Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-01-09
trowel And in all our occupations
and professions there are the elements

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our lives. b reason of the violent
fits of the thermometer, within two
days we live both in the arctic and
the tropic. The warm south wind
finds us with our furs on. The win
try blast cuts through our thin ap-
parel. The hoof, the wheel. the fire
arms, the assassin wait their chance To
put upon us their qrlietus / annonnce
it as an impossibility that three him
1jdred and sixty-fve days should pass
land leave us all as we now are. In
what directio to. shoot the arrow |
know not, and SO Isshoot;lt.at ven
11ssture. This year, Ii on shalt de-
In view Of Ssthis. IsadYise that you
Hhave your temp matters al usted.
EDo not leave your worldly affairs at.
THE mercysof Administrators Haye
your receipts properly pasted sand;;
;your letters fled ard your books
balance you hav funds, Y
ksae hattl deposited
E and counted I.et no wild ON or
Eos Oh son mbstoue,
his man u = n;assed me OF my in
hesitanc any "a man has died
leaving "a co1npe toncy whose prop
erty has through his own careless
ness, afterward been divided between
the administrators. the surrogate.
/ the lawyers and the sheriffs. Icharge
/ you, before many days have gone, as
far as possible, have all your worldly
matters made straight, for This year
thou shalt die"
POSSIBILITIES OF SABBATH WORK.
/ advise also that you be busy in
Christian work. How many Sab
baths in the year2 Fifty-two. If
| the text be true of you ii does not
say at what time you may go, and
therefore it is unsafe to count On all
.of the fifty two Sundays. As you are
as likely to go in the first half of the
year as in the last half. ! think we
had better divide tho fifty-two into
halves and calculate only twentys six
Sabbaths. Come. Christian men,
Christian women. what can you do
in twenty six Sabbaths.
Divide the three hundred and sixty.
five days into two parts; what can
you do in one-hundred and eighty
two daysa What by the way of say.
ing your family. the church and the
world7 You will not, through all
the ages of eternity in heaven. get
over the, dishonor and the outrage
of going into glory, and having
helped mono UP to the same place 1t
Will be found that many a Sabbath
school teacher las taken into heaven
her whole class; that Daniel Baker,
the evangelist. took thousands into
heaven; that Dodlridge has taken in
hundreds; of thousands; that Paul
took in hundred millions. How
many will you take inl
If you get into heavon and find
none there that you sent. and that
theroa1. nono to come through your
instr1lmentality. beg OF you to
crawl under some seat in the back
corner and never come out. lest the
redeemed get their eyes on you and
some one cry out That is the lnan
who never lifted hand or voice Fer
the redemption OF his fellows! Look
at him. all heaven!' Better be busy
Better put the pillow in deep. Better
say what you have to say quickly.
Better cry the alarm. Better fall on
your knees. Better lay hold with
both hands. What you now leave
undone for Christ will forever be un
done. This year thou shalt die!'
In view of the probabilities men
toned advise all the men and wom-
en- not ready for eternity to get ready.
If the text be true. you have no time
to talk about nonessentials, asking
why God let sin come into the world,
or whether the book of Jonah is i'll
spire;l. or who Melchisedec was. or
what about the eternal DEGREES. If
you are as near eternity as some Of
you seem to be, there is no time for
anything but the question. What
must do to be saved" The drown
ing man, when a plank is thrown
him, stops not to ask what sawmill
made it, or whether it is oak OF cedar
or who threw it. The moment it is
thrown he clutches it.
If this year you are to die, there is
no time for anything but immediate
ly laying hold on God. 1t is high
time to get out of your sins. You
say, II have committed no great
transgressions. But are you not
aware that your life has been sinfula
The snow comes down on the Alps
flake by flake and it is so light that
you may hold it on the tip of your
finger without feeling any weight;
but the flakes gather; they compact,
until some day a travellers foot starts
the slide, and it goes down in an
avalanche, crushing to death the VII
Layers.
So the sins of your youth and the
sins of your manhood and the sins of
your womanhood may have seemed
only slight inaccuracies or trifiing
divergences from the right---so slight
that they are hardly worth mention
ing, but they lave been piling up and
piling up, packing together and pack
ing together, until they make a
mountain of sin. and one more step
of your foot in the wrong direction
may slide down upon you an ava
lanche of ruin and condemnation.
A man crossing desolate and
lonely plateau, hungry wolf took
after him. He brought bis gun to