Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-11-19
NUMBER 90
everlasting JOY That is an instantane-
Gus picture of what, you may he and
what am sure some Of you will be.

everlasting Joy Iuat ~ dH lHstaul aHo-
Gus picture of what you may he and
what am sure some Of you will be-
Only Little While.
If you realize that it is an imperfect
picture, my apology is what the apos-
tie John said, sit doth not yet appear
what we shall be- p" ITO this end was
born" If did not think go / would be
overwhelmed with melancholy The
world does very well for little while,
80 or 100 or $50 years, and think that
human longevity may yet be improved
up to that prolongation, for now there
ia so little loom between our cradle and
our grave we cannot accomplish much;
but who would want to dwell in this
world for all eternity? Some think this
earth will finally be turned into q heav
en- Perhaps it may, but it would have
to undergo radical repairs and thorough
Examinations and evolutions and revolu-
lions and transformations infinite to
make it desirable for eternal residence
All the east winds would have to be.
come west winds, and all the winters
changed to springtides, and all the vol
canoes extinguished, and the oceans
chained to their beds, and the epidem-
les forbidden entrance, and the world
so fixed 1p that | think it would take
more to repair this old world than to
make all entirely new one But must
say l do not care where heaven is II
we can only get there; whether gar
denied America or an unparalleled Eu-
rope or a world central to the whole
universe. ITO this end was born. "
If each one of us could say that we
would go with faces shining and hopes
exhilarant amid earth's worst misfor-
tunes and trials. Only little while,
and then the rapture Only a. little
while, and then the reunion. Only
little while, and then the transfgura-
ton.
In the seventeenth century all Eu-
rope was threatened with wave Of
Asiatic bar barism and Vienna was espe-
cialIy besieged The king and his court
had fed and nothing could save the city
from being overwhelmed unless the
king of Poland, John Sobieski, to whom
they had sent for help, should with his
army come down for the relief. and from
every roof and tower the inhabitants OF
Vienna watched and waited and hoped
until on the morning of Sept. II the
rising sun threw an unusual and un-
paralleled brilliancy. 1t was the redec-
ton of the sun on the swords and shields
and helmets Of John Sobieski and his
army coming down over the hills to the
rescue, and that day not only Vienna,
but Europe was saved. And see you
not, o ye souls besieged with sin and
sorrow, that light breaks in, the swords
and the shields and the helmets of d.
vine rescue bathed in the rising sun of
heavenly deliverance? Let everything
else go rather than let heaven 60
What strange thing it must be to
feel oneself born to all earthly CROWN
but you have been born for throne OIL
which you may reign after the last
monarch of all the earth shall have gone
to dust | invite you to start now for
your own coronation, to come in and
take the title deeds to your everlasting
inheritance. Through an imprisoned
prayer, take heaven and all of its rap
lures.
What poor farthing is all that this
world can offer you compared with par
don here and life immortal beyond the
stars unless this side of them there be
a place large enough and beautiful
enough and grand enough for all the
ransomed! Wherever it be, in what
world, whether near by or far away, IN
this or some other constellation, hail,
home of light. and love end blessedness
Through the atoning mercy of Christ,
may we all get therei