Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-11-12
bow as they go into the struggle which
will leave ali perdition under and all
heaven on top.
Strength From Discipline.

Strength From discipline
Remember also that these wrcstlers
went through severe and continuous
course of preparation for their work.
They were put upon such diet as would
best develop their muscle. AS Paul
says, EVERY man that striveth for the
mastery is temperate in all things.
The wrestlers were put under complete
Notwithstanding, gymnastics, strug-
gle in sport with each other to develop
strength and give quickness to dodge Of
head and trip Of foot; STOPPING to lift
each other off the ground; suddenly
rushing forward; suddenly pulling
backward; putting the LETT foot behind
the others right foot and getting his
opponent off his balance; hard training
for days and weeks and months so that
when they net it was giant clutching
giant And my friends, if we do not
want ourselves to be thrown i'll this
wrestle with the sin and error of the
world, we had better get ready by
Christian discipline, by holy self de-
NAL, by constant practice, by submit
ting to divine supervisal and direction
Do not begrudge the time aud the money
for that young man who is in prepare
ton for the ministry, spending two
years in grammar school and four years
in college and three years in theological
seminary know that nine years ale
big slice to take off of mans active
life, but if you realized the height and
strength of the archangels Of evil in
our time with which that young man IS
going to wrestle, you would not think
nine years of preparation wero too
much An uneducated ministry was ex-
cusable in other days, but rot in this
time, loaded with schools and colleges.
A man who wrote me the other day
letter asking advice. us he felt called to
preach the gospel, began the word
God" with Il small "g. That kind
of man is not called to preach tho
gospel Illiterate men, preaching tho
gospel, quote for their own encourage
ment the Scriptural passage, "Open thy
mouth wide and fill it." Yes He
will fill it with wind Preparation for
this wrestling is absolutely necessary
Many years ago Dr. Newman and DR.
Sunderland, OH the platform Of Brigham
Young's tabernacle at Salt lake City
gained the victory because they had so
long been skillful wrestlers for God.
Otherwise Brigham Young, who was
himself a giant in some things would
have thrown them out of the window
Get ready in Bible classes. Get ready
in Christian Endeavor meetings. Get
ready by giving testimony in obscure
places, before giving testimony III con-
spicuous places.
The Silent Worker.
Your going around with a Bagster's
Bible with flaps at the edges under
your arm does not qualify you for the
work of all evangelist In this day CT
profuse CAB remember that it is net
merely capacity to talk, but the fact
that you have something to say that Is
going to fit you for the struggle into
which you are to go with a smile on
your face and illumination on your
brow. but out of which you will not
come until all your physical an6>1nen-
tai and moral and religious energies
have been taxed to tie utmost and you
have not nerve left, or a thought un-
expended or a prayer unsaid, OF SYM
patty unwept In this struggle between
right and wrong accept no challenge on
platform or in newspaper unless you are
prepared Do not misapply the story OF
Goliath the great, and David the lit
tie. David had been practicing with
sling on dogs and wolves and bandits
and 1000 times had he swirled Il stono
around his bead before he aimed at the
forehead of the giant and tnmbled HIM
backward, otherwise the big foot OF Go
Hath would almost have covered up the
crushed form of the son OF Jesse.
Notice also that the success OF a
wrestler depended on his having his
feet we'll planted before he grappled
his opponent Much depends upon the
way the wrestler stands. Standing on
an uncertain piece of ground or bearing
all his weight on right foot or all his
weight on left foot, he is not ready A
slight cuff Of his antagonist Will capslze
him A stroke Of the heel of the other
wrestler will trip him. And III this
struggle for God and righteousness, as
we'll as for our own souls. we want our
feet firmly planted in the gospel-both
feet OIL the Rock Of Ages 1t will not
do to believe the Bible in spots or think
some of ii true and some of 1T untrue
You Just make up Your mind that the
story of the garden OF Eden is an al,
legory, and the epistle OF james al in
terpolation, and that the miracles OF
Christ can be accounted Tor Oh natural
grounds, without any belief in the su-
pernatural, and the first time you are
interlocked in IL wrustle with SIN ana
satan you will go under and your feet
will be higher than your head. It will
not do TO have one foot OIL a rock and
the other Oh the sand The old book
would long ago have gone to pieces If
it bad been vulnerable But OF the MIL
lions of Bibles that have been printed
within the last % years not one chap
ter has been omitted and the omission
of one chapter would have been the
cause of the rejection of the whole edl-
ton.
Alas for those who, while trying to
prove that Jonah was never swallowed
of q whale. themselves get swallowed OF
the whale of unbelief, which digests,
but never elects its victims The inspi-
ration of the Bible is not more certain
than the preservation of the Bible in its
present condition After SO many CEN
turtles OF assault on the book would it
not be a matter of economy, to say the
least-economy of brain and economy of
stationery aud economy of printers ink
if the batteries now assailing the book