Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-06-01
Lebanon, tlicy could not wash out one
stain Of your immortal soul.

Lebanon, tlicy could not wash out one
stain Of your immortal soul.
WEARS BETTER THAN OTHER PEOPLE. y
Still further, some persons apollo
gizc for their sins by aeing: I'VE are
great deal better than some people.
You see people all around about US
that arc n great deal worse than we.
You stand up colunnar in your integ-
rity, and look down upon those who
arc PROSTATE III their habits and
crimes. What of that, my brother?
II | failed through recklessness and
wicked imprudcncc for len thousand
dollars, l.; the matter alcviatctl at all
by the fact that somebody else has
failed for one hundred thousand dol
lars, and somebody else for two hun
tlred thousand tlolars2 Oh. no. If |
have the neural. riu, shall refuse
medical attendance because ry neigh
Dor has yirulent typhoid fever? The
fact that ..liis disease sis$yyor Se
stllangtlne-tlocstl iatcu rn slilc2 I,;;
tliipug Woo Hard isncsas sapo lfinto
ruin, SloesS:iit; sByea / illcdaIl to- know
5tllatsotll erssl cap llcrcl into
eTer lsol
gcr II TRIM went tErou liz th bridge
at Spuy ten Duy8il. did itsalleyiatethe
matter at all that instead of twosor
three people being hurt there were
scventy-fivo manglcd and crushedf
Because others arc dcpraved. is that
any excuse for my depravityl Am |
better than thcy2 Perhaps they had
worse temptations than ] have had.
Perhaps tlleirsuroundingsii i'll ifowcr
moro overpowcling. Perhaps, 0 man,
if you had been under tic same stress
OF temptation, instead of sitting here
today, you would have been looking
through the bars Of q pcnitcnt!ary:
Perhaps, 0 woman, ii you had
been under the same power Of
temptation, instead Of sitting here
today, you would be tramping the
street, the laughing stock Of men and
tho grief of tic angels Of God, dun
gconcd, body. mind and soul, in the
blacllness OF despair. All, do not let
us solacc ourselves witt. the thought
that other people arc worse than We.
Perhaps in the future, whom our for
tunes may change, unless God prevents
il, VIC may be worse than they arc.
Many man after thirty years. aftcr
forty years, after fifty years, after
sixty years, hes gone to pieces on the
sand bars. Oil instead Of wasting
ourtimciHHy pcrcriticismabou others,
let us ask ourselves the questions,
Where Go vo stand9 What arc our
sins2 What arc our dclicits2 What
arc our pcrils2 What Our hopes2 Let
each one say to himself: Where will
be- Shall range summery fields.
OR grind in the mills Of Il great night!
Whcrc9 Whcrcs"
Somc winter morning you go out
and SEQ SHOW bank in graceful
drifts, as though by some heavenly
compass il he'd boon curved; and cs
the sun glints it the luster is almost
iasulicrablc, and it seems as if God
he'd wrapped tho earth in shroud
with white plait; woven in looms ce-
lcstial And you say: Was there
ever anything So pure us the snow, so
l:c:utiful Us tic snow2" But you
brought pail OF that SNOW and put it
upon tho stove and ncltctl it; and you
found that there was Il sediment ct the
bottom. and every drop OF Chat snow
water WAS rilcd; and You found that
tho snow bank hail gatllcrc; up the
iYnpurity OF the field. andetilat af.er
aIl'it was not tit ~ wash III. And so |
sav il will be if YOU try To gather up
these contrasts and comparisons with
others, and witt, these apologies at
tempt to wash ont tho si1s, Of your
heart end life Il will be Ill unsuc-
ccssful addition. Such SNOW water
will never wash away i single slain OF
an immortal soul.
GOOD RESOLUTIONS ="
Dut hear some one say: Il will
try something better than that. | will
try the force of good resolution.
That will be illorp pungent, more caus-
tic, more cxliwmting. more cleansing.
The si:ow walai. has failed, and now ]
will Try the :lkali OF the good, strong
resolution. ,liy dear brother, have
ycn any idea that !; resolution about
the future will liquidate tic past! Sup
pose owed you live thousand dollars
and should come 10 you tomorrow
and say: Sir, will never run in
debt to you again; if should live
thirty yeurs, will never run i'll debt
to YOU again" will you turn to Inc
and say: '1f you will not run i'll debt
in the future. | will forgive you the
five thousand dollars. Will yon do
that? lIo! Nor will God. We have
been running up a long score Of
Indebtedness with God. Ii for the
future we should abstain from
sin. flat wcul; be no defray-
ment OF rust indebtedness. Though
YOU Should live from this time forth
purse as ali arcllang2l before the
throne, t!l.t would not redeem the
past. God. in the Bible. distinctly
declares that he will require that
which is past' past opportunities,
past ncglccts, past wicked words,
past impure i:naginations. past every
Thing. The pas! is Il great cemetery,
and every day is buried ii il. And
here is /, long row of three hundred
and sixty-livc graves. They arc the
dead days Of 1885. Hero is Il long row
OF three hundred and sixty-livc more
graves, and they are the dead days Of
1857. And l.crc is long row Of three
hundred and sixty-livc more graves,
and.t!icy arc the dead days OF 1885. II
is a vast cemetery OF the past. cut
Cod will rorsc allup with resur-
rectionury blast, and as The prisoner
stands face to face with juror and
Judge, SO You and willshavoto coElc
up and look upon those departed days.
face to face. cxulting in their smile or
covering in their frown.
MURDER WILL OUT.
Murder will oi,t" is rr0ycrlo that
stops too short. Livery sin, however
small, rs we'll as great, viii out Lii
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