Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-01-25

hands and the faintlng, the cries:
No hope! we are lost! we are lost T
The sail puts out its wings Of fire, the
ropes make burning ladder in tile
night heavens, the spirit Of wreck
misses, in the waves, and ON
the hurricane deck shakes out its
banner of smoke and darkness. Down
with the life boats" cries'the captain.
Down with the life boats!" People
rush into them. The boats are about
full. Room only for one moro man.
You are standing OH the deck beside
the captain. Who shall it be? You
or the caplain2 The captain says:
You" You jump and are saved.
He stands there. and dies. Now, YOU
believe that Capt. Braveheart sacri-
|.liced himself for his passengers, but
you believe it with love, with tears,
with hot aud long. continued exclania-
Iltions, with grief atHllis loss and With
ioy at YOUR dcliverance. That is saw
ing faith. In other words, what you.
believe with all the heart, and believe
in regard to yourself. On this hinge
turns my sermon; aye. the salvation
of Your immortal soul.
TIE BRIDGE OF TEE EocK OF ACES,
You often go across a. bridge you
know nothing about. You do not
know who built the bridge, you do
not know what material it is made OF;
but you como to it, and walk over it,
and ask 10 questions. And lere is iii
arched bridge blasted from the Rock
of Ages" and built by the architect Of
the whole universe, spanning. the dark
gulf between sin and Righteousness,
and all God asks you is to walk across
it; and you start. and you come to it,
and you stop, and you go little way
OH and you stop, and you fall back
and you experiment You say: How
do l know that bridge will bold met"
instead of marching on with firm step,
asking no questions, but feeling that
the strength of the eternal God is
under you. O, was there ever prize
offered so cheap as pardon and heaven
are offered TO you2 For low muclf2
A million dollars2 1t is certainly
worth more than that. But cheaper
than that you can have it. Ten thou
sand dollals2 Less than that.
Five thousand dollars3 Less than
that. One dollari Less than
that. One farthing2 Less than
that. "Without money and without
price" No money to pay. No jour
ncy TO take. No penancc to suffer
Only just one decisive action OF the
soul: "Belcve on the Lord Jesus
Christ. and thou shalt be saved. f" Shall
try to tell you whatit is to be saved2
cannot tell you. No man, no angel
can tell you. But I can hint at it.
For my text. brings me up u this
point: Thou shalt be saved. 1t
means happy life here, and peace
full death and blissful eternity. 1t
is a grand thing to go to sleep at
night, and to get up in the morning,
and to do business all day feeling that
all is right between my heart and
God. No accident, no sickness, no
persecution, no peril no sword can
do me any permanent damage. | am
q forgiven child of God, and he is
bound to see me through. He has
sworn he will sec me through. Tie
mountains may depart, the earth may
burn. the light Of the stars may be
blown out by the blast of tho judg-
mcnt hurricane; but life and death,
things present and things to come, are
mine. Yea, farther than that-it
means peaceful death.
CHRIST TAKES AWAY TIE FEAR OF
DEATH.
blrs. Hcmans, Mrs. Sigourney, DR..
Young and almost all the poets have
said handsome things about death.
There is nothing beautiful about it.
When VIC stand by the white and.rigid
features Of those whom we love, anc
they give no answering pressure of the
hand, and no returning kiss of the
lip, we do not want anybody poetizing
around about us. Death is loathsolue-
ness and midnight, and the wringing
of the heart until the tendrils snap and
curl in the torture unless Christ DC
with US. confess to you to all int F.
mite fear, a consuming horror, OF
death unless Christ shall be with me.
I would rather go down into a cave oi
wild beasts or a jungle of reptiles than
into the grave, unless Christ goes with
me. Will you tell me that | am to be
carried out from my bright homo, and
put away in the darknessa l cannot
bear darkness. At the first coming Of
the evening must have the gas lit,
and the further on in life get, the
more like to have my friends around
about me. And am to be put off for
thousands OF years i'll a; dark place,
with 10 one to speak to2 When the
holidays come, aud the gifts are dis
tributcd, shall l add no JOY to the
"Merry Christmas" or the "Happy
New Year2" All, do not point down
10 the hole in the ground, the grave,
and cali it a beautiful place; unless
there be some supernatural illumlna-
ton, l shudder back from it. My
whole nature revolts at it. But
now this glorious lamp is lifted
above the grave, and all the
darkness is gone, and the: way
is clear. Hook into it now without a
single shudder. Now my anxiety Is
not about death; my anxiety is that |
may live Alright, for know that II
nv life is consistent when come to
the last hour, and this voice is silent,
and these eyes are closed. and fthese
hands with which / beg for your etcr-
nal salvation today are folded over the
|. still heart, that then shall only be-
ein to live. What power is there in
ANYTHING - chill me III the: last hour
if Christ wraps around me tic skirt OF
his own garment? What darkness
can fall upon my eyclids then, amid
the heavenly daybreaka 0 death,
will not fear thee then! Back to thy
cavern of darkness, thou robber OF all
the earth. Fly, thou despoiler OF fam
iies. With this battle ak ] liew thee
in twain from helmet TO sandal, the
voice Of Christ sounding all.over the