Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-08-20
RISE INTO SUNSHINE.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches A SER
MON TO THE TROUBLED.

MON TO THE TROUBLED.
scol, Christ For Consolation Whom sorely
Pressed by tho Trials of Life-A Help
full Lesson Drawn From Jonathans Vic
tory Over Difficulties.
Copyright. 1898. by American Press Asso-
clatlon.l
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.-This dis
course of DR.. Talmago is full of encour-
agement for those who know not which
way to turn because of accumulated
misfortunes; text, I Samuel xiv, i,
There was u sharp rock on the one
side and q sharp rock Oh the other side. +"
The cruel army of tho Philistines
must be taken and scattered. There is
just one man, accompanied by his body
guard, to do that thing. Jonathan is
the hero Of the scene. know that Da
vid cracked the skull of the giant with
Il few pebbles well slung, and that 300
Gideonites scattered 10, 900 Amalekites
by the crash of broken croclery, but
here is moro wonderful conflict. Yon
der are the Philistines Oh tho rocks.
Here is Jonathan with his bodyguard
in the valley On the one side is u rock
called Bozez; on tho other side is a rock
called Seneh These two wero as IA
nous in olden times as in modern times
arc Plymouth Rock and Gibraltar.
They were precipitous, unscalable and
sharp. Between these two rocks jena
than must make his ascent. The day
comes for the scaling of the height.
Jonathan, OH his hands and feet be-
gins tho ascent With strain and slip
and bruisc, 1 suppose, but still on and
up, first goes Jonathan, and then goes
his bodyguard. Bozcz on ono side,
Seneh on the other. After Il sharp tug
and push and clinging see the head
of Jonathan above the hole i'll the
mountain, and there is u challenge and
fight and a supernatural consterna-
ton. These two men, Jonathan and his
bodyguard, drive back and drive down
the Philistines over the rocks and open
campaign which demolishcs the cne-
mics of Israel. I suppose that the over
hanging and overshadowing rocks on
either side did not balk or dishoarten
Jonathan or his bodyguard, but only
reused and filled them with enthusiasm
as they went up. ''There was sharp
rock Oh the one side and sharp rock
on tho other side.
When Calamity Comes.
My friends, you have been or are now
some of you in this crisis of the text.
Ii man meets one trouble, he can go
through with it. Hc gathers all his en-
ergies, concentrates them Oh one point.
and in the strength of God or by his
own natural determination goes through
it. But the man who has trouble to the
right of him and trouble to the left of
him is to be pitied. Did either trouble
come alone he might endure it, but two
troubles, two disasters, two ovcrshadow-
ing misfortunes, are Bozez and Seneh.
God pity him. "There is sharp rock
on the ono sidc and sharp rock on the
other side.
In this crisis of tho text is that man
whose fortune and health fail him at
the same time. Nine tenths of oil our
merchants capsizo in business before
they como to As years Of age. There is
some collision in commercial circles,
and they stop payment. 1t seems as if
every man must put his name OH the
back Of O note before he learns what a
fool q man is who risks all his own
property Oh the prospect that some man
will tell the truth. 1t seems as if a man
must have largo amount of unstable
goods on his own shelf before he learns
how much easier it is to buy than to
sell. 1t seems as if every man must be
completely burned out before he learns
the Importance of always keeping fully
insured. 1t seems as if every man must
be wrecked in financial tempest before
he learns to keep things snug IN case OF
sudden euroclydon.
When the calamity does come, it is
awful. The man goes home in despair,
and he tells his family, we'll have to
90 to the poorhouse." He takes a dolor-
GUS view of everything 1t seems as if
he never could rise. But a little time
passes, and he says, "Why, 1 am not so
badly off after all; have my family
left.
Before the Lord turned Adam out of
paradise he gave him Eve, so that when
he lost paradise he could stand it. Per-
nit one who has never read but Il fow
novels in all his life, and who has not
great deal Of romance i'll his compost
ton, to say that if when man. for
tunes fail he has good wife-a good
Christian wife-he ought not to be de-
spondent. ooh" you say, THAT only
increases the embarrassment, since you
have her also to take care of. " You are
an migrate, for the woman as often sup
ports the man as tho man supports the
woman. The man may bring all the
dollars, but the woman generally brings
the courage and the faith i'll God.
a New Chapter.
( Well, this man of whom l am speak,
ing looks around. and he finds his faml-
ly is left, and ho rallies, and the light
comes to his eyes, and the smile to his
face, and the courage to his heart. In
two years he is quito over it. He makes
his financial calamity tho first chapter
in new era OF prosperity. He met that
one trouble-conquored it. He sat down
for little while under the grim shadow
of the rock Bozez, yet he soon rose, and
began, like Jonathan, to climb. But
how often is it that physical ailment
comes with financial embarrassment
When the fortune failed, it broke the
mans spirit. His nerves were shatter-
ed. His brain was stunned. can show
you hundreds of men in our cities
whose fortune and health failed at the
same time. They came prematurely tc
the staff. Their hand trembled with
incipient paralysis. They never saw q
we'll day since the hour when they call
ed their creditors together for COM