Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-07-30
NUMBER 5

viii cost you nothing out just wiling
ness to accept it? Come. for all things
are now ready. Come, Christ isready.
pardon is ready The church is ready.
Heaven is ready. You will never finda ,
more convenient season if you should
live fifty years more than this very one,
Reject this and you may die in your sins: 2
TUE rERIL AND TIE ESCAPE.
Why do | say this? Is it to brighten
your souI: Oh. no. 1t is to persuade
yon. show you the peril show You
the escape. Would not be Il coward
beyond al excuse if. believing that this
great audience must soon be launched
into the eternal world, and that AL who
believe in Christ shall he saved. and that
all who.reject Christ will be lost-woulI
| not he the yericst coward on earth To
hide that trutllor to stand before you
with cold or even 4 placid manner?
My dear brethren. now is the day Of
your redemption.
1t is very certain that you and must )
soon appear before God in judg ment::ss.
We cannotf esc Epes it.. he BihleSSays; &
s..FSyary eye SE;iE1see iii n. and. they also
which piercet. him, and al the kiiiidret:s {
Esof,tle earth shall wall because of him +.
On I hat day al orr advantages will +
com,sup for our glory OF for our disconl-g:
fture-every prayer, every sermon.
ever v exhortetorY remark, every re-
/ proc Z everyc; ll.of grace: and While the
heavens are olling away like u scroil,;
+ and the world is being DESTROYED, jour z
destiny anil ny destiny will lie am.
noulced.z Alas! alas! if on that day it
is fond that VIC have neglected these
mai rers. We may throw them Off now.
We cannot then. We will all bc-in
earnest then. But nopar'lon then. No.
offer of salvation then. Norescue then.
sDriyen away in our wickedness-ban-
sishel. -exiled forever!
Have yor ever imagined what will be
the soliloQpy, ST the soul on that dayrn-
parloned. as It looks back upon its past
lifes oh says the,soul. II had glor-
ious Sabbaths:: There was one Sabbath
in autumn when Iswasinvited to Christ.
There was q Sabbath morning when
Jesus stood and spread out hisarms and
invited me to nus holy heart. i refused !
him. i have destroyed myself. Ihave
no oue else to blame. Ruin complete. Z
DARKNESS Implying, deep, eternali i an
lost. Notwithstanding al, the opportuni-z
ties have had of being saved Innlost!
Oh, thou. long suffering Lord God AL s
mighty, am lost! Oh, day of iudg-
merit, am lost. Oh. father, iiotller.
brother, sister. child in glory, ! AM lost.,
And then as the tide goes out-your- soul 3
goes out with it-fartl.er- from God,
farther from happiness, and hear your.
voice fainter and fainter and fainter,
e"Lost! Lost! Lost! Lost! Lost!'' o
ye dying. yet immortal mem! Seek tho
Lord wllile.he maybe found"
Bat want you to take the hint of the
text that Ihave no time to dwell on
the hint that there is a timeswhen he
cannot be found. There was q man nthis
city, eighty years Of age, who said to
Clergyman who came III, DO you think
that man at eighty years of age can
get pardoned:. .Oh, yes said the
clergyman. The old man said: II can't:
when was twenty years of age-l am
now eighty years-the spirit Of God came
TO my soul, and felt the importance Of
attending to=these things, but fiTt-it
off. rejected God, and since then
have had no feeling" Well" said the
minister, wouldn't you like to have me
pray with you:" Eyes" replied the old
man, ''but it will do no good. You can
pray with me if you like to.
The minister knelt down and prayed,
and commended the mans soul 10 God.
1t seemed to have no effect upon him.
After awhile the last hour of the mans
life came, and through his dcliriuln
rpark of intelligence seemed to flash,
and with his last breath he said, 81 shall
never be forgiven!' 20 seek the Lord
while he may be found"