Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-01-10

! and lessons and lessecs; why not cx-
pect and why not have the power
from on high, comforting power, arous-
ing power convicting power, convert
ing power, saving power, omnipotent
power7 My opinion is that in this clus-
ter OF cities by the Atlantic coast there
are 500, 900 people now ready to accept
the gospel call, if, freed from all the
conventionnlities of the church, it were
earnestly and with strong faith pre-
sented to them.
In these brilliant assemblies there are
hundreds who are not frcqucnters of
churches, an;lwho do not believe much
il ut all in ministers of religion or ccclc-
siastical organizations. But God knows
you have struggles in which yon ire.l
help and bereavcncnts il which you
want solacc, and prosecutions in Which
] you ought to have defense, and per.
plexities in which you need guidance,
and with profound thoughtfulness
you stand by the grave OF the old year,
and the cradle of the youay year, won
sdcring where you will be and what you
will be whcl ssro.lin s. years shall seease
F to 'Inovc = =
Power from on high descend upon
them! Men of New York and Brook
lyn, offer you God and heaven! From
the day you came to these cities what
a struggle you have hadl | can tell
from your careworn -colntenaaces; and
the tears in your eyes, and the deep
sigh you have just brcathel that you
want reinforcement, and here it is,
greater than Blucher when he re-
enforced Wellington, greater than the
Dlnk of England Wien last month it
REINFORCED the Barings-namely, the
God who through Jesus Christ is ready
to pardon all your sin, comfort all your
sorrows, scatter all your doubts, and
swing I'LL the shining gates of heaven
wide open before your redeemed spirit.
Come into the kingdom of God With
out q .llalf second of delay come i'm
Many of my hearers today are what
the world calls and what I would call
splendid fellows, and they seem happy
enough, and are jolly and oblising, and
if were in trouble would so to them
with rs much confidence as would to
my father if he were yet alive. But
when they go to their rooms at night,
or when the eycitelnents of social and
business life are off, they are not con-
tent. and they want something better
than this world can offer 1 under
stand them SO well I would, without
any fear of being thought rough, put
my right land on their one shoulder
and my left hand on their other shout
der, and push them into the kingdom
of God Butt cannot. Power from
on high, lay hold Of thcml
Years ago. attic close of n religious
scr,-ice in Brooklyn Tabernacle, a gen
tlclnan, most distinguished in appear
ancc and with remarkable cerebral de-
vc!opment, came forward with his wife
and daughter, and said to ME in q most
courteous and elegant way, Let mo
introducoyou to my wife and daughter,
who wish some counsel in regard tore
~ .sap6 tlareo sat
wife and daughter turned to the scn-
tlenan and said, Perhaps you llayc
some interest yourself in thcsomattcrs?'
.'3,one whatever" WIS the reply, polite
yet firm. Dut before the meeting had
closed saw Ills hand lifted to his fore
head and lis eyes closed, and / said,
.'Sir, have you not changed your mind,
and arc you not thoughtful on this sub
iect?" lie said: Il am. Since coming
to this scat I have sought and found
Christ as my Saviour, and | have but
one desire more. and that is, before l
leave this house to join my wife and
daughter in making profession OF the
Christian religion. I have been known
as on the wrong side long enough"
What was it that had come upon hiln2
10 WAS Tic lJOWcf IIOi-l 1liSi.
At the first communion after the
dedication of our former church, three
hundred and twenty-cisht souls stood
ND in the aislcs and publicly espoused
the cause of Christ. At another time
four hundred souls; at another time
i've hundred. And our four thousand
i've hundred membership were but
small part of those who within those
sacred walls took upon themselves tue
VOWS of the Christian. What turned
them2 What saved them? Power
from the level9 No; power from on
high.
GREATER THINGS MAY BE sEES.
But greater things are to be seen il
ever these cities and ever this world is
to be taken for God. There is one
class of men and women in all these as
semblages in whom l have especial in
tercst and that is those who had good
fathers and mothers once, but they are
dead. What Inultitudes of us are or
plansl we may be forty, fifty, eighty
years old, but we never get used 10
having father and mother gone. Oh,
how often we have had troubles that
we would like to have told them, and
we always felt Us long as father and
mother were alive we had some onelto
whom VIC could go. now, would like
to ask if you think that all their prayers
in your behalf have been. answered.
No you say, '.but it is too late, the
old folks ere gone now.
l must courteously contradict you.
II is not too late. have friend in
the ministry who was attending the
last hours of an aged Christian, and
my friend said to the old Christian, SIS
".