Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-06-20
ACOoMAC G. a. VA. SATURDAY, JUNE 90

dreds of years, into q splendid pande,
moniuIn on q small scale. Abaddon
the Third You go up and assault that
old Episcopal church, which has been
storning the heavens for centuries with
the sublimest prayers that were ever
uttered-church OF Bishop Leighton,
Bishop White and Bishop Mcnvaine,
and get that denomination discussing
men instead OF discussing the eternities.
Abaddon the Fourth You go up to
that old Methodist church, which has,
through her revivals, sent millions to
heaven which we would otherwise
have added to our population; the
church OF Wesley nnd Matthew Siup.
son, against which we have an especial
grudge. and get them so absorbed in
discussing whether women shall take
part in her conference that they shall
not lave so much time to discuss how
many sons and daughters she will take
to glory. :
THE SLY AND. SUBTLE lyoRK. ots4;sATAH.
What sa,nazes nie lliost Is that nIl
people do not see that the entire move
ment ut this time all over Clristendonl
Is satanic. Many Of the internal ut
tacks arc sly and hidden and strategic
and 40 ingenious that they are not easily
discovered But liere is bold and I'M
covered attempt Of the powers of dark
ness to split up the churches, to get
ministers to take each other by the
throat. to make religion laughing
stock of earth and hell, to leave the
Bible with no more respect or.authen-
ITCHY than ON old almanac OF 1922,
which told what would be the change
of weather six months ahead and in
what quarter of the moon it is best to
plant turnips In word. the effort is
to stop the evangelzation OF the world
It seems to me very much like this:
There has been railroad accident and
many are wounded and dying There
are several drug stores near. the scene
of casualty. All the doctors and drug
gists are needed. and needed right
away Bandages. stiInulants. anas-
thetics, medicines of all sorts. What
are the doctors and druggists doing2
Discussing the contents of some old
bottles OH the top slielf--bottles of med.
icine which some doctors and druggists
mixed two or three hundred years ago.
Come, doctorsl" Come, druggists"
cry the people, land help these wound
ed and dying that are being brought
from beneath the ti!nbers of the crushed
rail train. In little while it will be
too late. Come, for Gods sake Come
right awayl" No says doctor,
mot until we have settled whether the
medicine on that top shelf was rightly
mixed. say there wero too many
drops of laudanum in it, and this other
man says there were too many drops OF
campfire, and we must get this ques-
ton settled before we can attend to the
railroad accident.
And one doctor takes another doctor
by tile collar and pushes him back
against the counter, and one of the
druggists says, IF you will not admit
that am right about that one bottle |
will smash every bottle in your apothe-
cary store" and be proceeds to smash.
Meanwhile, on the lower shelf. plainly
marked and within easy reach. are all
the medicines needed for the helping
OF the sufferers 10y the accident, and in
that drawer, easily opened, are band
ages and spiints, for the lack of which
fifty people are dying outside the drug
store Before 1 apply this thought,
every one sees its application. Here is
this old world, and it is off track. Sin
and sorrow have collided with it. The
groan of agony is fourteen hundred
million voiced.
God has opened for relief and cure
great sanitarium, great house OF ner.
cy, and all it's shelves are filed with
balsalns, with catllolicons, with help
glorious help, tremendous help, help SO
easily administered that you need not
get upon any step ladder to reach it.
You can reach it on your knees and
then hand it to all the suffering. and the
SHINING and the dying Comfort for all
the troubled Pardon for all the guilty J.
Peace for all the dyingl Butwliile the
world is needing the relief and perish
ing for lack of it, what of the church1
Why. it is full of fighting doctors. On
the top shelf are some old bottles which
several hundred years ago Calvin or
Arlninius, or the members OF the synod
of bort, or the formers OF the Nicene
creed filed with holy mixtures, and IN
til we get a revision of these old bottles
and find out whether we must take a
teaspoonful or tablespoonful, and
whether befone or after meals, let the
nations suffer and groan and die. Save
the bottles by all means, if you cannot
save anything else
Now, what part shall you and take
In this controversy which fills all Chris
tendon with clangor9 My advice is:
Take no part. In time of riot all
mayors of cities advise good citizens to
stay at home or in their places of bust.
ness, and in this time of religious riot !
advise you to go about your regular
work for God. Leave the bottles on
the higher shelves for others to fight
about and take the two bottles on the
shelf within easy reach, the two bottles
which arc all this dying world needs;
the one filled with a potion which is
for the cleansing Of all sin, the other
filled with a potion which is for the
soothing OF all suffering Two Gospel
bottlesl Christ mixed them out of his
own tears and blood H. them is no
human admixture. Spend no time on
the mysteries You, man only five
or six feet high. ought not try to wade
an ocean thousand feet deep.