Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-02-03

and no pen good enough with which tc
inscribe it.. Give me the fairest leaf
from the heavenly records-give me the
pencil with which the angel records his
victory-and then, with my hand strung
to supernatural ecstasy and my pen dip
ped in the light of the morning, will
write it out in the capitals Of love,
JESUS" 1t is this one, infinitely
fair, to whom you are invited. Christ is
waiting for you, waiting as banqueter
waits for the delayed guest-the meats
smoking, the beakers trimming, the
MINISTRIES with fingers on the stiff string,
waiting for the clash of the hoofs at the
gateway.
Waiting for you as mother waits for
her son who went off 10 years ago, drag
ging her bleeding heart along with him.
Waiting! On, give me comparison in
tense enough, hot enough, importunate
enough to- express my meaning-some-
thing high as heaven and deep as hell
and long as eternityl Not hoping that
you can help me with such a comparison,
l will say, s.He is waiting as only the all
sympathetic Christ can wait for the com
ing back of lost SOUL"
Bow the knee and kiss the Son.
Come and welcome, sinner. come.
HOW LUTHER SAW THE TRUTH.
Again, the holy spirit is ready. Why
is it that SO many sermons drop dead
that Christian songs do not get their
wing under the people-that so often
prayer goes no higher than a hunters
"hollo?" 1t is because there is a link
wanting-the work of the holy spirit.
Unless that spirit give graphing hooks
to sermon and lift the prayer and watt
the song, everything is dead failure.
That spirit is willing to come at our call
and lead you to eternal life, or ready to
come with the same power with which
he endorsed Saul on the Damascus turn
pike, and broke down Lydia in her fine
store, aud lifted the 5000 from midnight
into midnoon at the Pentecost. With
that power the spirit of God now beats
at the gate Of your soul. Have you not
noticed what homely and insignificant
fundamentally the spirit of God en-
ploys for mans conversion?
There was a man on Hudson river
boat to whom tract was offered. With
indignation he tore it up and threw it
overheard. But one fragment lodged on
his coat sleeve, and he saw on it the word
"aternity," and he found no peace until
he was prepared for that great future.
Do you know what passage it was that
caused Martin Luther to see the TRUTH
"The just shall live by faith" Do you
know there is one-just one-passage that
brought Augustine from life of dissi-
patton? "Put we on the Lord Jesus Christ
and make no provision for the flesh to full
fill the lusts thereof" 1t was just one
passage that converted Hedley Wears, the
great soldier, to Christ, 1.-The blood of
Jesus Christ cleanseth from all SIM"
Do you know that the holy spirit used |
one passage of Scripture to save Jonathan
Edwards? Now, unto the king, eternal,
immortal, invisible, the only wise God,
ooh. gil g thanks unJo' TIC lIvH'', -"- 49,
is good. for his mercy endureth for
ever" And there is young man IN the
house to whose heart the holy spirit TOOK |
that text for his eternal redemption.
might speak of my own case. will tell
Won [ was brought to the peace OF the
gospel through the Syro-Phenician Won,
ans crv to Christ, Gwen the dogs eat OF
the crumbs that fall from the masters
table"
TRUE ELooUENCE.
Il
Do Won know that the holy spirit al
most always uses insignificant means?
Eloouent sermons never save anybody.
Philosophical sermons never save any
body. Metaphysical sermons never save
ANYBODY. But the minister comes some
Sabbath to his pulpit worn out with en-
pagements and the jangling of frenzled
doorbell. He has only text and two or
three ideas, but he says: 80 Lord. help
me. Here are good many people Imay
never meet again. I have not much TO
saw Speak thou through my poor lips.
And before the service is done there are
fearful eyes and q solemnity like the
judgment. 49,
The great French orator, when the
dead king lay before him, looked up and
cried. God only is great" and the trl-
umph of his eloquence has been told by
the historians. But I have not heard
that one soul was saved by the oratorlcal
flourish. Worldly critics may think that
the early preaching of Thomas Chalmers
was a masterpiece. But Thomas Cha!-
mers SAYS he never began to preach until
he came out of the sickroom, white and
emaciated, and told men the simple story
Of Jesus. In the great day of eternity 1t
will be found that the most souls have
been brought to Christ not by the Bos-
snets and Massillons and Bourdaloues,
hut by humble men, who, in the strength
of God and believing in the eternal splr-
it. invited men to Jesus.
There were wise salves, there were ex-
cellent ointments, suppose, IN the time
of Christ for blind and infamed eyes.
But Jesus turned his back upon them
and put the tip of his finger to his tongue,
and then with the spittle that adhered
to the finger he anointed the eyes OF the
blind man, and daylight poured into his
blinded soul. Sc it is now that the spirit
of God takes that humble prayer meet
ing talk, which seems to be the very
saliva of Christian influence, and anolnts
the eyes of the blind and pours the sun
light of pardon and peace upon the soul.
} Oh, MY friend, 1 wish we could feel II
more aud more thatif any good is done Ii
is by the power of Gods omnipoteni
spirit. l do not know what hymn
bring you to Jesus. l do not know"
words of the Scripture lesson 1 read L
save your soul. Perhaps the spirit
God may hurl the very text into yo1
heart, Come, for all things are no"
, ready"
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