Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-08-06

tell you THAT LCeSo SLauudTQS Vi .Cuo
cros9 may be lifted into combinations
infinite and varieties everlasting. And
let me say to young men who are after
awhile going to preach Jesus Christ,
YOU will hive the largest liberty and
unlimited resource. You only have to
present Christ i'll your own way.
EVERY MAN HATH HIS PROPER GIFT OF
COD.
Jonathan Edwards preached Christ in
the severest argument ever petlied. anil
John Bunyan preached Christ III the sub
limest -alleyory ever composed. Edward
Payson, sick and exhausted. leaned up
against the side of the pulpit and ywept
ont lis discourse, while George White
field, with the manner, and the voice,
and the start of I'm actor. overwhelmed
shis;au,itory. .Itwo1ll have been allif-
isrens thingfi i Jonat9 ian Ed wards ll;id
stried Sto5write and dream bout the pill
gIiiin's progress to the celestial city;or
JohnaB unyan had sattemp pied are On
st6e hulnan wll
Brighten th I'll q Zig hts freshers than
the fonnt ains;gd deeper hanstheS seasSare
Z all these Gospel themes. Song has mo
melody, flowers have no sweetness. sum
set sky has no color compared with these
glorious themes. These harvests of grace
spring up quicker than we canssickle
them. Kindling pulpits with their fire,
and producing revolutions with their
power, lighting up dying beds with their
glory. they are the sweetest thought for
the poet, and they are the most thrilling
illustration for tho orator, and they offer
the most intense scene for the artist, and
they are to the ambassador of the sky
all enthusiasm Complete pardon for
direst guilt. Sweetest comfort for ghast-
Hest agony. Brightest hope for grim
NEST death. Grandest resurrection for
darkest sepulcher.
Oh. what IL gospel to preachl Christ
over all in it. His birth, his suffering,
his miracles, his parallels, his sweat. his
tears, his blood, his atonement, his in
tercession, what glorious themes! Dove
exercise faith? Christ is its object. Do
we have love? It. fastens on Jesus.
Have we IL fondness for the church, 1t
is because Christ died for it. Have we
n hone of heaven? 1t is because Jesus
went ahead, the herald and the forerun-
ner.
The royal robe of Demetrius was so
costly, so beautiful, TINT after he had
mt il off no one ever dared put it on;
but this robe of Christ, richer than that,
the poorest and the wanest and the
worst may wear "Where sin abounded
grace may much more abound"
"Oh. my sins, my sins" said Martin
Luther to Staupitz; my sins, my sins!'
The fact is that the brawny German
student had found a Latin Bible that
had made him quake, and nothing else
ever did make him quake. and when he
found how, through Christ. he was par
doned and saved he wrote to friend,
saying: "Come over and join us great
and awful sinners saved by the grace of
God. You seem to be only slender
sinner, and yon don't much e1tol the
mercy of God: but we who have been
such very awful sinners praise his grace
the more now that we have been re-
deemed.
Can it be that you are so desperately
egotistical that you feel yourself in first
rate spiritual trim. and that from the
root of the hair to the tip of the toe yol'
are scarless and immaculate What
YOU need is a looking glass, and here it
is in the Bible. Poor and wretched and
miserable and blind. and naked from
the crown of the head to the sole of the
foot, full of wounds and putrefying
sores. No health in us. And then take
the fact that Christ gathered up all the
notes against us and paid them and
then offered Us the receipt.
And how much we need him in our
sorrowsI We are independent of cir
cumstances if we have his grace. Why,
be made Paul sing in the dungeon, and
under that grace st. John from desolate
Pat,nos heard the blast of the apocalyp-
tic truinpets. After all other candles
have been snufed out, this is the light
that gets brighter and brighter unto the
perfect day: and after, uader the hard
hoofs of calamity, all the pools of
worldly enjoyment have been trampled
into deep inire, at the foot of the eterlal
rock the Christian, from cups of granite,
lily trimmed and vine covered, puts out
the thirst of his soul.
THERE is 40 OTHER NAME.
Again. remark that Christ is above
all in dying alleviations. have not any
sympathy with the morbidity abroad
about our demise. The emperor of Con-
vtantinople arranged that on the day OF
his coronation the stonemason should
come and consult him about his tomb
stone that after awhile he'would need.
And there are men who are monomani-
neal on the subject of departure from
this life by death, and the more they
think of it the less they are prepared
10 70. This is an unmaniiness not
worthy of you, not worthy of NE.
Saladin, the greatest conqueror of his
day. while dying, ordered the tunic he
had on him TO be carried after his death
on a spear at the head of his army, and
then the soldier, ever and anon, should
stop and say: behold, all that is left
of Saladin, the emperor and conqueror.
Of all the states he conquered, Of all
the wealth he accumulated. nothing did
he retain but this shroud." have no
sympathy with such behavior or such
absurd demonstration or with much
that we hear uttered in regard to de-
parture from this life to the next. There
is a commonsensical idea on this sub
jet that you and l need to consider
that there are only two styles of de-
psrture.
of torch, toiling in a miners shaft, q
ledge Of rock may fall upon US, and we
may die q miners death. Far QUITO sea,
falling from the slippery ratlines and