Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-07-04
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on you and it has squatted for the fear
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Courage, O ye- spiritual archersl
There arc great monsters i'll iniquity
prowling I'll around about the commu.
pity. Shall we not of the strength OF
God 20 forth and combat them? We not
only need more heart, but moro back
bone. What is the church of God that
it should fear to look in the eye any
transgression? There is the Bengal tiger
of drunkenness that prowls around, and
instead of attacking it, how many of us
hide under the church pew or the COM
munion tablet There is so much invested
in it we are afraid to assault it; millions
of dollars in barrels, in watts, i'll spigots,
in corkscrews, in gin palaces with mar
BILE floors and italian top tables, and
chased ice coolers and III the strychnine
and the logwood and the tartaric acid
and the nux vomica that go to make up
our "pure" American drinks looked
with wondering eyes CT the Heidelberg
tun." 1t is the great liquor vat Of Ger
many, which is said to hold 500 hogs
heads Of wine, and only three times in
100 years it has been filled But, as
stood and looked at it, said to myself:
''That is nothing-SO0 hogsheads. Why
our American vat holds 1900, 900 bar
rels of strong drinks, and we keep 2OO,-
900 men with nothing to do but to see
that it is filled" OH to attack this
great monster of intemperance, and the
kindred monsters of fraud and unclean-
ness, requires you to rally all your
Christian courage. Through the press,
through the pulpit, through the plat
form, you must assault it. Would to
God that all our American Christians
would band together, not for crack
Drained fanaticism. but for holy Chris
tian reform.
1 think it was in 1893 that there
went out from Lucknow, India, under
the sovereign, the greatest hunting
party that was ever projected. There
were 10, 900 armed men in that hunting
party. There were camols and horses
and elephants. On some princes rode,
and royal ladies under exquisite hous-
ings and 500 coolies waited upon the
train, and the dcsolate places Of India
were invaded by this excursion, and the
rhinoceros, the deer and elephant fell
under the stroke Of saber and bullet.
After awhile the party brought back
trophies worth $4,000 rupees, having
left the wilderness of India CHASTITY
with the slain bodies Of wild beasts.
Would to God that, instead of here and
there straggler going out to fight these
great monsters of iniquity in our coun-
try, the million membership Of our
churches would band together and hew
in twain these great crimes that make
the land frightful with their roar and
are fattening upon the bodies and souls
of immortal men, Who is ready for such
q party as that? Who will be mighty
hunter for the Lord?
The Game.
1 remark, again, if you want to be
successful in spiritual archery you need
not only to bring down the game, but
bring it in. think one Of the most
beautiful pictures of Thorwaldsen is his
"Autumn. 1t represents sportsman
coming home and standing under a
grapevine. He has staff over his
shoulder, and Oh the other end of that
staff are hung a rabbit and a brace of
birds. Every hunter brings home the
game. No one would think of bringing
down a reindeer or whipping up a
stream for trout and letting them lie in
the woods. At cventide the camp is
adorned with the treasures of the forest
-beak and fin and antler. If you go out
to hunt for immortal souls, not only
bring them down under the arrow of
the gospel, but bring them into the
church of God, the encampment we
have pitched this side of the skies.
Fetch them in. Do not let them lie out
in the open field. They need our prayers
and sympathies ard help. That is the
meaning Of the church of God-help.
O ye hunters for the Lord, not only
bring down the game, but bring 1t in!
If Mithridates liked hunting so well
that for seven years he never went in
doors, what enthusiasm ought we to
have who are hunting for immortal
souls! If Domitianus practiced archery
until he could stand 10y down in the
Roman amphitheater with hand out,
the fingers like that, ard then the king
could shoot an arrow between the fingers
without wounding them, to what drill
and what practice ought not we subject
ourselves III order to become spiritual
archers and mighty hunters before the
Lord" But let ne say, you will never
work any better than you pray. The old
archers took the bow, put one end OF 1t
down beside the foot, elevated the other
end, and it was the rule that the bow
should be Just the size of the archer; If
it were just his size, then he would go
into the battle with confidence. Let me
say that your power to project good Ill
she world will correspond exactly to
your own spiritual stature. In other
words, the first thing i'll preparation for
Christian work is personal conservation.
Oh. for a closer walk with God,
A calm and heavenly lraine
A light to shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb.
am sure that there are some here
who at some time have been hit by the
Gospel arrow. You felt the wound Of
that conviction, and you plunged into
the world deeper; JUST rs the stag, when
the hounds arc after it, plunGcs into
Scroon lake, expecting i'll that way to
escape. Jesus Chr.s5 is on your track to-
day, impenitcnt maal not in wrath, but
in mercy. o ye chased and painting
souls here is the stream of Gods mercy
and salvation, where you may cool your
thirst! Stop that chase Of sin today. By
the red fountain that lcspcd from the
heart of my Lord 1 bid you stop Is
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