Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-07-17

Christ. Jesus says, Cali of that heart
or none. - Saul slew the poorest Of the
sheep and the meanest of the oxen and
kept some of the finest and the latest,
and there are Christians who nave slain
the most unpopular of their transgres-
sions and saved those which are most
respectable. 1t will not do. Eternal
war against all the Amalellites-no mer-
cy for Agag!
learn further from this subject that
it is vain to try to defraud God. Here
Saul thought he had cheated God out
of those sheep and oxen, but he lost
his crown, he lost his empire. You can
not cheat God out of single cent.
Here is a man who has made $40, 900
in fraud. Before he dies every dollar OF
it will be gone, or it will give him vlo-
lent unrest. Here is Christian who
has been largely prospered. He has not
given to God the proportion that is due
in charities and benevolences. God
comes to the reckoning, and he takes it
all away from you. How often 1T has
been that Christian men have had
large estate and it is gone. The Lord
God came into the counting room and
said: 81 have allowed you to have all
this property for 10, 10 or 20 years, and
you have not done justice to my poor
children. When the beggar called upon
you, you bounded him off your steps;
when my suffering children appealed to
you for help, you had no mercy. only
asked for so much or so much, but you
did not give it to me, and now will
take it all. -
The Safe Course.
God asks of us one-seventh of our time
in the way of Sabbath. Do you suppose
we can get an hour of that time success
fully away from its true object? No, no.
God has demanded one-seventh of your
time. If you take one hour of that time
that is to be devoted to Gods service
and instead of keeping his Sabbath use
it for the purpose of writing up your
accounts or making worldly gains, God
will get that hour from you i'll some un-
expected way God says to Jonah, "You
20 to Nineveh. He says: "No, 1
won't. I'll go to Tarshish. u He starts
for Tarshish. The sea raves, the winds
blow and the ship rocks. Come, ye
whales, and take this passenger for Tar
shish No man ever gets to Tarshish
whom God tells to 60 to Nineveh. The
sea would not carry him; it is Gods
sea. The winds would not watt him;
they are God winds. Let man at
tempt to do that which God forbids him
to do or to 90 into place where God
tells him not to go, the natural world
as we'll as God is against him. The
lightnings are ready to strike him, the
fires to burn him, the sun to snite him,
the waters to drown him, and the earth
to swallow him. Those whose princely
robes are woven out of heartstrings,
those whose fine houses are built out of
skulls, those whose springing fountains
are the tears of oppressed nations, have
they successfully cheated God?
The last day will demonstrate. 1t
will be found out Oh that day that God
vindicated not only his goodness and
his mercy, but his power to take care of
his own rights and the rights of his
church and the rights of his oppressed
children. Come, We nlartyred dead,
awake and come up from the dungeons
where folded darkness hearsed you and
the chains like canllers. peeled loose the
skin and wore off the flesh and ratified
on the marrowless bones Come, ye mar
tyred dead, from the stakes where you
were burned, where the arm uplltted
for mercy fell into the ashes and the
cry of pain was drowned i'll the snap
ping of the fame and the bowling of
the mob; from valleys of Piedmont and
Smithfield market and London Tower
and the highlands of Scotland. Gather
in great procession and together clap
your bony hands, and together stamp
your moldy feet and let the chains that
bound you to dungeons all clank at
once and gather all the flames that
burned you in one uplifted arm of fire
and plead for n Judgment. Gather all
the tears &c ever wept into lake and
gather all the signs ye ever breathed
into tempest until the heaven piercing
chain clank and the tempest sigh and
the thunder groan announce to earth
and hell and heaven "a Judgment Oh,
Oh that day God will vindicate his own
cause and vindicate the cause of the
troubled and the oppressed 1t will be
seen in that day that though we may
have robbed our fellows, we never have
successfully robbed God.
Ny Christian friends, as you go out
into the world exhibit All open hearted
Christian frankness. Do not be hypo-
critical i'll anything. You are never safe
if you are. At the most inopportune
moment the sheep will bleat and the
oxen below. Drive out the last Amale-