Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-04-02

ing. Job used it when he said to his
self conceited comforters, "Wisdom will
die with YOU" Christ not only used it
insthe text. but when he ironically COM
plilnented the putrefied Pharisees, say
ing, ..Thewhole need not physician"
and when by one word he described tho
cunning of Herod. saying. Go, yc, and
tell that fox"
Matthew Ecnry's Commentaries"
from the first page to the last corus-
Gated with h1mor us summer clouds
with heat lightning. John Bunyan's
writings are us full of humor as they are
ofsaving truth, and there is not an aged
man here who has ever read Pilgrims
Progress" who does not remember that
while reading it he smiled as often as he
wept Cbrysostom. George Herbert,
Robert South, John Wesley, George
Whitefeld, jeremy Taylor, Rowland
Hill, Nettleton, George 9. Finney ALL
i all the men of the past who greatly adj
;vanced the kingdom of God consecrated
their wit and their hulnor to the cause
of Christ.
So it has been in all tho ages, and |
say to these young theological students
who cluster in these services Sabbath by
Sabbath, sharpen your wits as keen as
sscimiters and then take them into this
Isholy war 1t is a very short bridge be-
lstween smile and q tear, Il suspension
lsbridge from eye to lip and it is soon
crossed over, and smile is sometimes
Just rs sacred as tear. There is as
much religion. andeI think little more,
in a spring morning than in IL starless
midnight.
e, Religious work without any humor or
wit in tits a banquet with q side of beef,
and that raw. and no condiments and no
dessert succeeding. People will not sit
down at such banquet. BY all means
remove all frivolity and all bathos and
all lightness and all vulgarity-strain
Them out through the sieve of holy dis
termination: but on the other hand, be-
ware of that monster which overshadows
|sthesC Christian church today, convention
atty, coming up from the Great Sahara
slesert of Ecclcsiasticism, having on its
back "a hump of sanctimonious gloom
and 5yehomcntly refuse to swallow that
camel.
.sssD ,how particular a great many peo-
PIE are about the iufinitesimals while
they are quite reckless about the magni-
jEtuaos What did Christ say? Did he
notexcoriate the people in his time who
were so careful to wash their hands be-
fore a. meal, but did not wash their
lGeartse 1t is a bad thing to have IN
Clean hands; it is a worse thing to have
an uncl Loan heart. How many people
there. are in our time who are very ;snx-
dous that after their death they shall be
lburied with their feet toward the cast,
and not ct all anxious that during their
SsYhole fife they should face in the right
direction so til,it they shall come up in
1.-THE resurrection Ct the just whichever
Syyay theyare buried. Flow many there
are chiefly anxious that minister of the
liGospel:shall como in the line of apostolic
succession; not caring so much whether
becomes from Apostle Paul or Apostle
Jndas They have a way of measuring
tagnat;until it is. larger than camel.
TIE UNR1GHTEoUs sPEcULAToR-
:! s:;s 43.s$:sain: Ny subject photographs all
i'those,w who are abhorrent of small sins
while they are reckless in regard to mag
nifcent thefts. You will find many a
merchant who. while he is so careful
that he would not take yard of cloth
or a spool of cotton from tho counter
without paying for it. and who if bank
cashier should make mistake and send
in roll of bills five dollars too much
would dispatch Il messenger in hot haste
to return the surplus, yet who will so
into a stock company in which after
awhile he gets control of the stock, and
then waters the stock and makes $4,000
appear: like 100000. He only stole
500, GpO by the operation. Many of the
men Of fortune made their wealth in
that way.
One of those men. engaged in such I'M
righteous acts. that evening, the evening
of the very day when he watered the
stock, will find wharf rat stealing an
evening newspaper from the basement
doorway, and will so out and catch the
urchin by the collar. and twist the collar
so tightly the poor fellow cannot say
that it was thirst for knowledge that led
him to the dishonest act, but grip the
collar tighter and tighter, saying, 81
have been looking for you long while;
you stole my paper four or five times,
haven't you? you miserable wretch"
And then the old stock gambler, with
voice they can hear three blocks, will
cry out, Police! Police"
That same man, the evening of the day
in which he watered the stock, will
knecl with his family in prayer and
thank God for the prosperity of the day,
then kiss his children good night with
nm air which seems to say, 81 hope you
will all grow up to be as good as your IA
ther." Prisons for sins insectile in size,
but palaces for crimes dromedarian. No
mercy for sins animalculc in proportion,
but great lcniency for mastodon iniquity.
1t is time that we learn in America
that sin is not excusable in proportion
as it declares large dividends and has
outriders in equipage. Many man is
riding to perdition position ahead and
lackey behind. To steal dollar is
gnat; to steal many thousands of dollars
is camel There is many a fruit dealer
who would not consent to steal basket
of peaches from q neighbours stall, but
who would. not scruple to depress the
fruit market; and lis long as can re-
member we have heard every summer
the peach crop of Maryland is failure,
and by the time the crop comes in the
Misrepresentation makes difference of
millions of dollars. a man who would
not steal one peach basket steals fifty
thousand peach baskets.
Any summer go down into the Mer-
camille library, in the reading rooms,
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