Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-05-16

expecting that you can help me with
such comparison, | simply say he is
waiting as only an all sympathetic
Christ knows how to wait for q wan
dcring soul.
Bow the l.ncc and Hiss tho Son,
Como and welcome. sinner, ONE.
COME AND WELCOME.
But remark again. not only is Christ
waiting. but the Holy Spirit is waiting.
Why are some sermons q dead failure?
Why are there songs that do not get
their wing under the peopiea Why are
there players that Como higher up than
a hunter's halIoof BECAUSE there is a
missing link that only the Holy Spirit
can make. If that Spirit should come
through this asscmblase this morning
there would be power felt like that
when Saul was endorsed on the road
to Damascus like as when Lydias
heart was broken in her fine store. like
as when three thousand souls were lift
cd out of midnight into midnoon at the
Pentecost. Did you notice that solue-
times that Spirit takes an insignificant
agency to save 81 soul1 think it is
very often that at just one passage OF
Scripture Just! one word Of Scripture;
a, SOULS saved because the Holy Spirit
gives it supernatural power.
Do you know what it was that saved
Martin Luther2 1t was that one verse,
1.-The Just shall live by faith" Do you
know what it was that brought August
inc from his horrible dissipations9 1t
was that one verse, "Put ye on the Lord
Jesus Christ, and make no provision
for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof. f"
Do you know what it was that saved
Hedley Wears, the celebrated soldier9
1t was the one passage, believe in the
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
saved" Do you know what it was
that brought Jonathan Edwards to
Christi 1t was the one passage. Nov
unto him be glory forever and ever"
One Thanksgiving morning in church
1 read my text, 90 give thanks unto
the Lord, for he is good" and Il young
man stood in the gallery and said to
himself: 81 have never rendered one
acceptable offering of gratitude to God
in ali my life. Here, Lord, am thine
forever" BY that one passage of
Scripture he was brought into the
kingdom, and if might tell my own
experience, l might tell how one Sab
bath afternoon 1 was brought to the
peace of the gospel by reading of the
Syro-Phenician's cry to Christ, where
she said, Even the dogs eat of the
crumbs which fall from the Masters
table" Philosophic sermons never
saved anybody. Metaphysical sermons
never saved anybody. An earnest plea
going right out of the heart blessed of
the Holy Ghost, that is what saves,
that is what brings people into the
kingdom of Christ.
1 suppose the world thought that
Thomas Chalmers preached great ser
mons in his early ministry, but Thomas
Chalmers says he never preached at all
until years after he had occupied pull
pit he came out of his sick room, and
weak and emaciated he stood and
told the story of Christ to the people.
And in the great day of eternity it
will be found that not so much the elo-
ouent sermons brought men to Christ
as the story told, perhaps, by those who
were unknown on earth, the simple
story of the Saviour's love and mercy,
sent by the power of the Holy Ghost
straight to the heart. Come, Holy
Ghost. Ay. lie is here this morning
lie fills all The place. l tell you the
Holy Ghost is ready.
THE AIR Is FULL or PRAYERS.
Then go and tell you tic church. is
ready. There are those here who say,
mo one cares for my soul.' We do
care for it. You see a man bowling his
headi prayer and you say, THAT man
is Indifferent. That man bows lis
head i'll prayer that the truth may go
to every heart. The air is full of pray,
ers. They are going up this morning
from this assembly. hundreds oil
prayers straight to tile throne Of q lis
tening God Tie mir is full Of prayers
prayers ascending noon BIZ noon from
Fulton street pra;cr meeting. Friday
night by Friday night Ill over this land
going up from praying circles. Yea
there is not minute of an hour OF any
day that there are not suppllcations
ascending TO the throne of mercy The
church is ready. And if you should
this morning start for your Fathers
house there would be hundreds and
thousands in this assemblaSe who