Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-02-13
NUMBER 80 80

''grisled and bay" ilenoting thai
mercy was mixed with all the desc
lating judgments of God. Sinai can
not thunder so loud as to drown the
invitations of Calvary The Lore
utters the admonition, The wages
of sin is DEATH" but exhaustlcs
mercy responds, Deliver him from
going down to the pit, for ! have
found a ransom.
Hide theequick in the rock. Christ
Jesus. Let not this insignificant
Now" absorb thee more than The
great hereafter The path lealingte
this side of the grave is only 81 few
furlongs, but the path which com
mences at the other side of it is with
out end. The powers of darkness
gather about your soul, and the
temptations of an evil heart and the
allurements of the world know are
trying to drown the voice of the
preacher, but taking hold of the sill
yer trumpet of the Gospel which
made Felix tremble, and at the Pen.
-tecost brought three thousand souls
out of their sepulcher. | would blow
one long, loud blast, crying, Who
:soever will, let him come. -
CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES ALWAYS BEAh
GOOD FRUIT.
Take this goodly religion which has
done so much for me that can com
mend it to all. Without it | should
have gone the whole downward ca
reer. Stolid and phlegmatic natures
going astr4y do not go SO far, but
natures like mine. sanguine, intense,
emotional. optimistic, social to the
last degree and echoing to all the
heights and depths Of mirth, if they
get off the track they go with one
wild leap to hell. AS to the restrain.
ing power of this religion upon a
mercurial temperament. l testify.
This is not abstraction or something
gotten from books. speak of what
l know. Go out and ask all who
have tried this religion and ask them
how it works.
Three young men in a factory came
out on the Lords side. but two of
them. overcome by the jeers of their
comrades, went back and joined the
scoffers. The one held on to his
Christian hope, and one day when
they pressed him hard and were tell
ing how much infdelity had done
for the world, and that Christianity
had done nothing. the prosecuted
Christian turned upon them. and
pointing to Henry and George, who
had for little while followed Christ
and then turned back. he said:
You have tried your principles on
them and know what they have done
for them. When they tried to serve
Christ they were civil, good tenn.
pered. kind husbands and fathers.
They were cheerful, industrious and
ready to oblige. What have you
made them? Look and see. They
are cast down and cross: thei1
mouths are full of cursing and filth
ness; they are drunk every week;
their children half clothed, their
wives broken hearted. their homes
wretched. That is what your prin-
ciples have done. Now have tried
Christ and his religion and what has
it done for ME? You know well what
used to be. There was none of you
that could drink so much, swear so
desperately and fight SO mastery.
had no money and nobody would trust
me. My wife was i'll used, was i'll
humorcd, hateful and hating. What
has religion done for me! Thank
God. am not afraid to put it to you.
Am l not happier man than VASE
Am l not a better workman and a
kinder companions Would | once
have put up with what ! now bear
from your l could beat any of you
as easily now as ever. Why don't n
Do you ever hear a foul word from
my mouthG Do you catch me at q
public housel Has anybody score
against me9 Go and ask my neigh
bors if am not altered fol- the bet
ter. Go and ask my wife. let my
house bear witness. God be praised.
here is what Christianity has done
for me; there is what lntidelity has
done for Henry and George.
Out of this audience could gather
a thousand men AMI women who
could tell you as thrilling a story as
that as to what religion has done for
them. Yea, if times Of persecution
should come as Of old. and they may
come, there are thousand here who
would for Christ's sake as cheerfuliy
walk into the furnace of fire as
though it were an arbor of thyme
and honeysuckle, and face the lions
as though they were lambs flisklng
on the hillside, and wade down into
the deep waters which are to sub
merge them as happily as ever at
Narragansett beach they took the
surf at summer bathing.
Come up and join those on the
way to palace. What an absurd
thing for a king to be eating grass.
Instead of living on the poor fodder
that the world affords come and SIT
among the princes Of God at the
royal banquet and hear the bands
play: Eat, 0 Friends! Drink, q
Beloved!" Here is crown. wear 1t.
Here is scepter, sway it. Here Is a
throne, mount it. This is your hour.
improve it.