Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-06-01
Tho Attempts of Poor 'TonIs Humanity to
+ Make Itself Clean i:efore God Are Not
suecessful-The Lord Himself EIust See.

EQuOtcuzll, giving SQDSLullLlal fccSOilS
FLOR so doing. Although VIC know
Eibctter, the ancicnts had an idea that
Fin SHOW water there was a special
Ispower to cleanse, and that q garment
washed and riiised in it would be as
clean as clean could be; but if the
Emain SHOW water failed TO do its work,
Ithen they would take lye oralliali and
i-mx it with oil, and under that
preparation they felt that the last
Eilnpurity would certainly be gone.
job in my text, in most forccful
Figure sets forth the idea that all
Ibis attempts To make himself pure
Isbefore Cod were dead failure, and
Ethat. unless we arc abIutcl by some
thing better than earthly liquids and
chemical preparations, we are loath-
some and in the ditch. IF | wash
lmysclf with snow water, and should |
Eclcansc my hands in allSalL yet shalt
thou plunge nc iii the ditch, and mine
own clothes shall! abhor me-
You arc now sitting for your pct
:urc ! turn the camera obscurl OF
Gods word full upon you, and pray
that the sunshine falling through the
skyligllt mag enable nc totakc you
Just as yoli are. Shall it be Il latter
ingpicturc, or shall it bc q true one?
You say: Let it be Il true one. Tho
first profile that was ever taken was
taken, three hundred and thirty years
before Christ of Antigonus. lie had
blind eye, and he compelled the art
list to. take his profile SO rs tolidc the
defect in lis vision. But since that
I.inSention, three hundred and thirty
years before Christ, there have been
great many proGlcs. Shall today
give you a one sided view of your
selves, profile. or shall it be q full
length portrait, showing yoa just
what you arc2 If God will help nc
|:by his almighty grace, ! shall give
you that last Kind Of Il picture.
FAULTY EARLY TEACHING.
When IGlSt entered the ministry l
used to write my sefnons,all out and
read them, and run my hand along
the line lest should lose my place |
have hundreds CT those manuscripts.
Shall ! ever preach thorn2 Never; for
lin those days ! was somehow over
mastered With The idea ! heard talked
all around about, OF the dignity Of liu-
man nature, and adopted the idea,
and evolved il. and | illustrated il,
and argued il; but coming on il
life, >and having seen nloro Of t,e
wcrlA and stadiel better my Bible. ]
find tina. that carly teaching was
faulty, and that there is no dignity in
human nature. until ii is recon-
structed by the grace of God. Talk
about vessels going to pieces OF the
Skerrics, Off Ireland! There never vT;.s
such ashipwrccl rs in the Gihon end
the Eiddekel, rivers Of Eden, where our
first pncits loundcrcd. Talk OF q
steamer going down with five hundred
passengers on boarll What is that 10
the sllipwrccls Of fourteen hundred
million souls? We arc by nature a
mass of unclcanncss an; prtrcfacton,
from Which il takes all the omuipo
tence and inlintude Of Gods grace 10
extrcatc us. IF | wash lnysef with
snow water, and should | cleanse my
hands in alilali, yet shalt thou plunge
me in the ditch, and my own clothes
shall abllor INC.
THE Snow WATER OF FINE APOLOGIES.
remark, il the first place, that some
poop try to cleanse their soul OF sin
in the snow water of fine apologies.
Here is one nun WHO says: Il am a
sinner; | confess that; but Inherited
this My father was aGinner, my grand
father, my grcat-grcat-grandEatilcr,
and all tic, way back t. Adam, and ]
couldn't help rnysclf." Ny brother,
have you not. every day in your life,
added something u the original estate
of sin tbct was bequc:tlicd to yons
Arc you not bravo enough 10 confess
that you have sometimes surrcn-
dcred To sin, which you ought 10
have conquered! | as!; you whether
it is fair Play 70 pat upon our
ancestry things for which we
ourselves arc personally rcsponsiElc2
llf your nature was asllcyy when you
got it, have you not sometimes given
it an additional twist? VIII all the
tombstoncs Of those who have proceed
cdus make Il barrica;lo high enough
for eternal tlcfcnses2 ] know Il dcvout
man who had -blasphcrnous parctltagc.
/ know eli honest mail whose fathcr
was thief. Iknow Il pure man whose
mother was a waif OF the street. The
Esllereelitary.tido may he very strong,
iibut there IS sucl a thing asatcmming
it. Tho fact tlatI llavca corrupt ia
Etlirc lis no reason why should yield
I7toit. The deep stains OF our soul eau
never be washed out by the SNOW
water of ucllinsufficicnt apology.
Still further, says some enc: IF /
have goncintosin, it has been through
my companions, my comrades and as
sociates they ruined me. They taught
ME to drink. They took INC to the
gambling hell They plunscdme into
the house Of sin. They ruined my
soul" do not believe it. God gave
To no one tho power TO destroy you or
Ienic. If Il man is destroyed be i, self
destroyed, and that is alwaysso. Why
did you not break away from them.
Eli tliey had tried to steal your purse,
YOU would havcrknocked thc.., down;
Iif they had tried TO purloin your gold
watch, you would lave riddled them
with shot: but when they tried
10 steal your immortal soul, you
placidly submitted to it. Those
bad fellows have cup o!
lire TO drink; do not po1r your cup
Into ii. In this matter OF the soul,
every man for himself. That those
persons arc not fully responsible for
YOUR SIM. provo by the fi.ct that you
Still consort with them. leu cannot
Get off by blaming them. Though yoll
gather upall these apologies: though
there were a great Hood OF them;