Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-07-16
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.pany OF intellectual giants and turn
your back Oh an infdelity which de-
stroys body and soul.

your back Oh an infdelity which de-
stroys body and soul.
What Infldelity Has Done.
All, infdelity, stand up and take thy
sentenced In the presence Of God, an
gels and men stand up, thou monster,
thy lip blasted with blasphemy, thy
check SCARED with uncleanness, thy
breath foul with the corruption of the
agesl Stand up, satyr, filthy goat, buzz
zard of the nations, leper of the centu-
ries Stand up, thou monster, snidelityl
Part man, part panther, part reptile,
part dragon stand up and take thy SEN
tence Thy hands red with the blood in
which thou hast washed, thy feet GRIM
son with the human gore through
which thou hast waded, stand up and
take thy sentenced Down with thee to
the pit and sup OIL the sobs and groans
of those thou hast destroyed, and let thy
music be the everlasting miserere Of
those whom thou hast damned! 1 brand
the forehead of infdelity with all the
crimes of self immclation for the last
century on the part of those who had
their reason.
Ny friends, if ever your life. through
its abrasions and its molestations, should
seem to be unbearable and you are
tempted to quit it by your own hebest,
do not consider yourself as worse than
Others. Christ himself was tempted to
cast himself from the roof of the tenn
pie, but as he resisted SO resist ye.
Christ came to medicine all wounds.
In your trouble I prescribe life instead
Of death. People who have had it worse
than you will ever have it have gone
songfully Oh their way. Remember that
God keeps the chronology Of your life
with as much precision as ne keeps the
chronology of nations, your grave as
well as Your cradle.
Why was it that at midnight, just at
midnight, the destroying angel struck
the blow that set the Israelites free
from bondage? Tie 430 years were up
at Y O'Clock that night. The $50 years
were not up ut II, and o'clock would
have been tardy and too late. The 430
years were up at II o'clock, and the
destroying angel struck the blow, and
Israe! was free. And God knows just
the hour when it is time to lead you up
from earthly bondage. By his grace
make not the worst of things, but the
best Of them. Ii you must take the
pills, do not chew them. Your everlast-
ing rewards will accord with your
earthly perturbations, just as Caius
gave to Agrippa a chain of gold as
heavy as had been chain of iron. For
the asking you may have the same grace
that was given the Italian martyr, AL
cerius, who down in the darkest of dun
icons, dated his letters from "the de-
lectable orchard Of the leonine prison. "
And remember that this brief life is
surrounded by a rim, a very thin but
very important rim, and close up to
that rim is a great eternity, and you
had better keep out Of it until God
breaks that rim and separates this from
that. To get rid Of the sorrows of earth
DO not rush into greater sorrows. To
get rid of a swarm of summer insects
leap not into a jungle of Bengal tigers.
There is a sorrowless world, and tits
so radiant that the MONDAY sun is only
The lowest doorstep, and the aurora that
lights up our northern heavens, con-
founding ASTRONOMERS as to what it can
be, is the waving of the banners Of the
procession come to take the conquerors
home from church militant to church
triumphant and you and I have 10, 600
reasons for wanting to go there, but we
will never get there either by self i'm
notation or impenitency. All our sins
slain by Christ who came to do that
thing, we want to go i'll at just the
time divinely arranged and from q
couch divinely spread, and then the
clang of the sepulchral gates behind US
will be overpowered by the clang Of the
opening of the solid pearl before us.
0 God, whatever others may choose,
give me Christians life, a Christians
death, Christians burial, Chris
tian $ Immortality