Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-06-20
TOO MUCH TALK or cREEDs.

q now Tile clllrc0 Is creeded 10 QeaCn.
The young men entering the ministry
are going to be launched In the thickest
fog that ever settled on the coasts. As
Lam told that in NIL our services stu
dents OF Princeton and Union and
Drew and other theological seininaries
are present, and as these words will
come to thousands of young men who
are soon to enter the ministry, let me
say to such, and through them to their
associates. keep out of the bewildering,
belittling. destroying and angry contro-
versies abroad. The questions our doc
tors of divinity areitrying to settle will
not be settleI:until the day after the
day OF judgment. 1t is such poor
z economy of time to spend ye.rs and
:, yearsin trying to fat!,bin tue unfathon-
able, when in five minutes in heaven
we will know oil we want to know.
Wait till we get our throne Wait un-
til the light OF eternity flashes upon our
newl assembled spjri
4 It IS use esssfor ants ond ifferent sides
of a mole hill to try to discuss the COM
.parative heights of Mount Blanc and
i Mount Washington Let me say to alI
young men about to enter the ministry
that. soon the greatest novelty in the
world will be the unauthorized relig-
ion Of Jesus Christ. Preach that and
You will have crowd The world is
sickjto reorganization with the modern
quacks in religion The world has been
swinging OF from the old Gospel, but it
will swing back. and by the time you
young men go into the puIpits the cry
will be coming up from all the millions
of mankind, Give lis the bread of life;
no sweetened bread. no bread with
sickly raisins stuck here and there into
it, but old fashioned bread as God our
mother mixed it and baked it'll"
You see God knew as much when he
made the Bible as he knows now. He
; has not learned single thing in six
! thousand years. He knew at the start
that the human race would go wrong,
and what would be the best means of
! it's restoration and redemption. And
! the law Which was Numbered on Mount
Sinai, from whose top had the two
tables of stone in yonder wall trans
ported. is the perfect law And the
! Gospel which Christ announced while
dying on that mount from which |
| brought that stone in yonder wall, and
which Paul preached on that hill from
which brought yonder granite. is the
Gospel that is going to save the world
Young man, put on that Gospel armorl
No other sword will triumph like that
No other shield will protect like that.
No other helmet will glance off the
battle axes like that
Our theological Summaries are doing
glorious work, but if ever such theo-
logical seminaries shall cease 10 prepare
young men for this plain Gospel advo
cacy, and shall become mere philo
sophical schools for guessing about God
and guessing about the Bible and
guessing about the soul, they will cease
their usefulness. and young men, as in
olden time. when they would study for
the Gospel ministry, will put themselves
under the care of some intelligent and
warm hearted pastor. and kneel with
him in family prayer at the parsonge.
and go with him into the room of the
sick and the dying, and see what vic
tories the grace of God can gain when
the couch OF the dying saint is the
Marathon.
That is the way the mighty ministers
of the Gospel were made in oldcn times
Oh. for great wave of revival to roll
over our theological seIuinaries and our
puipits, and our churches. and our &C..
clesiasticaI courts and over nll Christen-
doml That would be the end oi con-
troversy. While such deluge would
float the ark of God higher and higher,
it would put all the bears and tigers
and reptiles Of raging ecclesiasticisln
fifteen cubits under.
WORK FOR CHRIST BRINGS PEACH
Now, what is the simple fact that you
in the pew and Sabbath school class
and reforlnatory association and we in
the pulpits have to deal With 1t is
this: That God has somewhere. and il
matters not where, but somewhere,
provided q great heaven great for
quietness for those who want quiet,
great for vast asseinbiage for those who
like multtudes, great for architecture
for those WHO like architecture. great
for beautiful landscape for those who.
like beautiful landscape, great for mu-
sic for those who like music, great for
professions for those who like armies
on white horses, and great for anything
that one especially desires in such a
rapturous doIninion-and through the
doings of one who was born about five
miles south OF Jerusalem and died
about ten minutes walk from its eastern
gate all may enter that great heaven
for the earnest and heartfelt asking.
Is that all? That is all. What then
is your work and mnei Our
work is to persuade people te face
that way and start thitherward and
finally go in. But has not religion
something to do with this world es well
as the ne1t2 Oh, yes; but do you not
see that if the people start for heaven,
on their way there they will do all the
good they can9 They will at the very
start OF the journey get so much of the
spirit of Christ, which is a spirit OF
kindness and self sacrifice and gene
rosity and burden bearing and helpful
ness, that every step they take will re-
sound with good deeds. Oh, get your
religion off of stills! Get it down out
of the high towersl Get it on a level
with the wants and woes of our poor
human r;,cel Get it out of the dusty
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