Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-06-03


the Red sea. were unsaddled, unstirruped,
endorsed. Miriam struck the center of
the tambourine with tho full force Of her
right hand when she cnlne TO that bur OF
the music, 1.-The horse and his rider hath
he thrown into tho sca." An, my friends,
it is the mounted troubles that we most
fear. The littletronb les we can endure
the cildcr in the eye, the splinter under
the nail, the thorn in the foot, the social
slight, the mean fling, the inyidious com
purison or the remarks that's
The annoyances and vexations on foot
we can conquer, but alas for the mount
ed disasters, the bereavemcnts, the bank
ruptcics, the prosecutions, the appalling
sioknesses that charge upon us, as it
wore, with upliftcd battleax or consum-
ing thunderbolt OF power. There are
those among my hearers or readers who
haze had whole regiment of mounted
disasters charging upon them. But fear
not. The smallest horsehy, on the neck
of pharaoh's war charger, passing be-
tween the crystal palisades of the up
heaved Red sea, was not more easily
drowned By tho falling waters than the
so 900 hellneted aud plumed riders on the
backs of the $4,000 neighing and capari-
soned war chargers.
And I have to tell you, O child of
God, that tho Lord, who is on your side
now and forever, has at his disposal and
under his command al waters, all winds.
all lightnings. all time and all eternity.
Come, look me In the face while utter
the word God commands mo to speak to
you, mo weapon formed against you
shall prosper" Don't throw away your
tambourine. You will want it as sure
as you sit there and stand here, and the
tune you will yet play on it. whether
standing on beach Of time or beach of
eternity, will be the tune that Miriam
played when she cried, Sing ye to the
Lord, for he hath triulnphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider hath he thrown
into the sea"
expect to have good laugh with you
in heaven, for the Bible says in Luke, sixth
chapter, twenty-frst verse, BLESSED are
ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh"
We shall not spend all eternity psalm
singing, but sometimes in review of the
past, as Christ says, we shall laugh.
There is nothing wrong in laughter. It
all depends on what you laugh at, and
when you laugh, and how you laugh.
Nothing, 1t seems, will more thoroughly
kindle our heavenly hilarities after we
have got inside the pearly gate than to
see how in this world we got scared at
things which ought not to have fright
ened US at all.
How often we work ourselves up into
great stew about nothing! The Red
sea before may be deep, and the Egyp-
tan cavalry behind rs may be well
mounted, buff we trust the Lord we
will 20 through no more hurt by the
water than when in boyhood we rolled
our. gssaents to the knee and barefoot
crossed ssa meadow brook on the old
homestead The odds may seem TO be
all against you. but I guess it will be all
right with you il you have God on your
side and all the angelic, cherubic, Sc
raphic and archangelic kingdoms. eff
God. be for you, who can be against
your
Lay hold Of the Lord In prayer, and
you will go free, as did Ri hard Cecil
lswith: go. of missiona money in his sad
lgale bags the abbed 9
Ills
deliver; and he prayed a God for Safety,
and suddenly one Of the rob beers said;
"Mr. Cecil, once heard you preach.
Boys, let the gentleman go"
AN IDEA OF HEAVEN.
But let me criticise Miriam little for
the instrument of music she employed
! In the divine service on the sandy beach.
Why not take some other instrument
The harp was sacred instrument. Why
did she not luke that? The cymbal was
sacred instrument. Why did she not
take that2 The trumpet was a sacred in
strunent. Why did she not take that
Amid that great host there must have
been musical instruments more used IN
! religious service. No. She took that
which she liked the best and on which
she could best express her graduation
| over a nations rescue, first through the
retreat of the waves Of the Red sea, and
then through the clapping of the hands
| of their destruction. So withdraw my
criticism of Miriam. Let every one take
her or his best mode of divine worship
and celebration My idea of heaven is
that it is q place where we can do as we
please and have everything we want. OF
course we will do nothing wrong and
want nothing harmful.
How much of the material and phys
ical will finally make up the heavenly
world / know not, but think Gabriel
will have his trumpet, and David his
harp, and Handel his organ, and Thai
berg his piano, and the great Norwegian
performer his violin, and Miriam her tim
brel, and as cannot make music on any
of them | think will move around
among all Of them and listen. But there
are our friends Of the Scotch Covenanter
church who do not like musical instru-
ments at all in divine worship, and they
need not have them.
tell Duncan and Mcleod and Bruce
they need never hear in heaven single
string thrum, or single organ roll roll. we
will all do rs we please in that radiant
place If through the pardoning and
sanctifying grace Of Christ we ever get
there. What a day it will be when we
stand on the beach Of heaven and look
back on the Red sea Of this worlds sill
and trouble and celebrate the fact thai
we have got through and got over anc
got up, our sins and our troubles at
tempting to follow gone clear down IN
der the waves.
Oh, crimson floods, roll over them anc
drown them, and drown them forever
What celebration it will be-our resur
reoted bodies standing on the beach
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