Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-07-12

and since sho has gon, you have 10 ambition
left.
Oh, this is clumsy world when it tries TO
! comfort broken heart. Lem bIill Coz
lear's engine I eau paint n Raphaors Ma.
donna,"I can play nDscthoyon's "Ero;ca
Symphony" as easily as this world can COM
| fort a broken heart. Aud yet you have been
como to YOU and say "Gtot your mini OF
this; 20 out and breathe fresh mir; plunge
deeper into businessf" No. Thoro was I
minute when lie camo to you--pcrhap1 in
the watch OF tho night, perhaps In your
place of business, perhaps along tho street
and He breathcd something into your soul
that gave peace, rest. infinite quiet. Sc: thai
you coull take out tho photograph OF tho
departed ons and loo, into t'ls eyes md fnco
Of tho dear ono and say: ut is all right;
SHE is better of; woul,l not call her back:
Lord, thank Thee that Thou hast comtortel
my poor heart"
the fact that religion hls tho power to give
composurc in tho Lust moment. | mover shall
forgot the first time confronted death. Wp
won't across the cornlieltls in the country. L
WIS led by my fathers hand, and we came TO
tho farm house where the bereavement had
come md we saw the crowd of wagons and
carriages but there wdsona carriage thatcs-
pccially attracted my boyish attention,
and 1t had blacs rume1. i said:
those black tasSals on tho Top"
and after it was explained to me l was lifte.l
ND to look upon tho bright fnco Of an aSc1
Christian woman who three days before had
departed in triumph; tho whole scene made
an impression mover forgot
In our Sermons and In our lag cxhortatloas
VIC nre very npt, when we want to bring IL
Illustrations of dying triumph, to 80 back to
some distinguished porSonaSc--to n John
Knox or a Harriet Newell. But want You
for witnesses. want to know it you havo
over seen anything to make you believe tna =.
tho religion Of Christ can give composllre III
the final hour Now in the courts attorney,
Jury and Judge will never almit moro hear
saw. They demand TINT tho witness must
hive seen with his own eyes or heard with
his own ears, aud so an critical in my ex-
animation OF you now; and want TO KNOW
whether YOU have seen or heard anything
that makes You believe that the religion oil
Christ gives composure in tho final hour.
"Oh, yes,n you say, VI saw my father m
mother depart. There was great difference
in their dcathbels. Standing by th9 one W.
felt moro ycaeration BY tao other, thera
was moro tenderness" Doforo tho ono you
bowed perhaps inawc In the other casr yoi
felt as il vol, would like to go along with her.
How did they feel in that last hour? How
dill they seem to net? lNcro they very mnc'i
frightened? Did they take hold Of this world
with both han,ls as though they did no. want
to give it up? "Oh, no, you say, no, L
, remember rs though it wero yesterday; sh,
bn.l kind worul for lis MI, nrrl there were
n fow mementoes distributed among the
children, and then she toll us how kind W.
must be to our father in his lonliness, an
then she lls5el us Good-by and went asleep
as calmly as child i'll 4 cradle"
What male her so composed? Natural
courage? Mo- you say, "motlicr was yccy
nervous: when the carriage inclined to TIL!
side of tho road sho would cry out: she was
always rather weakly" What, then. gave
her cornposurc. Was it bocaus, she did not
care much for you, and the pinS OF parting
was not great? "Oa," you say, Ssh, show
crod upoa usa wealth Of affection; no mother
over lovol her children moro than mothe'
loved us; she shovel it by tn, way s'l3
nursel us when wo wero sick, and she t2llc
for us until her strength gave out" What.
then, was it That ga1e her com?osuro Ill tl9
last hour? Do not hide it, D. frant.an les
mo know. "Oa,n you say, sit was bcclus,
she was so good; she made tho Lord her por-
ton and she had faith that sho wonll SO
straight to glory an that w. saoiil nll inc's
her at last at tho foot OF the throne"
IIcro arc people who say, 81 saw n Chris,
tan brother dio aud he triumphc IN
some one els,, 81 saw n Christian sister dig
and sho triumplol" S,ms ono else will
sav 81 saw Christian daughter die an sh,
triumphcd." Com, all yo who have seen
the last momcnts Of Christian, anil give
testimony in this cause on trial. Uncover
yonr heads, put youc haul OF tho oil family
Bible from which they li;cl ID real the proI:-
isos and promise i'll tue presence OF hiya
heaven Tint You will tell til, TRUTH tho
whole truth aud nothing but tho trut:l.
With what you have so,n with your OWL
oycs, end from what you h1yo heard VIII!
your own cars, is thoro power III thls GoSpei
TO give calmncss and triumph in the lost ext
rency9 Tho response comes from all sides,
| froui,voung and old and middle and aged.
"IWo ote witneSscs@
You see my friends, have not put before
vol, today an abstraction, or chimera or
anything like guess work. present YOU
affilavils Of the bcst men and women, living
and dead. Two witnesses in court will es-
tablisli fact Here arc not two wtneS es,
but thousands of witncSses-on earth mill
ions OF witnesses and i'll heaven a great
multitude Of witnesses that no man can num-
bar, testifying that there is power in this re-
ligion 10 convert the soul, to give comfort in
trouble and to afford composuro in the last
hour II ten men should como to you when
YOU are sick with appalling sickness, and
say they had tho same sickness, and took
certain medicine and it cured them, you
would probably take it.
Now, suppose ten other men should como
I'D and say "Wc don't believe there is any
thing in that medicine" "Well," say,
''hava you ever tried it, "No. l never
tried it, but 1 don't believe there is any
thing in it, Of course you discredit their
testimony. The skeptic may come and say.
"Thcre is no power i'll Your religion"
"Havc you ever tried it?' mo, no."
"Thcn, ayauntr Let me take the testimony
of the millions of souls TINT havo been con,
vertel to God, and comfortol in tria! and
soaccd in tho last hour. We. will take
their testimony as they cry I'VE are wit
nesseSw
Som, time ago Professor Henry, Of Wash
inrton. discovered new star, and the tidngs
spell by submarine telegraph. and all the Oh
sarva tories OF Europe were watching for that
new star Oh, nearer, looking out through
the darkness OF thy soul today, canst thou
see bright star heaming OH thee? "Where?'
Won nv 'where? How can iintl it?' Look
along uy the line Of t!,o Gross Of tie Son Of
Col. Do You not see it trembling with all
tenderness aud bcaming with all hope: 1t IS
the Star of Bethlehem.
Deep horror thol my vitals froze,
Death struck, | ceased the tide TO STEM,
When suddenly 4 star arose
it was the tar Of bethlehem.
Oh, bearer, get your cyc on it. 1t is easier
now for you to become Christian than IL
is TO stay away from Christ and heaven.
When Madame Sontag began her musical
career she wns Missed OF the stage at Vienna
by the friends of her rival, Amelia Steinin-
ger, who hail alrea " begun to decline
through her dissipation Years passed on,
aud one day Nadine Sontag, in her t glory,
when she saw little child leading n blind
woman, and she said, "Come here, my little
child, come here. Who is that you are lead
ing BY the hand" And the little child re-
piled, "Thnts my mother; that's Amelia
Steininger She used to he great singer,
but she lost her voice, au she cricl so much
about it that she lost her oyesight." Give
my love TO her, said Madame Sontac, and
tell her an old acaaaintanc, will call on her
this afternoon"
The next week in Berlin a vast assemblase