Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-03-12

the darkness. But us long rs this throne
stands and this everlasting river flows
and those garlands bloom and these
arches of victory remain to greet home
heavens conquerors SO long shall see
thee Jesus of my choice, Jesus of my
song, Jesus of my triumph, forever and
forever, face to face.
Gods Providence.
The idea of the text is just as true
when applied to God IS providence Who
has not come to some pass i'll life thor
oughly inexplicable? You say: "What
] does this mean? What is God going to
do with ne NOW? He tells ME that all
things work together for good. This
does not look like it,. You continue to
study the dispensation and after awhile
guess about what God means. He
means to teach me this. I think he
means to teach ME that. Perhaps it is to
humble my pride. Perhaps it is to make
me feel more dependent. Perhaps to
teach me the uncertainty of life. u But
after all it is only guess-a looking
through the glass, darkly. The Bible
assures us there shall be satisfactory
unfolding. "What do thou knowest
not now, but thou shalt know hercaft-
or. You will know why God took to
himself that only child. Next door there
wasa household of seven children. Why
not take one from that group instead OF
your only one? Why single out the
dwelling in which there was only one
heart beating responsive to yours? Why
did God give you child at all if he
meant to take it away? Why fill the cup
of your gladncss trimming if he meant
to dash it down? Why allow oil the
tendrils of your heart to wind around
that object, and then, when every fiber
of your own life seemed to be interlock-
ed with the child's life. with strong
hand to tear you apart, until you fall,
bleeding and crushed, your dwelling
desolate, your hopes blasted, your heart
broken? Do you suppose that God will
explain that? Yea He will make it
palmer than any mathematical problem
as plain rs that two and two make
four. In the light of the throne you
will SEQ that it was right-all right.
"Just und true are all thy ways, thou
King of saints.
The Explanation.
Here is Il man who cannot get on il
the world. He always seems to buy at
the wrong time and to sell at the worst
disadvantage. He tries this enterprise
and fails, that business and is disap-
pointed The man next door to him has
lucrative trade but he lacks custom
ers. A new prospect opens. His income
is increased. But that year bis family
are sick, and the profits are expended
in trying to cur3 the ailments. He gets
q discouraged look, becomes faithless as
to success, begins to expect disasters.
Others wait for something to turn up,
he waits for it to turn down. Others
with only half as much education and
character get on twice as well. he
sometimes guesses as to what 1t al
means. He says: Perhaps riches would
spoil me. Perhaps poverty is necessary
to keep me hun. BILE. Perhaps ! might II
things weru otherwise be tempted into
dissipations. But there is no complete
solution of tic mystery. Ee sees through
glass darkly and must wait for
higher unfolding Will there be IN ex-
PLANTATION? Yes. God will take that
man in the light of the throne and say:
"Child immortal, hear the explanation.
Yoi remember the failing Of that great
enterprise, your misfortune in 1857,
your disaster in 1867. This is the ex-
PLANTATION" AID you will answer, ut
is all right.
Mysteries Made Clenr.
I see every day profound mysteries of
providence. There is no question we ask
oftener than, Why: There are hundreds
of graves in Oak Hill and Greenwood
and Laurel Hill that need to be ex-
planned. Hospitals for the blind and
lame asylums for the idiotic and in
sane, almshruscs for the destitute and
world of pain and misfortune that de-
mand more than human solution. All,
God will clear it all upl In the light
that pours from the throne no dark
mystery can live. Things now utterly
inscrutable will be illumined as plainly
as though the answer were written on
the Jasper wall or sounded in the tenn
pie anthem. Bartimeus will thank God
that he was blind, and Lazarus that he
was covered with sores, and Joseph that
he was cast into the pit, and Daniel that
he denned with lions and Paul that he
was humpbacked, and David that he was
driven from Jerusalem, and that sewing
woman that she could get only few
pence for making garment, and that
invalid that for 20 years he could not
lift his head from the pillow, and that
widow that she had such hard work to
earn bread for her children. You know
that in song different voices carry
different parts Tie sweet and over
whelming part OF the halleluiah of heav-
en- will not be carried by those who
rode in high places and gave sumptuous
entertainments, but pauper children
will sing it, beggars will sing 1t, re-
deemed he'd carriers will sing it, those
who were once the offscouring of earth
will sing it. The halleluiah will be ell
the grardcr for earth's weeping eyes
and aching heads aud exhausted hands
and scourged backs and martyred
agonies.
Few Will Be Lost.
Again, the thought of the text is just
when applied to the enjoyments of the
righteous III heaven. I think we have
but little idea of the number OF the
RICH teous in heaven. InGdels say,
"Your heaven will be very small
place compared with the world of the
lost, for, according to your teaching, the
majority Of men will be destroyed. l
deny the charge. suppose that the
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