Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-02-29

ternOrnS beyond, ana waving Ills HhHus
back to US in the plains he says, Past
finding out unsearchable, that in all
things he might have the prominence. "
You notice that nearly all the sinners
mentioned as pardoned in the Eible
were great sinners-David great sim
her, Paul great sinner. Rahab a great
sinner, Magdalene great sinner, the
prodigal son great sinner. The world
easily understood how Christ could par
don half and half sinner, but what
the world wants to be persuaded of is
that Christ will forgive tho worst sim
ner, the hardest sinner. the Oldest sim
ner, the most ineXcusable sinner. To
the sin pardoning Shiloh let all the
gathering of the people be.
But, remark again, the people will
gather around Christ as a sympathizer.
Oh, we all want sympathy I hear peo-
pie talk us though they were independ-
cut of it. None of us could live without
syn. palLy. When parts of our family
are away, how lonely the house seems
until they all get homel But, alas, for
those who never come home. Sometimes
i seems as if it must be impossible.
What, will their feet never again come
over the threshold? Will they never
again sit with US at the table? Will
they never again kneel with us at fami-
ly prayer? Shall never again look
into their sunny faces? Shall we never
tnI- MI ~, tl,a,,,
for our work? Alas me, who can stand
under these griefs? Oh, Christ, thou
canst do more for bereft soul than any
one else 1t is he who stands beside US
to tell of tho resurrection. 1t is he that
came to bid peace. 1t is he that comes
TO us and breathes into US the spirit of
submission until we can look up from
the wreck and ruin of our brightest ex-
pectatons and say. Father, not my will,
but thine, be done. Oh, ye who are
bereft, ye anguish bitten come into this
refuge! Tho roll of those who came for
relief to Christ is larger and larger
Unto this Shiloh of omnipotent sympa-
thy the gathering of the people shall be-
Oh, that Christ would stand by all these
empty cradles and all these desolated
homesteads and all these broken hearts
and persuade us it is we'll
ChrIst's Sympathy.
The world cannot offer you any help
at such a time. Suppose the world
comes and offers you money. You would
rather live on a crust in cellar and
have your departed loved ones with you
than live in palatial surroundings and
they away. Suppose the world offers
you its honors to console you. What is
the presidency to Abraham Lincoln
when little Willie lies dead in the White
House? Perhaps the world comes and
says, Cline will cure itall. " All, there
are griefs that have ragged on for 80
years and are raging yet And yet hun
dreds have been comfort, thousands
have been comforted, millions have
been comforted, and Christ had done
the work Oh, what you want is SYM
pathy The worlds heart of sympathy
beats very irregularly. Plenty Of sym
pathy when we do not want it, and Of
ten when we are in appalling need of it
no sympathy. There are multitudes of
,'eop., dying for sympathy-sympathy
i'll their work, sympathy in their IA
tigues, sympathy i'll their bereavements,
sympathy in their financial losses, SYM
pathy in their physical ailments, SYM
pathy in their spiritual anxieties, sym
pathy in the time of declining years
wide, deep, high. everlasting, almighty
sympathy. We must have it, and Christ
gives it. That is the cord with which
be is going to draw al nations to him.
At the story of punishment a mans
eye flashes, and his teeth set, and his
fist clinches, and he prepares to do bat
tie even though it be against the heav-
ens. Yet what heart so hard but it Will
succumb to the story OF compassion
Even a mans sympathy is pleasant and
helpful. When we have been Ill some
hour of weakness, to have brawny
man stand beside US and promise to see us
through. what courage it gives to our
heart, and what strength it gives to our
arm. Still mightier is woman's SYM
pathy. Let him tell the story who,
when all his fortunes were gone and all
the world was against him, came home
and foun,' in that home a wife who
could write Oh the top of the empty
flour barrel, 1.-THE Lord will provide, "
or write on the door of the empty ward
robe Consider the lilies of the field.
If God so clothed tho grass Of the field,
will he not clothe US and ours?"
Or let that young man tell the story
who has gone the whole round of dissi-
patton. The shadow of the penitentiary
is upon him, and even his father says:
"Be off Never come home again u The
young man finds still his mother s arm
outstretched for him, and how she will
stand at the wicket of the prison to
whisper consolation or get down on her
knees before the governor begging for
pardon, hoping OIL for her Maynard boy
after all others are hopeless Or let her
tell the story who, under villainous al
lurement and impatient of parental re
strant, has wandered off from home
of which she was the idol into the
murky and thunderous midnight of
abandonment, away from God. and fur
Their away until some time she is tossed
on the beach of that early home mere
splinter of a wreck. Who will pity her
now? Who will gather these dishonored
locks into her lap: Who will wash off
the blood from the gashed forehead?
Who will tell her of that Christ who
20 save the lost? Who will put
that weary head upon the clean white
pillow and watch BY day and watch by
night until The hoarse voice of the suf-
ferer becomes the whisper, aud the
whisper becomes only faint motion of
the lips, and the faint motion of the
lips is exchanged for a silent look, and
the cut feet are still, and the weary
eyas are still, and the freuzied heart is
still, and all is still? Who will have