Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-08

teacher was know not, but she use(
the opportunity opened and great ha
been her reward You may not be abl'
to load an Armstrong gun; you may no
be able to hurl Hotchlliss shell; you
may not be able to shoulder o glitterinl
musket; but use anything you can lay
your hands on. Trya blacksmith's ham
mer or merchants yardstick or ma
sons trowcl or carpenters plano or {
housewives broom or farmers OK
goad. One Of the surprises of heaver
will DO what grand results came from
how simple means. Matthias Joyce, the
vile man, became a great apostle Of
righteousness, not from hearing JOIN
Wesley preach, but from seeing him kis.
little child Oh the pulpit stairs.
The Holp of God.
Again, my subject springs upon Us
the thought that in calculating the pros
poets of religious attempt we must take
omnipotence and omniscience and ON.
nipresence and all the other attributes
of God into the calculation. Whom dc
you see on that plowed field Of my text.
One nearer says, 81 see Shamgar. +" An
other nearer says, II see 900 Philis
tines. My nearer, you have missed the
chief parsonage on that battlefield Of
plowed ground. I also see Shamgar and
600 Philistines; but, more than all and
mightier than all and more overwhelm-
ing than all, see God. Shamgar with
his unaided arm, however muscular,
and with that humble instrument made
for agricultural purposes and never
constructed for combat, could not have
wrought such victory. 1t WAS omnipo-
tenco above and beneath and back Of and
at the point of the oxgoad. Before that
battle was over the plowman realized
this, and all the GOO Philistines realized
it, and all who visited the battlefield
afterward appreciated 1t. l want in
heaven to hear the story, for it can new
er be fully told on earth-perhaps some
day may be set apart for the rehearsal,
while NIL heaven istens-the story of
how God blessed awkward and humble
Many an evangelist
has come into n town given up to world
illness. The pastors say to the eyangel-
list: 1--WE are glad you have come, but
it is hard field, and we feel sorry for
you. The members of our churches play
euchre and go to the theater
and bet at the horse races, and gayety
and fashion have taken possession of the
town We have advertised your meet
ings, but are not very hopeful God
bless you" This evangelist takes his
place on platform or pulpit. He never
graduated Mt college. and there are before
him 20 graduates Of the best universe
ties. He never took one lesson in elocu-
ton, and there are before him 20 tesined
orators. Many of the ladies prdesat are
graduates of the highest female semi
naries, and one slip in grammar or one
will result in sup
pressed giggle Amid the general chill
that pervades the house the unpretend-
. "opens his Bible and takes
for his text, q -tsve,-r,y,av
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lery curiously scrutinize the speaker.
he tells in plain way the story of the
blind man, tells two or three touching
anecdotes, and the general chill gives
way before a strange warmth.
A classical nearer who took the first
honor at Yale and who is prince of
proprieties finds his spectacles becoming
+lim with moisture suggestive Of tears.
A worldly mother who has been bring
ing up her sons and daughters in utter
zodlessness puts her handkerchief to her
eyes and begins to weep. Highly edu-
Gated men who came to criticise and
pick to pieces and find fault bow on
their gold headed canes. What is that
sound from under the gallery? 1t is a
sob, and sobs are catching, and all along
the wall and all up and down the audi
ence there is deep emotion, so that
when at the close Of the service anxious
souls are invited to especial seats or the
inquiry room, they come up by scores
and kneel and repent and rise up par
doned; the whole town is shaken and
places of evil amusement are sparsely
and rum holes lose their pa
irons. and the churches are throHged,
and the whole community is cleansed
and elevated and rejoiced. What power
did the evangelist bring to bear to cap
ture that town for Righteousness? Not
one brilliant epigram did he utter. Not
one graceful gesture did he make. Not
one rhetorical climax did ne pile up.
But there was something about him
that people had not taken in the esti-
mate when they prophesied the failure
of that work. They had not taken into
the calculation the omnipotence of the
Holy Ghost 1t was not the flash Of a
Damascus blade. 1t was God, before
and behind and all around the oxgoad.
When people say that crime will tri-
umph and the world will never be con-
verified because of the seeming insuffi-
Cheney VI Ilc IlftttllS OLIPASs'N, my
count the 600 armed Philistines on one
side and Shamgar, the farmer, awk-
wardly equipped, on the other side, not
that the chariots of God are
90 900 and that all heaven, cherubic,
archangelic, deific, is on what
otherwise would be the weak side. Ma
poleon, the author Of the saying, "God
is on the side of the heaviest artillery, ="
lived to find ont his mistake, for at Wa
terloo the 100 guns of the English oyer
came the $50 guns Of the French. God
is Oh the side Of the right, and one man
in the right will eventually be found
than 600 men In the wrong. In
all estimates of any kind Of Christian
work do not make the mistake every
day made Of leaving out the head OF the
universe.
Humble Weapons.
Again, my subject springs upon us
the thought that in Gods service it is
hest TO use weapons that are particular