Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-10-17

one end of the sword, the other end OF
the sword wounded. him. When lac
/ took hold of the sword. the sword took
! hold of him. Oh. we have found an
enemy who cannot be conquered by
rose water and soft speeches. 1t must
| be sharp stroke and straight thrust.
There is intelnperance, and there is
fraud. and there is gambling. and there
/ is lust. and there are ten thousand bat
talons Of iniquity. armed l'lilistine
iniluity How are they TO be c,lptur
ed and oyertllrown9 Soft sermons in
/ morocco c,,s,.s laid down in front of III
exquisite audience will not do it, You
lave got to Gull things Gy their right
| names.
We lave got to expel from our
churches Christians who eat the sacrar
(. lnent Oh Sunday aud dcvour widows
! houses I'LL the week. We have got to
! stop our Indignation against the Hit
tites, and tile Jebusites and the Gcrg;l.
| sIltes. and let these poor wrctcles go,
isandsapply our iIldigl,atiolI.to the mod,
I crn Il rlilsgressio as (which need to- Ee
/ dragged ont and slain Alnbsshers:
Herds here's ezebe Ls:5a here The
nlussacreS Of the infants here Strike
God ollard that while You SHAY the
sin the sword will adhere TO your own
hand. ! tell you. my friends We want
/; Il few John Knoxes and John WesIeys
in the Christian church today. The
whole tendency is to refine OH Chris
tan work We keep Oh refining it. un
til we send apologize word to iaiquity
we are about to capture it. And we
must go with sword silver chased and
. presented By the ladies'. and we must
ride OH white palfrey under einbroid-
cred housings, putting tle spurs in only
Just enough to make the charger dance
gracefully. and then we must send II
missive. delicate us :, welding card, to
ask the old black giant Of sin if lie will
not surrender.
TiIN WEAK AND SELFISII.
Women saved by the grace of God
and on glorious mission sent. detained
from Sabbath classes because their new
hat is not done Churches that shook
! our cities with great reyivals sending
around to ;rik solne delnonstrative wor
slipper il lie will not please to say
"aller" a:ll "llallelujlh u little softer.
Ii seems as if III our churches we want
ed baptism of cologne and balm Of Il
thousand flowers. when we actually
need Il baptism OF fire from the Lord
God of PentecoSt. Bat we are 40
afraid somebody will criticise our ser
mons. or criticise our prayers, or crit
else our religious work that our anxiety
for the world redemption is lost in tile
fear we will get our hand hurt, willie
Ele;zer went into the conflict. ''aid
his hand cluve unto the sword"
But | see in tie next place What
llar,l thing il was for Eleazar to set his
hand and his sword parted. The mus.
Giles and tlie Sinews had been SO long
gr;,spcd around the sword lie could not
drop it when lie proposed to drop-it.
md histhrce comrades. lSuppose. came
up aud tried TO help him. and they
batlled the back part of the hand.
hoping the Sliews and muscles would
relax. But no His hand claye unto
tue sword Then they tried to pull
open tile fingers and to pull baek the
thumb; but no sooner were they pulled
back than they closed again. land his
hand clnve unrotle sword" But after
willie they were successful aud then
they noticed tia, the curve in the palm
of the hand correspondent exactly with
the curveo Of .he hilt. His hand clave
unto the sword"
You and have seen it many a time.
There are in the United States to-day
many aged ministers Of the Gospel.
They are too feeble now TO preach. In
the church records tile word opposite
their lame il emeritus. or the words
nre. "a minister without charge" They
were I'LL IIGFUC Ift't hei0 'ititiA
salaries and but few books. and they
SWAIN spring fresliets to meet their ap
pointments But they did III their day
u mighty work for God. They took of
more ol the heads OF Pliiistine niquity
than yoi could count from noon to
shutdown You pnt that old minister
OF rlle Gospel iiow into a prayer meet
ing or occasional pulpit or Il siekruoin
where there is some one to he com
forted. and il is the saline old ring to
his voice and tue same old story OF
pardon aud peace and Christ and leav
en-. Hi hand has so long clutclied the
sword in Christian conflict lie c;lrlnot
drop it. His hand clave unto the
sword"
had in my parish in Philadelphia Il
very aged man who, III his early lille.
had l;een the companion aud adviser OF
the early presidents, Madison and Mon
roe liz, had welded vast influence,
but only knew him as n very ageo
man. Tie most remarkable thing
about him was his ardor for Christ.
When he could not stand up in the
meetings without proppills lie would
throw his arm around pillar of the
church, and though his mind was par.
tally gone. his love tor Christ WAS 50
great that all were in deep respect aatid
profound admiration. and were moved
when. he spoke. was called to see
him die | entered the room and lie
said. MT Tallnage. cannot speak to
you now" He was in Il very pleasant
delirinm. as he imagined lie had an
audience before him. lie said. Il
must tell these people to colue to Christ
and prepare for heaven" Aud then
in this pleasant delirilun. both arms
lifted this octogenarian preached Christ
and told OF the glories Of the world to
come. There. lying on his dying pil