Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-06-13
it ali the harder to bear. A man is in
danger OF becoming cynical.

it ali the harder to bear. A man is in
danger OF becoming cynical.
BELIEVED In UNIVERSAL DAafTATIoN.
A clergyman of the Univers,list
church went into neighborhood for
the establishment of a church of his
| denomination, and lie was anxious to
! find some one of that denomination,
and he was pointed to certain house
end went there He said to the man
of the house, Il understand you are a
Universalist; want you to help me in
the enterprise. "Well," said the man,
81 am Universalist but have Pc
culiar kind of upiversalissn. What
is that7" asked the minister. well"
replied the other. II have been out in
| the world. and have been cheated
and slandered and outraged and abused
until believe in universal dnnHlatioal"
| The great danger is that r,en will be-
come cynical and given to believe, as
| David was tempted to say, that all
lnen are liars. Oh, my friends, do not
let that be the effect upon your soulsl
| If you cannot endure little persccu-
| ton, how do you think our fathers en-
7! dured great persecution' Motley, III
this Dutch Republic, tells us OF Egg
-nont, the martyr, who. condemned to
Ebe belleaded, nnfastened lis collar on
the WY to the scaiTold, and when they
asked him why he did that he said. so
they will not be detained in their work;
want to be ready" Oh, how little we
have to endure compared with those
who have gone before us!"
Now, if you have come across i'll
treatment, let INC tell you you are in
excellent conpany-Christ and Luther
and Calico and Columbus and John
Jay and Josiah Quincy and thousands
of men and women, the best spirits of
earth and heaven. Bulge not one
inch, though all hell wreck upon you
its vengeance, and you be made tar
get for devils to Shoot at. Do you not
think Christ knows all about persecu-
tion2 Was lie not Kissed at2 Was he
not struck on the check? Was he not
pursued all the days of his life2 Did
they not expectorate upon himS Or,
to put it in Bible language, They spit
upon hini." And cannot he under
stand what persecution ISL Cast thy
burden upon the Lord, and lie shall sus-
tain thee
THE BURDEN OF SICKNESS.
Third-There are others who carry
great burdens of physical ailments.
When sudden sickness has come, and
fierce choleras and malignant fcvers
take the castles of life by storm, we
appeal to God; but in these chronic
ailments which wear out the strength
day after day, and week after week,
and year after year, how little resort
ing to God for solaccl Then people
depend upon their tonics, and their
plasters, and their cordials, rather than
upon heavenly stimulants. Oh, low
few people there arc completely well.
Some of you, by dint of perseverance
and care, have kept living TO this time; |
but how you have had to war against
physical ailments! Antediluvians, with !
out medical college and infirlnary and
apotllecary shop, multiplied their years
by hundreds, but he who has gone
through the gantlet of disease III our
time and has come to seventy years of
age, is hero worthy of u palm.
The world seems to be a great hos
pital, and you run against rlieumatislns
and consulnptions and scrofufas and
neuralgias and scores of old diseases
baptized by new nomenclature. Oh,
how heavy q burden sickness is! It'll
takes the color out OF the sky and the
sparkle out of the wave and the sweet
ness out of the fruit and the lustcr out
of the night. When the limbs ache,
when the respiration is painful, when
the mouth is hot, when the ear roars
with unhealthy distractions, how hard
it is to be patient ond cheerful and as
siduous Cast thy burden upon thel
Lord" Does your head ache7 Hist
wore the thorn. Do your feet hurtP
His were crushed of the spikes. Is your
side painful2 His was struck by theI
spear. Do you feel like giving way
under the burden9 Ills weakness gave
way under the cross.
While you are in every possible way /
to try to restore your physical vigor,
you are to remember that more sooth-
ing than any anodync, and more vital I
ling than any stiinulant, and more
strengthening than any tonic is the
prescription of the text, Cast thy bur
den upon the Lord, and he shall sus-
tain thee" we hear a great deal Of
talk now about faith cure. and some
people say it cannot be dono and it is
a failure. do not know bu. that the
chief advance of the church is to be in
that direction. Marvellous things come
to me day by day which make me think
that if the age of miracles is past it is
because the faith Of miracles is past
A SAMPLE CASE.
A prominent merchant Of New York
said to member Of my family. My |
mother wants Acr case mentioned to
Sr---n,-'-..>e,,r I'M: - -
said: MY mother had dreadful alb
scess, from which she had suffered I'M
told agonies, and all surgery had been
exhausted upon her, and worse and
worse she grew until we called in few
Christian friends and proceeded to pray
about it. We commended her case to
God and the absccss began immediate
ly to be cured. She is entirely well
now, and without knife and without
any surgery" So that case has come
to me, and there are score OF other
cases coming to our ears from all parts
of the earth. Oh. ye who arc sick, go
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