Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-11-15
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teerS ana baggage Inen lave Deeu or
dered to pitch our tents for tonight at
Bethel 1t is already getting SO dark
that we have to give up ell idea of
guiding the horses, and leave them to
their own sagacity. We ride down
amid lnuu cabins end Into ravincs,
where the lorses leap FROM depth to
depth, rocks below rocks. rocks under
rocks Whoa! Whoa! We dismount in
this place, memorable for many things
in Bible history, the two more prolni-
nent, a theological seminary, where Of
old they made ministers, and for Jacobs
dream. The students of this Bethel
Theological seminary we're called sons
of the prophets" Here the young men
were fitted for. the ministry, and those
OF. us whoever had the advantage of
snclr institutions will evcrlastingly be
grateful. and in the calendar Of saints,
j which read with especial affection,
are tho doctors Of divinity who blessed
lie with their care.
thank Gcd that from these theologi-
cal seminaries there is now coming forth
a magnificent crop of young ministers,
who are taking the pulpits in all parts
of the land. hail their coming, and
tell these young brothers to shake off
the sonnolence of centuries, and get
out from under the dusty shelves of
theological discussions which have no
practical bearing on this age, which
needs to get rid of it's sins and have its
sorrows comforted. Many of our pull
pits are dying of hundrum. People
do not go to church because they cam
not endure the technicalities and pro-
found explanations of nothing, and
sermons about the eternal generation
of the son., and the difference between
sub-lapsarianism and supra-lapsarian-
ism, and about who Mclchisedcck
wasn't. There ought to be as much
difference between the modes of pre-
scnting truth now and in olden time
as between n Lightning express rail train
and canal boat.
Years ;rgo went up to the door of a
factory in Kew England On the out
side door saw the words, mo admit
lance" went in and came to an
other door over which were the words,
mo adlnittance." Of course I went
in, and came to the third door in
scribed with the words, mo admit
lance" Having entered this I found
the people inside making pins, beallti-
full pins, useful pins. and nothing but
pins. So over the outside door of
many of the churches has been prae-
tically written tn, words, mo admit
lance" Some have entered and have
come to the inside door, and found the
words, No admittancc. But, per-
sisting, they have come inside, and
found us sounding out our little nice
ties Of belief, pointing out our little diff
fercnces of theological sentiment
making pins!
THU LADDER. FROM EAI,a,rT To -rTr.,-.'-''
But most distinguished was Bethel
for that famous dream which Jacob
had, his head on collection of stones.
He had no trouble in this rocky region
in finding rocky pillow There is
hardly anything else but stone. Yet
the people of those lands have'a way
of drawing their outer garment up
over their head and face, and such 4
pillow suppose Jacob had under his
head The plural was used in the BIZ
bic story, and you find it was not a pill.
low of stone, but of stones, suppose,
20 that if one proved to be of uneven
surface he would turn over in the
night and take another stone, for with
such q hard bolster he would often
change in the night. Well, that night
God built in Jacobs dream a long
splendid ladder. the feet Of it on either
side of the tired pilgrims pillow, ard
the top of it lnorticcd in the sky. And
bright imrlortals came out from the
castles of amber and gold and put
their shining feet on the shining rungs
of the ladder, and they kept coming
down and going up, a procession both
ways.
1 suppose they had wings, for the
Bible almost always reports them as
having wings, but this was ladder on
which they used hands and feet to en-
courage all those of US who have no
wings to climb, and encouraging US to
believe that if we will use what we
have God will provide a way, and if we
will employ the hand and the foot he
will furnish the ladder. Young inan.
do not wait for wings. Those angels
folded theirs to show you wings are not
necessary. Let all the people who
have hard pillows, hard for sickness or
hard for poverty or hard for persist
ence, know that u hard pillow is the
landing place of angels. They seldom
descend to pillows of elder down. They
seldom build dreams in the brain OF
the one who sleeps easy.
The greatess dream of all time was
that of st. John. with his head on the
rocks of Patmos. and in that vision lie
heard the seven trumpets sounded, and
saw all the polnp Of heaven in. process
sion cherubic, seraphic, archangclic.
The next moss memorable and glorious
dream was that of John Dunyan, his
pillow the cold stone of the floor Of
Bedford Jail, from which he saw the
celestial city, and SO many entering it
he cried out in his dream, II wish my
self among them.
TIE DREAMS OF GENUS.
The next most wonderful dream was
that of Washington sleeping on the
ground at Valley Forge, his head Oh a
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