Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-10-19

you VIII lock little farther into the
woods, you will SEQ, caught in the
branches, substitute and deliver
once. My son, God will provide him
self lamb.
A Greater Sacrifice.
Thank you, mother, for that short SER
mon. could preach back to you for
minute or two and say, never do you
fear wish I had half as good hope
Of heaven as you have. Do not fear,
mother. Whatever happens, no harm
will ever happen to you. Twas going up
& long fight Of stairs and saw an aged
woman, very decrepit and with cane,
creeping on up. She made but very lit
tie progress, and I felt very exuberant,
and said to her, "Why, mother, that is
no way to go up stairs" and threw
nv arms around her, and I carried her
up and put her down on the landing at
the top of tho stairs. She said: "Thank
you, thank you. 1 am very thankful.
o mother, when you get through this
life's work and you want to 90 up stairs
and rest III the good place that God has
provided for you, you will not have to
climb up, you will not have to crawl up
painfully. The two arms that were
stretched on tho cross will be flung
around you, and you will be hoisted
with glorious lift beyond all WEAKNESS
and all struggle May the God of Abra-
nam and Isaac be with you until you see
the Lamb on the hilltops
Now, that aged minister has made
suggestion, and this aged woman has
made suggestion. will mako q sug-
gestion: Isaac going up the hill makes
me think of the great sacrifice. Isaac,
the only son of Abraham. Jesus, the
only son of God. On those two "onlys'
build fearful emphasis. o Isaac! 0
Jesus But this last sacrifice was a more
tremendous one When the knife was
lifted over Calvary there was no voice
that cried "Stop!" and no hand arrested
it. Sharp, keen and tremendous it cut
down through nerve and artery until the
blood sprayed the faces Of the execution
ers, and the midday sun dropped veil
OF cloud over its face because it could
not endure the spectacle. O Isaac Of
Mount Moriah! o Jesus of Mount Cal
very Better could God have thrown
away into humiliation o thousand
worlds than to have sacrificed his only
Son. 1t was not one of the ten sons; it
was his only Son. If he had not given
up him, you and would have persisted
"God so loved the world that he gave
his only stop there, not because l
have forgotten the quotation, but be.
cause want to think. "God SO loved
the world that he gave his only begotten
Son that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting
life" Great God, break my heart at
tho thought Of that sacrifice. Isaac the
only, typical Of Jesus the only.
You see Isaac going up the hill and
carrying the wood. o Abraham, why
not take the load off the boy2 If he is
going to die so soon, why not make his
last hours easy? Abraham knew that in
carrying that wood up Mount Moriah
Isaac was to be symbol of Christ car
rying his own cross up Calvary. do
not know how heavy that cross was
whether it was made of oak or acacia or
Lebanon cedar. I suppose 1t may have
weighed 100 or zoe or 800 pounds
That.was. the lightest part of the bur-
den. All the sins and sorrows of the
wsfiS vsFs q. that cI2 sssss
The heft Of one, the heft Of two worlds
earth and hell were OH his shoulders.
0 Isaac, carrying the wood Of sacrifice
up Mount Moriahl O Jesus carrying
the wood of sacrifice up Mount Calvary,
the agonies OF earth and bell wrapped
around that cross I shall never see the
heavy load on Isaac's back that l shall
not think of the crushing load on
Christ back. For whom that load! For
you. For you. For me. For me. Would
that all the tears that we have ever
wept over our sorrows had been saved
until this morning, and that We might
now pour them out on the lacerated
hack and feet and heart Of the Son CT
God.
Coed For the Soul
You say: eff this young man was
20 or 30 years Of ago, why did not he
resist? Why was it not Isaac binding
Abraham, instead Of Abraham binding
Isaac? The muscle III Isaac's arm was
stronger than the muscle in Abraham's
withered arm. No young man 25 years
Of age would submit to have his father
iasten him to pile Of wood with inten-
ton Of burning" Isaac was willing
sacrifice, and so type of Christ who
willingly came to save tie world. If all
the asmies Of heaven had resolved to
force Christ out from the gate, they
could not have done it. Christ was
equal With God. If all the battalions of
glory had armed themselves and resolved
to put Christ forth and make him come
cut and save this world, they could not
have succeeded i'll it. With one stroke
lie would have toppled over angelic and
arohapgelic dominion.
But there was one thing that the ON
nipotent Christ could not stand. Our
sorrows mastered him. He could not
bear to see tie world die without an Of
fer CT pardon and help, and if all heav-
en- had armed itself to keep him back,
If the gates os life had been bolted and
double barred, Christ would nave flung
the everlasting doors from their hinges,
and would have sprung forth, scattering
tho binIeriuo hosts Of heaven like chaff
before the whirlwind, as he cried: "Lol
| come to suffer. Lo! come to die "
Christ-a willing sacrifice. Willing to
take Bethlehem humiliation, and San
hedrin outrage, aid whipping post
maltreatment, and Golgotha butchcry
Willing to be bound. Willing to suffer-
Willing to die Willing to save.