Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-11-14

see them againf . blessed Christ! Can
it be anything but passion for souls?
It is easy to understand all this frequent
depreciation of foreign missionaries
when you know that they are all oppos-
ed to the opium traffic, and that inter-
feres with commerce, and then the mis-
sionaries are moral, and that is an Of
Tense to many Of the merchants-not
ull of them, but many of them-whc,
absent from all homo restraint, are so
immoral that we can make only faint
nllusion to the monstrosity OF their
denominations. Oh, would like to be at
the gate of heaven when those mission
aries 20 in, to see how they will have
the pick Of coronets and thrones and
mansions on the best streets Of heaven.
We who have had easy pulpits and low
ing congregations, entering heaven will,
in my opinion, have to take our turn
and wait for the Christian workers
who, amid physical sufferings and men
tai privation and environment Of squa-
lor, have done their work, and on the
principle that in proportion as one has
been self sacrificing and suffering for
Christ's sake OH earth will be their CO.
lestial preferment.
Poor Anne Boleyn.
Who is that young woman on the
worst street in Washington, New York
or London, Bible in hand and a little
package in which are small walls Of
medicines, and another bundle in which
are biscuits? How dare she risk herself
among those "roughs. u and where is
she going9 She is one of the queens OF
heaven, hunting up the sick and hun
CRY, and before night she will have read
Christ's "Let not your heart be trou-
bled" in eight or ten places and count
ed out from those walls the right num-
Der of drops to ease pain and given food
to family that would otherwise have
had nothing to eat today and taken the
measure Of dead child that she may
prepare for it shroud, her every act OF
kindness for the body accompanied with
benediction for the soul. You see
nothing but the filthy street along which
she walks and the rickety stairs up
which she climbs, but she is accom-
panied by an unseen cohort OF angels
with drawn swords to defend her, and
with garlands twisted for her victories,
all up and down the tenement house
districts. I tell you there was not SO
much excitement when Anne Boleyn,
Oh her way to her coronation, found the
Thames stirred by so gilded barges,
with brilliant flags, in which hung
small bells, rung by each motion of the
wind, noblemen standing in scarlet,
and wharf spread with cloth Of gold,
and all the gateways surmounted by
huzzaing admirers, and the streets
hung with crimson velvet and trumpets
and cannons sounding the jubilee, and
Anne, dressed in surcoat Of silver It's
sue, and brow cleaning with circlet
Of rubies, and amid fountains that
poured Rhenish wine, passed on to
Westminster hall and rode in on ca
parisoned palfrey, its hoofs gathering on
the classic floor, and, dismounting, pass
ed into Westminster abbey, and, be-
tween the choir and high altar, was
crowned queen amido rgans and choirs
chanting the "Te Deum"-I say there
was not much in all that glory which
!. dazzies the eyes Of history when it il
compared WIN rne heavenly reception
which that ministering spirit of the
back alley shall receive when she goes
up to coronation. When she goes in,
what welcome on the river Of life, its
banks Of pearl lined with splendors Sc.
raphio, and in temples of eternal wor-
ship, whose music is commanded by
swing of archangelic scepter, and before
thrones where sit those who have reign
ed q thousand years, but have just be-
gun their dominion. Poor Anne Boleyn
in TWO years after that pageant lost life
and throne BY one stroke of headsman,
but those who on earth have divine
passion for souls shall never lose their
thrones. ''They shall reign forever and
ever.
But after all, the best way to Guilt
vate that divine passion for souls is to
work for their salvation. Under God
save one, and you will want right away
to save two Save two, and you will
want to save TO- Save 10, and you will
want to save 20. Save 20, and you will
want to save 100. Save 100, and you
will want to save everybody. And what
is the use Of talking about it, when the
place to begin is here and the time is
now? And while you pray will in one
minute tell all there is of it: Full par
don for the worst man on earth, II he
will believe in Christ, whose blood can
instantly wash away the foulest crimes.
Full comfort for the most narrowing
distress that ever crushed human be-
ing. At your first moment Of belief, a
process By which the whole universe Of
God will turn clear around for your
eternal advantage. For the mere asking,
if the asking be in earnest and you
throw everything into that asking, COM
plete solace and helpfulness for the few
years of this life, and then wide open
heaven, which you can reach in less
time than 1t takes me to pronounce that
imperial word, flashing with all the Joy
that an infinite God knows how to be-
stow-heaven.
The Gospel Divine.
In this world God never does his best
He can hang on the horizon grander
mornings than have ever yet been kin
died and rainbow the sky with richer
colors than have ever been arched and
attune the oceans to more majestic dox-
ologies than have ever yet been attuned,
but as near as can tell, and I speak it
reverently, heaven is the place where
God has done his best. He can build no
greater Joys, lift no mightier splendors,