Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-12-16
hurled against the sanbeddrin he made

hurled against the sanhedrin he made
it tremble.
He learned all that he could get in the
school of his native village; then he had
gone to higher school and there mas
tered the Greek and the Hebrew and
perfected himself in bellies lettres, until
in after years he astonished the Cretans,
and the Corinthians, and the Athenians
by quotations from their own authors. ]
have never found anything in Carlyle OF
Goeth or Herbert Spencer that could
compare in 9Th or beauty with PTlVs
epistles. LIDO not think there is anything
In the writings of Sir William Hamilton
that shows such mental discipline as you
find in Paul's argument about justifca-
ton and the resurrection. l have not
found anything in Milton finer in the
way of imagination than can find in
Pauls illustrations drawn from the am,
phitheater.
There was nothing in Robert Emmett
pleading for his life. or in Edmund
Burke arraigning Warren Hastings in
Westminster hall, that compared with
the scene in the courtroom when, before
robed officials, Paul boweda and began his
speech, saying, 81 think myself happy,
King Agrippa, because I shall answer for
myself this day." Irepeat that religion
that can capture man like that must
have some power in it. 1t is time you
stopped talking as though all the brain
of the world were opposed to Christiani-
ty. Where Paul leads, we can afford to
follow.
TALENTED CHRISTIANS.
am glad to know that Christ has in
the different ages of the world had in
his discipleship Mozart and Handel
in music, q Raphael and Reynolds in
painting, an Angelo and Canoya in
sculpture, Rush and q Harvey in medi-
cine, Grotius and a Washington in
statesmanship;a Blackstone, a Marshall
and q Kent in law. And the time will
come when the religion of Christ will
conquer all the observatories and uni
versities, and philosophy will through
her telescope behold the morning star of
Jesus, and in her laboratory see chat
all things work together for good" and
with her geological hammer discover the
Crock of Ages"
Oh, instead of covering and shivering
when the skeptic stands before you and
talks of religion as though it were pu-
sillanimous thing-instead of that, take
your New Testament from your pocket
and show him the picture of the intel
lectual giant of ell the ages Frustrated
on the road to Damascus while his horse
is flying wildly away. Then ask your
skeptic what it was that frightened the
one and threw the other. Oh, no, it is
no weak gospel. tits glorious gospel.
1t is an all conquering gospel. 1t is an
omnipotent gospel. 1t is the rSsser Of
God and the wisdom of God-unto saliva
ton.
HE MUST BE HUAIBLED.
Again, Ilearn from the text man can
not become Christina until he is I'M
horsed. The trouble is, we want to ride
into the kingdom of God just as the
knight rode into castle gate on palfrey.
beautifully caparisoned. We want to
come into the kingdom of God in fine
STYLE: No kneeling down at the altar, no
Sitting on anxious seats, no crying over
sin, no begging; at the door Of od g mer-
cy. Clear the road and US come in
nil prancing in the pride of our soul.
No, we will never get into heaven that
way. We must dismount.
There is no knight errantry in religion,
no fringed trappings of repentance, but
IN utter prostration before God, a going
down in the dust, with the cry ''Un-
clean, uncleanr'- bewailing of the soul,
like David from the belly of hell-a
going down in the dust until Christ
Shall by his grace lift us up as he lifted
Paul. Oh, proud hearted nearer, you
must get off that horsel May light
from the throne of God brighter than the
sun throw you! Come down into the
dust and cry for pardon and life and
heaven.
Again, learn from this scene of the
text that the grace Of God can overcome
the prosecutor. Christ and Paul were
BOYS at the same time in different vii
lagos, and Paul's antipathy to Christmas
Increasing. He hated everything about
Christ. He was going down then with
writs in his pockets to have Christ's dis
ciples arrested. He was not going as a
sheriff goes to arrest man against
whom he had no spite, but Paul was go
ing down to arrest those people because
he was glad to arrest them.
The Bible says, "He breathed out
slaughter" He wanted them captured,
and he wanted them butchered. hear
The click and clash and clatter of the
hoofs of the galloping steeds on the way
to Damascus. Oh, do you think that
proud man On horseback can ever be-
come Christian2 Yes! There is voice
from heaven like thunderclap uttering
two words, the second word the same as
the first, but uttered with more emphasis,
30 that the proud equestrian may have
no doubt as to who is meant: Saul!
Eaul!" That man was saved, and he was
\ prosecutor, and so God can by his
trace overcome any prosecutor.
STILL SOME PERSECUTION.
The DAYS of sword and fire for Chris
tians seem to have gone by. The bayo-
nets of Napoleon l pried open the lin
and let the rotting wretches
but. The ancient dungeons around Rome
IRE today mere curiosities for the travel
srs. The Coliseum, where wild beasts
used to suck up the life of the martyrs
while the emperor watched and Lola
Paulina sat with emerald adornments
worth 60, OOO,O 900 sesterces, clapping her
hands as the Christians died under the
paw snd the tooth Of the lion-that Col:
lseum is ruin now. The scene of the
Smithfeld fires is a haymarket. The day
Df fire and sword for Christians seems to
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