Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-09-28

Christ had not been there. Now, you are
about to voyage out into some new en-
terprise-into some new business rela-
ton. You are going to plan some great
matter of profit. hope it is so. If you
are content to go along in the treadmill
course and plan nothing new, you arc
not fulfilling your mission. What you
can do by the utmost tension Of body,
mind and soul that you are bound to do.
You have no right to be colonel Of a
regiment if God calls you to command
an army. You have no right to be stoker
in O steamer if God commands you to
be admiral of the navy. You have no
right to engineer ferryboat from river
bank to river bank if God commands
you to engineer q Cunarder from New
York to Liverpool. But whatever enter
prise you undertake, and Oh whatever
voyage you start, be sure to take Christ
in the ship. Here are men largely pros
pered. The seed Of small enterprise
grew into an accumulated and overshad-
owing success Their cup of prosperity
is running over. Every day sees COM
mercial or a mechanical triumph. Yet
they are not pulled up. They acknowl-
edge the God who grows the harvests
and gives them all their prosperity.
When disaster comes that destroys 9TH
ers, they are only helped into higher ex'
periences. The coolest winds that ever
blew down from SNOW capped Hermon
and tossed Genuesaret into foam and
agony could not hurt them. Let the
winds blow until they crack their cheeks.
Let the breakers boom-all is we'll,
Christ is in the ship. Here are other
men, the prey of uncertainties When
they succeed, they strut through the
world in great vanity and wipe their
feet on the sensitivencss of others. Dis
aster comes, and they are utterly down.
They are good sailors on fair day,
when the sky Is clear and the sea is
smooth, but they cannot outride storm.
After awhile the packet is tossed abeam 8
end, and it seems as if she must go
down with all the cargo. Push ont from
the shore with lifeboat, long boat, shall
lop and pinnace. You cannot save the
Grew. The storm twists off: the masts.
The sea rises up to take down the YES
sci. Down she goes No Christ i'll that
ship.
speak to young people whose voyage
in life will be mingling of sunshine
and Of darkness, Of arctic blast and Of
tropical tornado. You will have many a
long, bright day of prosperity. The
skies clear, the sea smooth. The crew
exhilarant. The boat stanch will bound
merrily over the pillows. Crowd on all
the canvas. Heigh, ho Land ahead
But suppose that sickness puts its bitter
I'D to your lips; suppose that death
overs5ca96 ,5sys your heart; suppose mis-
osslsn.'uO ~, ,i,sr17=s,no quick turn of the
fortune win sec aucckward; suppose
wheel. hurls you II .a+a, .. - ra,,
that the wave of trial I tlAes ., 80
athwart ships, and bowsprit sEl Cssssss ~
and halyardss swept into the sea, "
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ton. Oh, then you viii want Christ in
the ship
When Storms Come.
I learn, in the next place, that people
who follow Christ must not always ex-
pect smooth sailing. When these disci-
pies got into the small boats, they said ::
"What delightful thing this is Who
would not be follower of Christ when
he can ride in one of these small boats
after the ship In which Jesus is sail
ing?' But when the storm came down
these disciples found out that following
Jesus did not always make smooth sail
ing. So you have found out, and so I
have found out. If there are any people
who you would think ought to have had
good time in getting out of this world,
the apostles Of Jesus Christ ought to
have been the men. Have you ever no
ticed how they got out of the worldT
st. James lost his head; ST Philip was
hung to death against pillar; st.
Matthew was struck to death by hal
berd; st. Mark was dragged to death
through the streets; st. James the Less
had his brains dashed out with full
er's club; st. Matthias was stoned
to death; st. Thomas was struck
through with a spear John Huss in the
fire, the Albigenses, the Waldenses, the
Scotch Covenanters-did they always
find smooth sailing? Why go Sc far?
There is Il young man in a store in
New York who has hard time to main
tain his Christian character. All the
clerks laugh at him, the employers in
that store laugh at him, and when he
loses his patience they say, "You are
pretty Christian p' Not so easy is it for
that young man to follow Christ. If the
Lord did not help him hour by hour,
he would fail There are scores Of young
men today who would be willing to tes
tify that in following Christ one does
not always find smooth sailing. There
is Christian girl. In her home they do
not like Christ She has hard work to
get silent place in which to say her
prayers. Father opposed to religion;
mother opposed to religion brothers
and sisters opposed to religion. The
Christian girl does not always find it
smooth sailing when she tries to follow
Jesus But be of good heart As seafar-
ers, when winds are dead ahead, by set
ting the ship OH starboard tack and brac-
ing the yards make the winds that OPP
pose the course propel the ship forward,
so opposing troubles, through Christ,
veering around the bowsprit of faith,
will watt you to heaven, when, if the
winds had been abaft, they might have
rocked and sung You to sleep, and while
dreaming Of the destined port of heaven
you could not have heard the cry Of
warning and would have gone crashing
into the breakers.
No Need OF Fear.
Again, my subject teaches me that
good people sometimes get very much
frightened. From the tone and manner