Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-12-17

in the light of a sun that never sets. Al
the eight passengers of that craft Of
Captain Noah never got over talking
about their ssafaring experiences, sc
you who have been the shut ms of earth
will add unbounded interest to The
conversation of heaven by recalling and
reciting your earthly experiences, and
the rongher those experiences the more
thrilling will they be to yourself and
others who listen. AS when we sit amid
group of soldiers and hear their story
Of battle or group Of sailors and hear
their story of cyclones VIC feel stupid
because we have nothing in our life
worth telling. how uninteresting will
be those souls in heaven who had smooth
sailing all their lives and no accidents,
while Noah tolls his story of the deluge
aud Lot his story of escape from de.
stroyed cities and Paul his story of the
! Alexandran corn ship and you tell your
story of the days and nights and years
Of tho times when you were shut in
You will be interesting and sought after
in heaven in proportion as you are mar
tyrized Of persecution and pain on Garth
And surely you do not want to get the
advantage of heavenly association and
consideration without yourself adding
some interest to the interview. hail
all the shut ms because they will be the
come outs. Heaven will be all the
brighter for your earthly privations and
environments For man who has al
ways lived in mansion and walked in
fine gardens and RECALLED his appetite on
best fruits and had warmest furs for
winter attire and coolest linens for Au.
gust heat and brilliant earthly sur
roundings heaven will not be SO much
q change Of scene He will be disposed
to say: "Why, am used TO this Don't
show me the gardens Why. 1 was
brought up at Chatswortb. Don't invite
me into q chariot; l always had splen.
did turnout Don't invite me to the
feast. l have been accustomed to Bel
shazzarian banquets. 1t would be re-
lief to me if l could leave heaven lit
tie while and rough it in some other
world -
But what heaven it will be for those
whose limbs were so rheumatic they
could not take step when they get
wingsl What a heaven it will be for
those who were always sick, when they
are always well, and after 20 years OF
pain to have millions Of years Of health |!
What light will be the light of heaven
for those who on earth could not see
their hand before their faces! And
what will the music Of heaven be to
those the tympanum of whose cara for
many vears had oaac~A 20 ylbrate! De-
may yeals u LII The pleasure of listening
to Handel and Haydn and Mendelssohn's
symphonies, at last reaching a world
where there has never been a discord.
and hearing singing where all are per-
feet songsters, and oratorios in which !
ali the nations of heaven chant Great
heaven it will be for all who get there,
but hundred times more Of a heaven
for those who were shut in.
Divine Sympathy.
Meanwhile you have all divine and
angelic sympathy in your infrmities.
That satan thoroughly understood poor
human nature was evidenced when in
plotting to make Job do wrong the great
master of evil, after having failed in
every other way to overthrow the good
man, proposed physical distress, and
then the boils came which made him
swear right out. The mightest test Of
character is physical suffering. Critics
ire inpatient at the way Thomas Car
yle scoldcd at everything His 70 years
# dyspepsia were enough to make any
nan scold. When You see people out Of :
'atience aud irascib!e and lachrymose,
nqnire into the case, and before Won Z
ct through With the exploration your
ypercriticisiu will turn to pity, and to
be divine aud angelic ympathy will d
e added your own The clouds of your o
which were full of tbup. u
erbolts, Will begin to rain tears of pity
BY strange providence, for which i u
nall be forever grateful. circumstances L
18th which | think you are all ia. 81
l1ilar, | have admission through the "
awsphper press week by week to tens Il
thousands Of Gods dear children al
no cannot enter church on the Sab. IL
lth ard hear their excellent pastors -"
cause OF the age Of the sufferers, or n
elr illness, or the lameness of foot or al
cir Incapacity to stay in one position N
hoar and half, or their poverties. 10
their troubles of some sort will nor &C
them go out Of doors, and to them Of
much as to those who hear me ! th
each this sermon, as | preach many OF
my sermons, the invisible audience
ways vaster than the visible, some of
EN- tossed on wilder seas than those
at tossed the eight mbers of Noah's 81
nily, and instead of 40 days of storm % oI
d five months Of being shut in, as =,
ey were, 1t has been with these in. -
lids five years Of "shul in,'' or ten !.
ars of "shut in," or 20 years OF ~ ~
hut in" Oh, comforting Godl Help f,
, to comfort them Give me two re
IDS full of salve for their wounds. o,
ne' W. 49, 900 miles out at sea, h,
rrlcane struck u.s. ano Tho lifeboats -, ~
ere dashed from the davits and all the -; H'
'hts IN the cabin were put out by the ~ ~.
ling of the ship ana the water which -. ~
rough the broken skyli hts A-d nonred y, ~
Captain Andrews entered and sa,a u
the men on duty: "Why don't you ia
int mn and mako things brighter. for sS
, are going to outride this storm? liz
ssengers cheer upl Cheer upp' And an
'sS-,S-t-a match and began to light St
burners lie could not silence either
wind or the waves but by the
liking of that match, accompanied by
words, we were all helped. be
Light In Darkness. tbr
And as / now find many in hurricanes SUI
trouble, though cannot quiet the Or.
IN, can strike match to light up int
darkness, and / strike match ist
hon the Lord lOyeth he cha steneth D dnl