Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-10-08

Faint and aStray!
Nights gloomy watches fled,
Morning all beaming red.
Hopes smile around us shed.
Heavenward. away!
Master OF the Hounds.
Yes, for some people in this world
there seems no let up. They are pursued
from youth to manhood and from man.
hood into old age Very distinguished
are Lord Stafford's hounds, the Earl of
Yarborough's hounds and the Duke OF
Rutland's hounds, and Queen Victoria
pays SIS, 500 year to her master of
buckhounds But all of them put togeth-
er do not equal in number or speed or
power to hunt down the great kennel of
hounds of which sin and trouble are
owner and master.
But what is relief for all this pur-
suit of trouble and annoyance and pain
and bereavement? My text gives it to
you in word of three letters, but each
letter is Il chariot if you would triumph,
or throne if you want to be crowned,
or lake if you would Stake your thirst
yes, chain of three lakes-G-O-D,
the one for whom David longed, and tho
ono whom David found. You might as
we'll meet a stag which after its sixth
mile of running at the topmost speed
through thicket and gorge, and with the
breath of the dogs on its heels, has come
in full sight of Scroon lake, and try to
cool its projecting and blistered tongue
with drop of dew from blade of
grass as to attempt to satisfy an lmmor-
tai soul when flying from trouble and
sin with anything less deep and high
and broad anu immense and infinite and
eternal than God. His comfort-why, it
EN- blossoms all distress. His arm, 1T
wrenches Off all bondage His hand, it
wipes away all tears. His Christly
atonement, it makes us all right with
the past and all right with the future,
all right with God and all right with
man and all right forever. Lamartine
tells us that King Nimrod said to his
three sons: ''Here are three vases,
and one is of clay, another of amber and
another of gold. Choose now which you
will have" The eldest son, having first
choice, chose the vase of gold, Oh which
was written the word Empire, and
when opened it was found to contain
human blood. The second son, making
the next choice, chose the vase of am
Der, inscribed with the word GLORY, "
and when opened it contained the ashes
of those who were once called great.
Tue third son took the vase of clay, and,
opening it, found it empty but on the
bottom of it was inscribed the name OF
God. King Nimrod asked his courtiers
which vase they thought weighed the
most. The avaricious men of his court
said the vase of gold. The poets said the
one of amber, but the wisest men said
the empty vase, because one letter Of the
name of God outweighed universe.
Gods Promise.
For him 1 thirst, for his grace beg,
on his promise l build my all. Without
him cannot be happy. 1 have tried the
world, and it does we'll enough as far
as it goes, but it is too uncertain a
world, too evanescent world. | am
not a prejudiced witness. have moth
ing against this world. I have been one
of the most fortunate, or, to use more
Christian word, one of the most blessed
of men-blessed in my parents, blessed
in The place Of my nativity, blessed in
my health, blessed in my field Of work,
blessed i'll my natural temperament,
blessed in my family, blessed i'll my op-
portunities, blessed in a comfortable
livelihood, blessed in the hope that my
soul will go to heaven through tho par
doning mercy Of God and my body, I'M
less it be lczt at sea OF cremated i'll some
confagration will lie down in tine gar
dens of Greenwood among my kindred
and friends, some already gone and 9TH
ers to come after me. Life to many has
been disappointment, bat TO he it haa
been pleasant surprise, and yet / de
clare that if did not feel that God was
now my friend aud ever present help |
should be Wretched and terror stricken.
But / want more of him. I have thought
over this text and preached this sermon
to myself until with all the aroused
energies of my body, mind and soul l
can cry out, GAS the hart panteth after
the water brooks, so panteth my soul
after thee, o God. u
Through Jesus Christ make this GOD
your God, and you can Withstand any
thing and everything, and that which
affrights others will inspire you. AS IN
time of an earthquake when an Old
Christian woman ,was asked whether
she was scared answered, "No, I am
glad that I have God who can shake
the world, " or, as in financial panic,
when a Christian merchant was asked
if he did no. fear he would break, an
svered: Eyes, I shall break when the
Fiftieth Psalm breaks i'll the fifteenth
verse, Call upon me in the day of trou-
BILE; I will deliver thee and thou shalt
glorify me- :" Oh, Christian men and
women, pursued of annoyances and ez-
ASPIRATIONS, remember tuaG 1Hla nuu =,
whether a still hunt or hunt in full
CRY, will soon be over. If ever whelT
looks ashamed and ready to stink out Of
sight, it is when in the Adirondacks
deer by one tremendous plunge into Big
Topper lake gets away from him. The
disappointed canine swims in little
way, but, defeated, swims ont agall
and cringes with Inundated yawn al
the feet of his master. And how abashet
and ashamed will all your earthly trou
bles be when you have dashed into tnt
river from under the throne Of God. ane