Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-09-26
ACMMAC q y VA, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 26 1896

you.safe into the harbor, you patiently
submit to present distress with the
thought of safe arrival. Now I want to
know whether we arc coming on toward
dismay, darkness and defeat or on to-
ward light and blessedness You and !
believe the latter, and il so every year
we spend is one year subtracted from
the worlds woe, and every event that
passes, whether bright or dark, brings
us one event nearer happy consum-
matiol, and by all that is memorable in
chronology and mathematics commend
you to good cheer and courage. II there
is anything in arithmetic, If you sub
tract two from FIVE and leave three, then
by every rolling sun we are coming on
toward magnificent terminus. Then
every winter passed is one severity less
for our poor world. Then every summer
gone by brings as nearer unfading
arborcscence. Put your algebra down on
the top of your Bible and rejoice.
If it is nearer morning at O'Clock
than 1t is at g. If it is nearer morning
at o'clock than it is at 8, then we are
nearer the dawn Of the worlds deliver
ance. Gods clock seems to go very
slowly, but the pendulum swings and
the hands move, and it will yet strike
noon. The sun and the moon stood still
once. They will never stand still again
until they stop forever. If you believe
arithmetic as we'll as your Bible, you
must believe we are nearer the dawn.
"The day is at hand"
Physical and Spiritual.
There is class Of phenomena which
makes me think that the spiritual and
heavenly world may after awhile
make q demonstration In this world
which will bring all moral and spiritual
things to a climax. Now, I am no
spiritualist, but every intelligent man
has noticed that there are strange and
mysterious things which indicate to
him that perhaps the spiritual world is
not so far off as sometimes we oonjeo-
ture, and that after awhile from the
spiritual and heavenly world there may
be demonstration upon our world for
its bettorment. We call it magnetism,
or we call 1t mesmerism, or we call it
electricity, because we want some term
to cover up our Ignorance. do not
know what it is. Inever heard an audi
bic voice from the other world. / am
persuaded of this, however: That the
veil between this world and the next is
getting thinner and thinner and that
perhaps after awhile, at the call Of God
not at the call of the Davenport
brothers or Andrew jackson Davis
some of the old Scriptural warriors,
some of the spirits of other days mighty
for Coda Joshua, or Caleb. or a
David, OF Paul-may come down and
help US in the battle against upright
eousness. Oh, how I would like to
have them here-him Of the Red sea,
him Of the valley of Avalon, him Of
Mars hill English history says that
Robert Clayton Of the English cavalry
at the close of the war bought up all the
old cavalry horses lest they should be
turned out to drudgery and hard work
and bought piece of ground at Knaves-
mire heath and turned out these old
warehouses into the thickest and richest
pasture to spend the rest Of their days
as compensation for what they had done
in other days day a thuniao-ste-'
came up, and these warehouses mlstook
the thunder of the skies for the thunder
Of battle, and they wheeled into line,
no riders on their backs-they wheeled
into line ready for the fray. And l doubt
me whether, when the last thunder Of
this battle for God and truth goes
booming through the heavens the old
Scriptural warriors can keep their places
on their thrones Methinks they will
spring into the fight and exchange crown
for helmet and palm branch for weapon
and come down out of the Kings gal
leries into the arena, crying: MAKE
room 7 must fight in this great Arna-
geddonr' The old warehouses; minsling
in the fight.
Beloved people. preach this sermon
because l want you to toll with the
sunlight in your faces. want you cid
men to understand before you die that
all the work you did for God while yet
your ear was alert and your foot fleet is
going to be counted up in the final victo-
ries. Iwant all these younger people to
understand that when they toll for God
they always win the day; that all pray
ers are answered and all Christian work
is in some way effectual, and that the
tide is setting in the right direction, and
that all heaven is on our side-saintly,
cherubic, archangelic, omnipotent
chariot and throne, doxology and pro-
cession, principalities and dominion, he
who hath the moon under his feet and
all the armies of heaven on white
horses.
Brother, brother, all I am afraid Of
is not that Christ will lose the battle,
but that you will not get into it quick
enough to do something worthy of our
blood bought Immortality. o Christ,
how shall 1 meet thee, thou of the scar
red brow, and the SCARED back, and the
SCARED hand, and the SCARED foot, aud
the SCARED breast, if have no scars or
wounds gotten in thy service? 1t shall
not be SO. I step out today in front of
the battle. Conc Oil, ye foes of God. /
dare you to the combat. Come on, with
pens dipped IN mnligrancy. Come on,
with tongues forked and viperine. Come
on with types soaked in the scum Of the
eternal pit. 1 defy you'll Come onl
bare my brow. uncover my heart.
Stlike cannot see my Lord until
have been hurt for Christ If we do not
suffer with him on earth, We cannot be
gloriflod with him In heaven. Take good
heart. On, OH, on See. the skies have
Frightened See the hour is about to
comet Pick out oil the cheeriest Of the
anthems. Let the orchestra string their
best instruments. 1.-THE night is far
spent the dry is at hand !"
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