Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-06-25
blessed country

: / think, wants to 60 now. But the time
will come, think, when | shall go over.
l want to see what they do there and !
want to see how they dot. lido not
want to he looking through the gates
T! ajar forever. want them to swing
! wide open. There are ten thousand
! things want cxplained-abDut you,
, about myself. about the government OF
/ this world, about God, about everything.
| We start il plain pnth Of what we
know and In a minute come mp against
high wall Of what we do not know.
wonder how 1t looks over there. Some
body tells mo it is like paved city
; paved with soid-and another man tells
; me it is like fountain, and 1t IL like u
tree, and II Is like u Iiumphal process
sion. and the next man meet tells me
lit is all lgura.ive. ! really want to
know, after the body Is resurrected,
what they wear and what they eat. md
| have an. immeesuable curiosity 10
know what 1t is. and how 1t IL and
where 1t is.
| Columbus risked LIS life to find this
continent, aud shall we shudder TO go
out on voyage Of discoycrywhich shall
reveal yastor aud more brilliant coun-
tryp John Franklin riekesl his life to
i find o passage between icebergs, and
shall we dread to End b passage to etcr-
nal eummerv Men in Switzerland travel
| up the heights of the Matterho,n with
aipenstock and guides and rockets and
ropes. end getting half way up stumble
end fall down In herrible massacre
They just wanted to say they had been
OH the tops Of those high peaks. And
shall NO fear to go out for the ascent OF
tho eternal hills which stlrt d Thousand
miles beyond where stop the highest
peaks Of tho Alps when In that ascent
there Is 10 peril?
A man doomed to die stepped on the
scaGold and said In JOY. Now In ten
minutes Will know tho great secret. :"
One minute after the vital functions
ceased, the little child that died last
| night knew more than Jonathan Ed
wards or St Paul himself before lss
died. Friends. the exit from this world.
or death. If you please to call 1t, to the
Christian Is glorious explanation.
WE sHALL SEE EYE TO EYR
| Ie Is demonstration. IL Is illumina-
ton. 1t is sunburst. 1t Is the opening
of al tho windows. It is shutting up
the cstechism OF doubt and the unroll-
ing Of ell the scrolls Of positive and &c
curate information. Instead Of stand
ing as the foot Of the ladder end looking
up it Is standing ut tho top o. the ladder
end looking down. 1t is the iast:mys-
terry taken ont Of botany and geology
and astronomy and theology.
Oh, will 1t rot be grand 10 have all
questions answered? The peTpetually
recurring interrogation point changed
for the mark Of exclamation. All rid
dles solved. Who Will fear to so out Oh
that discovery. when al the questions
are TO be decided which we have been
discussing oil our livcs2 Who shall not
clap his hands In che anticipation of that
blessed country, II it Ike no better than
through holy curiosity. crying, THE
time Of my departure is at La.id~
remark aS&in. we ought to have the
Joy Of the text, because, leaving this
world. we move Into the best society Of
| the univcrse. You gee great crowd
OF people in some street. and You say:
WHO IL passing there! What general,
what prince Is going up tlaereY Well. !
SEQ great shrong in heaven. say:
who is the focus Of ali that admira-
ton? Who is the centor OF that glitter
ing company2" 1t 10 Jesus, the cham
pion Of oil worlds. ths favorite Of all
ayes
Do you know what is the FIRST qttes-
ton the Goul will ask when II comes
tlrough tho gate Of heaven: think the
first question will he, where is JESUS.
the Saviour that lsardoned my sin, that
carried my sorrows. that fought my bat
tics, that won my victories" Oh, radiant
onel how would like to see thee! thou
OF the mangc1. but without it's humilia-
tions; thou OF the crUss. but without Its
pangs: thou Of tho grave. but without
Its darkness.
ALIVE WITH JESUS.
The Bible iatimates that we will ta1k
with Jesus In heaven just as G. brother
talks with brother. Now. what will
you ask him frstS do not know. !
cum think what would ask Paul first II
|. saw him in heaven. think would
like TO hear him describe the storm that
camc upon tbs ship when there were two
hundred nad sevcutJdre souls On the
vessel, Paul being the only mnn on board
cool enoug', to describe the storm. There
is fascination about a snip and toe sea
that never shnll get over. end think ]
would like to hear him talk about that
first.
But when | NEST my lord Jesus
Christ, Of what shall lrst delight TO
hcaY him speai,s Now | think what it
IL, shall arst want to hear the tragedy
u his last hours, and then luke's NC
count o. the lcruciR1ion. end Marks 90
count OF the crucilxion, and Johns &C
count of the crucifNon will be nothing,
while from tho living lips of Christ the
story shall be told of the gloeaz that fell,
and the devils that eroae, and the fact
that upon his endurance depended. the
rescue Of race;,aih shero was dark
ness In tho sky. and There was darI-
ness in the soul, and the pain became
moro sharp. ard tho burdens became
more heavy. until the mob began to
swim away from the dying vision, o:
Christ, ind the cursing Of tho mob caule
to his ea- more family. and his hands
were fastened to the horizontal piece of
the cross. and his feet were fastened to
the perpendicular piece Of the cross, and
his head feb forward la q swoon as he
uttered the last moan aud cried. "1t Is
HnishediI All heaven will stop to listen
until tho a.ory IL done. and eyeryH arp