Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-02-27

the pieces OF the broken ship. hear
him say: 81 won't go in OH any of these
planks until know in what part of the
ship they belong. When l can get the
windlass in the right place, and the sails
set, and that keel piece where it belongs,
and that floor timber right, and these
ropes untangled, will go ashore. am
an old soldier, and know all about ships
for 40 years, and as SOON as l can get
the vessel afoat in good shape l will
come in" A man drifting by on piece
Of wood overhears him and says: "You
will drown before You get that ship re-
constructed. Better do as l am doing. l
know nothing about ships, and never
saw one before I came on board this,
and l cannot swim a stroke, but am
going ashore on this shivered timber. "
The man in tho offing, while trying to
mend his ship, goes down. The man
who trusted to the plank is saved Oh,
my brother, let your smashed up system
of theology go to the bottom, while You
come in on splintered sparl Some
OH DrOkCu plCCcS VI JIG snip
The Victorious Banner.
You may get all your difficulties set
tied rs Garibaldi, the magnetic Italian,
got his gardens made. When the war
between Austria and Sardinia broke out
he was living at Caprera, very rough
and uncultured island home. But he
went forth with his sword to achieve the
liberation of Naples and Sicily and
gave 8, 600, 600 people free government
under Victor Emmanuel. Garibaldl,
after being absent two years from Ca
prcra, returned, and when he approach
ed it he found that his home had, by
Victor Emmanuel, us a surprise, been
Edenized. Trimmed shrubbery had
taken the place of thorny thickets, gar
dens the place of barrenness, and the
old rookery i'll which he once lived had
given way to a pictured mansion And
1 tell You il you will come and enlist
under the banner of our Victor Emmm-
uel and follow him through thick and
thin and fight his battles and endure
his sacrifices you will find after awhile
that he has changed your heart from a
Jungle of thorny skepticism into gar
den all abloom with luxuriant joy that
you have never dreamed of-from a
tangled Caprera of sadness into para
disc Of God.
1 do not know how your theological
system went to pieces. 1t may be that
your parents started you with only one
plank, and you believe little Or moth
ing. Or they may have been too rigid
and severe i'll religious discipline and
cracked you over the head with psalm
book 1t may he that some partner III
business who was member Of an evan
gclical church played on you trick
that disgusted you with religion 1t
may be that you have associates who
have talked against Christianity i'll your
presence until you are "all at sea, " and
you dwell more on things that you do
not believe than on things you do be-
lievc. You arc in ore respect like Lord
Nelson, when signal was lifted that
he wished to disregard and he put his
sea glass to his blind eye and said, Il
really do not see the signal. :" Oh, my
nearer. put this fieldglass of the gospel
no longer to your blind eye, and say, l
cannot see, but put it to your other eye,
the eye of faith, and you will see Christ,
and he is all you need to see.
If you can believe nothing else, you
certainly believe in vicarious suffering,
for you see it almost every day in some
shape. The steamship Knickerbocker of
the Cromwell line, running between
New Orleans and New York, was IN
great storms, and the captain and crew
saw the schooner Mary D. Cranmer of
Philadelphia in distress. The weather
cold, the waves mountain high, the first
officer Of the steamship and four men
put out in lifeboat to save the crew OF
! the schooner, and reached the vessel and
towed it out of danger, the wind shift
ing so that the schooner was saved. But
the five men Of the steamship coming
back, their boat capsized, yet righted
again and came Oh, the sailors coated
with ice. The boat capsized again, and
three times upset and was righted, and
a line was thrown the poor fellows, but
their hands were frozen so they could
not grasp it, and Il great wave rolled
over them, and they went down, never
to rise again till the sea gives up Its
dead. Appreciate that heroisln and self
sacrifice of the brave fellows all who
can, and can we not appreciate the
Christ who put out into more biting
cold and into a more overwhelming
surge to bring us out of infinite peril
into everlasting safety The wave of hui
man hate rolled over him from one side
and the wave of hellish fury rolled over
him on the other side. Oh, the thick
ness of the night and the thunder of
the tempest into which Christ plunged
for our rescued
Cling to the Cross.
Come in on one narrow beam Of tie