Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-06-04
A VALUABLE LESSON.
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EMILY BARREN or SUGGESTIONS.

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EMILY BARREN or SUGGESTIONS.
Dr.. Easmass Gfres ronsa Dsspasy q,
HIS Ability 10 Do EsoaDnas mad Es-noa
IN Moved LinAs oT puipsa oratory.
RIsooxLxN, Aiay ga-Dr. Almage
gave fresh illustration this morning d
the power ho possesses Of extracting
valuable lessons from text which
preachers have generally neglected as
barron ground. Els scrmon was based
on tho text Psalms k1d, 7, 81 answered
thee In tho secret place Of thunder
It Is past midnight, md two o'clock in
the morning, Tar enough from sunsca
and sunriso to make the darkness very
thick, and tho Egyptian army In pursuit
OF the escaping Israelites are on the bot:
tom Of tho Red eco, Its waters having
been set ap on either side In masonry Of
sapphire, for God can inake swall as
solid out Of water ca out of granite, and
the trowels With which theso two walls
woro built were nono tho less powerful
because Invisible. Such walls had never
before been lifted
Whom Few tho waters Of the Red see
rolling through tho Suez CANAL they were
blue and beautiful and flowing like
other waters. but tonight, as tho Egyp,
tians hook up to them built Into walls,
now en- one SHE and now on the other.
they must havo been frowning waters.
for it WIS probable that tho Same power
that lifted them up might suddenly fling
them PROSTATE. Agrcat llntcrn Of cloud
hung over this chasm between the two
wallis. The door Of that lantern was
opened toward the Garae!ites ahead, Civ.
ing tbean light. enl tho back Of the lsn-
tern was toward the Egyptians, end Il
growici and runblnd nnd Jared with
thunder; not thunder like that which
cheers the earth after drought, promls-
ing tho refreshing shower, but charged
and srTcharged with threats OF dooul.
Tho Egyptian captains lost their lres
ence Of mind, ind tho horses reared onl
snorted nnd would not answer to their
bits, and the chariot wheels got inter
locked n1M tern off, and tho charsotecrs
wcrc hurled hcaGlong, and the Rod sen
fell on all tho lost. Tho confusing md
confounding thunder was In answer to
tho prayer Of tho Lsr,clitss. With their
backs cut by the lash. and their feet
bleeding. md their Gotlies dccrcpit with
the suffering Of whole generations, they
had asked Almighty God to cnscpulcher
their Egyptian pursuers in one great
sarcophagus, and tho splash and the
roar Of the Rcd sea as it dropped to tie
natural bed wcro Only tho shutting Of
tho sarcophagos on dead host. That
is tho meaning Of tho text when God
says, Il answered theoin the secret place
Of thundor.s
P0wEp AND A MYSTERY.
Now thunder, Gil Zip md down the
Bible, ts the symbol OF poWer. The Egyp-
tan plague Of hail was accompanied
with This full diapason Of the heavens
Whilo Samuel and Ills men weTo maling
a burnt Offering Of O lamb, and the Phil
istincs were about to attack them, 1t was
by tsiTorizing a;andor they were sdiS-
comated. Job. who waa q combination
Of tho DantesQue ard tho G1iltonic, was
or this reverberation OF the
heavens, and cried, "Thc thunder Of his
power, who can understands" and Ire
the universe by saying. "Calst
thou thunder with voice lile htn,i"
and be throws Rosa Donheur's HORSE
Fair" into tho shade by tho Biblo photo
graph Of . warhorse, when no describes
his neck as clothed with thunder Be-
cause of the power Of James and John,
they were called ''tfse sons of thunder. "
TIE law given on the basaltic crags CT
Mount Sinai was emphasized with this
cioudy eiJullitio1L The skies all szound
about ST. John a* Patmos wcre full Of
the thunder Of war, end the thunder Of
Christly triumph, nnd the thunder Of
and the thunder Of eternity.
But when my text says, II answered
thee IN tho secret place Of thunder" IL
suggests there Is soiDo mystery about
the thunder. To the nncicnts the cause
Of this bombarding the earth with loud
sound must have been moro OF o nys-
tory than IL Is to Us, Tho lightnings,
which were TO them wild monsters
ranging through the skies, in our timo
have been domcsticatcd. We harness
electricity to vehicles and we cage 1t In
lamps, and every schoolboy knows some
thing about the fact that it is the passage
oS electricity from c.oud to cloud that
makes the heavenly racket which we
call thunder. But, after I'LL that chem
lstry has taught tho world, there nro
mysteries about Tits sliycy resonance,
and my text, tr,1o In the time OF the
.ruo now and always will be
true, that tlloro Is some secret about the
place Of thunder.
To ono thing known about tho thun-
der there nro d hundred things not
known. After all tho scientific batteries
hayo been doing their work for thou
sand years to come md learned men
have discourse1 10 tie utmost nbout
atmospheric electricity and magnetic
and galvauic electricity and
thernlotic electricity and FRACTIONAL cleo
tricity md positive electricity and mega
tive electricity my text will DO as sug-
gestivc as it IL today, WHOM it speaks Of
Tho secret place Of thunder.
RESULT OF wcaAN's PRAYERS.
Now right along By natural law
there is always spiritual law. As
there Is G secret place of natural thun-
Ter, there is secret place Of moral
In other words, the religious
power that you see abroad in-the church
in the world hes hiding place, and IN
many cases 1t is never discovered OF Gil ]
will use o silnilitudc. can give only
the dim o1tlAse Of particular case, Cor
many o. tho remarkable circumstances