Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-08-21
NUMBER 7

hands to drink, and their exhausted
nervous system seeming to demand
stimulus. Their religion caricatured by
the most of tho clerks in the store and
most of the operatives in the factory.
The rapids Of temptation and death
rushing against that young man 40
, miles the hour, and he in frail boat
headed up stream, with nothing but
broken oar to work with. Unless Al
mighty God help them they will go un-
der.
All, when I told you to take care of
yourself you misunderstood me If you
thought meant you are to depend upon
human resolution, which may be dis
solved in the foam of the wine cup or
may be blown out with the first gust of
temptation. Here is the h.Eolet, the
sword of the Lord God Almighty.
Clothe yourself in that panoply, and
you shall not be put to confusion. Sin
pays we'll neither in this world nor tho
next, but right thinking and right be.
lieving and right acting will take you
in safety through this life and III trans
port through the next.
[ never shall forget prayer heard
young man make some 10 years ago.
It was very short prayer, but it was
tremendous prayer: 80 Lord, help us!
We find it so very easy to do wrong and
SO hard to do right! Lord, help us!''
That prayer, warrant you, reached the
ear of God and reached his heart. And
there are 100 men who have found out
Il, 900 young men, perhaps, who have
found out-that very thing. 1t is SO very
easy to do wrong and so hard to do
right
+ got letter one day, only one para
graph, which shall read:
Having moved around somewhat. l
have run across many young men of in
telligence, ardent striyers after that
will-o'- he-wisp-fortune-a of one
of these I would speak. He was young
Englishman Of 20 or "a years, who
came to New York, where be had no ac-
quaintances, with barely sufficient to
keep him couple Of weeks. He had
been tenderly reared, perhaps should
say too tenderly, and was not used to
earning his living and found it ex-
tremely difficult to get any position that
he was capable of filing. After many
vain efforts in this direction he found
himself on Sunday evening in Brook
Ign, near your church, with about So
left Of his small capital. Providence
seemed to lead him to your door, and
he determined to 60 in and hear you.
He told me his going to hear you
that night was undoubtedly the turning
point in his life, for when he went into
your church he felt desperate, but while
listening to your discourse his better
nature got the mastery. truly believe
from what this young man told me that
your sounding the depths Of his heart
that night alone brought him back to his
God whom he was SO near leaving"
A Great Reality.
That is the echo of multitudes. I am
not preaching an abstraction, but
great reality. o friendless young man,
o prodigal young man, o broken
hearted young man, discouraged young
man, wounded young man, I commend
to you Christ this day, the best friend
a man ever had! He meets you this
morning. Despise not that emotion ris-
ing in your soul; it is divinely lifted.
Look into the face of Christ. Lift one
prayer to your fathers God, to your
mothers God, and this morning get the
pardoning blessing. Now, while 1
speak. you are at the forks of the road,
and this is the right road, and that is
the wrong road, and see you start on
the right road.
One Sabbath morning at the close of
the service saw gold watch of the
world renowned and deeply lamented
violinist Ole Bull. You remember ne
died in his island home off the coast of
Norway. That gold watch he had
wound up day after day through his
last illness, aud then he said to his COM
panion, "Now, I want to wind this
watch as long as l can, and then when
1 am gone 1 want you to keep it wound
up until it goes to my friend, DR.. Dore-
mus, in New York, and then he will
keep it wound up until his life is done,
and then want the watch to go to his
young son, my especial favorite. "
The great musician who more than
any other artist had made the violin
speak, and sing, and weep, and laugh,
and triumph-for it seemed when he
drew the bow across the strings as If
all earth and heaven shivered in de-
lighted sympathy-the great musician,
in room looking off upon the sea, and
surrounded by his favorite instruments
of music, closed his eyes in death.
While all the world was mourning at
his departure is crowded steamers fell
into line of funeral procession to carry
his body to the mainland. There were
90, 900 of his countrymen gathered III
an amphitheater of the hills waiting to
hear the eulogium, and it was said
when the great orator of the day with
stentorian voice began to speak the Co.,
600 people on the hillsides burst into
tears. Oh, that was the close of life
that had done so much to make the
world happy! But I have to tell you,
young man, if you live right and die
right, that was tame scene compared
with that which will greet you when
from the galleries of heaven the 144,-
600 shall accord with Christ in crying,
"Well done, thou good and faithful
servant" And the influences that on
earth you put in motion will go down
from generation to generation, the in
fuences you wound up handed to your
children, and their influences wound
up and handed to their children, until
watch and clock are no more needed to
mark the progress, because time itself
shall be no longer.
Jubilee Stamp .ates Destroyed.
Philatelists will learn with regret