Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-10-28
Push Down faiqnIty.

Punk Down faiqn!ty.
You go into the Louvre III Paris. You
confine yourself to one corridor Of that
opulent gallery Of paintings. AS you
come out your friend says to you,
did you see that Rembrandt? NO"
"Did you see that Rubens!" NO"
"Did you see that Ttian!" NO" Did
you see that RaphaelY No" well"
says your friend. then you did not see
the Louvre" Now. my friends, think
we are too much apt to cOnfine our
selves to enc Of the great corridors OF
Scripture truth. and so much so that
there Is not one person out of million
who has ever noticed the all suggestive
and powerful picture In the words of
my text.
This text represents God as @ strong
swimmer. striking out to push down
iniquity and save the souls Of men.
"He shall spread forth his hands In the
midst OF them. rs lie that Swimmeth
spreadeth forth his hands to SWIM"
The figure Is bold and many sided
Most Of you know how to swim. Some
of you learned it in the city school.
where this art Is taught: some Of you
In boyhood. in the river near your IA
theirs house: some Of you. since you
came TO manhood or wonlanho0d. Willie
summerlng on the beach OF the sea. 1t
Is q good thing TO know how to swim,
not only for yourself. but because you
will after awhile perhaps have to help
others.
do not know anything more stirring
or sublime than to see some man like
Norman Mckenzie leaping from the
ship Madras into the sea to save
Charles Turner. who had dropped from
the royal yard while trying to loosen
the sail, bringing him back to the deck
amid the huZzas Of the passengers and
crew. IL man has not enthusiasm
enough to cheer In such circumstances,
he deserves himself to drop into the
sea and have no one help him. The
Royal Humane Society of England was
established in 17T4. its object to ap-
plaud and reward those who should
pluck up life from the deep. Any one
who has performed such deed of dar-
Ing has all the particulars Of that
bravery recorded in public record
and on his breast medal done In blue
and gold and bronze. anchor and mono
gram and inscription. telling to future
,I.,n II, 1 nf hS nj
woman who saved some one from
drowning But II II is such II worthy
thing to save a body from the deep
ask you II IL Is not n wOrthier thing to
save an immortal soul And you shall
see this hour the Son of God step forth
for this achievement He shall spread
forth his hands In the midst of them,
us he that swimIpeth spreadeth forth
his hands 10 swim.
Most BaIeful Word.
IN order to understand the full force
of this figure. you need to realize that
our race Ia in sinking condition. You
sometimes hear people talking of what
they consider the most beautiful words
IN our language. One man says it 10
"home," another man says it Is the
word mother" another says it Is the
word Jesus" but tell you the bitter
est word In all our language, the WORD
most angry and baleful, the word sat
urated with the most trouble, the word
that accounts for all the loathsomeness
and the pang and the outrage and the
narrowing, and that word Is Sin.
You spell it with three letters, and yet
those three letters describe the circum-
ference and pierce the diameter of ey'
erything bad In the universe. Sin Is q