Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-04-29

taken Jacob up to the palace Where his
Joseph is yet alive"
Sympathy for business men. Twenty
four years OF commercial life in New
York and Brooklyn are enough to teal
ones nerves to pieces. We want to make
our Sabbath service here Il rescue for all
these martyrs of traffic, foretaste OF
that land where they have no rents to
pay, and there are no business rivalries,
and where riches, instead Of taking wings
to fly away, brood over other riches.
Sympathy for the fallen, remembering
that they ought to be pitied as much as a
man run over with Il rail train. The
fact is that in the temptations and mis-
fortunes OF life they get run over You
and l in the same circumstances would
have done us badly. We should have
done worse perhaps. If you and / had
the same evil surroundings and the same
evil pnrentage tli;t they mad and the
same native born proclivities to evil that
they had, you and should have been in
the reritentialy or outcasts OF society.
mo" says gone self righteous lnan, ~
couldn't have been oyc1thrown in that
way" You old hypocrite. you would
have been the first to fall
We want in this church to have SYM
patty for the worst man, remembering
he is brother; sympathy for the worst
woman, remembering she is sister. If
that is not the gospel, I do not know
what the gospel is. All, yes, sympathy
for all the troubled, for the orphans in
their exposure, for widowhood with its
weak arm fighting for bread, for tho
household which erst rosounded with
merry voices and pattering feet now aw-
fully still-broad winged sympathy, like
the feathers Of the Almighty; warm
blooded sympathy, everlasting sy1npa-
thy; sympathy which shows itself in the
grasp of the hand, in the glittoring tear
of the eye, in tie consoling word Of the
mouths sympathy of blankets for the
cold, of bread for the hungry, of medi-
cine for tho sick, of rescue for the lost.
Sympathy
TwENTY-FoUR YEARS OF HEALTH.
Let it thrill in every sermon. Let it
trelnble in every song. Let it CLEAN i'll
every tear and in every light. Sympathy!
Men and women are signing for SYM
pathy, groaning for sympathy, dying for
sympathy, tumbling off into uncleanli-
ness and crime and perdition for lack of
sympathy. May God give it to usl Fill
all this pulpit with it from step to step.
Let the sweep of these galleries suggest
its encircling arms. Fill all the house
with it, from door to door, and from floor
to ceiling, until there is no more room
for it, and it shall overflow into the
street, and passersby ON foot and in car
rage shall feel the throb Of its magnif-
cent benediction.
Let that be our new departure as o
church. Let that be my new departure
as a pastor. Sympathy Gratitude to
God demands that this morning men
ton the fact that during all these "a
years I have missed but one service
through sickness. When l entered the
ministry, I was sodelicate l did not think
] Iwould preach three months, but preach
me Al i5ls5the
healthiest thing in all the earth Is the re.
ligion of Jesus Christ. Bless the Lord,
o my soul! What ingrates we are in re-
gard to our health!
must, in gratitude to God, also MEL
ton the multitudes to whom have been
permitted to preach. 1t is simply mirac'
ulous, the attendance morning by morn.
ing, night by night, and year by year,
and long after it has got to be an old
story. know some people are dainty
and exclusive in their tastes. AS for my
self, like big crowd. would like to
see an audience large enough to scare
mel If this gospel is good. the more that
get 1t the better.
Many have received the gospel here,
but others have rejected it. Now, tell
you what am going to do with some Of
my dearest friends who have hitherto
rejected the gospel. You are not afraid
of me, and an not afraid Of you, and
some day, o brother, l will clasp your
hands together, and 1 will turn your face
the other way, and I will take hold Of
your shoulders, and while you are help
less in my grasp will give you one head
long push into the kingdom Of God.
Christ says we must compel you to come
in. will compel you to come in. Can
I consent to anything else with these
men, who are as dear to me as my own
soulP I will compel you to come in.
THE PAST HAS LESSONS FOR TEE FUTURE.
Profting by the mistakes Of the past, !
must do better work for you and better
work for God. Lest I might, through
some sudden illness or casualty, be
snatched away before 1 have the oppor-
tunity Of doing SO, take this occasion
to declare my love for you as q people.
1t Is different work if pastor Is placed
in church already built up, and he is
surrounded by established circum-
stances. There are not 10 people in this
church that have not been brought into
the church through my ministry. You
are my family. feel as much at home
here as do in my residence on Oxford
street. You are my family-my father,
my mother. my sister, my son, my
daughter. You are my joy and crown,
the subject of my prayers.
Your present and everlasting welfare
is the object of my ambition. l have no
worldly ambition. had once. have
not now. I know the world about as
we'll as any one knows 1t. have heard
the handclapping of its applause, and |
have heard the hiss of its opposition, and
declare to you that the former is not
especially to be sought for, nor is the lat
ter to be feared. The world has given
me about all the comfort and prosperity
1t can give man, and I have no worldly
ambition. I have an all consuming ambi-
ton to make full proof Of my ministry
to get to heaven myself and to take a
great crowd with me. Upon your table
and cradle and armchair and pillow and
lounge and nursery and drawing room
and kitchen may the blessing of the Al
mighty God come down!
During these "a years there IS hardly q
family that has not been invaded by sor-