Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-05-07

stead, aud the creditor bugs it i'll at
half price" Honest? When he loaned
the money, he l:naw that he would get
the homestead at half price. Honest?
But he goes TO tha Insurance Office to get
policy OIL his life and tolls the doctor
that no is we'll when ho knows that for
ten years lie his hNd but ono lung.
Honest? Though hu sells property by the
mup, forgetting to tell the purchaser
that the GroUEd is all under water; but
it is generous in him to do that, for he
throws the water into the bargain.
Standard of Right and Wrong.
Ah, ny friends, there is but ono
standard OF the everlasting right and Of
the eyerlas!in2ly wro1g and that is
see Bible. and when that principle
shall get its pry under our commercial
homes l believe that one-half of them
will go over. The ruin will begin at
ono end OF the street, and it will be
crash, crash, crash all the way down
to the docks 'WilaG is the matter?
Has there Loen a fall in gold?" "Oh,
no. Eas there beou Il new tariff"
mo +" "HaS tierc been Il failure i'll
crops:' "No. Has there been an uu-
accountable pauic?" NO. Thisis the
secret Tie Lord God has set up his
throne of Judgment i'll tho exchange.
lie has summoned tho righteous and
the wicked lc como before him. What
WAS 1887? A day of Judgment. What
was 1851? y day of Judgment. What
was the extreme depression of two years
ago? a day of Judgment. Do you think
that God is going TO wait until no has
burned the world up before he rights
these wrongs? L tell you, nay. Every
day is dry of judgment.
The fraudulent man piles up his
gains, bond above bond, United States
security above United States security,
emolument above emolument, until his
property has become great pyramid,
and as he stands looking at it he thinks
it can never be destroyed, but the Lord
God comes, and with his little finger
pushes it all over.
You build house, and you Put into
it rotten beam. a mechanic standing
by says, at will never do to put that
beam in; it will ruin your whole build
ing. But you put it in. The house is
completed. Soon it begins to rock. You
call in the mechanic and ask, "What is
the matter with this door? What is the
matter with this wall? Everything
seems to be giving out. - Says the
mechanic, You put rotten beam into
that structure, and the whole thing has
got to come down. Hero is an estate
that seems to be all right now 1t has
been building great many years. But
Is years ago there was dishonest
transaction in that commercial house.
That one dishonest transaction will
keep on working ruin in the whole
structure until down the estate will
come in wreck and rEin about the pos
sessor's cars-one dishonest dollar in
the estate demolishing all his posses
sions. have seen it again and again,
and so have you.
Here is your money safe. Tho manu-
facturer and yourself only know how it
can be OPENED You have the key. You
touch the lock, aud tho ponderous door
swings back. But let me tell you that
however firmly barred and bolted your
money safe may be you cannot keep
God out. He will come, some day. into
your counting room, and no will de-
mand "Where did that note of hand
come from? How do you account for
this security? Where did you get that
mortgage from: What does this mean?'
If it is all right, God will say: well
done good and faithful servant Be
prospered in this world. Be happy in
the world to come. If it is all wrong,
he will say: depart, yc cursed. Be
miserable for your iniquities in this
life, and then go down and spend your
eternity with thieves and horse jockeys
and pici:pockets. F"
You have an old photograph of the
signs Oh your street. Why have those
signs nearly all changed within the
last 20 years? Does the passing away of
a generation account for it? Oh, no.
Does the fact that there are hundreds of
honest mcn who 60 down every year ac-
count for it: Oh, no. This is the secret:
The Lord God has been walking through
the commercial streets of our great
cities, and lie las been adjusting things
according to the principles Of eternal
rectitude.
The time Will come when, through
the revolutionary power Of this gospel,
a fasehood instead of being called ex-
aggeration, equivocation or evasion
will be branded a lie, and stealings
that now sometimes go under the head
of percentages and commissions and
bonuses will be put into the catalogue
Of state prison otienses Society will be
turned inside out and upside down and
ransacked of Gods truth until business
dishoneSties shall come to an end and
all double dealing, and God will over
turn and ugerturn and overturn, and
commercial men in all cities will throw
up their hands, crying out, "These that
have turned tie world upside down are
come nlthCr.
Christian Conquest.
The religion CT Jesus Christ will pro
duce revelation in our churches. The
uoncommi,ial do nothing policy of the
church Of God will give way to spirit
of bravest conquest. Picty in this day
seems to NE to he sailed down just so
as to keep. 1t seems as if the church
were chiefly anxious to take caro- OF It.
self, and if we hear of want and squa-
lor and heatheuism outside we say,
"What pityI" and we put our hands
in our pockets, and we feel around for
2 cent piece, aad with great flour
ish we put it upon the plate and are
amazed that the world is not converted