Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-09-17

would build no such thing as that. The
work done, he mounts the chariot Of his
love. and multitudes mount with him,
and he drives on and up the steep Of
heayen amid the plaudits of gazing
.worldsI The work is done-well done
gloriously done-magnifcently done!
Still further-this road spoken of is q
clean road Many n fine road has be-
come miry and foul because it has not
been properly cared for: bat my text
says the unclean shall not walk on this
one Room on either side to throw.away
your sins. indeed, if you want TO CARRY
them along, you are not on the right
road That bridge will break, those
overhanging rocks will fall. the night
will come down, leaving you at the
mercy of the mountain bandits. and at
the very next turn of the road You will
perish. But ii you are really Oh. this
clean road of which have been speak
ing, then you will stop ever and anon to
wash in the water that stands in the
basin of the eternal rock. Aye, at al
gnostIe yel;ysstep of the journey You will
hescry5ng out s re- teHlt h1nstae ascl lean
If you have no slich aspirati ions as
that it proves that you have mistaken
your way, and if you will only look up
and. see the fingerboard above your head
you may read up6ii it the words. There
is way that seeineth right unto a man,
but tile end thereof is death. Without
holiness no nau shall see the Lord, and
if you have any idea that you can carry
along your sins, your lusts, your world
illness and yet get TO the end Of the
Christian race You are SO a-'.fully mis-
taken that. i'll the name of God, this
morning shatter the delusion.
Still further. the road spoken of is
a plain road. The wayfaring men,
though fools. shall not err therein
that is, If Il man is three-fourths Gil
idiot he can find this road just us well
dis if he were IL philosopher. The i'm
beetle boy. the laughingstock of the
street. and followed by mob hooting
at him, has only just to knock once at
the gate OF heaven and it swings open,
while there has been many man who
can lecture about pneulnatics and chem
istry. and tell the story of Faradays
theory of electrical polarization, and yet
has been shut out of heaven. There has
been many Il man who stood il III OBJ
scrvatury and swept the heavens with
his telescope, und yet he has not been
mil. IN $40, fine Morning Star
Many man has been familiar with
all the higher branches Of mathematics
and yet could not do the simple sum,
What shall it profit man if he gain
the whole world and lose his own soulT'
Many Il man has been a fine reader of
tragedies and poems and yet could not
'.read lis title clear to mansions in the
skies" Many n man has botanized
across the continent and yet did not
know the Rose of Sharon and the Lily
of the Valley" Eutif one shall come
in the right spirit, asking the WY TO
heaven, he will find it a plain way. The
pardon is plain. The peace is plain.
Everything is plain.
He who tries to get on the road to
heaven through the New Testament
teaching will get on beautifully. He
who goes through philosophical discus
sion will not get on at all. Christ says,
"Come to me, and will take all your
sins away. and will take all your
troubles away" Now, what is the use
of my discussing it any more? Is not
that plain? If you wanted to so to Lon
don, and pointed you out a highway
thoroughly laid ont, would he wise in
detaining you by Il geological discussion
about the gravel You will pass over, OF
physiological discussion about the
muscles you will have to bring into play?
No. After this Bible has pointed you
the way to heaven. is it wise for me to
detain you with any discussion about the
nature of the hr Il will. or whether
the atonement Is, inited or unlimited?
There is the road-go on it. 1t is Il plain
way.
This is faithful saying. and worthy
of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus
came into the world to save sinners"
And that is you. and that is Inc. Any
little child here can understand this as
we'll as can Unless you become as
a little child, you cannot see the king
dom OF God" If you are saved, it will
not be as philosopher, it will be as
little child. "Of such is the kingdom
of heaven" Unless you get the spirit
of little children. you will never come
out at their glorious destiny.
TIE SAFE ROAD.
Still further, this road to heaven is
safe road. Sometimes the traveller in
those ancient highways would think
himself perfectly secure, not knowing
there was lion by the way burying his
head deep between his paws, and then
when the right moment came, under the
fearful spring, the mans life was gone
and there was a mauled carcass ny the
roadside. But, says my text, mo lion
shall be there" wish could make
you feel this morning your entire Sc
curly. | tell you plainly that one min
ute after man has become u child of
God he is as safe as though ne had been
ten thousand years in heavan. He may
slip, he may slide, he may stumble, but
he cannot be destroyed. Kept by the
power of God through faith unto COM
plete salvation. INCREASINGLY. safe.
The seyerest trial to which you can
subject Christian man is to kill him,
and that is glory. In other words, the
worst thing that can happen q child OF
God is heaven. The body is only the
old slippers that he throws aside just
before putting on the sandals of light.
His soul, you cannot hurt it. No fires
can consume it. No floods can drown
il. No devils can capture it.
Firm nud rnmoved are they
MIN resi- their souls ON God;