Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-10-17
ACCOMAc c. Il, Va SATURDAY. OCTOBER II, Is
4 =STOUT GRASP OF FAITH
|DR. sTALMAee ON THE NECESSITY
& OF "A MORE EARNEST BELIEF.

SPt.siiil ALMAGG ON tHe NeCtSS!If
81 OF "A MORE EARNEST BELIEF.
This Age of Inldeli,y VIII Pass AZ
Others Have Passed and the Bible la
17sslts Entirety will Temnin-The Inspir-
iI-::,ins Example of Elrazar.
s;i'RooKLyN. Oct. ll.-Among the
:5N;lSt audiences which crowd rlle Brook
HSn Tabernacle NJ every service IRE
slHrse numbers Of young men. many Of
EsWlioin ARE theological students. DR.
srE,llinnge's sermon this morning had n
sssieeIal=interesl for them. AT This time
EsNslien SO Inany nre giving up!ile Billie
or hoiilng the truth less lirnly rllan
before. tlie eloquent -pre,lt:llrI pun him
||ssseIt oil, record so clenrly aid iorrhly
WHO heard him could lave
saiIy doubt as.tu Ills attitude His.text
E.yVassslI S;llnlel xiii. 10. And his
ElliudSsiayp unto the sword"
sll great genera! ol King David was
|slslp,tz,lIs the Hero OF the text. The
'se.lilisrilies opened battle against him,
said shis9troops retreated The;cowaris
lied Elei,zar and three Of llis conn
::ti.drr went ulfo.Stlie [battle.nrid swept.
tlip field iQrslonl men with tod on
.tlleir siilt: urt. stronger than u Whole
Battalion with tind against them
Fall lmck shouted the commander
,oi the plliisti,e army The cry ran
along the host. Fail back /" Elcilzar
Having swept the field. throws himself
on rlle ground to rest. but tile ulliscles
AMI slnewS of -lIis hand had bee, SO
long bent around the llilt of the sword
flat tile hilt was ilnbedded in the
flesh. and the gold wire OF tile liit.
had broken through the skin Of the
palm OF the hand. and lie could not
drop tllis sword which, he had 81 gaI
lalty welded. His hand clavr INTO
tile sword That is what call mag
niticpli fighting Tor the Lord tod of
Israel. and W. want more of il, pro
pose To show you this Inornin. how
Elta,zar took Lold OF tile sword and
how the sword took hold uf l!leazar !
look at Ep;nar's hand, AIT! come TO
the conclusion that lie took the sword
with II very tight grip. The towards,
who fled had no trouble III dropping
tll4ir swords AS they tiy over the
rocks hear their swords Changing in
every direction Ii is easy enough for
Them to drop their swords. hut Eleaz
.,,rs hand clave unto the sword.
HALF-nKalsrltp CHRISTIANS.
oh. my friends. in this Christian con
'flirt we. want u lighter grip OF the tioH
n-l we,iljous. II tighter grasp OF the Two
edged sword 81 the truth. 1t lnal:es
lie. s;u tu set these Christian people
WHO hold only q part Of tle truth and
lei the rest ol the trIill go. SO that the
Philistines seeing the luosened grasp.
wrench the Whole sword away from
them Tile only safe thing for us to
do is to put our thumb ON the book 81
Genesis aud sweep oul hand around
file book until the New Testament
comes into the palm. and keep oil
sweeping orr hand around the book
until the tips OF tile fingers clutch at
sibewords. In the beginning tiod..creN
'atad the heavens and tile earth. l..
like an intidel n great deal better titan
do one oil those niunhypalnby Chris
tians who hold part OF the truth and
let the rest 20. BY miracle God pre-
served this Bible just as it is. and 1t is
a Damascus blade.
Tile severest test to which sword
can BIZ put in a sword factory is to wind
the blade arollnd gun barrel like u
ribbon, and tllen when tue sword is let
loose it flies back to it's own shape. So
the sword of Gods truth has been fully
tested, and il is bent this way and that
way. and wound this way and that
way, but it always comes back to its
own shape Think OF it'll a book writ
ten eighteen centuries ago. and some
OF it thousands oil years ago, and yet i'll
our time the average sale Of this book
is more than twenty thousand copies
every week. and more than II million
copies year.
say now that a book which is di
vincly inspired and divineIy kept and
divinely scattered is weapon worth
holding tight grip Of. bishop Colen
30 will come along and try to wrench
out OF your Hand the five books OF
Moses. and Strauss will come along and
try to wrench out Of your hand the
miracles. and Renan will come along
and try TO wrench out Of your hand
the entire life of the Lord Jesus Christ,
and your associates III the store, or the
shop, or the factory, or the banking
house will try to wrench out of your
hand file entire Bible. hut in the
strength of the Lord tiod OF Israel, and
with Eleazars grip. hold OIL pit You
give up tile bible, you give up any
part oft, and you give up pardon and
peace aid life and heaven.
TtE CONVICTED INFiDEL.
see hundreds, perhaps thousands I
OF young men in this audience. DO not
be ashamed. young man. to have the
world know flat yoIi are a friend OF !
the Bible. THIS book is the friend of
nil that is good and it is tile sworl,
enemy OF all that is bad. An eloquent !
writer recently gives an incident Of |
very bad man who stood in lie cell OF !
western prison. This criminal had |
gone tllrougll;lll styles Of crime. and he
was there waiting for the gallows. The
convict. standing there Ill the window
of the cell. the writer says. looked ont /
and declared. i am ali iniitlrl He said I
that to all tie ipn and women and !,
Children WHO happened to i'r gathered /
there. i am an ilititel. and lie clio !!
qupnt writer says Every man anu !