Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-03-18
ACCOMAC c. H. VA. SATURDAY, MARCH Is 1898
flowers Of heaven and paths OF pearl.
Oh, could we make our doubts remove
These gloomy doubts that rise
And view the Canaan that we love
With unbeclouded eycs

And view the Canaan that we love
With unbeclouded eycs
Could we but climb where Moses stood
And view the landscape DER,
Not Jordnn's stream nor deaths cold flood
Could fright us from the shore.
Again, this Jordanic passage teaches
mo the completeness of everything that
God does. When God put an invisible
dam across Jordan, and it was halted, it
would have been natural, you would
have supposed, for the water to have
overhowed the region all around about,
and that great devastation would have
taken place, but when God put the dam
in front of the river he put dam on the
other side Of the river, so that, according
to the text, the water halted and reared
and stood there and not overlooking the
surrounding country. Oh, the complete
ness of everything that God does!
One would have thought that, II the
waters of Jordan had dropped until they
were only two or three feet deep. the Is
rae1ites might have marched through it
and have come up on the other bank
with their clothes saturated and their
garments like those Of men coming ashore
from shipwreck, and that would have
been as wonderful deliverance, but God
does something better than that. When
the priests feet touched the waters OF
Jordan and they were drawn off, they
might have thought there would have
been bed of mud and slime through
which the army should pass.
Draw off the waters Of the Hudson or
the Ohio. and there would be o good
many days, and perhaps many weeks,
before the sediment would dry up, and
yet hero III an instant, Immediately, God
provides ruth through the depths of
Jordan. It is so dry the passengers do
not even get their feet damp. Oh, the
completeness of everything that God
does! Does he make universal 1t is a
perfect clock, running ever since it was
wound up, the fixed stars the pivots, the
consultations the Intervening wheels.
and ponderous laws the weights and
mighty swinging pendulum, the stars in
tho great dome of night striking the mid
night; and the sun, with brazen tongue.
tolling the hour of noon.
The widest comet has chain of law
that it cannot break. The thistle down
flying before the schoolboy's breath is
controlled by the same law that controls
the sun and the planets. The rosebush
in your window is governed by the same
principle that governs the tree of the
universe on which the stars are ripening
fruits, and on which God will one day
put his hand and shake down the fruit
q perfect universe. No astronomy has
ever proposed IN amendment.
A COMPLETE BIBLE.
If God makes Bible, it is complete
Bible. Standing amid the dreadful aud
delightful truths, you seem to be in the
midst of an orchestra where the wailings
over sins, and the rejoicings over pardon,
and the martial strains of victory make
the chorus like an anthem of eternity.
This book seems to you the ocean OF
truth, on every wave of which Christ
walks-sometimes in the darkness OF
prophecy, again in the splendors with
.whiclrhey walks alileess book
apostle answers to prophet, Paul to lisa
iah, Revelation to Genesis glorious
light. turning midnight sorrow into the
midnoon joy, dispensing every fog, hush
ing every tempest. Take this book; it
is the kiss of God on the soul of lost man.
Perfect Bible, complete Bible! No man
has ever proposed any improvement.
God provided Saviour. He Is COM
plete Sayiour-God-man-divinity and
humanity united in the same person.
He set up. the starry pillars of the uni
verse and the towers of light. he plant
ed the cedars and the heavenly Lebanon.
He struck out of the rock the rivers Of
life, singing under the trees, singing IN
der the thrones. He quarried the sar-
donyx and crystal and the topaz OF the
heavenly wall. He put down the jasper
for the foundation and heaped up the
amethyst for the capital and swung the
10 gates which are - pearls. In one In
slant he thought out universe, and yet
he became child crying for his mother,
feeling along the sides Of the manager,
learning to walk.
Omnipotence sheathed in the muscle
and flesh of child's arm; omniscience
strung in the optic nerve Of o childs eye;
infinite love beating In childs heart; q
great God appearing In the form OF q
child year old, 8 years old, IL years
old. While all the heavens were as
cribing to him glory and honor and
power on earth, men said, "Who is this
fellow. While all the heavenly hosts,
with folded wing about their faces,
bowed down before him crying "Holy,
holy! on earth, they denounced him as a
blasphemer and sot. Rocked In boat
on Gennesaret, and yet he it is that un-
dirked the lightning from the storm
cloud and dismasted Lebanon of its for
ests and holds the five oceans on the tip
of his finger as the leaf holds the rain
drop.
Oh, the complete Saviour, rubbing his
hand over the place where we have the
pain, yet the stars of heaven the adorn-
inc gems of Ills right hand. Holding us
in his arms when we take our last view
of our dead. Sitting down with us on
the tombstone, and while we plant roses
there he planting consolation in our
heart, every chapter stalk, every verse
a stem. every word rose. A complete
Saviour, complete Bible, complete
universe, complete Jordanic passage.
Everything that God does is complete.
OBSTACLES TO OVERCOME.
Again, learn from this Jordanic pas
sage that between us and every Canaan
of success and prosperity there is river
that must be passed. "Oh, how I would
like some of those grapes on the other
sider' said some of the Israelites to
Joshua. "Well," says Joshua, ''if you
want the grapes, why don't you cross
over and get them?' There is river of
difficulty between us and everything that