Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-01-09


the throne, CT let the outside gate. Jesus
got the contrast u exchanging that
world Tor this We Will get it by ex-
charging this world for that. There
and then you will understand moro Of
the wonders of the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who, though he WAS rich,
yet FOR your sukes became poor y
Yes, grace, free grace, sovereign
grace, omnipotcnt 9racel Among tho
thousands of words in the language
there is no more quconly word. ltmeans
free and umeritcd kindness. My text
las no monopoly of the word One hun
cred and twcnty-ninc times does the
Bible enlosiza grace. 1t is II door swung
wide open 20 let into the pardon Of God
all the millions who choose to enter it.
John Newton sang of il when he
wrote:
Amazing grace, how sweet thc sound,
That saved wretch like me.
Philip Doddridge put it into all
hymnoIogy when he wrote:
Grace, It's charming sound.
Harmonious to the ear;
Heaven with the echo shall rcsound,
Aud AL the earth shall hear.
Tor Sinners s:l<es.
One Of John Bunyan's great books is
entitled "Graco Astounding. " Tits all
Of grace that am saved" has been on
the lips of hpndreds of dying Christians.
The boy Sammy was right when, being
examined for admission into church
membership, he was asked, Whose
work was your salvation?" and he an
swered, "Part mine and part Gods. "
Then the examiner asked, "What part
did you do Sammy" and tho answer
was, az opposed God al could, and he
did the RESI-. Oh, the height of it, the
depth of it, the length Of it, the breadth
of it, the grace of God! Mr.. Fletcher
having written pamphlet that pleased
the king, the king offered to compensate
him, and Fletcher answered, "There is
only one thing want, and that is moro
grace Yes, my blood bought hearers,
grace to live by and grace to die by,
grace that saved the publican, chat
saved Lydia, that saved the dying thief,
that saved the jailer, that saved me.
But the riches Of that grace will not be
fully understood until heaven breaks in
upon the soul. An old Scotchman, who
had been soldier in one Of the Eu-
ropean wars, was sick and dying in one
of our American hospitals. His ono de-
sire WAS TO see Scotland and his old
home and once again walk the heather
of the highlands and hear the bagpipes
of the Scotch regiments. The night that
the old Scotch soldier died young man,
somewhat reckless, bat kind hearted, got
company of musicians to come and
play under tic old soldiers window,
and among the instruments there was
bagpipo. The instant that the musicians
-. thc dying old man in 1e!iriu:n
said: "What's that? What's that?
Why, it's tie regiments coming homo.
That's the tune-yes, that's the tune.
Thank God, l have got home once
morer' "Bonnie Scotland and Bonnie
DOOM" were Tie last words he uttered
rs he passed up to the highlands of the
better country. And there are here hun
dreds of homesick for heaven, some be-
cause you have so many bereavements,
some because you nayes so many tempt0
lions, some because you have so many
ailments--homesick, very homesick, for
the fatherland of heaven, and the music
that you want TO hear row is the song
of free grace, and the music that you
want to hear when you die is free grace,
and forever before the throne OF God
you will sing of the grace Of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who, though he was rich,
for your sakes became poor. y
The Comforting Fact.
Yes, yes, for your sakesl It was not
On pleasure excursion that he came,
for it was all pain. 1t WAS not on al
astronomical exploration, for he knew
this world as we'll before he alighted as
afterward 1t was not because he was
compelled to come, for he volunteered.
1t was not because it was easy, for he
knew that it would be thorn and spike
and hunger and thirst and vociferation
of angry mobs. "For your salies. " To
wipe away your tears, to forgive your
wrongGoing, to companorship your
loneliness, to soothe your sorrows, to sit
with you by the new made grave, to
bind up your wcunds in the ugly battle
with the world and bring you home at
last, kindling up the mists that fall on
your dying vision with the sunlight Of
glorious morn ''For your sal;es. "
No, | will change that. Paul will not
care and Christ will not care if 1 change
it, for must get into the blessedness Of
the text myself, and so l say, "For our
sakes. " For we all have our tempta.
lions and bereavements and conflicts.
For our sakes. We who deserve for our
sins TO be .expatriated into a world as
much poorer than this than this earth
is poorer than heaven. For our sakes.
But what frightful coming down 20
take US gloriously upl
When ArtaxerXes was hunting, Tire
bazus, who was attending him, showed
the king a rent in his garments. The
king said, Glow shall mend it?" "By
giving it to me, F" said Tirebazus Then
the king gave him the robe, but con-
manded him never to wear it, as it
would be inappropriate. But see the
startling and comforting fact, while our
prince throws off the robe, he not only
allows US to wear it, but commands us
20 wear it, and it will become US well,
and for the poverties Of our spiritual
state we may put on the splendors of
heavenly regalement. For our sakes.
Oh, the personality Of this religion Not
an abstraction, not an arch under which
we walk to behold elaborate masonry,
not an ice castle like that which the
Empress Elizabeth Of Russia, over 100
years ago, ordered to be constructed,
winter with its troWel of CRYSTALS &C.