Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-11-02
ACCOMACC e. VA SATURDAY,, NOVEMBER 2, 1889


somewhere where there is no title
tattIe. ! would like to live there.
If there is u home circle somewhere
where | can find my lost friends, !
would like to go there He used to
read the first part Of the Bible chiefly,
now he reads the last part of the Bible
chiefly. Why has he changed Genesis
for Revelationl Ali he used to be
anxious Grizzly to know how this
world was made, and all about its geo
logical construction. Now he is chiefly
anxious to know how the next world
was made, and how it looks, and who
live there, and how they dress. He
reads Revelation ten times now where
he reads Genesis once. The old story,
I'm the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth, does not thrill
him half as much as the other story,
II saw a new heaven and now
earth. Tie old mans hand trembles
as he turns over this apocalyptic leaf,
zandslle has to itake out his handlSer-
schief:to wipe his spectacles. That
5,book:ofs Reyela io1lsis prospectus now
g-<fTto q fcn lhes Us
soon iInnligrate; the country i'll which
lie has lots already laid out, and ave.
nues opened, and trees planted. and
mansions built.
The thought of that blessed place
comes over he nightly, and declare
that if this house were great ship,
and you all. were passengers OH board
it, and one hand could launch that
ship into the glories of heaven. ]
should be tempted to take the RESPONSE
bilitv and launch you all into glory
with one stroke, holding on to the side
Of the boat until l could get in myself.
And yet there are people here to whom
this world is brighter than heaven.
Well, dear souls, do not blame you.
1t is natural. But after while you
will be ready,to 60. 1t was not until
Job had been worn out with bereave-
nents and carbuncles and pest OF a
wife that he wanted to see God. II
was not until the prodigal got tired OF
living among the hogs that he wanted
to go TO his Fathers house. 1t is the
ministry OF trouble to make this world
worth less and heaven worth more.
OUR DEPENDENCE ON THE LORD.
Again, it is the use Of trouble to
make us feel our complete dependence
upon God. King Alphonso said that
if he had been present at the creation
he could, have made better world
than this. What O pity lie was not
PRESENT. l do not know what God
will 10 wien some men die. Men
think they can do anything until God
shows them they can do nothing at
all We lay our great plans and we
like to execute them. 1t looks big.
God comes and takes US down. As
Prometheus was assaulted by his enc
my, when the lance struck him it
opened great swelling that had
threatened his death, snd lie got we'll.
So it is the arrow Of trouble that lets
out great swcllings 81 pride. We
never feel our dependence upon God
until we get trouble. | was riding
with my little child along the road !,
and she asked if she might drive. |
said, Certainly"
handed over the reins to her, and
HAD to admire the glee with which
she drove. But. after Il while we met
team and we had 10 turn out. The
road was narrow, and it was sheer
down on both sides. She handed the
reins over to me, and said: II think
you had better take charge of the
horse" So we are all children; and
on this road of life we like 10 drive.
1t gives one such an appearance OF
superiority and power 1t looks big.
But after while we meet some OBJ
stacle, and we have to turn out, and the
road is narrow and it is sheer down on
sides; and then we are willing that both
God should take the rcins and drive.
All my friends, we get upset SO often
because we do not hand over the reins
soon enough.
Can you not tell when you lear 9
man pray, whether he has ever had
any troubled can. The cadence,
the phrlseology indicate it. Why dc
women pray better than men2 Be
cause they nave had moro trouble.
Before man las any trouble, his
prayers are poetic, and he begins
away up among the sun, moon and
Stars and gives the Lord great deal
of astronomical information that must
be highly gratifying. He then comes
on down gradually over beautiful
is...t>!!elands to forever and ever,
amen. D. after a man has had
trouble, prayer is :-iiL him taking
hold of the arm OF God and cry ;rgg oui
for help. have heard earnest pray.
ers on two or three occasions that
remember.
Once, on the Cincinnati express
train, going at forty miles the hour,
and the train jumped the track, and
we were near a chasm eighty feet
deep; and the men who, few minutes
before, had been swearing and bias,
phcnling God, began opull and jerk at
the hell rope. and gotu Oh the backs
of tie seats and cried out, 20 God,
save usl" There was another time,
about eight hundred miles out at sea,
Oil a laundering steamer, after the last
lifeboat had been split finer than kin
ding wood. They prayed then. Why
is it you SO often hear people, i'll re-
citing the last experience OF some
friend. say: He made the most beau
tiful prayer | ever ileard2f What
makes it beautiful? It is the earnest
ness of it. Oh, tell you man is in
earnest when his stripped and naked
soul w;des out III the soundless, shore
less, bottomless ocean of eternity.
1t is trouble my friends, that makes
lis feel our dependence upon God. We
do not know our own weakness or
Gods strength until the last plank
breaks. 1t is contemplate in US when
there is nothing else to take hold OF,
that we catch hold of God only. q
man is unfortunate in busrn ~. BIG
has to raise q great deal of money, anc
raise it quickly. He borrows OH wore
ond noto ill ho can borrow. After s