Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-10-10
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Looking Mt the life of the Youngest

banked up IN lrOnC OF us. Is an eternlLy
so vast that arithmetic has not figures
enough to express its length OF breadth
or depth or height. For a happy eterS
nifty you were born unless you run.
yourself against the divine Intentions
! If, standing in your presence. my eye
| should fall upon the feeblest soul here
as that soul will appear when the.
world letsit up, and heaven entrances
it. suppose. Iwouldbe sooverpowereds
that slsouldsdrop down rs one dead.
You have examined tic family Bible
and explored the falnily records and
you may have dagnerreotypes OF solne
1of:the kindred Of previous generations
YOU have had photographs taken Of
what yousswere in .boyllood or girlhocd,
land what; you were ten: Years .later.i nd
Fit. is very int ereSting to any one BE
able To look back poI piet,lreso Of What
was ten vent u osst !iirty years-
but you. s bad q pictnrs;
BE and
vii 30 on seek fer God md
tE:ieeL thesS spirit generating psoWer2s
here shall liant the camera to talses
tie pictures plant tt:on:3tlii plat!
form. ] direct it toward you Sitstill
or stand still while take the picture.
WONDERFUL PICTURE.
1t shall be All instantaneous picture.
Therel | have it. 1t is done. You
can see the picture in its imperfect
state and get some idea of What it will
be when thoroughly developed. There
is your resurectcd body. so brilliant
that the MONDAY sun is patch of mid
night colnpared with it. There is your
soul, SO pure that all the forces Of di-
abolisn could not spot it with an I'M
perfection. There is your being, SO
mighty and so swift that flight from
heaven to Mercury or Mars or Jupiter
and back again to heaven would not.
weary you. and a world OH each sLoul-
der would not crush you An eye that
shall never shed tear. An energy
that Shall never feel 4 fatigue. a brow
that shall never throb with pain. You
are young again. though you died of
decrepitude. You are well again,
though you coughed or slivered your
self into the tomb. Your everyday as
sociates are. the apostles and prophets
and martyrs and most exalted souls,
masculine aud feminine, of all the CEN
turtles. The arc!Iangcl to you no EN-
barrassment. God himself your pres
sent and everlasting joy. That is an
instantaneous picture of what you may
be, and what l ain sure some Of you
will be. If you realize that it is an i'm
perfect picture my apology is what the
apostle John said, 1T doth not yet APP
pear what we shall be- ITO this end
was | born" If did not think SO I
would be overwhelmed with melan-
choy.
Tile world does very well for little
while-eighty or hundred or hun
dred and fifty years-and | think that
human longevity may yet be improved
up to that prolongation; for now there
is SO little room between our cradle and
our grave We cannot accomplish nue..
But who would want to dwell in this
world for all eternity? Some think this
earth will finally be turned into a
heaven. Perhaps it may, but it would
have to undergo radical repairs, and
through clirninations and evolutions
and revolutions and transformations
infinite to make it desirable for eternal
residence.
All the cast winds would lave to be-
come west winds, and all the winters
changed to springtides, and the yolca-
noes extinguished, and the oceans
chained to their beds, and the epidem-
les forbidden entrance, and the world
so fixed up that l think it would take
more to repair this old world than to
make IN entirely new one. ButI must
say do not care where heaven is if we
can only get there, whether garden
lied America or an emparadised Eu-
rope, or world central to the whole
universe. TO this end was born"
If each one of us could say that, we
would go with faces shining and hopes
exhilarant amid earth's worst misfor.
tunes and trials Only little while
and then the rapture Only a little
while and then the reunion. Only
little while and then the transfgura-
ton.
LOSE EVERYTHING FOB HEAVEN.
In the Seventeenth century all Eu-
rope was threatened with wave of
Asiatic barbarisln and Vienna wa, es-
pecially besieged The king and his
court had fled, and nothing could save
the city from being overwhelmed unless
the king of Poland. John Sobieski. to
whom they had sent for help, should
with his army come down for the relief,
and from every roof and tower the in
habitants of Vienna watched and
waited and hopSl until. on tho
morning of September II, the rising
sun threw an unusual and unparal-
leled brilliancy 1t was the reflection
on GuG SWOTQS tllu olliCIOo oAio hS'
NETS of John Sobieski and his army
coming down over the hills to the res
cue, and that day not only Vienna, but
Europe, was saved. And see you not.
oh, We souls besieged with sin and sor-
row, that light breaks in, the swords;
and the shields, and the helmets OF
divine rescue batled in the rising sun
of heavenly deliverance2 Let every
thing else 60 rather than let heaven go.
What strange thing it must be to feel
ones self born to an earthly crown.
but you have been born for throne
on Which you may reign after the last
monarch of all the earth shall have
gone to dust.
Invite you to start now for your
own coronation. to come in and take