Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-09-24

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the horses of Stephen Girarl while the
millionaire went in to collect his divi-
dends. Arkwright tolls on up from a
BARRIERS shop until he gets into the pal
ace of invention. Sextus v tolls on mp
from the office of swinehertl until lie
gets into the.palace of Rome. Fletcher
tolls OIL, up from the most insignificant
family position until he gets into tie
palace of Christian eloquence. Hogarth,
engraving pewter pots for Z living, tolls
on mp until he reaches the palace Of
world renowned art.
And God hath decided that though
yon may be weak of arm and slow Of
tongue. and be struck through with
great many mental and moral deficits.
by his almighty grace you shall yet ar
rive in the Kings palace-not such IN
one rs is spol:ea Of Ill the taXt-not one
of lnarble-not one adorned with pillars
of alabaster and thrones Of ivory and
Z fagons of FURNISHED gold-but palace
in which God il the King and the angels
of heaven are the cupbearers.
The spider crawling mp the wall Of
Solomon's palace was not worth looking
after or considering as compared with
the fact that we, who are worms of the
dust, may at last ascend into the palace
of the King Immortal. BY the grace of
God may veal reach it. Oh, heaven is
not a duh place. 1t is not worpout
mansion, with faded curtains and out
landish chairs and cracked ware. No:
it is lis fresh and fair and beautiful as
though it were completed but yesterday.
The kings of the earth shall bring their
honor and glory into it.
/ A palace means splendor of apart
ments Now, do not know where
1 heaven is, and co rot know how it
lopks, but if our bodies are to be resur-
rected in the last day think heaven
must have u material splendor as well
as spiritual grandeur. Oh, what
grandeur of apartments when that
divine hand which plunges the sea into
blue, and the foliage into green, and
sets the sunset on fire. shall gather all
the beautiful colors of earth around his
throne, and when that arm which lifted
/ the pillars of Alpine rock, and bent the
arch cf the sky, shall raise before our
soul the eternal architecture, and that
hand which hung with loops of fire the
curtains of morning shall prepare the
upholstery Of our kingly residence!
TIE PALACES OF GOD.
A palace also means splendor of asso-
Citations. The POOR man, the outcast
cannot get into Windsor castle. The
sentinel of the queen stands there and
cries "Haltl' as lie tries to enter. But
in the palace of which l speak we may
all become residents, and we shall all be
princes and kings. We may have been
beggars, we may have been outcasts, we
may have been wandering and lost as
we all have been, but there we shall take
our regal power What companionship
in heaven! To walk side by side with
John and james and Peter and Paul
and closes and Joshua and Caleb and
Ezekiel and jeremiah and Micah and
Zechariah and Wilberforce and Oliver
Cromwell and Philip Doddridge and Ed
ward Payson and John Milton and Eliza
beth Fry and Hannah More and Char
lotte Elizabeth, and all the other kings
and queens OF heaven. Oh, my soul.
what u companionshipl
a palace means splendor CT banquet.
There will lie TO common ware on that
table. There will lie no unsliilled mu-
sicians at that entertainment. There
will lie no scaEty supply of fruit or bev-
erage. There have been banquets spread
that cost II million CT dollars each; but
who can tel the untold wealth of that
banquet? Go not know whether Johns
description of it is literal or fguratire.
A great many wise people tell me it is
| fgurative: but prove it! | do not know
but that it may lie literal. lido not know
but that there may be real fruits plucked
from the tree of life.
| do not know but that Christ referred
to the real juice of the grape when he
said that we should drink new wine in
our Fathers kingdom, but not the in
toxicating stuff of this worlds brewing.
do not say it is so; but have as much
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for thinking the other way. at any rate,
it will be q glorious banquet. Hark!
the chariots rumbling i'll the distance.
really believe the guests are coming
now. The gates swing open, the guests
dismount, the palace is filling, and all
the chalices, flashing with pearl and
Gmethyst end carbuncle, are lifted to the
| lips Of the myriad bano ers, while
Standing in robes Of snowy white they
drink to the honor OF our glorious King.
ooh" you say. THAT is too grand a
place for you and me-" No, it is not.
If II spider, according to the. text. could
crawl up On the wall of Solomon's pal
Ace, shall not our poor souls, through
the blood of Christ, mount up from the
depths of their sin and shame, and finally
reach the palace of the eternal King?
.sWhere sin abounded, grace shall much
more abound, that whereas sin reigned
unto death, even so may grace reign
through righteousness unto eternal life
by Jesus Christ our Lord" One flash
of that coming glory obliterates the
sepulcher.
Years ago. with lanterns and torches
pd guide, we went down IA the Mann
moth cave of Kentucky. You may
walk fourteen miles and see no sunlight.
1t is stupendous place. Some places
the roof of the cave is hundred feet
high. The grottoes filed with weir.l
echoes: cascades falling from invisible
height to Invisible depth. Stalagmites
rising up from the floor of the cave;
salactites descending from the roof of
! the cave, joining each other and max
Jag pillars of the Almighty's sculptur-
ing. There are rosettes of amethyst in
halls of gypsum. AS the guide carries