Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-06-01

pardoned sins. Oh, have you done the
preposterous thing of surprising thai
good resolutions for the future vii.
wipe out the paste Good resolutions
though they may be pungent and
caustic as alkali, have 10 power tc
nelltializc sin, have no power te
wash away transgression. It wants
something more titan earthly chem
istry to do this. Yea, yea, though 81
wash myself with snow water, and
should cleanse my hands in alkali,
yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch,
and mine own clothes shall abllor me. ;
SIN NOT a FLowEIy PARTERRE.
You sec from the last part of this
text that Jobs idea OF sin was very
different from that Of Eugene Sue, OF
George Sand, or M. j. Micl,clct, OF
any Of tho hundreds of writer's who
have done up iniquity in Enezzotint,
and garlanded the wine cup with cg
Iisslantine and rosemary, and made the
lspath Of the Jibertinescnd in bowers Of
Tease instead of :op tile hot, Gafgging. oi
sctsrnal! torture: Y S,a see 81 Hat Jot
tAiltatso CllSOJs ~ ~ I'll
& 9 eIap slIIIs
IEprospec ihat OF
sIler, yioloncell 10, casta and Fun
2dcanpipcs, all making mus together
No. Hc says it is n ditch, long. deep
sloathsome, stencliful, andgweaare sal
plunged into it, and there we walloW
and sink andestruggle, not able to get
out. Cur robcscf propriety and robes
Of worldly profession arc saturated III
the slime and aboniination, and oui
soul, covered over with transgrcssion,
hates its covering. and the covering
hates the soul until VIC a-cplungcd
into the ditch, and our own clothes
abhor us.
UNnoLY CARIcATURINGs.
Iknow that some modern religion
lists caricaturc sorrow forsin, and they
make out an easier path than the '.pil-
grim's progress" that John Bunyan
dreamed Of. The road they travel
docs not stop Where Johns did, al the
city of Destruction, but ct the gate OF
the university; and | am very certain
tIiatrit will not come out where Johns
did, under the shining ramparts OF the
celestial city. No repentance, no par.
don. If you do not, my brother, feel
that you arc down in the ditch, what
do you want of Christ TO lift you out?
If you have no approximations of the
fact that you arc ;.stlay, what do you
want Of him WHO came to seek and
save that which was lost2 Yondcr is
the City of Paris, the swiftest of the
Innans, coming across the Atlantic.
Tho wind is abaft, so that she
has not only her engines at
work, but all sails up. 1 am
on board the Umbria Of tho Cunard
line. The boat davits arc swung
around. The boat is lowered l get
into it with red flag, and cross over
to where the City of Paris is coming,
and | wave the flag The captain looks
Off from the bridge, and says: What
do you want2" Ircply: II come 10
take some OF your passengers across
to the other vessel; l think they will
be safer and happier there" The cap
tain would look down with indigna-
ton and say: Get out Of the way, or
will run you down" And then /
would back oars. amidst the jecring
of two or three hundred people look
ing over the talfrail. But the Umbria
and the City of Paris meet un.
der different circumstances after
a while. The City of Paris is
corning out Of cyclone; the life
boats are smashed; the bulwarks
gone; tile vessel rapidly going down.
The boatswuin gives his last
whistle Of slcspairing command. Tic
passengers run up end dow: tho deck,
and some pray, and all make; Il greut
cutlery. The captain says: you have
about fifteen minutes now IL prepare
for the next world" mo hope.
sounds from stem to stern and from
the ratlines down To the cabin. l
see the distress. | az! let down by
the side of tic Umbri;, push
OF as fast as | can toward the sink
ing City Of Paris. Before | come
up people arc leaping into the water
in their anxiety TO get to the boat, and
when have swung up under the siee
Of TIC City Of Paris, the frenzied. pas
sengcrs rush through the gangway
until the officers, with AK and clubs
and pistols. try To keep back the crowd,
each wanting Ills turn to come next.
There is but one life boat, and they
all want to get into it, and the cry is:
Me ncxtl inc next" You see the
application before make it, AS long
as man going on in his sin feels
that all is we'll, that he is coming out
at beautiful port, and liasI :. sail set,
! he wants no Christ, he wants no help,
he wants no rescue; but if under the
flash of Gods convicting spirit lie
shall sec that by reason of sin lie is
, tlismisteel and waterloggcel, and going
down into the trough of the sch Where
no cannot live. how soon he puts the
SCH glass TO his eye and sweeps the
I horizon. and at the first sign OF help
cries out: Il want TO be saved. l
want to be saved now. ! want TO be
saved forever No sense Of danger,
no application for rescue.
OH, FOR a SENSE OF sINFULNEss
Oh, that Gods eternal spirit would
Hash upon uSaSelSc OF our slli!ulnes5.
The Bible tells the story in letters O:
Err, but VIC get used To it. we joke
ahcut sin. we make merry over it.
What is SIM Is it a triling tling9
Sin is vampire that is sucking out
the life blood of yourimmortal. nature.
Sin? 1t is Bastile that no earthly
key ever unlocked Sin2 Its cxpa.
Itriation from God and heaven. Sin2
It is grand larceny against the Al
mighty, for the Bible asks tlic-ques-
ton: Twill man rob Code" answer.
ing it in the affirmative. This Gospel
is a writ of replevin to recover prop
crty unlawfully detained from God.
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