Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-10-10

But he was SO called. What loyal man
wants to be charged with treason? But
he was charged with it. What man of
devout speech wants to be called BIAS
phemer? But he WAS go termed What
man of self respect wants to be struck
in the mouth? But that is where they
struck him. Or to be the victim of the
vilest expectoration? But under that he
stopped. Oh, he was worn out Christ!
That is the reason he died so soon upon
the cross.
] Many victims Of crucifixion lived day
after day upon the cross, but Christ was
in the courtroom at IL o'clock Of noon,
and he had expired at o'clock in the
afternoon Of the same day. Subtracting
from the three hours between 10 and 3
O'Clock the time taken to travel from
tho courtroom to the place Of execution
and the time that must havo been taken
in getting ready for the tragedy, there
could not have been much moro than
two hours left. Why did Christ 1.-Two
only two hours upon the cross, when
others had lived 49 hours? All, he YVES
worn out before he got therel And you
wonder. oh, child of God, that, looking
into the volumes of heaven for your
name, you find it was written with a
trem bling penmanship-trembling with
every letter of your name, if it be your
earthly name, or trembling with every
letter of your heavenly name, if that be
different and more euphonious. That
will not be the first time You saw the
mark of quivering pen, for did you
not, oh, man, years ago see your namo
SO written on the back of letter, and
you opened il, saying, "Why, here is a
letter from mother, or Here is let
ter from father" and after you opened
it you found all the words because of
old age were traced irregularly and un-
certain, so that you could hardly read
it at all? But after much study you
made 1t out-a letter from home tell
ing You how much they missed you, and
how much they prayed for you, and how
much they wanted to see you, and if it
might not be on earth that so it might
be in the world where there are no part
ings Yes, your name is written i'll
heaven. if written at all, with trem-
bling chirography.
| Some Autographs.
Again, In examination Of your nare
in the heavenly archives if you find it
there at all, you will find it written
with bold hand. You have seen many
signature that because Of sickness or
old age had a tremor in it, yet it was as
bold as the man who wrote it. Many an
order written Oh the battlefield and
amid the thunder of the cannonade has
had evidence Of excitement in every
word and every letter, and in the speed
with which it was folded and handed to
the officer as he put his foot in the
swift stirrnps, and yet that commander,
Notwithstanding his trembling hand.
gives boldness of order that shows it.
self in every word written. You do not
need to be told that trembling hand
does not always mean cowardly hand.
1t was with very trembling hand
Charles Carroll of Carrollton signed his
name to the Declaration Of American
Independence, but no signer had more
courage. And when some one said,
"There are many Charles CAROLS, and
il will not be known which one it is, :"
he resumed the pom and wrote Charles
Carroll of Carrollton. Trembling hand
no sign of timidityl- The daring and de-
flance seen i'll the way your name is
written in heaven are challenge to all
earth and hell to come on if they can to
defeat your ransomed soul.
The way your name is written there
is as much as to say; VI have redeemed
him. I died for him. l am going to
crown and enthrone him. Nothing shall
ever happen down in that world where
he now lives to defeat my determination
to keep him, to shelter him, to save
him. By my Almighty grace am going
to fetch him here. He may slip and
slide, but he has got to come here. By
my omnipotent sword, by the combined
strength of all heavens municipalities
and powers and dominions by the 2O,-
600 chariots of the Lord Almighty,
am going to sec him through" Bold
handwriting 1t is the boldest thing
ever written to write my name there
and your name there. He knows our
weaknesses and bad propensities better
than we know them ourselves. He
knows all the Apollyonio hosts that are
sworn to down US if they can. He
knows all the temptations that will as
sail us between now and the moment Of
our last pulsation of the heart, and yet
he dares to write our name there Bold
ness! Nothing at Saragossa or Chalons
or Marathon or Thermopyl@ to equal
it. Nothing in the sack of gun powder
which one English soldier carried under
the blazing artillery of the Mohamme-
dams and blew up the gate of Delhi. Can
you not see the boldpess in the penman-
ship that has already written our names
there? Apostle Peter, what do you think
of it? And he answers, "Kept by the
power of Godythrough faith unto COM
plete salvation. Oh, blessed Christ,
what dost thou mean by it? And he an
swers: "They shall never perish.
Neither shall any man pluck them out
OF my hand "Your names are written
in heaven.
Eternal Volumes.
Again, if, according to the promise
of the text, you are permitted to look
into the volumes of eternity and shall
see your name there you will find it
written in lines, in words, in letters
unmistakable. Some people have come
to consider indistinct and almost un-
readable penmanship mark of genius,
and so they affect it. Because every
paragraph that Thomas Chalmers and
Dean Stanley and Lord Byron and Ru-
fus Choate and other potent men wrote