Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-08-04
SHED EWAsDEAD

IsHED HEWASDEAD
8gE REV. DR.. TALMAoE DOES NOT
BLAME 5oe FOR IT.
te Edition TO Bolts, bereavement, BANK
xnpscy and n Fool OF Wife, lie Had O
tstlegsng Toothache-The Marrow Escapes
sase.
EooKLYN, July s0.-Rev. DR.. Toll.
slissseb has selected as the subjec. for his
ss,rI3sea for today through tho press
aaFrow Escapes. the text being talk
Isf from job xix, 40. II anu escaped
s7lshthe skin OF my teeth. -
Joh had it hard What with boils and
hefsRyements aud bankruptcy and fool
or rs wife he wished he WAS dead, and I
sdenbt blame him. His flesh was gone,
ia1s bis bones were dry. His teeth vast.
ssi sway until nothing but the enamel
sGl bed left lie cries out, ~ am esoap-
ed sq1th the skin of my teeth.
aksre hos been some difference OF
osspson about this passage. st. Jerome
sschultens and Drs Good and Poole
ais Barnes have all tried their iorceps
Oh teeth. You deny my interpre-
t.ssla Hnd say, What did Job know
:s,s5Ssub slie enamel Of the teeth2" He knew
ew:gyshing about IL. Dental surgery Is
ailssSst as ,old rs the earth. The mum
my6ssef Egypt, thousands of years old,
eEs found todey with gold filing In
tsssa teeth. Ovid and Horace md Solo,
MOI. and Moses wrote about these Inn
posshns factors of the body. To other
psoseliing complaints job, think. has
adbst M exasperhting toothache and
Isntsfh2 his hand against the inflamed
9azk no says, II nm escaped with the
skti my teeth. .
very narrow escape, you say, for
Jos body and soul. but there are
thsasande;of men who make just as
nsssaws escape for their soul There was
asne when the partition between
thaiA sid ruin was NO thicker than a
tossE s enamel; but, as job finally es-
casi so have they. Thank Godl
ThaR Godl
With Gods Help.
sEnsst expresses the sSrno idea By u
difsent figure when he says that some
peepss are saved as by fire. - a vessel
&c syd Is In fanes You go to the stern
OF weasel. Tho boats have showed
dr. he flames advance. You oan en-
duis s6e heat no longer Oh your face.
Y09sslde down on the side of the YES
SCI sid hold ON with your fingers until
the tongue of the fire begins to
HcA sesa back OF your hand, and you feel
slIili on must fall, when one Of the
lifa ga comes back. and the pnssen-
ger they think they have room for
o1f s80re. The boat swings under you;
yo 7op into it; you are saved. 80
soiis men are pursued by temptation
until they arc partially consumed. but
as5c ali get off-"saved as by fire. "
Bot HIS the figure of Job little bet
tersssn that of Paul, because the pull
pitt: Isl not worn It out end I want to
shoe 500, II God will help, that some
nIeiis make narrow escape for their
sou SID are saved as with the skin
sissss,ss tecth
It Is as easy for some people 20 look
to the cross IS FOR you to look to this
pulpit. Mild, gentle, tractable loving,
you expect them to become Christians.
You 90 over 10 the store and say,
"Grandon Joined the church yesterday.
Your business comrades say: THAT Is
Just what might have been expected. ,"
He always was Of that turn OF mind.
In youth this person whom l describe
was always good. He never broke
things Ho never laughed when it was
improper to laugh. At he could sit sn
hour in church, perfectly quiet, looking
neither to tho right hand nor to the left,
but straight into the eyes of the minis
tez, as though he understood tho whole
discussion about the eternal DEGREES.
BE never upset things nor lost them.
He fioated into the kingdom Of God so
gradually that it Is uncertain just when
the matter was decided.
To tho Unconvcrtod.
Here is another one, who started IN
life with al uncomfortable spirit He
kept the nursery III on uproar. His
mother found him walking OH tho edge
of the house roof to SEQ If he could bal
ance himself There was no horse he
dared not ride, no tree he could not
climb. His boyhood was long series
of predicaments; his manhood was reck-
less; his midlife very wayward. But
now be Is converted, and you go over to
the store and soy, "Arkwright Joined
the church yesterday" Your friends
say: ut is not possiblel You must be
joking" You say: mo; 1 tell you the
truth. He Joined the church. " Then
they reply, There Is hope for any Of
us if old Arkwright has become Chris
tian.
In other words, we all admit that it
Is more difficult for some men TO accept
the gospel than for others.
may be addressing some who have
cut loose from churches and Bibles and
Sundays and who have at present no
intention of becoming Christians them
selves, but just to see what is going on.
And yet you may find yourself escaping
before you hear the end. as with the
skin of your teeth. F." do not expect to
waste this hour. have seen boats go
OF from Cape May or Long Branch and
drop their nets and after awhile come
ashore pulling in the nets without hay
ing caught a single fish. II wes not
good day, or they had not the right
kind of net. Bat we expect no such
excursion today. The water Is full OF
fish; the wind ts IN the right direction;
the gospel net Ia strong. o thou who
didst hoip Simon and Andrew to fish.
show us today how to cast the net on
the right side Of the ship
"a Few Questions.