Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-06-27


in the next room lie tried to whistle
it off, he tried to rally his courage, but
he could not silence that voice he had
heard in the next room, and there in
the storm and the darkness Ire said:
20, Lordl what a wretch l have been;
what wretch I am. Help me just
now, Lord God" And l thought in
this aseemhlage today there may DO
some who may have the memory OF
fathers petition or a mothers prayer
pressing nightly upon the soul, and
that this hour they may make the same
resolution find in my text, saying, u
will arise and go to my father"
A lad ut liverpool went out to battle,
went out into the sea, went out too far,
got beyond his depth and he Hoated
far away. A slip bound for Dublin
came along and took him on board.
Sailors are generally very generous fell
lows, and one gave him a cap and an
Other gave him o jacket, and another
gave him shoes. A gentleman passing
along on tho beach at Liverpool found.
sthheslad, lothes and ook tLem, home:
and the father was heartbrok en;s the
mother was lieartbrollen at the loss OF
their Child. They had heard nothing
from hi,n, day after!d day, and they or
dered the usual mourning for the sad
event. But the lad took ship from
Dublin and arrived in Liverpool the
very day tho garments arrived. He
knocked at tho door, and the father
was oyerjoyed, and the mother was
overjoyed at the return OF their lost
son. Oh, my friends, have you waded
out too deep9 Have you waded down
into SIM Have you wadeds from the
shore7 Will you come bacls' When
you como back will you come In the
rags of your sin, or Will you come robed
in the Saviours righteousness l be-
Ieve the latter. Go homo to your God
today. He is waiting for you. Go
homcl
TRUE REPENTANCE AND ODDLY REso.
LUTON.
But remark concerning this resolu-
ton, it was Immediately put into execl1-
ton. The context says, He arose and
came to his father" The trouble in
nine hundred and ninety-nine times out
Of thousand is that our resolutions
amount to nothing because we make
them for some distant time. If ! re-
solve to become Christian next year,
that amounts to nothing ct all. If |
resolve to become a Christian tomorrow,
that amounts to nothing at all. II l
resolve at the service tonight to become
a Christian, that amounts to nothing at
all. II resolve after go home today
to yield my heart to God, that amounts
to nothing at all. The only kind Of
resolution that amounts to anything is
the resolution that Is Immediately put
into execution.
There Is man who had the typhoid
fever. He said, "Oll, if could get
over this terrible distress, if this fever
should depart, if I-could be'restored to
health, would oil the rest of my life
serve Godl" The fever departed. he
got we'll enough to walk around the
block. He got well enough to 80 over
to New York and attend to business.
He is web today, as well as he ever
was. Where is the broken Vow There
Is a man who said long ago, IF I could
live to the year 1891, by that time l
will have my business matters arranged,
and l will have time to attend to rcli-
gion, and will be good, thorough,
eonsecxated Christian. u
The year 1881 has come. January,
February, March. April, May, June
almost half of the year gone. Where
Is your broken vowa "Oh, says some
man, It'll attend to that when can
get my character fixed up; when. / can
oct over my evil habits; lam nowgiven
to strong drink" or says the man, II
am given to unoleanncss, or says the
man, 'I am given to dishonesty. When
I get over my present habits, then I'll
be thorough Christian. My brother,
you Will get worse and worse, until
Christ takes you In hand. ''Not the
righteous; sinners, Jesus came to call.
Obi but you say, 81 agree with you
on all that, but must put it of a
little longer. Do you know there were
many who came just as near as you are
to the kingdom Of God and never en-
tered til was ct East Hampton and
Iwcnt into tho cemetery to look around,
and in that cemetery there are twelve
graves side by side-the graves of sail
ora THIS crew, some years ago, in q
ship went into the breakers at Amag-
ansett, about three miles away. My
brother, then preaching at East Hamp-
ton, had been ut the burial. These
men of tho crew came very near being
saved.
The people from Auagansett saw the
vessel, and they shot rockets and they
sent ropes from the shore, and these
Door fellows got into the boat and they
pulled nightly for the shore, but just
before they got to the shore the rope
snapped and the boat capsized and
they were lost, their bodiea afterward
washed up on the beach. Oil what
solemn day it was-I have been told OF
it by my brothcr-when these twelve
men lay at the foot of the pulpit and
he read over them the funeral service.
They came very near shore-witllin
shouting distance of the shore, yet did
not arrive on solid land. There arc
some men who come almost to the
shore Of Gods mercy, but not quite,
not quite To be only almost saved is
not to be saved ut all.
oNR WHO WAS SoT SAVED.
l viii tell you of two prodigals, the
one that got back and the one that did