Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-01-04

or Two to do nothing but attend to re.
iIglous things, I would be,a great deal
better than | am now" Yoa are m;azz
taken. Generally the best people are
the busy people. Elisha was blowing
In the field when the prophetic mantle
fell on him. Matthew WAS attending
to his custom house duties when Christ.
commanded him to follow. James aud
John were mending their Aets when
Christ called them to be fishers OF
men: Had they been snoring in the
I:;: Christ would not have called their
Incidence into the apostleship. Gideon
was at work with the fail on the
thresiling floor when he saw the angel.
Saul was with great fatigue hunting
up the lost asses when he found the
crown ofIsrael. The prodigal son would
never have reformed and wanted to 4
have returned to his fathers house if!
he had not first gone into business,
though it was swine feeding. Not :
once out Of hundred times will
lazy man become Christian. Those
who have nothing to do arc insyerysI
uiifavorable circumstances for the re-
J, rS5S-::''.go OF divine manifestations
is,nol @I,se.l;oll re- butt
Wnell YOU aIe l.hc .,is l1s
s; g.
tlle .1lis ilsS 5ss z.
soul peni1sii an a TORT
EJoIcE51AND BEeEXG EEDING GLAD.
NV subject also strikes at tlle@delu-
sion that the reilslon OF C Jul Is
dolorous and grief lnfuslng Inc mt'-
sic that broke through the midnight
heavens was not dirge, but an an:
them. 1t shook JOY over the hills IT
not only dropped upon the shepherds,
but it spr3ng upward among the
thrones. Tho robe OF a Saviour's
righteousness. not black. The CHRIS
tian life is not made up of weeping
and cross bearing and war waging.
Through the revelation of that Christ
mas night / find that religion is not a
groan, but song. In a world of sin
and sick bed and sepulchers, we must
have trouble; but in the darkest night
the heavens part with angelic song.
You may, like Paul, be shipwrecked,
but cxhort you 10 be of good cheer,
for you shall! all escape sale 70
the land. Religion does not snow
itself in the clongatlon OF the
face and the cut OF the garb. Inc
Phariscc who puts his religion INTO
his phylactery has none LETT 1or MS
heart Fretfulness and complaining
10 not belong 10 the family OF Chrls,
tian graccs which move into the heart
when the devil moves out, CHRISTIAN
lty does not irown upon amusemencs
and recreatlons. 1t IS not cynlc, II
is not shrcw, 1T chokes no laughter,
it quenches no light, it defaces no art.
Among the happy, IT is the happiest.
1t is just as much at home on the play
ground as 1t IS IN the churcn. IL Is
just as graceful IN the charade rs IL IS
IN the psalm BOOK, IL sings JUST as
well III surrey gardens as II prays ~
st. Pauls. CHRIST diea tnat we .nl!gh.
1--we. CHRIST. walked tlat we am!gIit
ride. Christ wept that "e might
laugh: -
AGAIN, my spoJect lmpresses: hle
Will the lact that glorious, cnuings
sometlm g nave very nunoi a. y !,
nlngs. Inc straw 'a1let was tlle slaIs'
ing polnt, oul Ine shous Ia luz - LII ...a
nigit SKY reVeaieo W ilat wo o,,. 70 'io
glorious consummatlon. CHrSe VI:
Marys zap, CHRIST on the throne OF
universal domlnlon-what an humble
startIngl What a. glorious IendlnE!
Grace begins on q small scale IN Inc
heart: you r., see only men as trG les
walking. Inc grace Oh you IN Ine
heart is a feeble spark, ana Chr, mr.. :. mas las
70 keep ooth , Janus over It's ~ ies i ~ NC
Diown OUT; wlat an l, Nu'ilole oesna
nlngl But looh at tiiaI same ilian
when ne mas entered heaven. 40
crown ape 10 express MS ioysity. 1U
palace ape 10 express ms wealth. w
scepter aole 70 express ms power eSn anu tha
ms common MOI, tripping t,,a ,r oasrla ,so
!oui15aili VA. olips nv, i, i,amuo vi hor,,
ing Aoch. emory sne ii n', ,a nai r.
ing Will sileIr !idrps. Ot1 q DC" y.
glass mingled Win nre' ociolv s INC
throne OF 0od, 70 60 10 ,,ioI I.t o1 ~, i ,t
ever. Inc spark OF grace tua' SnIi: ,.
had 10 keep Doth hanGs OYER ieS1 ~ !.
come 70 eAllnc5ion' nasinS ;,,,o.t .'p
ihCo h0 I, anu fiory any INV W. ~,
ny. w Id. nunlp so S.1f'is I" nN'
+ ri Th TO-, Hew Tastamcnt churcl, was on
Ill .no A 81 Tshnrnon wotched #
- sa.. So a. 80 Ills orosbed IN.
f nI'. e ,mT "p. The world said
anathema Ten thousand people re-
io;ced at every seeming defeat, and
soid. "Abal aLal SO we would have
# Martyrs on fire cried: "How
lono 0Iord how lonry" Very hum
bic starting, but see tic difference at
the consu,nmation. when Christ with
his almighty arm has struck off the
last chain OF human bondage, and
Himalaya shall be Mount Zion; and
D-n Mo,;oI,. o,,d ooo,nc the