Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-10-10

Light Brigade" meant by The words,
"Some ono had blundered, and the
bishop said that the awful carnage at
Balaklava was the result Of an indis-
tinotly written and wrongly read mill
tary order. "Some one had blundered. F"
But your name, once written in the
Lambs book Of life, will be SO unmis-
taxable that all heaven can read it at
the first glance. 1t will not be taken
for the name Of some other, so that in
regard to it there shall come to be dis
putation. Not one of the millions and
billions and quadrillions Of the finally
saved will doubt that it means you and
only you. Oh, the glorious, the raptur-
GUS gertrude Of that entrance on the
heavenly roll. Not saved in promiscu-
Gus way Not put into glorified mob
No, mol Though you came up the worst
sinner that was ever saved, and some
body who knew you in this world at one
time as absolutely abandoned and disso-
lutte should say, 81 never heard CT your
conversion, and 1 do not believe you
have right to be here, you could just
laugh laugh of triumph, and turning
over the leaves containing the names Of
the redeemed, say: "Read it for your
self. That is my name, written out In
full, and do you not recognize the hand
writingP No young scribe of heaven en-
tered that. No anonymous writer put it
there. Do you not see the tremor in tho
lines? Do you not also see the boldness
of the letters? Is it not as plain as yon-
der throne. as plain as yonder gate? Is
not the name unmistakable and tho
handwriting unmistakable? The cruel
fed Lord wrote it there the day l re-
pented and turned. Hear it'll Hear it'll
My name is written there! Thereof
Plainly Written.
have sometimes been tempted to
think that there will be so many of us
in heaven that we will be lost In the
crowd. No. Each one Of us will be as
distinctly picked out and recognized as
was Abel when he entered from earth,
the very first sinner saved, and at tho
head of that long procession of sinners
saved in all the centuries. My dear
hearers, if we once get there I do not
want it left uncertain as to whether we
are to stay there. After you and I get
fairly settled there i'll our heavenly
home we do not want our title proved
defective. We do not want to be elected
from the heavenly premises We do not
want some one to say: "This Is not
your room in the house Of many man.
sions, and you have on an attire that
you ought not to have taken from the
heavenly wardrobe, and that is not
really your namc on the books. If you
had more carefully examined the writ
ing in the register at the gate, you
would have found that the name was
not yours at al, but mine. Now, move
out, while I move in" Oh, what
Indebtedness after once worshiping in
heavenly temples to be compelled to
turn your back on the music, and after
having joined the society of the blessed
to be forced to quit it forever, and after
having clasped our long lost kindred in
heavenly embrace to have another sepa-
ration! What an agony would there be
in such goodby to heaven Glory be
to God on high that our names will be
SO plainly written in those volumes that
neither saint nor cherub nor seraph nor
archangel shall doubt it for one moment
for 500 eternities, if there were room
for SO many. The oldest inhabitant of
heaven can read it, aud the child that
left it's mothers lap last night for heaven
can read it. You will not just look at
your name and close the book, but you
will stand and soliloquize and say: is
it not wonderful that my name is there
at all? How much it cost my Lord to
get it therel Unworthy am ] to have it
in the same book with the sons and
daughters of martyrdom and with the
choice spirits of all time. But there it
is, and so plain the word and so plain
all the lettersl'
And you will turn forward and back
WuIu ullC lC1fCo GAb cON OlAOA 2AoAAASo
there, perhaps your fathers name, and
your mothers name, and your brother $
name, and your sisters name, and your
wife's name, and apostolic names, and
say: II am not surprised that those
names are here recorded. They were
better than ever was But astonish-
ment overwhelming, that my name is in
this book!' And turning back to the
page on which is inscribed your name,
you will stand and look at it until, see
ing that others are waiting to examine
the records with reference to their own
names, you step back into the ranks Of
the redeemed, with them to talk over
the wonderment.
Indelibly Written.
Again, if you are so happy as to find
your name in the VOLUME of eternity,
you will find it writ, delibly. Go
up to the state departme, in this ma
tional capital and see the old treaties
signed by the rulers of foreign nations