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


Syss men riding on horseb bic elil,t
froli tosWate thesl rses; yEiIs
Yeref one ttlt
sliiel, Said her. u word!
SaboiIt value of lie soul I'D sflieI
:sttfiey rod ;iiif iirsopp osite9digec
+ tions. .I;Rt-r lie words tered were Ia
salvation Of the one to whom thej
| were uttered. and he became the Rev.
i Mr.. Champion. one of the most distin
! guished missionaries in heather lands
for years wondering who did for hhl
the Christian kindness. and not finding
out until, in Il bundle of books sent
! him to Africa. he found the biography Of
Brainerd Taylor and IL picture of him,
and the missionary recognized the face
in that book as the man who.- ut the
watering trough for horses, had said
the thing that saved his soul. What
opportunities you have. had in tile past.
What opportunities sou have now.
What opportunities you will lave in
the days TO come.
Put on your bat, o woman, this
afternoon. and go i'll and coIalort that
young mother who lost ller babe last
summer Put OH your hat, o man,
and go over and see that merchant
who was compelled Yesterday to make
an assignment and tell him of the ever
lasting riches remaining for all those
who serve the Lord. Can you sing7
Go and sing for that man WHO cannot
get well, and you will help him into
heaven. Let it be your brain, your
tongue, your eyes, your cars, your
heart, your lungs, your hands, your
feet, your body, your mind, your soul,
your life, your death, your time, your
eternity for God, feeling in your soul
ITO this end was born
1t may be helpful to some if l rccite
my OWL experience in this regard. |
started for, the law without asking any
divine direction. consulted my own
tastes liked lawyers and courtrooms
and judges ;lnd juries, and | reveled in
hearing the Frelinghuysens and tile
Bradleys of the New Jersey bar, and us
assistant of the county clerk, at sixteen
years OF age. searched titles. natural
lied foreigners. recorded deeds, re-
ceived the confession OF judgments,
swore witnesses and jnres and grand
juries. But after awhile felt a call
to the Gospel ministry and entered it,
and felt some satisfaction in the work.
But one summer. when was resting
at Sharon Springs. and while seated in
the park OF that Village. said to my
self, ''If have an especial work to do
in the world ought to find it out
now" and with that determination i
prayed as had never before prayed,
and got the divine direction and wrote
it down in my memorandum book, and
| saw my lifework then as plainly as
see it now. Oh, do not be satisfied
with general directions. Get specific
directions. Do not shoot at random.
Take elm and fire. Concentrate. Ma
poleon's success in battle came from
his theory of breaking through the
enelny's ranks at one point, not trying
to meet the whole line of tile enelny's
force by a similar force.
One reason why he lost Waterloo
was because he did not work his usual
theory and spread his force out over a
wide range. Oh, Christian man, oh,
Christian woman. break through some
where Not general engagement for
God, but q particular engagement. and
made in answer to prayer. If there arc
sixteen hundred million people in the
world, then there are sixteen hundred
million different missions to fulfill, diff
ferent styles of work to do, different
orbits in Which to revolve, and if you
do not get the divine direction there
are at least fifteen hundred and ninety
nine million possibilities that you will
make q mistake. On your knees be-
fore God get the matter settled. so that
you can firmly say, ITO this end was !
born"
THE CL1MAcTERIc CONSIDERATION.
And now come to the cliinacteric
consideration. As near as ! can tell,
you were built for a happy eternity, all
the disasters which have happened to
your nature to be overcome by the
blood of the Lamb if you will heartily
accept that Christly arrangement. We
are all rejoiced at the increase in hu-
man longevity. People live, as near
as can observe. about ten years longer
than they used to. The modern doc
tors do not bleed tleir. patients on all
occasions as did the former doctors. In
those times, if man had fever they
bled him, if he had consumption they
bled him, if he had rheumatism they
bled him, and if they could not make
out exactly what was the matter they
bled him. Olden time phlebotomy was
deaths coadjutor.
All this has changed. From the way
l see people skipping about at eighty
years OF age conclude that life insur-
ance companies will have to change
their table of risks and charge a man
no moro premium at seventy than they
used to do when he was sixty, and no
more premium at fifty than when he
was forty. By the advancement OF
medical science and the wider acquaint-
ance with the laws of health, and the
fact that people know better how to
take care of themselves, human life is
prolonged. But do you realize what,
after all, is the brevity of our earthly
state9 In the times when people lived
seven and eight hundred years, the
patriarch Jacob. said that his years
were few.