Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-08-14

sea is crystal sepuIcher. 1t swallowed
the Central America, the President and
the Spanish Armada as easily as any
fly that ever foated on it. The inland
lakes are fully as terrible in their
wrath. Galilee. when aroused in q
storm. is overwhelming, and yet that
sea crouched in his presence and licked
his feet. He knew all the waves and
winds. When he beckoned, they came.
When he frowned, they fed. The heel
Of his foot made no indentation on the
solidi1ed water. Medical science has
wrought great changes In rheumatic
limbs and diseased blood, but when
muscles are entirely withered no human
power can restore them, and when q
limb is once dead it is dead But here
is paraly tic-his hand lifeless. Christ
says to him, "Stretch forth thy hand"
and he stretches it forth.
In the eye inirmary how many dis
eases of that delicate organ have been
cured? But Jesus says to one born
blind, "Be open, and the light Of heav-
en- rushes through gates that have never
before been opened The frost or an Ak
may kill tree, but Jesus smites one
dead with word
Chemistry can do many wonderful
things, but what chemist, at wedding,
when the refreshment gave out. could
change pail of water into cask of
wine?
What human voice could command
school of fish? Yet here is voice that
marshals the scaly tribes. until in the
place where they had let down the net
and pulled it up with no fish in it they
let it down again, and the disciples lay
hold and begin to pull, when, by reason
of the multitude of fish, the net brake.
Nature is his servant. The flowers
he twisted them into his sermons; the
winds-they were his lullaby when be
slept in the boat; the rain--it hung
glittering Oh the thick foliage of the
parallels; the star of Bethlehem-it
sang Christmas carol over his birth;
the rocks-they beat dirge at his
death.
Behold his victory over the gravel
The hinges of the family vault become
very rusty because they are never
opened except to take another in. There
is knob on the outside Of the sepul-
cher, but none OH the inside Here
comes the conqueror of death. He en-
tiers that realm and says, Daughter of
Jaras, sit up" and she sat up. To
Lazarus, Come forth,'' and he came
forth. To the widows son he said,
"Get up from that bier, and be goes
homo with his mother. Then Jesus
snatched up the keys of death and
hung them to. his girdle and cried until
all the graveyards of the earth heard
him: "Oh, DEATH will be thy plagued
Oh. grave, will be thy Instruction.
Christ's Coming Victories.
But Chlists victories have only just
begun. This world is his, and he must
have it. What is the matter in this
country? Wig all these financial trou-
bles: There never will be permanent
prosperity in this land until Christ
rulcs it. This land was discovered for
Christ, aud until our cities shall be
evangelical aad north, south, east and
west shall acknowledge Christ as King
and Redeemer we cannot have perma-
ncnt prosperity. What is the matter
with Spain, with France, with all of
the nations? All the congresses Of the
nations cannot bring quiet. When gov
ernments not only theoretically but
practically acknowledge the Saviour of
the world. there will be peace every
where. In that day the sea will have
more ships than now, but there will
not he one IMAM of-war. +" The foun-
dries of the world vii jar with mightier
industries, but there will be no mold
ing Of bullets. Printing presses will fly
their cylinders with greater speed, but
there shall go forth no ubiquitous trash.
In laws, in constitutions, on exchange,
in scientific laboratory, on earth as III
heaven, Christ shall he called wonder
full. Let that work of the worlds re-
generation begin III your heart, on
hearer A Jesus so kind, a Jesus so
good, Jesus SO loving-how can you
help but love him?
1t is a beautiful moment when two
persons who have pledged each other
heart and hand stand in church and
have the banns of marriage proclaimed
Father and mother, brothers and sisters
stand around the altar. The minister Of
Jesus gives the counsel, the ring is set,
earth and heaven witness it, the organ
sounds and amid many congratulations
they start out on the path of life to-
gether. Oh, that this might be your
marriage day Stand up, immortal soul
Thy beloved comes to get his betrothed.
Jesus stretches forth his hand and says,
II will love thee with al everlasting
love, a" and you respond, my beloved
is mine. and am his. y l put your