Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-07-29

give you all you want-music FOR The
dance, swift steeds for the race, imperial
couch to slumber on, and you shall be
refreshed with the rarest fruits in bas-
kets of golden fligree." he lies. The
music turns out to be a groan. The
fruits burst the rind. with rank poison.
The filigree is made up of twisted snakes.
The couch is grave. Small allowance
of rest, small allowance of peace, small.
allowance of comfort. Cold, hard, rough
nothing but file. So twas with
yoltaire, the most applauded man of his
day:
The Scripture was his 1cstbook. whence he
drew
Bonmots 10 gall the Christian and the Jew;
An inhdel when well, but what when slck3
Oh, then q text would touch him to the quick.
Seized with hemorrhage of the lungs
in Paris, where he had gone to be
crowned in the theater as an idol of all
France, he sends IL messenger to get a
priest that he may be reconciled to the
church before he dies. A great terror
falls upon him. He makes the place all
round about him so dismal that the
nurse declares that she would not for all
the wealth OF Europe see another infdel
die. Philistine iniQuity had promised
him all the worlds garlands, but in the
last hour of his life, when he needed
solacins, sent tearing across his con-
science and his nerves file, file.
So it was with Lord Byron, his un-
cleanness in England only surpassed by
his unclcanness in Venice, then going on
tohis brilliant misery at Missolonghi, end
fretting at his nurse, Fletcher, fretting
st himself, fretting at the world, fretting
q God, and he who gave to the world
'sSAilde Harold" and "Sardanapalus, "
and '.rhe Prisoner of Chillon, and 1.-The
Siege OF Corinth," reduced to nothing but
6lel
THE WAGES OF SIN.
Oh, sin has great facility for making
promises, but it has just as great facility
for breaking them. A Christian life is
the only cheerful life, while life Of
wicked surrender is remorse, ruin and
death. Its painted glee is sepulchral
ghastliness. In the brightest days of
the Mexican empire Montezuma said he
felt gnawing at his heart something like
canker. Sin, like monster wild beast
of the forest, sometimes ticks all over its
victim in order that the victim may be
more easily swallowed; but generally
sin rasps and gals and tears and up
braids and files. Is it not so, Herod? Is
it not SO, HildebrandY Is 1t not so,
Robespierre? Aye ayel it is 80; it is 80.
1.-The way of the wicked he turneth up
side down"
History tells us that when Rome was
founded, On that day there were II
vultures flying through the air, but when
transgressor dies the sky is black with
whole Aocks OF them. Vulturesl When
/ see sin robbing so many people, and I
see them going down day by day and
week by week, must give plain warn
ing. I dare not keep it back lest I risk
the salvation of my own soul. Rover,
the pirate, pulled down the warning bell
on Enchcape rock, thinking that he would
have chance to despoil vessels that were
crushed on the rocks, but onenight his
own ship crushed down on this very
rock, and he Went down with all ibis
cargo. God declares, hen i ystoE
the wicked tthou! Sshalts surely die; and,
tho giYes Of Earning tia same
anian
blood will I require at thy hands. !" 's,sl9
I learn from this subject what sad
thing 1t is when the church of God loses
its metal. These Philistincs saw that If
they could only get all the metallic,
weapons out Of the hands Of the Israel
ties all would be we'll, and therefore
they took the swords and the spears.
They did not want them to have single
metallic weapon. When the metal of
the Israelites was gone. their strength
was gone. This is the trouble with the
church of God today. It's surrendering
its courage. 1t snot gotonough metal.
How seldom it is that you see man
taking his position in pew, or in pulpit,
or in religious society, and holding
that position against all oppression, and
all trial, and all persecution, and all
criticism.
The church of God today wants more
backbone, more defiance, more conse-
Grated bravery, more metal. How often
you see man start out In some good
enterprise, and at the first blast of news
paperdom he has collapsed, and all his
courage gone, forgetful of the fact that
If a man be right all the newspapers of
the earth, with all their columns pound
ing away at him, cannot do him any per-
nanent damage! 1t is only when man
is wrong that he can be damaged. Why,
God is going to vindicate his truth, and
he is going to stand by you, my friends,
In every effort you make for Christ's
cause and the salvation of men.
I sometimes say to my wife: "There Is
something wrong; the newspapers have
not assaulted me for three 1nonths Ihaye
not done my duty against public iniqui-
ties, and will stir them up next Sun
day" Then stir them up, and all the
following week the devil bowls and
bowls, showing that have him very
hard. Go forth in the service of Christ
and do your whole duty. You have one
sphere. have another sphere. 1.-THE
Lord of Hosts is with us, and the God Of
Jacob Is our refuge. Selah."
We want more Of the determination
of Jonathan. lido not suppose he was
very wonderful man, but he got on his
knees and clambered up the rock, I'd
with the help of his armor bearer ne
hewed down the Philistines, and man
of very ordinary intellectual attain
ments, on his knees, can storm anything
for God and for the truth. We want
something Of the determination of the
general who went into the war, and as
he entered his first battle bis knees
knocked together, his physical courage
not quite I'D to his moral courage, and