Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-06-18

telllptiblc bcyond everything CnIt L; coll
+ tenlptible. Have you any better light?
Bring it on if you have. Have you any
better comfort to give us? Bring it on
if you have. Have you any better hope'
Bring it on if you have, and then You
may have this Bible and shall never
want it again.
LEAN ON THE STAFF OF TIE GOSPEL.
But can thinl. of meancr thing than
that, and that is all old lnall going along
on the mountains with staff III ono hand
and a lantern in the other Darkness
! has come OH suddenly. He is very old,
(; Just able to pick Iris way out anil the
rocks and pIecip;ces, leaning on his staff
with one hand and gui;iing himself with
! the light in the other. You come mp and
/; say: Father, You seem to he lost. You
are long way from home" Yes" lie
replies. And then you take him Ivy the
hand and lead him home. That is very
kind Of you. B:t suppose instead Of
(! that you should snatch the staff from his
. hands and hurl it over the rocks, and
snatch lelan:erl and blow it ont, That
! would be dastardly, contemplate until
. there is Mosdepth of contempt beneath
! it. r. you ha9s 4. Setter staff, gigestt.to
him. If you have better light, give it
=, to him.
When God has put the staff OF the
Gospel in our bands and the lamp of
Gods Word to light our feet, are you
going to take from us our only sup
port and our only illumination? love
| the sting Of the wasp and the rattlesnake
better than do the man who wants to
clutch the Word Of God from my grasp.
There are people here who have been
reading it COOL while. 1t is q precious
| book TO their souls. 1t has lycen so in
times Of darkness and trouble. There
| was soldier who fell in battle, and after
he had fallen lie said in q feeble voice to
his colnrade, "Give me drop" Ills
! comrade replied, "Thcrc Is nota particle
of water in my canteen." "Oh," he said,
II didn't mean that. Look in my KNAPP
! sack and you will find Bible there.
Get: out that old Bible and just give me
drop out of that" And his comrado
found tho Bible and read a few passages.
The dying soldier said, ooh, George.
there is nothing like tlrat, is there, for 4
dying soldier"
Cling to your Biblel If this Bible
should bo destroyed, if all the Bibles
that have ever been printed should be
destroyed, we could make up Bible
right out Of this audience. From TINT
Christian mans experience take ole
cluster of promises, and from that old
Christian mans experience another,
put them I'LL together, and | think l
would hive Bible.
You see, my friends, have not tried
to hide the fact that have large exreo-
tation Of you who have entered the
Christian life. Do not be discouraged.
Press on toward the prize; God beside
You and heaven before you. Keep your
courage up. Look in thirty years from
now upon this church. Another man in
the pulpit. Other faces in the pews. An
other man leading the song. Others car
rying around the aims boxes Of the
church. All changed. Thirty years
have gone and look int the faces CT
the people, and say: "Why, it seems to
me / have seen these people somewhere,
but cannotexactly say where. Oh, yes,
now begin to think. These were the
converts in 1892 and 1890. Why, how
you have changed!r
"Oh, yes" they say. "of course We
have changed. Thirty years makes
great change" say, Flow many
wrinkles there arc in your faces!" "Oh,
yes they say, thirty years make
great many wrinkles" "uavc you kept
the faith:" 'Yes, VIC have kept the
faith" "Where arc those people who
used to sit in the pew with you:'' "All
gone" Then I say, We'll, feel
lonely; come, let us sing one of the old
hymns we used to sing thirty years ago,
In 1902, on communion day. Any of you
know the old tune? Some one hum it.
Yes. that's it. that'sit. Now. altogether,
let us sing, just as we did in 1892:
There Ia fountain filled with blood.
Drawn from Immanuel's veins;
And sinners plunged beneath that flood
Lose all their guilty stains
1.-THE dying thief rejoiced to see
Thut fountain in his day;
And there may /. though vile as he,
Wash all my sins away"