Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-10-24

All from the gospol SEED OF doctrine.
Every word that q parent, or Sabbath
school teacher, or city missionary, or
other Christian worker speaks for
Christ comes up. Yea, it comes up
with compound interest-you saving
one soul, that one saving ten, the ten q
hundred, the hundred a thousand, the
thousand ten thousand, the ten thousand
one hundred thousand-on, on forever.
The narrowing.
Again I remark, in grace, as in the
farm, there must be narrowing. ] re-
fer now not to harrow that goes over
the field in order to prepare the ground
for the seed, but harrow which goes
over after tho seed is sown, lest tho
birds pick up the seed. sinking it down
into the earth so that it can take root
You know harrow. 1t is made of bars
of wood nailed across each other, and
the underside of each bar is furnished
with sharp teeth, and when the horses
are hitched to 1t 1t goes tearing and
leaping across the field, driving the seed
down into the earth until 1t springs up
in the harvest. Bereavement, sorrow,
persecution are the Lords harrows to
sink the gospel truth into your heart.
These were truths that you heard 30
years ago. They have not affected you
until recently. Some great trouble came
over you, and the truth was narrowed
in, and it has come up. What did God
mean in this country in 1857? For q
century there was the gospel preached,
but great deal oft produced no re-
suit. Then God harnessed wild panic
to harrow of commercial disaster, and
that harrow went down Wall street and
up Wall street, Gown Third street and
up Third street, down State street and
up State street, down Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and up Pennsylvania avenue, until
the whole land was torn to pieces as it
had never been before. What followed
the harrow? A great awakening, in
which there were 500, 600 souls brought
into the kingdom of our Lord. No har-
row, no crop.
The Rcaping.
Again 1 remark, i'll grace, as in the
farm, there must be Il reaping Many
Christians speak of religion as though
it were O matter of economies or insur-
ance. They expect to reap in the next
world. Oh, mol Now is the time to
reap. Gather up the joy of the Chris
tian religion this morning, this after
noon, this night. If you have not as
much grace as you would like to have,
thank God for what you have and pray
for more. You are no worse enslaved
than Joseph, no worse troubled than
was David, no worse scourged than was
Paul. Yet, amid the rafting Of letters
and amid the gloom Of dungeons and
amid the horror of shipwreck, they tri-
umphcd in the grace of God. The weak
est man in the house today has 500
acres of spiritual JOY all ripe. Why do
you not go and reap it? You have been
groaning over your infrlnities for 30
years Now give one round shout over
your emancipation. You say you have
it 80 hard You might have 1t worse.
You wonder why this great cold trouble
keeps revolving through your soul,
turning and turning with black hand
on the crank. All, that trouble is the
grindstone on which you are to sharpen
your sickle. To the fields! Wake upl
Take off yonr green spectacles, your
blue spectacles, your black spectacles.
Pull up the corners of your mouth as
far as you pull them down. To the
fieldsl Reap, reap!
Tho Thrashing.
Again remark, i'll grace, as in farm
ing, there is time for thrashing. I tell
you bluntly at is death. Just as the
farmer with fail beats the wheat out
of the straw, SO death beats the soul out
of the body. Every sickness is a stroke
of the fail, and the sickbed is the
thrashing floor. What, say you, is death
to O good man only taking the wheat
out of the straw? That is all. An aged
man has fallen asleep. Only yesterday
you saw him in the sunny porch playing
WlCQ his STuLuCll1luIcu. Oo1AuiJ hO AZ
ceived the message to leave this world.
He babe q pleasant goodby to his old
friends. The telegraph carries the It'd
ings, and Oh swift rail trains the kin
dred come, wanting once more to look
OH the face of dear old grandfather.
Brush back the gray hairs from his
brow. 1t will never ache again. Put
him away in the slumber of the tomb.
He VII not be afraid of that night.
Grandfather was never afraid of any
thing. He will rise in the morning Of
the resurrection. Grandfather was al
ways the first to rise. His voice has al
ready mingled in the dc:.ology of heay-
en-. Grandfather always did sing in
church. Anything CHASTITY in that? No.
The thrashing of the wheat out OF the
straw. That is all.
The Saviour folds lamb in h's bos-
ON. The little child filed all tb ,use
with her music. and her toys at