Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-11-30

OF that great enterprise. ms is Inc
explanation. And you will answer:
ut is all rigl.tl"
sec. every day, profound mystic
ries OF Providence. There is no ques-
lion wc ask oftener than Whyl There
are hundreds Of graves that need to
DO explained. Hospitals for the blind
end lame, asylums for the idiotic and
insane, alnlshouses for the destitute and
world OF pain and r,isfortune ust
demand more than human solutieea.
ALL God will clear X all up. In tho
light thatpouls from the throne otlarss
mystery can live. Things now utterly
inscrutable VA be illunlined Us plainly
as though the answer were written on
the jasper wall or sounded i'll the
temple anthem. Bartimcus will thank
God that lie was blind; and Lazarus
that lie was covered with sores; and
Joseph that he was cast into the pit;
and Daniel that he denr.d with
lions; and Paul that he was
humpbacked; and David that lie
was driven from Jerusalem; ard
the sewing woman that she could get
only few pence for making q gar
-nlent; and chat invalid that for twenty
years he could not lift his head from
1.-The pillow; and = hat sid 09s tAatssh
.9ihad SUCH 5W ofSs toi earn for
hessSliildren. You know that III q
song different voices curry different
parts. The sweet and overwhelming
part Of tho Iiallelujali of heaven will
i not be carried by those who rode in
high places, and gave. sumptuous en-
tertainments; but pauper children will
sing it, beggals will sing it, redeemed
hod curriers' will sing it, those who
were once the ofiscouring of earth
will sing it. The hullclujah will be
! all the grander for earth's weeping
eyes, and aching heads, and exhausted
hands, and scourGel backs, and mar
! tyred agonies.
BEFORE TIE THRONE or GOD.
Again: The thought OF my texts is
true when applied to the enjoyment
of the righteous in heaven. [ think
we have but little idea of the number
of the righteous i'll heaven. Iniidels
! say: Your heaven will be a very
small place compared with the world
/ of the lost; for, accordSg to your
teaching, the majority of men will be
destroyed" l deny the charge. !
suppose that the multitude Of the
finally lost, as compared with the null
titude of the tinall Y saved, will be a
handful. l suppose that the few sick
people in the hospitals of our great
cities. as compared with the hundreds
f, of thousands of well people, would
not be smaller than the number Of
those who shall be cast out III suffer
ing, compared with those who shall
have upon them the health OF heaven.
For we are 10 remember that we arc
living in only the beginning of the
(! Christian dispensation, and that this
whole world is to be populated and
: redeemed, and that ages of light
! and love are to flow on. If this
be so. the multitudes OF the
saved will be i'll vast majority.
Take all the congregations that
have assembled for worship through
out Cllristendom. Put them together,
and they would make but u small au-
dience compared with the thousands
! and Tens of thousands and ten thou
sand times ten thousand, and the hun
l~dred and forty and four thousand that
shall stand around the throne. Those
dashed up to heaven in martyr lires;,
those tossed for-maily years upon. the
invalid couch; those fought in the ar.
mics of liberty, and rose as they fell;
those tumbled FROM high scatioldings,-
or slipped from the mast, or were
washed off into the sea. They came up
tronl Corinth. from Laodicea from the
Red sea bank and Gennesaret's wave,
from Egyptian brickyards and eide
on's threshing floor. Those thou
sands OF years ago slept the last Sleep
and these are this moment having
their eyes closed, and their limbs
stretched out for the sepulcher.
a general expecting an attack from
the enemy stands on hill and looks
through a field glass and sees in the
great distance multitudcs approaching,
but has no idea OF their numbers. lie
SAYS IL cannot tell anything about
them. merely know that there are
II great number And so john, With
out attempting TO count, says: "a
great multitude that no man can num-
Der" We are told that heaven is a
place Ct happiness; but what do we
know about liappincsss Happiness in
this world is only a half lledgcd thing;
iiowcry path, with serpent Kissing
across it; broken pitcher, from which
the water has dropppd before we could
drink it; thrill of exhilaration, fol
lowed by disastrous reactions. To help
us understand the JOY OF heaven, the
Bible takes us to u river. We stand
on the grassy bank. We see the wa
tiers flow OH with ceeseless wave. But
the filth Of the cities is ellptied into
it, and the banks are torn. and un-
healthy exhalations spring up from it,
and we fan to get an idea OF the River
of Life in heaven.
IN HEAVEN REUNION WILL BE PERFECT.
We get very imperfect ideas of the
reunions of heaven. We think of
some festal day on earth. when father
and mother were yet living. and the
children came home. a good Time,
that But it had this drawback--oll
were not there That brother went
off to sea. and never was heard from.
That sistcr-did we not lay her away
in the freshness of her young life,
never more in this world to look upon
her? All! there was skeleton ut the
feast; and tears mingled with our
laughter on that Christmas day. Not
so with heavens reunions. 1t will be
an uninterrupted gladness. Many
Christian parent will look around and
find all his children there. Ali he
says, "can it be possible that we are
ali here-lifc's pcrils over2 the Jord;sn
passed and not one wantingl Why,
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