Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-01-09

one thing just as well as he could dc
the other. No time to lose if. you
want to escape your sins, for This
year thou shalt die"
Let me announce that Christ, the
Lord, stands ready to save any man
who wants to be saved. Ie waited
for you all last year. and ali the year
before, and all your life. He has
waited for you with blood on bis
brow. and tears in his eye, and two
outstretched. mangled hands love.
You come home some night AID
find the mark of muddy feet oniyou-
front steps. Youhasten in. and find
an excited group around your child.
He fell into Il pond, and had it not
been fora brave lad, who plunged in
and brought Ism out and carried him
home to be resuscitated, you would
have been ,;childless. You feel that
you cannot do enough fol-. therescuer.
You throw 81 tl1y arms around hin.
on offer him an com petsation.
Yousay to him yeu
want shallgbe y ! Is 80 VIII never
cease! to he gratef full ut my dear
Lord Jesus: sees your soul sin lgsa;ad
attempts to slbria IS ashore, and you
not only srefuse hint thanks, butstand
on the beach and say: Drop that
soul 1fsIwant it saved / will save
it myself. -
wish you might know what a job
Jesus undertook when he carried
your case to Calvary. They crowded
him to the wall They struck him.
They spat on him. They kicked him.
They cuffed him. They scoffed at
him. They scourged him. They
murdered him. Bloodl Blood As
he stoops down to lift you up the
crimson drops upon you from his
brow, from his side, from his hands.
Do you not feel the warm current on
your facet Oh, for thee the hunger,
the thirst, the thorn sting, the suffo-
cation, tho darkness, the groan. the
sweat, the struggle. the death
A great plague came in Marseilles.
The doctors held a consultation. and
decided that corpse must be dissect-
ed or they would never. know how to
stop the plague. A Dr. Guyon said,
Tomorrow morning will proceed
to a dissection He made his will,
prepared FOR death, went into the
hospital, dissectcd a body. wrote out
the results of the dissection and died
in twelve hours. Beautiful self sac
rifice, you say. Our Lord Jesus
looked out from heaven and saw a
plague stricken race. Sin must be
dissected. He made his will, giving
everything to his people. He comes
down into the reeking hospital of
earth. He lays his hand to the work.
Under our plague he dies : the
healthy for the sick, the pure for the
polluted, the innocent for the guilty.
Behold the lovel Behold the sacri-
fee. Behold the rescue!
Decide. on this first Sabbath of the
year, whether or not you will have
Jesus. lie will not stand forever
begging for your love. With some
here his plea ends right speedily.
"This year thou shalt die"
SALVATION CANNOT BE BOUGHT.
This great salvation of the Gospel
now offer to every man, woman
and child. You cannot buy it. You
cannot earn it. A Scotch writer says
that a poor woman, one cold winters
day, looked through the window of a
kings conservatory and saw bunch
of grapes hanging against the glass.
She said, "Oh. if l only had that
bunch Of grapes for my sick child at
homel"
At her spinning wheel she earned a
few shillings and went to buy tho
grapes. The kings gardener thrust
her out very roughly and said he
had no grapes to sell. She went of
and sold blanket and got some
more shillings and came back and
tried to buy the grapes. But the
gardener roughly assaulted her and
told her to be off. The kings daugh.
tor was walking in the garden at the
time and she heard the excitement,
and, seeing the poor woman, said to
her, "My father is not merchant
to sell, but he is king and gives.
Then she reached up and plucked the
grapes and dropped them into the
poor wonan's apron. So Christ is a
king and all the fruits of his pardon
he freely gives. They may not be
bought. Without money and with
out price take this sweet cluster from
the vineyards of God.
am coming to the close of my SER
mon. l sought for text appropri-
ate to the occasion. thought of
taking one in Job. My days fly as a
weavers shuttle" of text in the
Psalms, so teach us to number our
days that we may apply our hearts
unto wisdom of the prayer of the
vine dresser, Lord, let it alone this
year also;"' but pressed upon my at
tention first of all and last Of al
and above all were the words, This
year thou shalt die"
Perhaps it may mean me- Though
in perfect health now, it does not
lake God one week to bring down
The strongest physical constitution.
lido not want to die this year. We
have plans and projects on foot that
L want to see completed, but God
knows best, and he has a thousand
better men than I to do the work yet
Sndone. I have a hope g 1t. notwith-
r4o-d;Dor oil NV Gins anf Wan0ellnoS