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

pentry. His mother ut first under sus-
picion because Of the circumstances OF
his nativity, and no chased by Herodio
mania out of his native land, to live
awhile under the shadows Of the sphinx
and pyramid of Gizeh, afterward con-
founding the LII D. g of jerusalem, then
stopping the paroxysm of tempest and
Of mailman. His path strewn with slain
dropsies and catalepsies and ophthal-
mias. TRANSPORTED on one mountain,
preaching on another mountain, dying
on another mountain and ascending
from another mountain-the greatest,
the loveliest, the mightiest, the kind
est, the most self sacrificing, most beau
tiful Being whose feet ever touched the
earth. Tell us. ye deserts who heard our
Saviour's prayer; tell US, ye seas that
drenched him with your surf tell us, 30
multitudes who heard him preach on
deck, on beach, OIL hillside; tell us,
Golgotha, who heard the stroke OF the
hammer on the spikeheads and the dy-
ing groan i'll that midnight that dropped
on midnoon, did any one like Jesus
have this passion for souls?
Longing For Souls.
But breaking right i'll upon me is the
question, How can we get something OF
this Pauline and Christly longing for
saved immortalities? 1 answer, by bet
ter approaching the prolongation OF the
: souls existence compared with every
thing physical and material. How 1
hope that surgeon will successfully re-
move the cataract from that mans eye.
1t is such a sad thing to be blind. Let
us pray while the doctor is busy with
the delicate operation. But for how
long time will he be able to give his
patient eyesight? Well, If the patient
be 40 years of ago, he will add to his
happiness perhaps so years of eyesight
and that will bring the man to 80 years,
and it is not probable that he will live
! longer than that or that he will live so
long. But what is good eyesieht for 90
years more AS compared with clear
vision for the soul billion of centuries!
hope the effort to drive back the
| typhoid fever from yonder home will be
successful. God help the doctors We
will wait in great anxiety until the fires
of that fever are extinguished, and when
the man rises from his pillow and walks
out, with what heartiness we will vel
come him into the fresh air and the
+ church and business circles. He is ~
wears of age, and if he shall live &C
wears more that will make him 3d. But
what are GO years more of earthly vigoI
compared with the souls health for q
ouadrillion milienniums "A mlllen'
mum, as you know, /. 900 years? This
world, since fitted up for mans resi-
dence, has existed about 5000 years.
How much longer will it exist? We vii.
suppose it shall last as much longer,
which is very doubtful That will make
its existence IL, 900 years. But what
are or will be 10, 900 years compared
with the eternity preceding those years
and the eternity following them? Time
as compared to eternity, like the droI
Of the night dew shaken from tho tol
of grass blads bG aGgw,ass he9fu pa pa4 II
with Mediterranean and Arabian ant
Atlantic and Pacific watery dominions
A stranger desired to purchase {
farm, but the owner would not sell it
would only let it. The stranger hired i
by lease for only one crop, but be sowet
acorns, and to mature that crop SO(
years were necessary. That was prao
ticed deception, but deceive you no
when tell you that the crop of the sou
takes hold of unonding ages.
l gee the author of my text seated IL
the house Of Gaius, who entertained
him ct Corinth, not far from the over
hanging fortress of Aero Corinthus, an6
meditating on the longevity of the sou
and getting more and more agitated
about Its value and the awful risk some
of his kindred were running concerning
it, and he writes this letter containing
the text, which Chrysostom admired sc
much he had it read to him twice 4
week, and among other things he says
those daring and startling words of my
text, II could wish that myself were
accursed from Christ for my brethren,
my kinsmen, according to the flesh. "
Force of Tears.
Another way 10 get something of the
Pauline longing for redeemed immor-
talities is by examining the vast ma.
chinery arranged to save this inner and
spiritual nature. That machinery start
ed to revolve Oh the edge of the garden
of Eden, just after the Cyclone Of sin
Frustrated its sycamores and tamarisks
and willows and will not cease to re-
volve until the last soul Of earth shall
get rid Of it's last sin and enter the heav-
emily Eden. On that stupendous ma
chinery for soul saving the patriarch
put his hand, and prophet his hand, and
evangelist his hand, and apostle his
hand, and Christ his hand, and almost
every hand that touched it became a
crushed hand. 1t was the most expen-
sive machinery ever constructed. 1t cost
more to start it and has cost and will
cost more to keep it running than all
the wheels that ever made revolution
on this planet. That machinery turned
not by ordinary motive power, but by
force of tears and blood. To connect its
bands of influence, made out of human
and Christly nerves, with all parts of the
earth, millions of good men and women
are now at work and will be at work
until every wilderness shall become q
garden. and every tear of grief shall be
tear OF Joy, and the sword of divine
victory shall give the wound to the old
dragon that shall send him bowling to
the pit, the iron gate changing against
him, never again to open. All that, and
infinitely more, to save the SOUL Why,
1t must be a tremendous soul-tremen-
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