Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-02-07
asking that question: tell you that
man is IL fool who never thinks of the
great future.

asking that question: I tell you that
man is IL fool who never thinks of the
great future.
THE uoPE OF ETERNAL LIFE.
II you pay money you take re-
ceipt If you buy land you record
the deed. Why2 Because everything
is SO uncertain you want it down in
black and white, you say. For house
and lot twenty-five feet front by one
hundred feet deep, all security; but
for u soul, vast as eternity, nothing,
notbingl If some man or woman,
standing in some of these aisles, should
drop down. where would you go to7
Which is your tlestiny9 Suppose a
man is prepared for the future world,
What difference docs it make to him
whether he goes TO his home today or
goes into glory2 Only this difference,
if lie dies he is better OFF. Where he
had one Joy on eartl he will have a
million in heaven. When lie has q
small sphere here he willshave grand
sphere there Perhaps it would cost
you sixty. or. one llelndred, sor:one hun
dred and fifty dollars to have your
physical life insured, and yet free of
Charge offer you insurance OIL your
Immortal life, payable not at your de-
cease, but now and tomorrow and
o,,or,, cl,r n,,d ,l1r.nvs
My hope in Christ is not SO bright MS
many Christians know. but l would
not give it up for the Whole universe in
one cash payment if it were offered
me. 1t has been SO much comfort to
me in time of trouble, it has been SO
much strength to he when / have been
assailed. it has been SO much rest to
me when have been perplexed, and It
is around my heart srcli an cncascment
of satisfaction and bIessedness that
can stand here before God and say:
Take away my health, take away my
life. take everything rather than rob
me of this hope. this plain, simple hope
which have in Jesus Christ my Lord.
| must have this robe when the last
chill strikes through me. must have
tliis light whca all other lights 70 out
in the blast tliat comes up honi the
cold Jordan must have this sword
with which to fight my way through all
those foes on my way heavenward.
When I was in London saw there
the wonderful ar,nor OF Henry VIII
and Edward ILL., And yet have to
tell you that there is nothing in chain
nail or brass plate or gauntlet or hal
ber,l that makes man so safe as the
armor in which the Lord God clothes
his dear children. Oh. there is a safety
in religion. You will ride down all your
foes Look out for that man who las
the strength of the Lord God with him.
In olden times the horsemen used to
ride into battle with lifted lances. and
the enemy fled the field. The Lord on
tile white horse of victory, and with
lifted lances OF Divine strength, rides
into the battle and down goes the
spiritual foe, while the victor shouts
tile triumph through the Lord Jesus
Christ. As n matter Of personal safety,
!, my dear friends, you must have tisis
feligion.
T1IE YOUNG nAvl: THEFT. TRIALS.
apply my subject to several classes
of people before INC. First, to tina.
great multitude OF young people in this
house. Some of these young men are
in boarding houses. They have but
few social advantages. They think
that no one cares for their souls. Many
of them are on small salaries, and they
are cranlpcd and bothered pcrpctually,
and sometimes their heart fails them.
Young man, tonight, at your bedroom
door On the third floor, You will hear a
knocking. 1t will be the hand OF Jesus
Christ, the young mans friend, saying,
"Oh, young man, let nc como in; | will
help thee. | will comfort thee, I will
deliver thee"
Take the Biblo cut of the trunk if
it hes been hidden away. If you have
not the courage to lay it on the shelf
or table, take that Bible that was
given to you b. some loved one, take
it out CT tho trunk and lay it down Oh
tho bottom CT the chair, then kpeel
down beside it. and read and pray,
and pray and read, until all your dis
turbance is gone. and you feel that
peace which neither earth nor hell can
rob you OF. Thy fathers Cod, thy
mothers God waits for thee, OIL, young
man. Escape for thy lifcl" Escape
nowl "Onc thing thou lackestl"
But l apply this subject to the aged
mot many hcrc-not many in any
assemb!age. People do not live to get
old. That is the general rule. Here
and there an aged man in the house. !
TILL you the truth. You have lived
Icing enough in this world to know that
it cannot satisfy an immortal nature. l
must talk to you more reverentially
than do to these other people, while
at the Same time speak with great
plainncss.
o father of the weary step, 0 moth
or bent down under tile ailments Of
life, has thy God ever forsakcn thee2
Through all these years who has been
your best friend2 Seventy years OF
niercies! Seventy years of food and
clothing! Oh, how many bright morn
ingsl How many glorious evening
hours you have scent o father, moth
or, Col has been very good to you.
Do you feel it2 Some of you have
children and grandchildren; the former
cheered your young life, the latter
Irvine your gray locks in their tiny
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