Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-03-19

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Can you not see him: Then pray to God
to take the scales off your eyes. Look
that way-iry to look that way. His
voice Genes down to you this day
comes down to the blindest. to the deal
est soul, saying, Look unto me, all ye
ends of the earth, and be We saved, for |
am God, and there is mono else. u Proc
lamation OF universal emancipation for
all. slaves Proclamation of universal
amnesty for all rebels Belshazzar gath
cred the Babylonish mobiles to his table;
George | entertained the lords of Eng
land at a banquet; Napoleon Ill well
coined the car Of Russia and the sultan
of Turkey to his feast; the emperor OF
Germany was glad to have our minis
ter, George Bancroft, sit down with him
at his table, Int tell me, ye who know
most OF tho world S history, what other
king ever asked tho abandoned and the
forlorn and tie wretched aud the out
cast to come aud sit beside him?
Oh, wonderful invitation You can
take it today and stand at the head of
the darkest alley i'll amy city and say
"Comc Clothes for your rags, salye for
your sores, throne for your eternal
reigning. a Christ that talks like that
and acts like that and pardons like that
do you wonder that Stephen stood
looking at him? hope to spend eternity
doing the same thing must see him.
l must look upon that face once clouded
with my sin, but now radiant with my
pardon. | want to touch that hand that
Knocked off my shackles. | want to hear
that voice which pronounced my deliv-
erance. Behold him, little children, for
If you live to threescore years and ten
you will see none so fair. Behold him,
yo aged ores, for he only can shine
through the dimness of your failing
eyesight. Behold him, earth Behold
him, heaven What moment when all
the nations Of the saved shall gather
around Christi All faces that way. All
thrones that way. gazing on Jesus.
His worth il all the nations knew
Sure the whole earth would love him too
Death of Martyr.
pass Oh now and look at Stephen
stoned The world has always wanted
to get rid CT good men. Their very life
is an assault upon wickcdness. Out with
Stephen through the gates of the city.
Down with him over tho prccipices.
Let every man como up and drop
stone upon his head But these men did
not so much Kill Stephen as they killed
themselves. Every stone rebounded
upon them. While these murdcrcrs
were tranefixed by the scorn Of all good
men, Stephen lives in the admiration
of all Christendom. Stephen stoned, but
Stephen alive. So all good men must be
pelted. All who will live godly in
Christ Jesus must suffer persecution. 1t
is no eulogy Of man to say that every
body likes him Show me any one who
is doing all his duty to state OF church,
and l will show you men who utterly
abhor him.
If all men speak well of you, it is be-
cause you arc either laggard or a dolt.
If steamer makes rapid progress
through the waves, the water will boil
and foam all around it. Brave soldiers
of Jesus Christ will hear the carbines
click. When see a mall with voice and
money and influence all OH the right
side, and some caricature him, and some
sheer at him, and some denounce him,
and men who pretend to be actuated by
right motives conspire to cripple him,
to cast him out, to destroy him, l say,
"Stephen stoned. u
When see man in some great NOR
al or religious reform battling against
grogshops, exposing wickedness in high
places, by active means trying to purl-
fy the church and better the world es-
tate, and l find that some Of the news
papers anatht matize him, and men,
even good men, oppose him and de-
nounce him, because, though BIO does
good, he does not do it III their way,
say, "Sttphcn stoned The world, with
infinite spite, took after John Frederick
Oberlin and Paul and Stephen of the
text. but you notice, my friends, that
while they assaulted him they did not
succeed really in killing him. You may
assault good man, but you cannot Kill
him.
The Way to the City.
On the day of his death Stephen spoke
before few people i'll the sanhedrin;
now he addresses all Christendom. Paul
the apostle stood Oh Mans bill address
ing a handful Of philosophers who knew
not so much about science as modern
schoolgirl. Today be talks to all the
millions of Christcndom about the Won
ders of justification and the glories CT
resurrection. john Wesley was howled
down by the mob 10 whom he preached,
and they threw bricks at him, and they
denounced him, and they jostled him,
and they spat upon him, and yet today,
in all lands, no is admitted to be the
great father of Methodism. Booth S bull
let vacated the presidential chair but
from that spot Of coagulated Elood on
the floor in the box of Ford's tbeater
there sprang up the new life Of nation.
Stephen stoned, but Stephen alive.
Pass on now and see stephen i'll his
dying prayer His first thought was not
how the stones hurt his head nor what
would become of his body. His first
thought was about his spirit Lord
Jesus, receive my spirit The murder
er standing OH the trapdocr, the black
cap being drawn over his head before
the execution, may grimace about the
future, but you and have no shame in
confessing some anxiety about where
we are going to come out You are not
all body. There is within you soul. |
see it gleam from your eyes, and see
it irradiatirg your couEteEance. Some
$500 . ..u, auarueu UeIure an auolence,
not because come under their physical
eyesight, but because I realize the truth
that stand before SO many immortal
spirits The probability is that your
body will at last find a sepulcher ID