Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-09-25
TO SHINE AS STARS.
HOW THE CHRISTIAN WORKERS WILL
BE REWARDED AsovE.

F1OW TIE ". llttO lfNiN "OihNGIS VILE
BE REWARDED AsovE.
DIR. Ta:rla-c breaches Sermon Full of
Hope For discouraged Toilers In tho
Lords Vineyard = Christian Constclla-
t:ons Thct Will Beam on Forever.
WASHINGTON, Sept. l9.-I'his dis
course Clashes u bright light into the life
of Christian workers and offers sub
lime hope for all those who arc discour-
a.-cd in their attempts to do good. DR..
Tainrage's text is Daniel xii, B, 'HThey
that turn many to righteousness shall
shine us the stars forever and ever. -
Every man has thousand roots and
thousand branches. His roots reach
down through all the earth. His branch
es spread through I'LL the heavens. He
speaks with Voice, with eye, with hand,
with foot Els silence often is loud as
thunder and lis life is dirSe or Il dox-
ology There is no such thing as mega
tive influence. We arc all positive i'll
The place we occupy, making the world
better or making il worse, on the Lord $
side or Oh the devils, making up rea
SOILS Tor or blcsscdness or punishment.
and we haze already done work i'll pco-
plin: heaven or hell hear people tell
of what they are going to do. ~ man
who has burned down Il city might as
we'll tall; Of scnne evil that he expects to
do, or u man who has saved an empire
might rs well tai; of some good that he
expects to do Ely the force Of your evil
influence you have already consumed
infinite values or you have by the pow
er of Il right influence won whole king
doms for God
1t would be absurd for me, by elabo-
rate argument, TO prove that the world
is off the track You might as well
stand at the foot Of an cmbankment,
amid the wreck of a capsized rail train,
proving by elaborate argument that
something is out OF order Adam tum-
bled over the embanllment 60 centuries
ago, and the whole race, in one long
train, has gone Oh tumbling in the same
direction. Crash Crash The only quci-
ton now is, BY what leverage can the
crushed thing be lifted? BY what ham
mer may the fragments be reconstruct
cd? want to show you how we may
turn many to righteousness and what
will be orr future pay for so doing
Charm of n Right Example.
First, we may turn them by the
charm of right example. \ child COM
ing from a filthy home was taught at
school to wash its face 1t went home
SO much improved in appearance that
its mother washed Ter face and when
the father of tie household came home
and saw the Improvement III domestic
appearance he washed his face The
neishbors, happening in, saw the change
and tried tie same experiment. until
all that street was purified, and the next
street copied its example, and the whole
city felt the result of one schoolboy
washing lis face That is fable by
which we set forth that the best way to
get the world washed CT its sins and
pollution is to lave our own heart and
life cle;.ased and purified A man with
grace il his heart and Christian cheer
fulness in his face and holy consistency
in his behavior is Il perpetual sermon,
and the sermon differs from others in
chat it has but one head and the longer
it runs the better
There are honest men who walk down
Wall street making the teeth CT iniqui-
ty chatter There are happy men who
go into siclroom and by a look help
the broken bone to knit aid the excited
nerves drop to calm beating There
arc pure rlen whose presence silenccs
the tongue of uncleanncss The might,
lest agent of good Oh Garth is a consist
ent Christian. like the Eible folded
between lids CT cloth or calfsllin or
morocco. but like it better when, in
the shape of Il uGn, it goes oct into the
world a Bible illustrated Courage is
beautiful to read about, but rather
would | see man with all the world
against him confident as though all the
world were for him Patience is beau
Uful to read about, but rather would l
see a buffetod soul calmly waiting for
the time Of delivcrance Faith is beau
tiful to read about, but rather would /
find a man in the midnight walking
straight on as though he saw every
thing. Oh, how many souls have been
turned to God by the charm of a bright
example!
When, in the Mexican war, the
troops were wavering, general rose in
his stirrups and dashed into the enemy's
lines shouting, Men, follow me!'
They, seeing his courage and dispose
ton, dashed OH after him and gained
the victory. What men want to rally
them for God is an example to lead
them All your commands to others to
advance amount to nothing as long as
you stay behind To affect them Alright
you need to start for heaven yourself,
looking back only to give the stirring
cry of "Men, follow!''
The Power of Prayer.
Again, we may turn many to right
eousness by prayer. There is no such
detective as prayer, for no one can hide
away from it, 1t puts its hand on the
shoulder of man 10, 900 miles off. 1t
alights on ship midatlantic The
little child cannot understand the law
of electricity or how the telegraph oper-
ator, by touching the instrument here
may dart a message under the sea to
another continent, nor can we, with
our small intellect, understand how the
touch Of Christians prayer shall in
stantly strike a soul on the other side
of the earth You take ship and go to
some other country and get there at II
o'clock in the morning You telegraph
to America and the message gets here
at 6 o'clock the same morning. In other
words, it seems to arrive here five hours
before it started Like that is prayer