Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-03-11

sociations are yet to be formed; your best
eyesight is yet to be kindled; your best
hearing Is yet to be awakened; your
greatest speed is yet to be Travelled; your
gladdest song is yet to be sung.
The most of your friends have gone
over the border, and you are going to
join them very soon. They are waiting
for you. They are watching the golden
shore to see you land. They are watch
ing the shining gate to see you come
through. They are standing by the throne
to see you mount What glad hour
when you drop the staff and take the
scepter; when you quit the stiffened joints
and become an immortal athlete! But
hear! hear! remark pertinent to all
people whether In the twenties, the thir-
ties, the forties, the ffties, the sixties,
the seventies, or beyond. What we all
need Is to take the supernatural into our
lives.
Do not let us depend on brain and
muscle and nerve. We want mighty
supply of the supernatural. We want
with us divine force mightier than the
waters and the tempests, and when the
Lord took two steps on bestormed Cali
lee, putting one foot on the winds and
the other on the waves, he proved him.
self mightier than hurricane and billow.
We want with us divine force greater
than the fires, and when the Lord cooled
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS furnace until Shad-
rach, Meshach and Abednego did not
even have to fan themselves he proved
himself mightier than the fire.
We want divine force stronger than
wild beast, and when the Lord made
Daniel lion tanner he proved himself
stronger than the wrath Of the jungles.
There are so many diseases in the world
we want with us a divine physician ca
pablo of combating ailments, and our
Lord when on earth showed what he
could do with catalepsy and paralysis
and ophthalmia and dementia. Oh, take
this supernatural into all your ivesl
How to get it? Just as you get anything
you want-by application. If you want
anything, you apply for it.
By prayer apply for the supernatural
I Take it into your daily business. Many
o man has been able to pay only 80
cents on the dollar who If he had called
in the supernatural could have paid 100
cents on the dollar. Why do IS men out
of 100 fail in business? Because there are
not more than two men out Of hundred
who take God into their worldly affairs.
Behind the great unknown standeth
God within the shadows keeping watch
upon his own"
| CAST ALL YOUR CARES ON GOD.
| A man got up in New York prayer
meeting and said: God is my partner.
I did business without him for 20 years
and failed every two or three years. !
have been doing business with him Tor
| 20 years and have not failed once" Oh,
take the supernatural into all your af-
fairs! I had such al evidence Of the
| goodness Of God in temporal things
when entered active life must testify.
Called to preach at lovely Belleville, In
New Jersey, 1 entered upon my work.
But there stood the empty parsonage, and
not cent had with which to fuS&aN
it. After preaching three or foya
the officers Of ny CHURCH, al
vacation. said es, for had
preached about all l knew, but feared
they must be getting tired of me.
When returned to the village after
the brief vacation, they handed me the
key of the parsonage and asked me if /
did not went to go and look at it. Not
suspecting anything had happened,
put the key into the parsonage door and
opened it, and there was the hall COM
pletely furnished with carpet and pic
lures and hatrack, and turned into the
parlors, and they were furnished, the
softest sofas I ever sat on, and into the
study and found it furnished with book
cases, and I went to the bedrooms, and
they were furnished, and INTO the
pantry, and that was furnished with
every culinary article. and the
spicebo1es were filled, and -four
barrel stood there ready to be opened,
and I went down into the dining room,
and the table was set and beautifully
furnished, and into the kitchen. and the
stove was full of fuel, and a match lay
on the top of the stove, and all I had to
do in starting housekeeping was to strike
the match. God inspired the whole
thing, and if I ever doubt his goodness,
all up and down the world, call me
an migrate. testify that have been 10
many tight places, and God always got
me out, and he will get you out Of the
tight places. -,
But the most Of this audience will
never reach the eighties, or the seventies.
or the sixties, or the ffties, or the forties.
He who passes into the forties has gone
far beyond the average of human life.
Amid the uncertainties take God through
Jesus Christ as your present and eternal
safety. The longest life is only Q small
fragment Of the great eternity. We Will
all Of us soon be there.
Eteruityl how near 1t rolls;
/ Count the vast value of your souls.
| Beware and count the awful cost
What they have gained whose souls are iost.