Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-08-19
" ACCOMAC- C. e. VA. SATURDAY AUGUST 49, 1893

doors of eternal death, working for TO-
900 years, cannot bring up one OF our
sins forgiven and forgotten and sunken
into the depths Of the sea. When sin
is pardoned, it is gone. 1t is gone out OF
the books; it is gone out Of the memory;
it is gone out Of existence. "Their sins
and their iniquities will I remember no
more"
THE SUBLIME TRAGEDY.
From other tragedies men have come
away exhausted and nervous and sleep
less, but there is one tragedy that soothes
and Gains and saves. Calvary was the
stage on which 1t was enacted, the cur
tain of the night falling OF midnoon was
the drop scene, the thunder Of falling
rocks the orchestra, angels in the gal
leries and devils In the pit the spectators,
the tragedy crucifxion. "It is Christ
that died" Oh, triumphant thought
If you go through the picture gal
leries of Versailles, you will find great
change there. said to a friend who
had been through those galleries, "Are
they as they were before the French
warp and was told there was o great
change there; that all that multitude OF
pictures which represented Napoleonic
triurnphs had been taken away, and In
the frames were other pictures repre-
sentative of Germanic success and VIC
tory. Oh, that all the scenes of satanic
triumph in our world might be blotted
out, and that the whole world might be
picture gallery representing the trl-
umphant Jesusl Down with the mon
archy Of transgressionl UP with the
monarchy Of our Kingi HALL Jesus.
haili
But must give you the second cause
of Paul's exhilaration. If Christ had
staid in that grave, we never would
have gotten out of it. The grave would
have been dark and dismal as the con-
ciergerie during the reign of terror,
where the carts came up only to take
the victims out to the scaffold. l do not
wonder that the ancients tried by en-
balmment Of the body to resist the dis
solution Of death.
The grave is the darkest, deepest,
ghastliest chasrn that was ever opened
if there be no light from the resurrec-
ton throne streaming into it, but Christ
staid in the tomb all Friday night and
all Saturday, all Saturday night and a
part of Sunday morning. He staid so
long in the tomb that he might fit it for
us when we go there. He tarried two
whole nights in the grave, 30 that he saw
how important it was to have plenty OF
light, and he has flooded it with his own
glory.
THE RESURRECTION.
It is early Sunday morning, and we
start up to find the grave of Christ, We
find the morning sun gliding the dew,
and the shrubs are sweet as the foot
brushes them. What beautiful place
to be buried in! Wonder they did not
treat Christ as well when he was alive
as they do now that he is dead. Give
the military salute to the soldiers who
stand guarding the dead. But bark to
the crash--an earthquakel The soldiers
fall back as though they were dead, and
the stone at the door Of Christ's tomb
spins down the hill, flung by the arm of
an angel. Come forth, O Jesus, from the
darkness into the sunlight Come forth
and breathe the perfume Of Joseph's-gar-
den.
Christ comes forth radiant, and as he
steps out of the excavation of the rock !
look down into the excavation, and in
the distance see others coming hand
in hand and troop after troop, and !. find
1t is long procession of the precious
dead. Among them are our own loved
ones-father. mother, brother, sister,
companion, children, coming up out of
the excavation Of tho rock until. the last
one has stepped out into the light, and l
am bewildered, and I cannot understand
the scene until I see Christ wave his
hand over the advancing procession from
the rock and hear him cry: 81 am the
resurrection and the life. he who be-
ieveth in me, though he were dead, yet
shall he i've" And then I notice that
the long dirge OF the worlds woe sud
denly stops at the archangelic shout OF
Come forth!"
Oh, my friends, if Christ had not bro
ken out of the grave you and l would
never come out Of it! 1t would have
been another case Of Charlotte Corday
attempting to slay tyrant, herself slain
1t would have been another case of John
Brown attempting to free the slaves,
himself hung. Itwould have been Death
and Christ in grapple and Death the
victor. The black flag would have float
ed on all the graves and mausoleums of
the dead, and hell would have conquered
the forces Of heaven and captured the
ramparts of God, and satan would have
como to Coronation in the palaces Of
heaven, and it would have been devils
on the throne and sons Of God in the
dungeon.
DEATH Is sIESTA
No! mol no! When that stone was
rolled from the door of Christ's grave, it
was hurled with such force that 1T
crashed in all the grave doors Of Chris
tendon, and now the tomb is only a
bower where Gods children take q sizes
ia, an afternoon nap. to wake up in
mighty IMMIGRATION. -"Christ is risen. "
Hang thatlamp among all the tombs of
my dead. Hang it over my own resting
place. Christ's suffering is ended; his
work is DONE The darkest Friday aft
ernoon Of the worlds history becomes
the brightest Sunday morning of its res
direction JOY. The Good Friday of bit
ter memories becomes the Easter OF glo-
rious transformation and resurrection.
Ye mourning saints, dry every tear
For your departed Lord.
Behold the place. H., + not bore.
The tomb Is nj lunbarred.
The.eates Of death er. closed In vain
The Lord |. risen-ha lives again.
Iglve you the third cause OF Paul's e1-
hilaration. We honor the right hand
,,o-a than we do the left. IF in accident