Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-10-17
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concerning Israel" His dying hand
clave unto the sword
There is the ileadless body of Paul
on the road to Ostea His great brain
md his great heart have been severed.
The elmwood rods had stung him fear
fully When the corn slip broke. up
lie swain ashore, coming up drenched
with the brine. Every day since that
day when tile horse reared under him
in tile suburbs OF Damascus. us tile
supernatural light fell. down to this
day when III. is sixty-eight years Of age
and old aiii decrepit from tile prison
cell Of the. Malnertine. he has been out
rageousy treated. and he is waiting III
die. How does he spend his last l.olirsi
Telling the world how badly lie feels.
and describing the Rheumatism that lie
got in prison. tho rheumatism affecting
his limbs. or the neuralgia piercing his
temples. or the thirst tliat fyvers lis
tongue2 OiI,;no His last words ara
the battle shout for Christendoln: Il
am now ready to be- offered. and tie
time Of lny epartures lis ats llalids !.
Sllayesfous liftlie "a flgI. t., And $50:
shissl gshapd claYe unto the sword
II .was seTlf
.ond floor that my father lay a-dying.
1t was Saturday morning, four O'clock.
Just three years before that day my
mother had left him for the skies ami
he had been liolnesicls to join her com,
pany. He was ciSllty-thrce years c!
age Ministers OF HE Gospel came in III
comfort lin, but lie comforted them.
How wonderfully the words sounded
out from lis dying pillow, Il I,ava
been young and now aiu old. yet have
never seen the righteous forSakcn or
Lis seed begging bread They batlIel
his brow, and they bathed lis hands.
and they b;itlied his feet and they sue
ceeded in Strengthening out the feet.
but they did not succeed in battling
open the hand SO it would stay open.
They bathed the hand open. but it
came slut They batEed it open again.
but ii caine.sliut. What was the mat
ter with the. thumb aud the fingers OF
that old llandi Ali. it had SO oua
clutclled the sword of Christian con.
t,ict that His hand clavp unto the
sword. !"
HONORABLE WOUNDS IN HOLY WAR.
FARE
preach this sermon as II tonic.
want you TO hold the truth with in
eraslicable grip. and | want yoI to
strike so lard for God that it will re.
act. and willie you take the sword the
sword will take yon.
You noticed that the officers OF the
nortlern:a.niy few years ago assem-
bled Mt Denver. and you noticed that
the officers Of the southern army AS
seinbletl ii Lexington. Soldiers com
ing togetlle:. are very apt to recount
tleir experiences and to show their
sears llefe-s Z soldier WHO pulls up
his sleeve. and says. "Tlipra. WAS
wounded in chat arm. md shows the
scar. And another soldier pulls down
his collar LNd says. There. ] WAS
wounded ir. the neck And another
soldier says. Il have had II" use Of that
limb since III, gnlsllot fracture.
Oh. my friends. When tllr,battle of life
is over. and The resurrection has come,
and our bodies rise from the dead, will
we have on US ally scars Of bravery Tor
Code Christ will I've there nil covered
with scars. Sears on the brow. sears
on the han l. scars on the feet. SCARS all
over the lielr won in the battle Of re-
deInptiou. And all heaven will sob
aloud with emotion as they look at
those sears. : lsnatius will be there. and
he will point out the place where tie
tooth and the paw of the lion seized
him in the Coliseum; and John fIuss
Will he rlier& and he will show where
tlle coal first scorched the foot on that
day when Lis spirit took wing of flame
from Constance. M.Millan and Camp.
bell and Freeman, American mission
aries in India. will be there the men
who with their wives and children
went down in the awful massacre
at Cawnpore, and they will show
where tile daggers OF the Sepoys
struck tllein The Waldenses will
bp there. and they will show Where
their bones were broken on that
day when tile Piedluontese soldiery
pitched them over the rocks And
there will be those there who took caro-
Of the sick and who looked after tile
poor. and they will have. evidences OF
earthly exhaustion. And Christ. with
his SCARED hand waving over the
Scared multitude. will say You sui.
fered with ,ne on EARTH. now he glori.
fed with me. in heaven And then
the great organs OF eternity will take
up the chant and ST. Join will play.
These are they who came out of great
and had their robes washed
mud made white in the blood of tho
Lamb" 5
Hut what will your cllugrin and mine
be if it shall be told that day on the
streets of heaven that on earth we
sllrank back from all toll and sacrifice
md hardship No scars to show the
heavenly soldiery. Not so much as one
ridge on tlle palm Of the hand to show
that just once in the battle for God and
the truth we just once grusped the
sword so firmly and struck 80 hard that
the sword and the Iiand stuck together.
and tile hard clave To / lie sword oh.
my Lord Jesus rouse us to thy service.
Thy saints In all This Curious war
Shah conquer though hey die:
They srr the triumph from aiar.
And seize il with the eve.
When that illustrInris day shall rise.
And Nil thy Armies shiaa
In robes of victory Through the skier.
The glury shall liz thine.