Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-05-02
IS RM0 ms in THE STONES.

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81 Mons in THE STONES.
Or. TA'LMAeE's CONGREGATION DEDl-
cATEs,THe NEW TABERNACLE.
iis9gGestiye Lessons Drawn from Their tx
fsperIence In EuiilInG-An Denomfna-
ssstIons Contributed Something and the
Conts.ecation Is Composite.
BRooKLFN, April 2S.-Sermon of
Rev:aT. De Witt Talmage in the new
Brookly n Tabernacle. on Clinton ave-
nue. this evening, the building having
been dedicated in the morning at 10 80.
A3.great. nni9n meeting. inwhicll clergy
men Of all DENOMINATIONS of Christians
participated, was hell in the after
noon. Six thousand rersons were pres
eatsat each Of the services and many
thousands were turned away. Text,
What mean yo by these stonesr
(Joshuaiv, 81.
title Jorilan, like the Mississippi, has
bluffs on the one side and flats Oh the
other: Here and there Il sycamore
siyadowssit. Here and there 4 willow
dips into it. 1t was only httleTover.
whist deep in December ,as-tI wadcd-
t}lroprh If. but in the months of April
and May the SHOWS on Mount Lebanon
thaw and flow down into the valley,
md then the Jordan ovcrllows its
lis1nlss. Then 1t is wide. deep, raging
and hnpctuous. At this season of the
! year hear tho tramp of forty thou
sand armed men coming down to cross
the river. You say. why do they not
70 up nearer the rise of the river ut
the old camel ford2 Ahl my friends,
it's because it is not safe to go around
when the Lord tells us to go ahead.
The Israeltes had been going around
forty years. and they had enough OF it.
do not know how it is with you, my
brethren, bat have always got into
trouble when went around, but al
ways got into safety when | went
ahead.
1rUK COLD AND RUSHING JORDAN.
There spreads out the Jordan, a rag
ing torrent, much of it snow water just
come down from the mountain top;
and 1 sec some of the Israefitcs SILVER
ing at the idea of plungins in, and one
soldier says TO his conrade, Joseph,
can you swiul;" And another says If
wesget across this stream we will got
there with wet clothes and with dam
aged al1nor. and the Cannnites will
slash us to pieces with their swords be-
fore we get up the other bank. But
it is no time to halt The great host
marches on.
The priests carrying the ark 60
ahead tic people follow. / hear the
tramp of the great multitude. The
priests have now como within u stones
throw.of the water Yet still there ID
noaoatcmcnt of the food. low they
have como within four OF iivo feet Of
the stream, burt there is no abatement
of3tilc flood. Bad prospect! 1t seems
SIT these Israclites that crossed the
desert orc now going to be drowned in
siglit Of Canaan. But Forward! !" is
tliefcry The command rings all along
the line of the lost. Forward"
Now the priests have come within ono
step of the river. This time they lift
thei. feet from the solid ground and
put them down into the raging stream.
No sooner ore their feet there than
Jur!an flies.
On tho right hand God piles up
greet mountain of floods, on. the left
the water flows OFF toward the sea. Tho
greet river for hours halts and rears.
The back waters, not being able to
flow over the passing Israelites, pile
wave on wave, until perhaps seabird
would find some difficulty in scaling
the water cliff. Now the priest and
all the people have gone over on dry
land. The water on the left hand side
by this time has reached the sea, and
now that the miraculous passage has
been made, stand back and see this
stupendous pile of waters leap. God
takes his hand from that wall of floods,
and like q hundred cataracts they
plunge and roar in thundcrous triumph
to the sea.
How are they to celebrate this pas
sage2 Shall it be with inusie2 1 sup
pose the trumpet and cymbals were all
wsrn out before this. Shall 1t be with
banners waving2 Obi no; they are all
faded and torn. Joshua cries out: II
will tell you how to celebrate this:
build monument here to commemo-
rate the event." and every priest puts q
heavy stone on his shoulder, and
marches out and drops that stone in
tho divinely appointed place. l see
the pile growing in height, in breadth,
in significance; and in after years
men went by that spot and.saw this
monument, and cried out one TO anz
other, in fullilllnent of the prophecy OF
the text, What mean ye by these
stonesT'
WITHOUT THE LORD BUILDING IS VAIN.
Blessed be God, he did not leave our
church in the wildernessl We have
been wandering about for year and \
| LaH worshiping in the Academy CT Mu-
sic, Brooklyn, and tho Academy of l1u-
sic, New York, and some thought we
would never reach the promised land.
Some said we had better take this
route and others that. Some said
we had. better go back, md some
said there We're sons of Anak in the way
that would eat US up, and before the
smoke had cleared away from the sky