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

tuoIu aSdlH Ill tuld WOrIu yuu DOpeu u
meet tkem in dominions seraphie, with
quiet word Of advice from you to the
man who carried the message about
the importance of his not neglecting his
own soul, but through Christ seeking
something better than this world could
give him-why, all the business men in
the counting room say: Good Now,
that is religion" And the clerks get
bold of tho story and talk it over, SO
that the weigber and cooper and hack
man standing on the doorstep say
"trhat is Splendid Now, that is what
call religionr'
Effective Scrmonn.
1t is a good thing to preach on Sun
day morning, the people assembled in
most respectable attire and seated ON
soft cushions, the preacher standing in
neatly upholstered pulpit surrounded by
personal friends, and after an inspiring
hymn has been sung, and that sermon
if preached in faith will do good, but
the most effective sermon is preached by
one seated in dressing gown in an arm
chair into which The invalid has with
much care been lifted, the surrounding
shelves filled with medicine bottles,
some to produce sleep, some for the re-
lief of sudden paroXysm, some for slim
ulant, some for tonic, some for anodyne
and some for febriiuge the pale preach
or quoting promises OF the gospel, telling
Of the glories of IA sympathetic Christ,
assuring the one or two or three persons
who hear it uf the mighty re-enforce-
ments Of religion You say that to such
sermon there are ouly one or two or
three hearers Aye But the visitor call
ing at that room, then closing the door
softly and going away, tells the story,
and the whole neighborhood hears it,
aud it will take all eternity to realize
the grand and uplifting influence of
that sermon about God and the soul,
though preached to an audience of only
one man or one woman. The Lord has
ord: ned all such invalids for style of
usefulness which athletics and men Of
200 healthy avoirdupoi: cannot affect.
1t was not an enemy that fastened you
in that room or sent you on clutches,
the longest journey you have made for
many weeks being from bed TO sofa and
from sofa to looking glass, where you
are shocked at the pallor of your own
cheek and the pinchedness of your fea-
lures, then back again from mirror to
sofa, and sofa to bed. with long sigh
saying, "How good it feels to get back
again to my old place on the pillow. "
Remember who it is that appointed the
day when for the first time in many
years you could not go to business, and
who has kept record of all the weary
days and all the sleepless nights of your
exile from the world. Oh, weary man
Oh, feeble woman 1t was the Lord snas
shut you in. Dosv~rnu best OF men
son,. -. prisoners? Ezekiel prisoner,
Jeremiah prisoner, Paul prisoner
st. John prisoner, John Bunyan
prisoner. Though human hate seemed
to have all TO do with them, really the
Lord shut them in.
Nonh's Voyage.
No doubt while OIL that voyage Noah |
and his three sons and all the four ladies |
of the antediluvian world often thought
Of the bright hillsides and the green
fields where they had walked and of the
homes where they had lived They had
had many years Of experiences. Noah
was 600 years old at the time of this
of nature He had seen 600
5pringtimes, 600 summers, 600 au-
tumns, 600 winters. We are not told
how old his wife was at this wreck of
earth and sky. The Bible tells the age
If great many men, but only once
gives woman's age. At one time it
gives Adams age as 1870 years and
Iared's age as lj2 years and Enoch's
'ge as $50 years, and all up and down
ho Billie it gives the age of men, but
Ices not give the age of women. Why?
Because, | suppose, woman's age is
zone of our business. But all the men {
nd women that tossed in that oriental
raft had lived long enough to remem-
er great many of the mercies and t
indnesses of God, and they could not t
lot out, and 1 think they had no dis. t
osition to blot out, the memory of those q
though now they were
nut in. Neither should the shut in of 8
ur time forget the blessings of the
asst. Have you been blind for ten yearsf S
bank God for the time when you saw g
J clearly rs any CT US can SEQ and let \
le pageant OF all The radiant landscapes II
cd iilan!ined skies which you ever Il
oked upon kindlo your rapturous graft f;
lde. do not see Raphael Madonna 81
San Sisto' in tho picture gallery of :
resden, nor Rubeus Descent From d
e Cross at Antwerp, nor Michael II
ngelo's Last Judgment on the CELL b;
6 of the Vatican nor st Sophia at tt
onstantinople, nor the Parthenon on e1
9 Acropolis, nor the Tai Mahal of In n,
q, but shall l not thank Coo That Oh
T;2s seen them: Is it possible that such d.
might darkness shall ever blast my Y
yisiofat cannot call them up again! in
Perbajs n are so deaf that you cannot aC
neo, the cL@- of bird or solo of canta- to
tee or eyeu'rgan in full diapason, &C
-nough you fesyy foundations tremble m
under its mn ~, =, i'll. Or even the M
thunderstorpiR,i "t kes Mount Wash o
ingtun echo, d. nrI 5deai ~ not grateful OF
that once 'ou Cow cann5send chant VI
and carol deSols9ing Comm rh1hour ce
hear Jepiy Ll9fBull's enchanted viois. &c
the Rys, oE.'s triumphant voice over pa
Or Parepa lnds of voices and many so
many bfinstruments in the nation "
;housapiuhilee of 80 years ago, all nj
Il nedds accompanied by tho ring. =.
tbeff1ells and the guns ON Boston aE
ingon, but can ever have my ears su
c.fenced that will not remembe VI
81 did hear them? Are you chained ~ ~
your room now, your powers of loco ~ ~.
tion all gone. or if coming to the a .''
use of God every step ia torture? ~