I seen como backy Not one that
| now think of. 1t seems as if the
spell of death is on them and no hu-
man voice or the voice of God can
break the spell. Their feet are hop
pied, their wristsare handcuf+cd. They
have around them girdle Of reptiles
punched at the waist. fastening them
to al. iron DOOM every time they
breathe the forked tongues strike them
and they strain to break away until
the tendons snap and the blood en-
udes; and amidst their contortions
ebey cry out: Take me back to my
fathers house. Where is mother3
Take ME lomel Take me llomel"
Do stand before man today the
locks of whose strength are being toy.
ed with, let me tell you to escape lest
the shears of destruction take your
moral and your spiritual integrity. Do
you not see your sandals beginning to
curl on that red hot path9 This day
in the name OF. Almighty God tear
off the identifying veil and the en-
broidered mantle Of this old lag of
iniquity, and show you the ulcers
and the bloody ichor and the cancered
lip and the parting joints and the
niacerated limbs and the wriggling
putrefaction. and cry out. Oh, hor-
ror of horrors4 In he Stiffness of this
Sabbath hour lift warning. Re-
member it is much easier to form bad
habits tlan to get clear Of them; in
one minute Of time YOU clay get into
a sin from which all eternity cannot
get you out.
Oh. that the voice OF Gods truth
might drown the voice of Delilah.
Come into the ways of pleasantness
and the paths Of peace, aud by the
grace of pardoning God start for
thrones Of honor dominion upon
which you may reign, rather than
travel the road TO dungeon where
the destroyed grind in the mills Of de-
spair, their locks shorn and their eyes
out