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

and Of your father and mother when in
time of old age they parted at the gates
Of the tomb When last was in Savan-
nah, at the close Of the Sabbath morn
ing service, was asked to 60 and see a
Christian woman, for many years an in
valid. went. l had not in all that
beautiful city of splendid men and graz
cious women seen face brighter than
hers. Reaching her bedside, put out
my hand, but she could not shake
hands, for her hand was palsied. I said
to her, "How long have you been down
on this bed?" She smiled and made no
answer for her tongue had been palsied,
but those standing around said. eff
teen years" said to her, "Haye you
been able to keep your courage up all
that timer She gave very little mo-
ton Of her head in affirmation, for her
whole body was paralytio. The sermon
had preached that morning had no
power On others compared with the
power that silent sermon had on me.
What was the secret Of her conquest
to move? Shall tell you the secret? I
will tell you. The Lord shut her in
Luther's Faith.
There is good deal of fanaticism
abroad about the recovery Of the sick,
but il we had as much faith as Martin
Luther we would have Luther's sue
cess. His frie, Myconius was very Ill,
and Luther fell upon his knees and said:
20 Lord, mol Thou must not yet take our
brother Myconius to thyself. Thy cause
will not prosper without him. Amen"
Then he wrote: my Dear Myconius-
There is no cause for fear. The Lord
will not let me hear that you are dead.
You shall not and must not die.
Amen. Luther's letter SO excited My
conius that an ulcer on his lungs broke,
and he got we'll. Would to God that
like that we might be able to pray that
we might have similar resultsl Oh,
men and women, visible and invisible,
the probability is you will never write
your autobiography. 1t is the most diff
fcult book to write, because you are
tempted to omit passages in your life
that were not complimentary to your
self, and to quote from a diary, which
is always incomplete, because there are
some things which you do not think
best to write down. AS you will not
undertake an autobiography, the story
of yourself, will take the responsible
ity of presenting your biography, which
is the story Of ones life by some one
else. If you will give your love and
trust to him Of Bethlehem and Calvary,
this will be your biography: Born at
the right time but the most important
event in his life was when be was born
again. Died at the right time, but long
before that be had died unto sin. He
had many crises, but in all of them was
dlvinely directed; weaknesses, but they
were divinely sympathized with. In his
life there were many sorrows, wave
after wave, storm after storm, but he
outrode everything and landed in eternal
safety. Why? Why? Because the Lord
shut him in.
But do not think that heaven is made
up of an indiscriminate population.
Some of my friends are SO generous in
their theology that they would let eyeryest'
body IN without reference to conditicl
'r character. Do not think that lii 49,
ines and blasphemers and rejeots:s
iod and bis gospel have "IetterS.&
redit" that will draw anything FROM
he bank OF heaven. Pirate crafts will =
lot be permitted to go up that harbor.
there are those who as to heaven are
be shut ins, I" there are those who
Pill belong to the shut outs. {" Heaven
as 10 gates, and while those 10 gates
nply wide open entrance for those who
re properly prepared to enter them
ley imply that there are at least 10
disabilities that many will De shut
at, because gate is of no use unless 1t
IN sometimes be closed. Heaven is not
unwashed mob. Show your tickets
you will not get in-tickets that you
ay get without money and without
ice, tickets With cross ana crown
BON them. Let the unrepentant and
e vile and the offscourings of earth
ter heaven as they now are. and they
ould depreciate and demoralize it so
at no one of us would want to enter,
I'd those who are there would want to
owe out. The Bible speaks of the
as well as the "withins. u
xii, Is, without are dogs
d sorcerers and whoremongers and
1rderers and idolaters and whatsoever
'eth and maketh lie." Through the
nverting, pardoning, sanctifying grace
God may we at last be found among
shut ms and not among the shut
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