Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-01-17

medicine from my pocket and said,
''Here is medicine all sure will help
you; it has cured fifty people," you
would say, sob, | haven't any conf.
dence in it; they tell me all these med
icincs will fail lnc" Well" I say,
twill you not, as d; matter of accom-
mediation to myself, just try itP'
well" you say, 81 have no objection
to trying it; if it will be any satisfac:
ton to you will try it." You take it.
Now you are sick in disqnietudc, sick
in sin. You are not happy. You laugh
sometimes when you are miserable.
There como surges of unhappiness over
your soul that almost swamp you. You
are unhappy. struck through with I'M
rest. Now. will you not try this solace,
this febrifuge, this anodyne, this Cos
pei incidence
oh you say, II haven't any faith
in it. AS n matter of accommodation,
let mesintroduce you to the Lord Jesus
Great Physician s. & 3
you say, Il haven't any -faitll in him.
Well, now, will you not just let him
come and try lis power on your soul9
Just let lie introduce him to you. |
do not ask you to take my word for it.
do not ask you to take the advice of
clergylnen. Perhaps the clergylnen
may be prejudiced; perhaps we may be
speaking professionally; perhaps we
may give you wrong advice; perhaps
we are morbid on that subject; SO do
not ask you to take the advice of cler-
gymcn. ! ask you to take the advice
of very respectable laymen, such as
William Shakespeare. the damatist;
as William Wilberforce, the statesman;
as Isaac Newton. the astronomer; rs
Robert Boyle, the philosopher; as
Locke, tho metaphysician as Morse,
the electrician.
These men never prcached-they
never pretended to prcach-but they
come out, and putting down. one his
telescope. and another the electricians
wire, and another the parliamentary
scroll-thcy come out, and they com
mend Christ as comfort to all the peo-
pie, Christ that the world needs.
Now do not ask you to take the ad-
vice of clcrgylnen. Take the advice Of
these laymcn. 1t does not make any
difference to nc at this juncture what
you have said against tho Bible; it
does not make any difference to Inc at
this juncturc how you may have Carl
catured religion. Take the advice OF
men who are prominent in secular af-
fairs, as these men whom have men
toned and others who immediately &C.
cur to your mind. You see l do not
scott at skcpticsln. | never scoffed at
skepticisn. have been natural
skeptic. do not know what the first
word was that uttered after entering
the world, but think it must have
been "why2"
There were times when l doubted the
existence of God, when doubted the
divinity OF Christ, when doubted the
immortality of the soul, when doubted
my own existence, when doubted
everything have been through the
whole curriculum of doubt, and you can
tell me nothing new about it. have
come out from Il great Sahara desert
into the calm, warm, snnshiny land of
the gospel | know about the other
land. l have been there. You can
tell Tic nothing new about it. And l
know all about the other condition of
which, you do not know anything the
peace, the comfort, the joy, the triumph
of trusting in God and in Jesus Christ
whom he has sent. So | am not scott
ing in regard to it.
There are some things believe that
you do not, but there are some things
that believe and you do believe. You
believe in .love-a fathers love,
mothers love, wifc's love, cllild's
love. Now let me tell you God loves
you more than all of them together,
and you must come in, you will come
in. Christ looks in all tenderness, with
the infinite tenderness of the gospel,
into your soul. and lie says, This is
your time for heaven" and then he
waves his hand to the people of God,
and he says, "Othcr sheep have l
which are not of this fold"
Again-I remark, the Heavenly Shep-
herd is going to get many Of his sheep
among those who have been of evil
habit.
1t outrages me to see how soon Chris
tan people give up the prodigal. ]
hear Christian people talk as though
they thought the grace of God were a
chain of forty or fifty links, and when
they had run out then there was moth
ing to touch the depth of mans in
iquity. If man were out hunting for
deer, and got off the track of the deer,
lie would hunt amid the bushes and the
brakes longer for the lost game than he
wonld look fer lost soul.
They say II man has had the de-
lirium trelnens twice he cannot be cured.
They say if a woman has fallen from
integrity she cannot be redeemed. All
of which is an infinite SANDER on the
gospel of the Son of God. Men who
say that know nothing about practical
religion in their own hearts. How many
times will God take back n man who
has fanen2 Well, cannot give you
the exact figures, but lean tell you at
what point he certainly will take him
back: Four hundred and ninety times.
Why do I say four hundred and ninety
tilnes7 Because the Bible says seventy
times seven.
Now figure that out, you who do not
think man can fall four times, eight