Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-02-21

SEVERE ARRANGEMENT.

SEVER. q AR !AIGNMEN IT
THE SECRET GRIMES AND SINS OF
SUPPOSEDLY GOOD PEOPLE.
DR.. TaImaso Deliver. II Practical Sermon
on tho Necessity Of Reform Among.
rhoss Who Profess to III, Iiisht-Frnud.
Aduitcratlen and ..corlers.',
BRooKLYN, Feb. IS Great au-
dienccs again assembled at the service
by Dry Talmagc in the Brook IN sAcad-.
envy ofnusie:tllis morning, md also OF
The Christian Herald service lin the
New York Academy of Music in the 4
evening The remarkable interest. in
the ltHer continues without evidence !
of abatement At tic service5in Now.
York last Sunday evening there were
many emotional episodes among the,
vast audience, and to-nigllt5tIicse were
repeated. hnndreslsplcdging themselves
anew TO ( Christian lives henccfort.l. Dr.
Talmase took fcrliis text ut the Erook-
lyn AcaalaIny Faith without .worhssiss
dead tJancs ii. 20).
.Thes5Roinan Catholic church has
beeiischiirgetl with putting too much
stress apun good works. and not
enough upon faith. charge Protest
nntisfii with putting not enough stress
npong good works MS connected with
salvation. Good works will never save
NAH. but if man have not good
workssic las no real faith and no gen.
uine religion There are those who de
pend: Ilpon the fact that they are all
right inside. willie their cond,ict is
wrong outside Their religion. for the
most apart, is made up of talk-vigor-
Gus talk, fluent talk, boastful talk, per
petnal- talk They will entertain you
bytlis hour in telling you how good
theyShre They como up to such
higIleT life that they have no patience
withgordinury Christians in tho plain
discharge of their duties.
Assnear as can tell. this ocean craft
is lnostly soil and very little tonnage
Toretopinast staysail, forctoplnast stud
dingSail. luaintops;,il. mizzcntopsail-
everything from flying iib to inizzen
spanker but making no useful voyage
NoW.sthc world has got tired OF this
and it wants. religion that will work
into:1ll the circumstances of life. We
dosnct want new religion, but the
old religion applied in all possible direc
tons
Yonder is river with steep and
rocky banks, and it ronrs like young
Niagara rs it rolls on over its rough
bedss.It does nothing but talk about
itself all the way from its source in the
mountain to the place where it cmptics
into.tlle sea. The banks are SO steep
the clttle cannot come down to drink.
It.does. not run one fertilizing rill into
the adjoining field. 1t has not one
gr;st mill or factory on either side. 1t
sulkszin wet weather with chilling
fogs. NO one cares when that river is
bornaanlons the rocks, and no one
,cares emit dies intotlle sen
f2neltfr IS another, rive, ard it
S.Ssses bfln lis with the s3warni2tid es
and it rociAs with floral lullnby the;
water lilies asleep on its bosom. 1t in
vitcs herds OF cattle, and tlocks of sheep,
and coveys of birds to come there and
drink. 1t has three grist mills on one
side and six cotton factories on the
other. 1t is the wealth of two hundred
miles of luxuriant farms. The birds of
heaven chanted when it was born in
the mountains, and the ocean shipping
will press in from the sea to hail it as
it comes down to the Atlantic coast.
The one river is q man who lives for
himself, the other river is man who
lives for others.
PLEASING LEGEND or JERUSALEM.
Do you know how the site of the an
cient city OF Jerusalem WIS chosen2
There were two brothers who had adj
joining FARMS The one brother had a
large family. the other had no family.
The brother with large family said,
There is my brother with no family;
no must be lonely, and will try to
cheer him up, and will take some of
the sheaves from my field in the night
time and set them over on his farm
and say nothing about it." The other
brother said, MY brother has large
family, and it is very difficult for him
to support them, and will help him
along; and will take some of the
sheaves from my farm in the night time
and set them over on his farm and say
nothing about it,"
So the work of trapsference went on
night after night, and night after night;
but every morning things seemed to be
just as they were, for though shcaves
had been subtractcd from each farm,
sheaves had also been added, and the
brothers were perplexed and could not
understand But one night the BROTH
ers happened to meet while making this
generous trinsferencc, and the spot
where they met was SO sacred that it
was chosen as the site of the city of
Jerusalem. If that tradition Should
prove unfounded it will nevertheless
stand as beautiful allegory setting
forth the idea that wherever a kindly
and generous and loving act is per-
formed that is the spot fit for some
temple of connnelnorarion.
have often spoken to you about
faith, but now speak to you about
works. for faith without works is
elaa1l [ tl,ir,I: You will nc-rel, with