Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-01-14

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you oug, to augment yourself, and il
Tot able, like David. to be worth 10, 600
/ times more than otlors, you can COM
mand Gods reinforcing grace to make
yourself four times or three times or
t. as much az some others. Pray
twice as much, read twice as much,
we twio. as much, go to church twice
.sr.sRch. Instead Of spending your time
finding fault with others, substitute
your superior fidelity for their derelic-
ton and default. In any church there
are ten members worth all the other
thousand. In every great business firm
ther4 is one man worth tho other three
partners. In every legislative hall, state
or national, there are five men worth
all the otter 30 or 100. Take the sug
gestion of my text and augment your
self. Make your one talent do the work
Of two, OF your five talents do the work
of ten, or your ten talents do the work
of 20. Multiply your words Of enoour-
agement Multiply the number of boosts
you can give to those who are trying to
climb. Instead of being one man in
battalion by Your faith in God and new
conservation he a whole regiment. l
like the question Of general Of small
army, when some one was, counting the
number Of officers and soldiers OF the
opposing forces and the small number
of their own army, and the general
cried ont in indignation, How many
do you take me to be-" David was 49,
900 men. You ought to be at least two
men in this battle for God and right
eousness.
The daily papers say that my old
friend jeremiah @. Lanphier Of New
York is dead at 80 years of age. But
they are mistaken. That man can never
die He will live as long as heaven
lives. He was the father Of vitalized,
vivifed and arousing prayer meetings.
He established the monday Fulton
street prayer meeting, famous through
out Christendom and more honored Of
God than any devotional meeting since
the world began. He introduced the lit
tie bell on the prayer meeting table
which always tapped when prayers
were too prolix or exhortations too long
winded. Finding that many business
men are from 10 noon 10 O'Clock at
comparative leisure, he widely announc-
ed that at 10 o'clock of 2Sd Of Ssptem-
Der, 1857, there would begin prayer
meeting of one hour In the small upper
room Of the Reformed church, on Full
ton street, New York. Lanphief went
to that room at 10 O'Clock and sat alone.
At half past12 man entered, and 9TH
ers came until there were six worship
ers present. The meeting on the follow
ing MONDAY numbered 90, and the next
day 40. Then the meeting became too
large for the room, and it was taken
into the main auditorium, and for Al
years that, service has been the religious
center of Christendom. Requests for
prayer from all parts of the earth have
come there, and the prayers offered been
answered sometimes with resound
that was heard throughout Christen-
dom. Hundreds of thousands OF souls
have stepped into that Bethesda and
been bealed. That meeting started the
great revival of 1853, in which 1t is es-
timated 10000 souls were converted.
When Monday morning, Dec. 90, his
soul ascS ldea. / think be was met at
the gate Of heaven by welcoming
thronp as mighty as that which has
greeted any admitted soul for five CEN
turtles Humble and without any pre-
tension and without anything brilliant
in his maze up, through faith in God
and concentrated prayer he shook the
earth and eDraptured the heavens. He
vas orth ~, 900, yea 100, 600, ordinary
Christian workers Dear old friend
Lanphier, how loved you
Worth Ten Thousand.
When the consul general came in bic
official row boat to take Us off our great
stea4.er in the barber OF Constantinople,
there were many things I wanted to see
in that city CT multiform enchantmc..ts,
but most OF all was anxious to zee that
architectural charm of the ages, the
St. Sophia-once a church, but now q
mosque. I do not wonder that when
Lan.artine saw 1t he thanked God, and
Pouqueville felt hi .elf lifted into some
other world. What pillars OF porphyry,
and walls of maIachite, and lowering
arches, and galleries which seemed to
have alighted from heaven instead OF
being built up from earth Mosaics and
mother Of pearl, and seraphim with
wings bedismonded, and dome which
scoops the sky and staggers with its
height and circumference all those who
gaze into 1t until they can look no
more but each succeeding time you
look it seems higher and wider and
grander and more supernatural. All the
then known world taxed to furnish the
splendor of the mosque, and many OF
the great blocks of stone brought from
Alexandria, from Athens, from Thebes,
from Baalbec. Marbles veined and star
red aud striped and interlaced, and the
whole building adorned with depths OF
blue, and Wilderness Of snow, and glow
of fire, until all terms Of magnihoence
are a depreciation, and years after your
most extravagant dreama struggle to re-
build it. But, after all, cannot forget
that it is a destroyed church, and that
one day that building, which had been
dedicated to God, was transferred to-
shat religion which has Mohammed for
it's prophet. One day, centuries ago,
100, 600 people had fed between its
walls from the devastating war OF the
Turk, but oil in vain, for Mohammed
II, on horseback and followed by in.
furiata mobs, rode into that church, the
hoofs Gathering the sacred floors. while
the oonqueror shouted The victory OF
superstition and invoked Allah, the god
of Arabs and Turks, to accept the Stu
pendoua pile In dedication. What q
deseoration and what worldwide de-
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