Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-04-28

'eWhen he was come down from The
mountain, great multitudes followed
him" They had but one fault to find
with his sermon. 1t was too short. God
help all of US in Christian work to get
down off our stills and realize there is
only one thing we have to do-there is
the great wound Of the worlds sin and
sorrow, and here is the great healing
plaster Of the gospel. What you and I
want to do is to put the plaster on the
wound All sufficient is this gospel if it
is only applied a minister preaching
to an audience of sailors concerning the
ruin by sin and the rescue by the gospel
accommodated himself to sailors YER
nacular and said, "This plank bears. "
Many years after this preacher was
called to see dying sailor and asked
him about his hope and got the suggest
i've reply, "This plank bears. u
An Appeal Tor Love.
Yea, Christ was lovely in his chief
lfes work. There were thousand
things for him to do, but his great work
was to get our shipwrecked world out
of the breakers. That he came to do, and
that he did, and he did itin three years.
He took 80 years to prepare for that
three years activity. From 10 to 80
years of age we hear nothing about him.
That intervening Is years think he
was in India But he came back to Pal
estine and crowded everything into three
years-three winters, three springs,
three summers, three autumns. Our life
is short, but would God we might see
how much we could do i'll three years.
Concentration Intensifcation! Three
years of kind words! Three years of liv-
ing for othersl Three years of self sacri-
fee! Let us try it.
Aye, Christ was lovely in his demise.
He had a right that last hour to deal in
anathematization. Never had any one
been SO meanly treated. Cradle of straw
among goats and camels-that was the
worlds reception of .himi Rocky cliff,
with hammers pounding spikes through
tortured nerves-that was the worlds
farewell salutation The slaughter Of
that scene sometimes hides the lowell
ness of the sufferer Under the satura-
ton of tears and blood we sometimes
fail to see the sweetest face of earth and
heaven. Altogether lovely! Can coolest
criticism find an unkind word he ever
spoke, or an unkind action that he ever
performed, or an unkind thought that he
ever harbored?
What marvel it is that all the ma
lions of earth do not rise up in raptures
of affection for him! must say it here
and now. lift my right hand in solemn
attestation. I love him, and the grief of
my life is that I do not love him more.
Is it an impertinence for me to ask, Do
you, my hearer-you, my reader, love
him? Has he become part of your ma
ture? Have you committed your children
on earth into his keeping, as your chill
dren in heaven are already in his bosom?
Has he done enough to win your conf
dence? Can you trust him, living and
dying and forever? Is your back or your
face toward him? Would you like to
have his hand to guide you, his might
to protect you, his grace to comfort you,
his snfferings to atone for you, his arms.
to welcome you, ahis love to enciTcle yous
his heaven to crown you.
A Grand Thought.
Oh, that we might all have something
of the great German reformer's love for
this Christ which led him to say, eff any
one knocks at the door of my breast and
says, Who lives there?' my reply is,
Jesus Christ lives here, not Martin
Luther. Will it not be grand if, when
we get through this short and rugged
road of life, we can 60 right up into his
presence and live with him world with
out end?
And if, entering the gate of that heav-
emily city, we should be SO overwhelmed
with our unworthiness on the one side,
and the supernal splendor on the other
side, we get little bewildered and
should for few moments be lost on the
streets of gold and among the FURNISHED
temples and the sapphire thrones, there
would be plenty to show us the way and
take us out of our joyful bewilderment,
and perhaps the woman of Main would
say, Come, let me take you to the
Christ who raised my only boy to life. "
And Martha would say, Come, let me
take you to the Christ who brought up
my brother Lazarus from the tomb. "
And one of the disciples would say,
"Come, and let me take you to the
Christ who saved our sinking ship in
the hurricane on Gennesaret. And
Paul would say, Come, and let me
lead you to the Christ for whom died
on the road to Ostia." And whole
groups of martyrs would say, Come,
let US show you the Christ for whom we
ratified the chain and waded the floods
and dared the fires " And our own 6 To-
riied kindred would flock around us,
saying, eve have been waiting good
while for you, but before we talk over
old times, and we tell you Of what we
have enjoyed since we have been here,
and you tell us of what you have suffer
ed since we parted, come, come and let
US show you the greatest sight in all tho
place, the most resplendent throne, and
upon it the mightiest conqueror, the
exaltation of heaven, the theme of the
immortals, the altogether great, the al
together good, the altogether fair, the
altogether lovelyP
Well, the delightful morn will come
When my dear Lord will bring me home,
And shall see his face.
Then, with my Saviour, Brother, Friend,
a blest eternity I'll spend,
Triumphant in his grace.