Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-01-04
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EsMoNs SUGGESTED BY THE
Is ocALlTY AND SEASON.
4 bsfs Ar; Many That WIN he Saved for
I'll Great Triumph Is Tot to Co.ne-rhe
: Es.tthll ly Armlsr Of tn. Living God--rhe
+: ; 81, D snttem."
trout, Dec. 24.-Thc Rev. T. De
Win Ialmage. D. D., OF BROOKLYN
whof e here with his party, preached
3toda 3to;a group of friends on THE
E.Sky nthem. Ills text was Luke ii.
re iilory to God in the highest, and
al cl,iIrsia VA peace, good willtoward men,"
oil gyttlcllshe delivered the following
SdisSoIrse:
S7sH3lstI have what longed for.
SgIEss INA eve in the Holy Land. This
-i;ssFg of year that Christ landed.
Hes December Christ This is
stheScliili air through f.sillc de.
scended. Il look up through tlesees,
Christmas skies, and I-see no looscned
stars iastening southwark to halt above,
Bethlehem, tall the stars suggest,
tliesSlarsoff Bethlehem. No moro need
It'll at Of stil ID rup loftg the sky;
;3tt ii q sthe
s;EkiiGasfsa feetsof s him who, though,
Eoiicssan exile, is now entllrened for.
sevefE Freslr-up from Bethlehem, |
alnsflillsof the scenes suggested by a
visitao that village You know that
wlioIs region of Bethlehem is famous
insBiblc: story. There we the way
ingsharvests of Boaz, in which Ruth
CLEANED for herself and weeping Ma
oniisss There David the warrior was
+ thirsty, and three mensof unlieard OF
sselfdenial broke through the Philis-
tinie,aruiy to get him a drink. 1t was
tothat region that Joseph and Mary
camss to have their names enrolled in
the eensus. That is what the Scripture
mems when it says they came Ito be
taxed, for people did not i'll those
days rush after tile assessors of tax
anymore than they now do.
sTIIE HOLY ONE IN THE MANGER-
TIE village inn was crowded with
thesstrangers who had come up by the
conanand OF government to have their
names in the census, SO that Joseph
andMary were obliged to lodge i'll the
stables. You have seen some of those
large stone buildings, in the center of
which the canlels were kept, whilerul-
hing out from this center in all direc-
tionS there were rooms, IN one ofwhich
JESUS was born. Had his parents been
more SLOWLY appareled have no
douE5t they would have found more
comfortable entertainment Thatnight
in tic fields the shepherds, with crook
andg kindlcd fires. were watching
thcH hoclzs, when bark to the
souad of voices strangely sweet.
Car it be that the naidcns
of ssBet!ileheni- have come out to
serSilade the weary Shepherds But
noW light stoops upon them like
tlleEmoriling, SO that the flocks arise,
shaking their snowy fleece and bleat-
incl TO their drowsy young. The
heSpens arc filled with armies Of light,
and the earth quakes under the liar
molly as. echoed back from cloud to
cIo4d, it rings over the midnight hills:
Glory to God in the highest, and on
.earIal peace, good will to mcn!" 1t
secEs that the crown Of royalty and
doTsinion and power which Christ left
beIsSJ linn was hung on.the sky III
81 ut OF Bethlehem. Who knows but
that that crown may have been mis-
taken by the wise mon for the star
running and pointing downward
NV subject, in the first place, i'm
presses ME with the fact that indi-
gence is not always significant Of deg
radiation. When princes are born,
heralds announce it, and cannon
thunder it, and flags wave it, and
Examinations set cities on fire with
the tid:ngs. Some of us i'll England
or America remember the time Of re-
ioicing when the Prince of Wales was
born. You can remember the glad
ness throughout Christendom at the
nativity in the palace at Madrid. But
when our glorious Prince was born,
there was no rejoicing on Garth. Poor
and growing poorer. yet the heavenly
recognition that Christmas night
shows the truth of tho proposition
that indulgence is not always signih-
cant of degradation.
In al ages there have been great
hearts throbbing under rags, tender
sympathies under rough exterior, gold
in the quartz Parian marble i'll the
quarry, and in every stable of priva-
ton wonders of excellence that lave
been the joy of the heavenly host.
All the great deiverers of literature
and OF nations were born in homes
without aflluence, and from their own
privation learned TO speak and fight
for the oppressed. Many man has
held up his pine knot light from the
wilderness until all nations and gen
erations have seen it, and OF OF his
hard crust of perjury has broken the
bread of knowledge and religion for
the starving millions OF the race.
Poetry, and science, and literature,
and commerce, and laws, and constr
tutions, and liberty, like Christ, were
born III lnanger.
GOD HATH CHOSEN THE WEAK.
ALI the great thoughts which have
decided the destiny of nations started
corners, and had Hcrods
wanted to Stay them, and lsca-
who betrayed them, and rab-
NJ nl.,,s;t.:s,sstllat crucified them, and sepul-
9s AZ d that confined them until they
49, a. forth in glorious resurrection.
Strong character, like the rhododen-
.drot,ili, is an Alpine plant, that grows
fastest in the storm. Men are like
wheat, worth all the more foT ing
failed. Some of the most us 70
pie would never have cor posi-
lions of usefulness had the not been