Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-11-29
: AoooMAo G. Il. Va. SATURDAY.. NOVEMBER ~ 1890
You see it all through lis sermons.

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'f You see it ell through lis sermons.
HI "a man becomes q public speaker, in.
Fills orations or discourses you discover
Ibis early whereabouts. What boy
ssees Lctwecn7 and II always sticks to
him. When the apostle Peter preach
les youssec tho fishing nets with Which
isshe had from his earliest days been fa-
,sIniliar. And when Amos delivers his
\ sprophecy you hear in it the bleating of
1.-THE herds which he had in boyhood at.
:$tcnded. Ard in our Lords sermons
conversations yon see all the
lspllases of village life and the mountain
:Sous life surrounding it. They raised
Ether own chickensi in Nazareth, and il
fsafter time he cries: 20 Jerusalem!
jsJerusalem! how often would | have
\. gathered thee US lien gathereth her
schickens under her wings!M He had
sseen3 his mother open the family ward
robe. at the close of summer and the;
10th slyillcrs flying. out, Having dc.
::sssstroyed tho, garments, and in after.
be Sc Lay not up for your
trpasuIires on ea rttl where moth
i doth corrupt In childhood he had.
/ seen a mile of flowers Wliite as the:
Snow, ortred as the flame, blue as the
ssea, or green as the tree tops, and no
4 wonder in his manhood sermon he,srid,
sConsider.tllcl lies.
While one day on high point where
now stands the tomb of Ncby lsnail,
! he had seen winging past him so near
j. as almost to furry his hair the par
fridge and tile hoopoe and tie thrush
and the OSPREY aad the crane and the
raven, and no wonder afterward in his
manhood sermon he said. Behold the
/ fowls of the air." In Nazareth and on
the road to it there are great many
scaIncls. l sec them now i'll memory
making their slow way up the zigza9g
road from the plain of Esdraelon to
! Nazareth. Familiar was Christ with
their appearance. also with that small
insect, the gnat. which lie had seen his
/; mother strain out from q cup of water
or pail of milk. and no wonder he
brings afterward the large quadrupel
/ and the small insect into his sermon,
and while seeing the Pllarisees careful
about snail sins and reckless about
large ones cries out: Woe unto you,
i blind guides, which strain out Il gllat
/ and swallow q CAMEL.
THE SHEEP KNOW HIS VOICE.
+ Tie had in boyllood seen tile s.lcp-
herds get their t,oc,;s mixed up, and to
i one not familiar with the habits of
shepherds and their floclSs, hopeIessly
mixed mp. And a shcepstcaler ar
pears on the scene and dishonesty de-
nlands some of those sheep, wien he
/ owns not one of them. We'll" say
the two honest shepherds, I'VE will
soon settle this matter, and one shep-
herd goes ont in one direction and the
other shepherd goes out in tie other
direction, and the shecpstealer in an
other direction, and each one calls and
the hocks of each of the honest shep-
herds rusli to their owner, willie the
shccpstcaler calls and calls again, but
gets not orc of the flock No wonder
that Christ years aftcr, preaching on a
great occasion and illustrating his own
shepherd qualities, says: When he
puttoth forth his own sheep he goeth
before them and the sheep follow him,
for they know his voice, and the
stranger they will not follow, for they
know not the voice OF the stranger"
The sides Of these hills are terraced
for grapes. The boy Christ had often
stood with great round eyes watching
the trimming OF tho grapevines. Clipl
goes the knife and Off falls branch.
The child Christ says to the farmer,
"yVhat do you do that for?" "Oh, :"
says the farmer "thatis dead branch,
and it is doing nothing and is only in
the way. 50 cnt it Of" Then the
farmer with his sharp knife prnnes
from living branch this and that ten
drill and the other tendril But,
says the child Christ, "these twigs that
you cut OF now are not dead. What
do you do that for2' ''Oh," says the
farmer, 1--WE pl'une off these that the
main branch may have more of the
sap, and SO be more fruitful" No
wonder in after years Christ said in
his sermon: 81 am the true vine and
my Father is the husbandlnan: every
branch in me that beareth not fruit he
taketh away, and every branch that
bearetll fruit he pu-geth it that it may
bring forth more fruit" Capital No
ono who had not been a country boy
would have said that.
JESUS KNEW ALL NATURE.
Streaks of nature all through Christ's
sermons and conversations. When a
pigeon descended upon Christ's head at
his baptism in the Jordan it was not
the first pigeon he had seen. And then
he has such wide sweep of discourse as
you may imagine from one who has
stood on the hills that overlook Naza-
roth AS far as understand, Christ
visited the Mediterranean sea only
once, but any clear morning he could
run up on hill near Nazareth and
| look off to the west and see the Lied
itcrranean, while there in the north is
snowy Mount Lebanon, clad as in
white robeS ST ascension, and yonder on
the east and southeast Mount Gilboa,
Mount Tabor and Mount Gilead and
yonder in the south is tie plain Of ,Es-
| dr.elen over which we rode yesterday
on. our way to Nazareth. Those mount
aims of his boyhood in his memory, do
you wonder that Christ, when he want