Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-08-19


lfcent1Y died, and the sorrow was fresh in
fthe memory Of I the, world, and how in
| the freshsmemory. ola Sayiour's death
laconl Paul be: exult anti !.
| DELrvERASccE by DEATH. ~ - -
It was because Paul saw in that death
his own deliyerance and the deliverance
of race from still worse disaster. He
saw the gap into which the race must
plunge, and he saw the bleeding hands
of Christ close it. The glittering steel
on the top of the executioner's spear in
his sight kindled into torch to light
men heavenward. The prosecutors saw
over the cross five words written in He
brew, Greek and Latin, but Paul saw
over the cross of Christ only one word
sexpiation!' He heard in the dying
| groan of Christ his own groan of eternal
torture taken by another. Paul said to
himself, clad it not been that Christ
volunteered in my behalf, those would
have been my mauled hands and feet,
my gashed side, my crimson temples"
Men of great physical endurance have
sometimes carried very heavy burdens
300 pounds, 400 pounds-and they have
still said: "My strength is not yet tested.
Put on more weight" But after awhile
they were compelled to cry out: "Stopi
can carry no more" But the burden
of Christ was illimitable. First, there
was his own burden of hunger and thirst
and bereavement and a thousand out
RACES that have been heaped upon him,
and on top Of that burden were the sor-
rows of his poor old mother, and on the
top of those burdens the crimes of the
rufians who were executing him.
"Stopr' you cry. sit is enough. Christ
can bear no more" And Christ says,
"Roll on more burdens; roll on me the
the sins of this entire nation, and after
that roll on me the sins Of the inhabited
earth, and then roll on me the sins of
the 1000 years past, SO far as those
sins have been forgiven" And the
angels Of God, seeing the awful pressure,
cry: "Stopl He can bear no more"
And the blood rushing to the nostril and
lip seems to cry out: "Enoughi- He can
endure no more" But Christ says: Roll
on greater burden, roll on the sins of
the next 1900 years, roll on me the
sins of all the succeeding ages, roll on
me the agonies of hell, ages on ages, the
furnaces and the prison houses and the
tortures." That is what the Bible means
when it says, He bore our sins and
carried our sorrows."
"Now," says Paul, 81 am free. That
suffering purchased my deliverance. God
never collects debt twice. I have q re-
ceipt In full. # God is satisfied with
me, then what do all the threats Of earth
and hell amount to? Bring on all your
witnesses" says Paul. "Show all your
force. Do your worst against my soul
defy you. I dare you. I challenge
you. Who.i is he that condemneth? Its
Christ that died." Oh, what strong
argument that puts in the hand of every
Christian mani Some day all the past
sins of his life come down on him-in o
fiery troop, and they pound away at the
gate of his soul, and they say: ave
have come for your arrest. Any one Of
us could overcome you. We are 10000
strong. Surrender" And you open the
door, and single handed and alone you
contend against that troop. You fling
this divine weapon into their midst. You
scatter those sins as quick as you can
1T is Christ that died." Why, then.
bring up to us the sins of our past llfei
What have we to do with those obsolete
things2 You know how hard it is for q
wrecker to bring up anything that islost
near the shore of the sea, but suppose
something be lost half way between
Liverpool and New York. It cannot b
found; it cannot be fetched up. "Now,'
saws God, s.your sins have been cast int
the depths of the sea-" Mid-Atlantic! Al
/ the machinery ever fashioned in foun
dries Of darkness and launched from tn