Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-02-04

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TIE JOYS OF RELIGION.
Well, now, religion comes in just ut
that point.with its illumination and its
explanation. There is a business man
ig,ho has lost his entire fortune The
week before she lost his fortune there
twenty cartiag es that stoppe lat
tho door of his mansion. The week after
he lost his fortune ell the carriages you
could count on one finger. The week be-
fore financial trouble began people all
took off their hats to him as he passed
down the street. The week his financial
prospects were under discussion people
lust touched their hats without anywise
bending the rim. The week that he was
pronounced insolvent people just jolted
their heads as they passed, not tipping
their hats at all, and the week the sheriff
sold him out all his friends were looking |
in the store windows as they went down
past him.
Now, while the world goes away from
q man when he is in financial distress,
the religion of Christ comes to him and
says: You are sick and your sickness
is to BIO moral publication; You are be-
reaved God wanted in some way to
take your family to heaven, and he must
begin somewhere, and 80 he took the one
that was most beautiful and was most
ready to CO." 1 do not say that religion
explains everything in this life, but do
say it lays down certain principles which
are grandly consolatory. You know
business men often telegraph in ciphers.
The merchant in San Francisco tele-
graphs to the merchant in New York
certain information in ciphers which no
other man in that line of business can
understand, but the merchant in San
Francisco has the key to the cipher, and
the merchant in New York has the key
to the cipher, and on that information
transmitted there are enterprises involy-
ing hundreds Of thousands of dollars.
Now the providences Of life sometimes
seem to be senseless rig1narole, mys-
terious cipher, but God has key to that
cipher, and the Christian a key to that
cipher, and, though he may hardly be
able to spell out the meaning, he gets
enough Of The meaning to understand
that it is for the best. Now is there not
sunshine in that3 Is there not pleasure
in that? Far beyond laughter, it is near
er the fountain Of tears than boisterous
demonstration. Have you never cried
for joy? There are tears which are eter-
nal rapture in distillation.
THE soRRowFUL MYSTERIES.
There are hundreds of people in this
house who are walking day by day in
the sublime satisfaction that all is for
the best, all things working together for
good for their soul. How a man can
get along through this life without the
explanation is to me mystery. What!
is that child gone foreverP Are you
never to get it back? Is your property
gone forever? Is your soul to be bruised
and to be tried forever? Have you no
explanation, no Christian explanation,
and yet not maniac? But when you
have the religion Of Jesus Christ in your
soul, it explains everything SO far as it
is best for you to understand. You look
off in life, and your soul is full of thanks
giving to God that you are so much bet
ter off than you might be.
A man passed down the street without