Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-06-13

Grace to Be Vhm. We Should BE Under
tho Chill East Wind-The Uses of Trou-
bio.
WASHINGTON, June Tn his dis
course today Rev. DR.. Talmage pointed
out tho consultations which the religion
of Christ extends to all who aro in trou-
BILE and specially to such as are in deep
misfortune or suffering from bereaye-
ment. He chose us his text Exodus X
13, land the Lord brought IN east
wind upon tho land all that day and all
that night. -
The reference here is not to n cyclone,
but to the long continued blowing OF the
wind from an unhealthful quarter. The
north wind is bracing, the south wind
is relaxing, but the east wind is irritat-
ing and full of threat Eighteen times
does the Biblo speak against the east
wind. Moses describes the thin ears
blasted by the cast wind. The psalmist
describes the breaking of the ships OF
Tarshish by eho east wind The locusts
that plagued Egypt were borne in on the
east wind The gourd that sheltered
Jonah was shattered by the east wind,
and in all the 6, 900 summers, autumns.
winters, springs, Of tho worlds exist
ence the woras- Wind that ever blew ia
the cast wind. Now. If God would only
give us climate of perpetual nor west
er, how genial and kind and placid and
industrious Christians we would all be!
But it takes almighty grace to be what
we ought to be under the east wind.
Undor the chilling and wet wing OF
the east wind the most of the world s
villainics, frauds, cutragcs, suicides
and murders have been Matched out
think if you should keep q mctcorologl-
cal history of the days Of the year and
put right beside it the criminal record
of the country you would find that
those were tho best days for public NOR
ais which were under the north or west
wind, ard that those were the worst
days for public morals which were un-
der the cast wind. The points of the
compass have moro to do with the
worlds morals and tho church's plety
than you have yet suspected. Rev. Dr.
Archibald Alexander, eminent for learn
ing and for conservation, when asked by
one of his students at Princeton whether
he always had full assurance of faith,
replied, Eyes, except when the wind
blows from tho east" DR.. Francia, die
tator of Paraguay, when the wind was
from tho cast. made oppressive enact
mcnts fer tho people, but when the
weather changed repcnted him of the
cruelties, repealed the enactments and
was in good humor with all the world.
Climatic Changes.
Before overtake the main thought of
my subject want to tell Christian
people they ought to be obscryant OF
climatical changes. Be on your guard
when the wind blows from the east.
There arc certain styles of temptations
that you cannot endure under certain
styles of weather. When the wind blows
from the cast, if you are Of a nervous
temperament, go not among cxasperat-
ing people, try not to settle bad debts,
do not try to settle old disputes, do not
talk with bigot Oh religion, do not go
amopgsthose people who delight in say
ing ffrst9ting things, do not Try to collect
funds for charitable institution, do
not try to answer an insulting letter. If
these things must be done, do them
when the wind is from the north, or the
south, or the west, but not when the
wind is from tho cast
You say that men and women ought
not to be so sensitive and nervous. L adj
nit it, but am not talking about what
the world ought 10 be. I am talking
about what the world is. While there
are persons whose disposition does not
seem to be affected by changes i'll the at
mospherc, nine out of ten are nightly
played upon by such influences. o
Christian man! under such circum-
stances do not write hard things against
yourself. do not get worried about your
fiuctuating experience. You arc to re-
member that the barometer III Jour soul
is only answering tho barometer Of the
weather Instead Of citing down and
being discouraged and saying, L am
not o Christian because | don't feel e1-
hilarant," get up and look cut of the
window and eco tho Tosthcr vane point
ing in tho wrong quarter, aud then say
Get thee behind me, satan. thou prince
Of the power Of the air; get out Of my
house get cut of my heart, thou demon
of darkness horsOd Oh the east wind.
Awayl However good and great you
may be in the Christian life, your soul
will never lie independent of physical
condition. l feel l ain uttering q most
practical, useful truth here, one that
may give relief to great many Chris
tians who are worried and dcspondent
at times
DR.. Rash, q monarch in medicine,
after curing hundreds Of cases of mental
depression, himself fell sick and lost his
religious hope, and he would not believe
his pastor when the pastor told him
that his spiritual depression was only a
consequence OF physical depression. An
drew Fuller, Thomas Scott, William
Cowper, Thomas Boston, David Brain
erd, Philip Mclanchthon were mighty
men for God, bat all of them illustra-
tions of the fact that man s soul is not
independent Of his physical health An
eminent physician gave as his opinion
that no man ever died u greatly tri-
umphant death whose disease was below
the diaphragm. Stacl;house, the learned
Christian commentator, says he does not
think Saul was insane when David
played the harp before him, but it was
u hypcchondria coming from irnalnma-
ton of the liver. Oh. how many good
people have been mistaken in regard to
their religious hope, not taking these
things into consideration
The dean Of Carlisle, one of the best
men that ever lived, and one of the
most useful, sat down and wrote:
Though l have endeavored to discharge