Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-11-16

Q3y, ana, Iurleu against Tic DHllIc-
drim, he made it trcmble. He learned
oil he could get in the school of his
native village. then he had gone to a
higher school, and there had mastered
the Greek and the Hebrew and per-
fected himself in bellies lettres. until,
in after years, he astounded the Gre
tans, and the Corinthians, and the
Athenians, by quotations from their
own authors. / have never found
anything in Carlyle, orGoethe, or Her
bert Spencer that could compare ia
strength or beauty with Paul epistles.
I do not think there is anything in the
writings of Sir William Hamilton that
shows such mental discipline as you
find in Panl's argument about justifi-
cation and resurrection. | have not
found anything in Milton finer in the
way OF Imagination than can find in
Paul's illustrations drawn from the
amphitheatre. There was nothing in
Robert Emmett pleading for his life,
or in Edmund Burke arraigning War
rem Hastings in Westminster Hall,
that compared with the scene in the
court room when, before robed Off
Gals, Paul bowed and began his
speech, saying: II think myself hap
ply, King Agrippa, because | shall
answer for myself this day" re-
peat, that religion that can capture
q man like that must have some power
in it. 1t is time our wiseacres stopped
talking as though all the brain of the
world were opposed to Christianity.
Where Paul leads, we can afford to
follow. / am glad to know that
Christ has. in the different ages of the
world, had in his discipleship Mozart
and a Handelin music; Raphael and
a Reynolds in painting; All Angelo
and a Canoya in sculpture; a Rush and
Harvey III medicine; Grotius and
Washington in craftsmanship; a
Blackstone, a Marshall and Kent in
the law; and the time will come when
the religion of Christ will conquer all
the observatories and universities, and
philosophy will, through her tele.
scope, behold the morning star Of
Jesus, and in her laboratory see that
''all things work together for good, "
and with her geological hammer dis,
Germ the Rock of Ages" Oh, in
stead of covering and shivering when
the skeptic stands before u.s. and talks
of religion as though it were a pusll-
luminous thing-instead of that, let
us take out our New Testament and
read the story of Paul at Rome, or
come and see this city for ourselves,
and learn that it could have been no
weak Gospel that actuated such man,
but that it is an all conquering Gospel:
AyeI for all ages the power of God
and the wisdom of God unto salvation.
Men, brethren and fathers l thank
you for this opportunity OF preaching
the gospel to you that are at Rome
also. The churches of America salute
you. Upon you who are, like us,
strangers in Rome, l pray the protect
ing and journeying care Of God. Upon
YOU who are resident here, pray
grace, mercy and peace from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
After tarrying here few days we re.
sumo our journey for Palestine, and
we shall never meet again, either III
Italy, or America, or what is called
the Holy Land, but there is holier
land, and there we may meet, saved
by the grace that in the same way
saves Italian and American, and there
in that supernal cline, after embracing
him who, by his sutferings on the hill
back of Jerusalem, made our heaven
possible, and given salutation to our
own Kindred whose departure broke
our hearts on earth, we shall, / think,
seek out the travelling preacher and
mighty hero OF the text who marked
out his journey through Macedonia
and Achaia to Jerusalem, saying:
After 1 have been there, l must also
see Rome"