Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-01-21

AOi bilt5 ui'L5t3So CttL LII i"blti ny Ill
hair of his head!" tits circle. Ny ia
Their lived into the eighties, and be had
very wide experience. and he said TIA
maltrentment Of parents WIS Away
punished in this world Other sins ma,
be adjourned to the next world but NAL
treatment OF parents is punished in thi
world.
THEY CIRCLE AEoCND TO TIE JUDGsEN'
DAT
The circle tuI7is quickly very quickly
On. what stnpendons Thought that tn
good and tho evil we start core back tx
ISL Do you know that tho Judgnen
Day will be only the points at which tn,
circles join. the good ;lnd the bad W.
have done coming back to us. unless Gi
vine Intervention hiiGer-coliling Eaol
to us with welcome OF delight or curse
of condemnaiion.
On. would like to see Paul. the iuva
lid missionary. Ill the moment when Ii;
influence culncs to full orb-his influence
rolling out through Antioch, through
Cyprus. through Lystra through Cor
NTH, through Athens. through Asia
through Europe, through America
through the First century. through five
centuries. through twenty centuries
through al! the succeeding centuries
through earth. through heaven. and al
last, the wave OF influence having made
full circuit, strikes his great soul. Oh
then would like TO Soc him! No ono can
tell the wide sweepof the circle Of his
influence save the one who is seated on
the circle OF the eirth.
should not want TO roe the counte-
nance Of Voltaire when his influence
co;ues to full orb Wien the fatal hem
orrhage seized him al eighty-tllroe yours
of age mis- influence lid not cease. The
most brilliant man Of his century, he
had used Ill his faculties for ;,ssaul.i:1g
Christianity his bad influence widening
through France. widening out through
Germany. widening through all Europe.
widening through America. widening
through the l1j years that have gone By
since he died. widening through earth.
widening through hell until at last the
accumulated influence of bis bad life in
fiery surge of onnipotent wrath will beat
against his destroyed spirit, and at that
moment it will be enough to make the
black hair of eternal darkness turn white
with ahe horror No one can tell how
that bad nuns influence girdled the
earth save the one who is seated on the
circle of the earth--the Lord Almighty.
We'll. ro"." say people in this audi
ence. this in some RESPECTS il e very
glad theory AID il ctiiers a very sad one;
we would like TO have al the good we
have ever done colae back to Us. but the
Thought THAT all t'.e sins we have ever
committed will come back TO us fills Us
with alright" idy brother, have TO
tell you God can break that circle and
will do sc at Jour cal can bring
twenty passages of Scripture to prove
that when tiod for Christ's sake forgivcs
q man the sins of his past life Fever
come back.
The wheel may roll on and roll on.
but you take your position behind the
cross and the wheel strikes the cross
and sEattereds forever. The sins fy
lar, falling at right angles With COM
plete oblivion. Forgiven. Forgiven! The
meanest thing 4 man can do is. after
some difficulty has been settled, to bring
1t up again. and God will rot be so
mean as that. Coos memory is mighty
enough to hold all the events Of the
ages, but there is one thing that IL sure
TO slip his memory. one thing he ia sure
to forget. and shat is p@rdoned trane-
erosion How do know i? I will
prove it. Their sins and their iniQui-
ties will remember no more" Come
into that state this morning, my dear
brother. my dear sister. Blessed is the
che whose transgresgions are forgiven"
THE CIRCLE OF GLORY.
But Go not make the mistake Of think
ing that this doctrine of Inc circle stops
with this life; it rolls on through heaven.
You might quote in opposition to mo
what st. John says about the city Of
heaven. Ee says it 'lieth four SQUARE"
That does seei:. to initiate againat this
dea. but you know there is many a
square house that has G family circle |
'acing each other. ua;l in 1. circle NOV
ng, and can prove that this liz SO in ro-
;ard to heaven. st. john says, Il heard |
he voice of many angels round about |
he throne. and the beasts. and the ED {
RS :"
Again be says. There was a rainbow
'ound about tho tirane." The former
wo instance circle: the last either'a
ircle or semicircle. Tie seats facing
ach other. the angels facing each other,
he men facing each other. Heaven an
of glory. Circumference
f patriarch and prophet end apostle.
circumference of Scotch Covenantcrs
nd Thaban legion and Aib:genses. Cir
umference OF the good of all ages. Pc
iphery Of splendor unimagined and IN
escribable a circle A circlel
But every circumference must have
enter, and what is tie center of this
eavenly circumference: Christ. bis
Il the glory Els I'll the praise. Els
u the cEowns. al heaven wreathcd
to garland round about Fin. Take
I the imperial sandal from his foot and
ehold the scar of the spike. Lift the
,ronet of dominion from bis brow and !
C where was the laceration of the
-iers. Come closer, ell heaven. Mar
wv the circle around his great heart.
Christ, the Sayiourl Q Christ, the
an! 0 Christ, the God! Keep thy
rome forever, seated on the circle of E
e earth, seated on the circle of the E
.aven!
On Christ, the solid rock. stand; 6
All ether ground Is sinking sand.
ELECTRICITY ana tao Christmas Tree.
The prettiest Christmas tree in town
.