Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-08-16


larger percentages. They are trying to sat-
isfy their soul with diet OF mortgages aud
stocks Therears others here who have been
trying to get famous, and have succeeded to
O greater or less extent; and they have been
irving to srtisfy their soul with the chopped
feed of magazines and newspapers. All these
men are no more happy now than before they
made the first thousand dollars, no moro
happy now than when for the first time they
saw their names favoraby mentioned. They
cannot analyze or define thoir feelings; butt
will tell them what is tho matter-they are
hungry for the old corn of the Gospel. That
you must have, or DO pinched and wan and
wasted and hollow-eyed and shriveled up
with an eternity Of famine.
The inf1del scientists Of this day are offer
ing US a different kind of soul food; but they
are, of all men, the most miserable. I have
known many of them; but never knew one
Of them who came within thousand miles
of being happy. The great John Stewart
Mill provided for himself Il new kind of por>
ridge; but yet, when he comes to die, he &C
knowledges that his philosophy never gave
him any comfort in days of bereavement, and
in roundabout way he admits that his life
was q failure. So it is with all infdel scien-
fists. They are trying to live on telescopes
end crucibles aud protoplasns, and they
charger us with can't, not realizing that there
is no such intolerable can't in all the world ~
this perpetual talk We are hearing abou!
positive philosophy" and "the absolute
and "the great to be" and "tha everlasting
no." and 'the higher unity" aul "the
latent potentialities, an "the cathedral of
the immensities" have been translating
what these mon have boon writing, and l
have boen translating what they have been
doing, aud will tell you what it all means
hot o,t 70 iii al nd
my only wonler is that Col has not killed
Them Ihave in other days tasted of their con-
fections, anil come back and tell you to-day
that there is no nutriment or life or health i'll
anything but the bread male out Of the old
corn of the Gospel. What do 1 moan by
that? 1 mean that Christ is the breai OF
lie, and taking Him. you live aul live for
ever.
But, you say, corn is of but little practical
use unless it is threshed and ground and
baked. answer: This Gospel corn has gone
through that process. When on Calvary all
the hoofs of human scorn came down on the
heart of Christ, and all tho fails of satanic
fury beat Him long and fast, was not the
corn threshed? When the mills Of Gods in
diguatiou against sin caught Christ between
the upper aud neither rollers was not the
corn ground? When Jesus descended into
hell, and the flames of the lost world wrapped
Him all about, was not tho corn baked? OL
yes! Christ is rca ly; His pardon all really;
His peace all rea iy: everything ready in
Christ. Arc you ready for Him?
You say: THAT is such simple Gospel"
know it is. You say you thought religion
was strange mixture OF elaborate com-
pounds No; it is so plain that any apecS-
darian may understand it. In its simplicity
is its power If you could this morning re-
alize that Christ died to save from sin anil
death and hell not only your minister, aud
your neighbor, aud your father, AMI your
child, but you, it would make CHS hour like
the Judgment day for agitations, aud, no
longer able to keep your seat, you would
leap up crying: For mo! for me" Col
grant that you, my brother, may seq this
Gospel with your own eyes. AMI hear it with
your own ears, and fesl with your own heart
that you are a lost SOUL but that Christ
comes for your e2trication. Can you not
take that truth and digest it, aud make it Il
part of your immortal life? 1t is only bread.
You have noticed that invalids cannot
take all kinds of food. The food that will
do for ono will not do for another. There
are kinds of food which will pro luce. in
cases of invalidisn, very speedy death.
But you have noticed that all persons, how.
over weak they may be, can tlke bead.
On, soul sick with sin, invalid in your
transgressonS, think this Gospel will
agree vita you! l think if you caunot take
anything else you can take this Lost
found! Suuken = raised? Condemned =
pardoned! Cast out-invite1 i'll! That is
the old corn of the Gospel.
You have often seen a wheel with spokeS
of different colors, and when the wheel was
rapidly turned all the colors blended into
rainbow of exquisite beauty. wish
could to-day, take the peace, aud tho life,
and the joy and glory Of Christ. and turn turf,
them before your soul with such speed ana
such strength that you would be enchanted
with the revolving splendors of that name
which is above every name-the name writ
ten once with tears of exile and i'll bloc OF
martyrdom, but written now in FURNISHED
crown, and lifted scoptre, aud transangelic
throne.
There IS another characteristic about
bread, and that is, You never get tired of it,
Thore are people here seventy years of age
who fiud it just as appropriate for their ap-
petite as they did when. in boyhood, their
mother cut u slice of it clear around the loaf
You have not got tired of bread. and that is
a characteristic of tue Gospel. Old Christian
take His name out of our Bible, and let us
with pen and ink erase that name wherever
we see it. Let us cast it out Of our hymno-
logy, aud let There is Fountain and
Rock of Ages go into forgetrulness. Let
us tear down the communion table where we
celebrate His love. Let us dash down the
baptismal bowl where we were consecrated to
Him. Let lis hurl Jesus from our heart, and
ask some other hero to come in. Let us say,
$50 away, Jesus want another companion
another friend, than Thou art" Could you
do it? The years of your past life, aged man.
would utter a protest against it, and the
graves Of your Christian dead would charge
you with being an migrate, and your littlo
grandchildren would say: Grandfather,
don't do that. Jesus is the ono to whom we
say our prayers at night, and who is to open
heaven when we die Grandfather, don't do
that" Tired of jesus The Burgundy rose
you pluck from the garden is not so fresh and
fair and beautiful Tired of Jesus? AS we'll
get weary Of the spring morning and the
voices of the mountain runnel, and the quiet
of your own home, aud the gladness Of your
own children. Jesus is bread and the ap-
petite for that is never obliterated.
Do not talk to mo about man being
doubtful about the doctrines of grace. HE'S
not doubtful to me at all. Bread is bread,
and know it the moment see it, had a
cornfeld which / cultured with my own
hand did not ask once in all the summer:
SIS this corn% dill not hunt up the Agri-
cutturist to get picture of corn. was horn
IN sight OF acornlield and know all about
it When these Israelites came to Canaan
and looked off upon the fields the cry was:
Corn! corn" Andi man has ouce tasted
Of this heavenly breal he knows 1t right
away. He can tell this corn Of tho gospel
Canaan from "the ciaf which the wind
driveth away" bless Cod so many have
found this Gospel corn. 1t is the bread of
which, if a man eat he shall never hunger.
set the gladness of your soul to the tunes of
"Ariel" and Antioch Iring this wedding
bells, for Christ aul your soul are married,
anil there is no power on earth or ia hell to
get out letters of divorce n ,lt.
But alas for tho famine struck! . rough
corn, yet it seems you have no sickle to cut
Il, no mill to grinl it, no i,., to ba,,, it, no
ao,osito to eat it Starving to tloati when
tn, plain is golden wit: a magnificent har-
vest!
Irode som, thirtoon mills to Sc, the Alox-
M Ter. n large steamship that WAS baacEsl
near Southampton, L. /. It WAS splendid
vessel. walked up aul down tho decks
aa'l in the cabins said; ",Vhat pity that
this vessel s!oull 81 to pieces, or BE- lying