Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-04-18

dungeon or hoisted them on the gallows
Francis I, king of France, stood coun'
selling with his officers how he could
take his army into Italy, when Ameril,
: the fool Of the court, leaped cut from Il
corner of the room and said, You had
better be consulting how you will get
your army back. % And it was found
that Francis I, and not Ameril, was the
fool. Instead Of consulting as to the best
way Of getting into sin, you had better
consult as to whether you will be able
to get out Of it. If the world does not
expose you, you will tell it yourself.
There is an awful power III an aroused
conscience. A highwayman plunged out
upon Whiteield as he rode along on
horseback, Il sack Of money on the horse
money that he had raised for orphan
asylums-and the highwayman put his
hand on the gold, and White1ield turned
TO him and said, '"Touch that if you
dare; that belongs to the Lord Jesus
Christ. And the ruffian SUNK into the
forest. Conscience! Conscience! The
ruflian had Il pistol, but Whitefield
shook at him the finger OF doom. DO not
think you can hide any great and pro-
tracted sin in your heart, my brother.
In an unguarded moment twill slip off
the lip, or some slight action may for
the moment set ajar this door that you
wanted to keep closed. But suppose that
in this life you hide it, and you get
along with this transgression burning in
your heart. as ship on fire within for
days binders the flames from bursting
out by keeping down the matches, yet at
last in the Judgment that iniquity will
blaze out before God and the universe.
Links of the Universe.
Learn also from this subject that there
is an inscparable connection between
al events, however remote. The uni
verse is only one thought Of God. Those
things which seemed fragmcntary and
isolated are only different parts Of that
great thought How far apart seemed
these two evcnts-Joseph sold to the
arabian merchants and his rulership Of
Egynt-yet you see III what 4 mysterious
way God connected the two into one
plan. So The events are linked together.
You who are aged men look back and
group together Il thousand things in
your life thu: once seemed isolated. One
undivided chain of events reaches from
the garden Of Eden TO the cross Of
Calvary, ard thus up to the Kingdom Of
heaven. There is a relation between the
smallest insect that huns IN the sum
Inor air and the mchangcl on his throne.
God can trace a direct ancestral line
from the blue jay that this spring viii
build its nest III The tree behind the
house to some one of the flock Of birds
which, when Noah hoistod the arl's
window, with a whir and dash Of
bright wings, went out to sing over
Mount Arara5. The tulips that bloom
IN the garden this spring were nursed
By the snowllales The farthest star on
one side Of the universe could not look
toward the farthest star on the other
side of the universe and say, You are
no relation to me, " for from that bright
orb a voice of light would ring across
the heavens responding, yes, yes, we
are sisters" Nothing in Gods universe
swings at loose ends. Accidents are only
Gods way Of turning a leaf i'll tho book
Of his eternal DEGREES. From our cradle
to our grave there is path all marked
out. Each event in oru life is connected
with every other event i'll our life. Our
losses may be the most direct road TO
Our gain. Our defeat and our victory
are twin brothers.
The whole direction Of your life was
changed by something which at the time
seemed to you triAing, while some oc-
culrence which seemed tremendous af-
fected you but little. Gods plans arc
magnificent beyond all comprehension.
He molds US and turns and directs us,
and we know it not. Thousands OF years
are to him rs the flight of 4 shuttle.
The most terrific occurrence does not
make God trcmble. The most trium-
phant achievement does not lift him in
to rapture. That one great though Of
God goes out through the centuries, and
nations rise and fall, and cras pass, and
the world changes, but God still keeps
the undivided mastery, linking event TO
event and century to century. To God
they are all one event, one history one
plan, ore development, one system.
Great and marvellous arc thy works,
Lord God Almighty! Twas years ago in
New Orleans at the exposition rooms,
when telegram was sent to the presi-
dent Of the United States, at Washing
ton, and we waited some - or 20 nlin-
utes. and then the presidents answer
came back, aud then the presiding Off
GER waved his handkerchief, and the sig
nal was sent to Washington that we
were ready to have the machinery of the
exposition started, and the president put
his finger on the electric button, and in
stantly the great Coriiss wheel began to
move, rumbling, lumbling, rolling, roll
ing. II was overwhelming, and $4,000
people clappcd and shouted. Just one
finger at Washington started that vast
machinery, hundreds and hundreds of
miles away, and 1 thought then, as I
think now, that men sometimes touch
Influences that respond in the far dis
tance, 40 years from Row, 80 years
from now, 600 years from now, 1000
900 years from now-one touch sound
ing through the ages.
Provision For the future.
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priety of laying up for the future. Dur
ing the seven years Of plenty Joseph
prepared for the famine, and when it
came he had 4 crowded storchouse The
life Of most men i'll worldly respect is
divided into years Of plenty and famine.
1t is seldom that any man passes
through life without at least seven years
of plenty. During those seven years
your business bears a rich harvest. You