Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-04-14

US SIX days ana keeps one for himself.
Now, if we try to get the seventh, he
will upset the work of all the other six.
remember going up Mount Washing
ton, before the railroad had been built,
to the Tip-Top House, and the guide
would come around to our horses and stop
us when we were crossing n very steep
and dangerous place, and he would
tighten the girth of the horse and
straighten the saddle. And l have to tell
you that this road of life is so steep and
full of peril we must ct least one day
In seven stop and have the harness Of
life readjusted and our souls re-equip-
ped The seven days of the week are
like seven business partners, and you
must give to each one his share, or the
business will be broken up. God is so
generous with us-he has given you six
days to his one Now, here is father
who has seven apples, and he gives six
to his greedy boy, proposing to keep one
for himself. The greedy boy grabs for
the other one and loses oil the six.
How few men there are who know
how to keep the Lords day away from
homei A great many who are consistent
on the banks of the st. Lawrence, or the
Alabama, or the Mississippi are not con-
sistent when they get so far off as the East
river rcpeat-though it is putting it
on a low ground-you cannot financially
afford to break the Lords day. 1t is
only another way of tearing up your
government securities and putting down
the price of goods and blowing up your
store. l have friends who are all the
time slicing off pieces of the Sabbath.
They cut little of the Sabbath off that
end and little of the Sabbath off this
end. They do not keep the "a hours
The Bible says, Remember the Sabbath
day, to keep.it holy"
have good friends who are quite ac-
customed to leaving Albany by the mid
night train on Saturday night and get
ting home before church. Now, there
may be occasions when it is right, but
generally it is wrong. How if the train
should run off the track INTO the North
river? hope your friends will not send
to me to preach your funeral sermon. 1t
would be an awkward thing for me to
stand up by your side and preach, you,
Christian man, killed on rail train
travelling on Sunday morning. IRE
member the Sabbath day to keep it
holy" What does that mean? 1t means
81 hours A man owes you dollar. You
don't want him to pay you 90 cents.
You want the dollar If God demands
of us 81 hours out of the week, he means
"a hours and not 10. Oh, we want tc
keep vigilantly i'll this country the
American Sabbath and not have trans
planted here the European Sabbath,
which for the most part is no Sabbath al
ALL If any of you have been in Paris, YOU
know that on Sabbath morning the vast
population rush out toward the country
with baskets. and bundles, and toward
night, they come back, tagged out, cross
and intoxicated NJ ay God preserve to US
our glorious, quiet American Sabbaths.
Oh strangers, Welcome to: the great
city May you. find Christ here, and not
any physical or moral damage Mencom-
ing from inland, from distant cities,
have here found God. and found him II
0uis Va. that be Zo9r case e
dag. : =. di6u ght. you were .br0u ~
| this placemerely for the purpose ofsightS
seeing. Perhaps God brought you to this
roaring city for the purpose of working
out your eternal salvation. Go back to
your homes and tell them how you met
Christ here, the loving, patient, pardon
ing and sympathetic Christ. Who knows
but the city which has been the destruc-
ton of so many may be your eternal re-
demption?
A good many years ago Edward Stan
ley, the English commander, with his
regiment, took fort The fort was
manned by some 300 Spaniards. Ed
ward Stanley came close up to the fort,
leading his men, when Spaniard
thrust at him with spear, intending to
destroy his life, but Stanley caught hold
of the spear, and the Spaniard in at
tempting to jerk the spear away from
Stanley lifted him up into the battle
ments. No sooner had Stanley taken his
position on the battlcments than he
swung his sword, and his whole regi-
ment leaped after him, and the fort was
taken. So it may be with you, 0 stran-
ger. The city influences which have de-
stroyed so many and dashed them down
forever shall be the means Of lifting you
up into the tower of Gods mercy and
strength, your soul more than conqueror
through the grace of him who has
promised an especial benediction to
those who shall treat you well, saying,
st was stranger, and ye took me in. "