Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-04-25

thing in the palms OF your hands. No
ether, no chloroform, no merciful an9s-
thetic to dull or strpefy, but, wide
awake, he saw the observation of the
heavens, tho unbalancing of the rocks,
the countcnanccs quivering with rage
and the exclamation diabolic. Oh, it
was the hostile rs well rs the barren is
land of world.
Far From Heaven.
l 60 farther and tell you that this
Exile was far from home. 1t is So, 600,
900 miles from here to the sun, and all
astronomers agree i'll saying that our
solar system is only one Of the smaller
wheels of the great machinery of the
universe turning around some one great
center, the center so far distant 1t is
beyond all imagination and calculation,
and if, us some think, that great center
in the distance is heaven, Christ came
far from home when he came here.
Have you ever thought Of the homesick-
ness of Christ? Some of you know what
inconsistencies is when you have been
oni a few weeks absent from the do
mesric circle Christ was 3S years
away from home. Some Of you feel
Inconsistencies when you are hundred
or thousand ,1iles away from the do
nestle circle Christ was more million
miles away from home than you could
count if all your life you did nothing
but count. You know what 1t Is to be
homesick even amid pleasant surround
ings, but Christ slept i'll huts, and he
was athirst, and he was a-hungered, and
he was on the way from being born in
another mans barn to being buried i'll
another mans grave.
1 have read how the Swiss, when
they are far away from their native
country, ut the sound of their national
air get so homesicll that they fall into
melancholy, and sometimes they die I'M
der the inconsistencies. But, oh, the home
sickness of Christ! Poverty homesick
for celestial riches. Persecution home-
sick for hosanna. WEAKNESS homesick
for rest. Homesick for angelic and arch
angelic companionship. Homesick to
get out Of the night, and the storm,
and the worlds execration. Homesick-
ness will make week seem as long as
q month, and it seems to me that the
three decades of Christ's residence on
earth must have seemed to him almost
interminable You have often tried to
measure the other pangs of Christ, but
you have never. tried to measure the
magnitude and ponderosity of Say
iours inconsistencies.
take step farther and tell you that
Christ was in an exile which he knew
would end in assassination. Holman
Hunt the master painter, has picture
in which he represents Jesus Christ i'll
the Nazarene carpenter shop. Around
him are the saws the hammers, the
axes the drills of carpentry. The pic
ture represents Christ as rising from
the carpenters working bench and
YEARLY stretching out his arms as one
will after being in contracted or uncom-
Portable posture, and the light of that
picture is so arranged that the arms of
Christ, YEARLY stretched forth, together
with his body, throw on the wall the
shadow Of the cross OIL my friends,
that shadow was on everything in
Christ's lifetime. Shadow of q CROSS on
the Bethlehem swaddling clothes. Shad-
ow of a cross ON the road over which the
three fugitives fed into Egypt Shadow
of a cross OH Lake Galilee as Christ
walked its mosaic floor of opal and
emerald and crystal. Shadow Of cross
on the road to Emmaus. Shadow of q
cross on the brook Kedron, and on the
temple, and on the side of Olivet. Shad-
ow of cross ON sunrise and sunset.
Constantine, marching with his army,
saw Just once q cross in the sky, but
Christ saw the cross all the time.
The End Was Death.
On q rough journey we cheer our
selves with the fact that it will end i'll
warm hospitality, but Christ knew that
his rough path ,uld end Mt a defoliaged
tree without one leaf and with only two
branches, bearing fruit of such bitter
ness as no human lips had ever tasted.
Oh, what an exile-starting in an i'll
fancy without any cradle and ending III
assassination Thirst without any water.
Day without any sunlight. The doom OF
a desperate for more than angelic excel
lence. For what that expatriation and
that exile? Worldly good sometimes
comes from worldly evil. The acciden-
tai glance of a sharp blade from razor
grinders wheel put out the eye of Gam
BETA and excited sympathies which
gained him al education and started
him on a career that made his name
more majestic among Frenchmen than
any other name in the last 20 years.
Hawthorne, turned cut of the office
of collector at Salem, went home i'll de-
spair. His wife touched him Oh the
shoulder and said, Nov is the time to
write your book" and his famous
Scarlet Letter" was the brilliant con-
sequence. Worldly good sometimes
romes from worldly i. Then be not
unDeI'GVluR WHICH, L bel1 yOu tliaU AAOiAA
the greatest crime of all eternity and OF
the whole universe, the murder Of the
Son of God, there shall come results
which shall eclipse all the grandeurs of
eternity past and eternity to come
Christ, an exile from heaven opening
the way for the deportation toward
heaven and to heaven Of all those who
will accept the proffer. Atonement, a
ship large enough to take all the passen-
gers that will come aboard it.
The Open Gates.
F.Jr this royal exile I bespeak the love
and service Of all the exiles here pres
ent, and in one sense or the other that
includes i'll of Us. The gates CT this
continent have been so widely opened
that there are here many voluntary ez-
lies from other lands. Some If you arc
Scotchmcn. I see it in your high cheek