Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-06-23


tions Are you to blame3 Has he
right to expect to be invited after all
the indignities he has done you? God
In this world has invited Us all to the
banquet of his grace He invited US BY
his providence and his spirit S65 days
of every year since we knew our right
hand from our left If we declined 1t
every time or treated the invitation
with indifference and gave 30 or 40 or 30
years Of indignity on our part toward
the banqueter. and OF last he spreads
the banquet in more luxurious and
kingly place, amid the heavenly gar
dens, have we right to expect him to
invite us again, and have we right to
blame him if he does not invite Us?
Only One Oner.
If 10 gates of salvation stood open 20
years or so years for our admission, and
at the end of that time they are closed,
can we complain of it and say: 'These
gates ought to be open again. Give US
another chanoe?" If the steamer is to sail
for Hamburg, and we want to get to
Germany by that line and we read in
every evening and every morning news
paper that 1t will sail on a certain day,
for two weeks we have that advertise
ment before our eyes, and then we go
down to the docks is minutes after 1T
has showed off into the stream and say:
Come backl Give me another chance!
RI is not fair to treat me in this wayl
Swing up to the dock again and throw
out planks and let me come on boardr'
Such behavior would invite arrest as q
mailman.
And if, after Che gospel ship has lain
at anchor before our eyes for years and
years, and all the benign voices of earth
and heaven have urged us to get on
board, as she might sail away at any
moment, and after awhile she sails
without us, is it common sense to ex-
pect her to come back? You might as
we'll 20 out OH the highlands at Nave
sink and call to the Majestic after she
has been three days out and expect her
to return as to call back an opportunity
for heaven when it once has sped away.
All heaven offered US Us gratuity, and
for lifetime we refuse to take it, and
then rush on the bosses of Jehovah
buckler demanding another chance.
There ought to be, there can be, there
will be, no such thing as posthumous
opportunity. Thus our common sense
agrees with my text, IF the tree fall
toward the south or toward the north,
in the place where the tree falleth there
it shall be. y
You see that this idea lifts this world
up from an unimportant way station to
q platform of stupendous issues and
makes all eternity whirl around this
| hour. But one trial for which all the
preparation must BIO made in this world
or never made at all. That piles up all
! the emphases and all the climaxes and
all the destinies into life here No 9TH
er chance Oh, how that augments the
value and the Importance of this chancel
Alexander with his army used to sur
round city and then would lift "a
great light in token to the people that
/ if they SURRENDERED before that light
went out ell would be we'll but if once
| the .lightswent out thsn the altering
rams would swing against the wall, and
demolition and disaster would follow.
Well, all we need do for our present
| and everlasting safety is to make sur
render to Christ the king and con-
uueror-surrender of our hearts, surren-
der of our lives, surrender of everything
And he keeps great light burning, light
of gospel invitation, light kindled with
the wood of the cross and flaming up
| against the dark night of our sin and
sorrow Surrender while that great light
continues to burn, for after it goes out
there will be no other opportunity Of
making peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ. Talk Of another
chancel Why. this is supernal chancel
No Chance In the Next World.
In the time Of Edward VI, at the
battle Of Musselburg. a private SOL
der, seeing that the Earl of Huntley
had lost his helmet, took off his own
helmet and put it upon the head of the
earl, and the head of the private soldier
uncovered he was soon slain, while his
commander rode safely out Of the bat
tie. But in our case, instead of a pri-
vate soldier offering helmet to an earl,
it is king putting his crown upon an
unworthy subject, the king dying that
we might live. Tell it to all points of
the compass. Tell it to night and day.
Tell it to all earth and heaven. Tell it
to all centuries all ages, all millen-
NUNS, that we have such magnificent
chance in this world that we need no
other chance in the next.
am in the FURNISHED Judgment hall
of the last day A great white throne
is lifted, but the judge has not yet tax
en- it. While we are waiting fer his ar
rival hear immortal spirits in CONVEX
sation. What are you waiting here
for?" says a soul that went up from
Madagascar to O soul that assembled
from America The latter says, Il
came from America, where 40 years
heard the gospel preached and Bible
read, and from the prayer that l learned
IN infancy at my mothers knee until
my last hour I had gospel advantage
but for some reason I did not make the
Christian choice, and 1 am here waiting
For the Judge to give me a new trial
and another chance" "Strange!" says
the other. IT had but one gospel call
in Madagascar, and I accepted 1t, and
do not need another chance"
Tho Judgment.
why are you here?' says one who
on earth had feeblest intellect to one
who had great brain and silvery tongue
and scepters of influence. The latter re-
spends: "Oh, knew more than my fell
lows. l mastered libraries and had
learned titles from colleges, and my
name was synonym for eloquence and
power. And yet neglected my soul,
and am here waiting for new trial. "
Strange, says the one of the feeble