Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-07-22

Have you ever ciphered out hi the
: rule of loss and gain the sum, What
shall it profit q man If be gain the whole
world and lose his souly However fine
your apparel, the winds of death will
futter 1t like rags Homespm- and q
:threadbnre coat have sometimes been,
the shadow OF coming robes made white
in the blood of tho Lamb. The pearl Of
great price is worth more than any gem
you can bring from TIE ocean, than
Australian or Brazilian mines strung in
one cnrcanet- Seek after God, find his
Righteousness, and all shall be well here;
all shall be well hereafter.
But must have word with those
who during the present commercial ca
lamities have lost heavily, or perhaps
lost all their estate II a man lose his
property at 80 or 40 years Of age, 1t Is
only sharp discipline generally by
which Inter he comes 10 larger success.
1t Is all ifolly for man to sit down In
midlife discouraged The marshals of
Napoleon came.to their commander and
said 1--WE have lost the battle, and We
are being cut to pieces Napoleon took
his watch from his pocket and said: at
is only 9 o'clock in the afternoon. You
have lost that battle, but we have time
enough to win another. Charge upon
the foel''
Though the meridian of life has passed
with you and you huve been routed in
many conflict. give not up in discour-
agement- There are victories yet for
you to gain. But sometimes monetary
disaster comes to a man when there is
something in his age OF something In
his health or something This surround
ings which make him know we'll that he
will never get up again.
In 1857 1t was estimated that for many
years previous to that time annually
there had been $4,000 failures in the
United States. Many Of those persons
never recovered from the misfortune.
Bullet me give word Of comfort In
passing. The sheriff may sell you out
of many things. but there are some
things Of which he cannot sell you out,
He cannot sell out your health. He can
not sell out your family. He cannot sell
out your Bible. He cannot sell out your
God. He cannot sell out your heaven.
You have more than you have lost:
Sons and daughters Of God, children
OF an eternal and all loving Father,
mourn not when your property goes.
The world Is yours. and life is yours,
and death is yours, and immortality Is
yours, and thrones of imperial grandeur
are yours; and rivers of gladness are
yours, and shining mansions are yours,
and God is yours. The eternal God has
sworn 1t. and every time you doubt it
you charge the King of heaven and earth
with perjury. Instead OF complaining
how hard you have it, go home, take up
your Bible full of promises, get down on
your knees before God and thank him
for what you have instead of spending
Iso much time in complaining aboat what
you have not.
AN AWFUL sHIPwRECK.
Some of you remember the shipwreck
Of the Central America This noble
steamer lied, think, about 500 passen-
gers aboard. Suddenly the storm came,
and the surges :trampled the decks and
swung into the matches, and there went
up hundred voiced death Shrek. The
foam on the jaw of the wave; the pitch
ing of the steamer as though it were
leaping mountain; the dismal fare Of
the signal rockets; the long cough of the
steam pipes; the hiss of the extinguished
furnaces; the walking of God on the
wavel The steamer went not down with
out struggle.
AS the passengers stationed themselves
In rows to bale out the vessel, bark to
the thump OF the buckets as men unused
to toll, with blistered hands and strained
muscle, tug for their lives. There is
sail seen. against the sky. The flash of
the distress gun is sounded. Its voice Is
heard not, for 1t Is choked In the louder
booming of the sea, A few passengers
escaped, but the steamer gave one great
lurch and was gone! So there are some
men who sail on prosperously in life.
Ais well, alls well. But at last some
financial disaster comes-a euroclydon.
Down they go! the bottom of this COM
mercial sea strewn with shattered hulks.
But because your property goes do
not let your soul go. Though all else
perish, save that, for | have to tell you
of more stupendous shipwreck than
that which have just mentioned. God
launched this world 5000 years ago. It
has been going on under freight of
mountains and immortals, but one day
it will stagger at the cry of fire. The
timbers of rock will burn, the mountains
flame like masts and the clouds like sails
in the Judgment hurricane. Then God
shall take the passengers off the deck,
and from the berths those who have long
been asleep In Jesus, and he will set
them far beyond the reach of storm and
peril.
But how many shall go down? That
will never be known until 1t shall be an
nounced one day in heaven-the ship
wreck Of worldl Oh, my dear hearers,
whatever you lose, though your houses
90, though your lands go, though all
your earthly possessions perish, may
God Almighty. through the blood of the
everlasting covenant. save all your souls.
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