Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-09-16

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den. My wife don t care; don't care.
At the moment you were exhausted
God sent Deborah to meet the host of
Amalekites and scatter them like chat
over-the plain There are sometimes
women who sit reading sentimental
novels, and who wish that they had
some grand field in which to display
their Christian powers. What grand
and glorious things they could do If
they only had an opportunity My sis
ter, you need not wait for any such
time. A crisis will come in your affairs
There will be Thermopylae in your
own household where God will tell you
to stand. There are scores and hun
dreds of households today where as
much bravery and courage are demand
ed of women as was exhibited by Grace
Darling or Marie Antoinette or Joan OF
Arc.
Christian Women.
Again, l remark it is woman's right
to bring to us the kingdom Of heaven.
1t is easier for woman to be Chris
tian than for man. Whyf You say
she is weaker No Her heart is more
responsive to the pleadings Of divine
love She is in vast majority. The fact
that she can more easily become
Christian prove by the statement that
three ourths of the membersof churches
in all Christcndom are women. So Cod
appoints them to be the chief agencies
for bringing this world back to God. /
may stand here and say the soul Is i'm
mortal There is a man who will deny
it. I may stand here and say we are
lost and undone without Christ. There
is man who will contradict it. may
stand here and say there will be judg-
ment day after awhile. Yonder Is some
one who will dispute it. But Chris
tian woman i'll Il Christian household,
living in the faith and the consistency
of Christ's gospel-nobody can refute
that. The greatest sermons are not
preached on celebrated platforms; they
are preached with an audience of two
or three and in private home life A
consistent, consecrated Christian service
is in unanswerable demonstration Of
Gods truth.
A sailor came slipping down the rat
lines one night. as though something
had happened. and the sailors cried,
whats the matter?" He said. my
mothers prayer haunts me like
ghost. ~ Home influences, consecrated
home Influences are the mightiest Of
all Influences upon the SOUL There are
men who have maintained their integ-
rity not because they were any better
naturally than some other people, but
because there were home influences
praying for them all the time. They
got good start They were launched
on the world with the benedictions of a
Christian mother They may track 81
berian SHOWS, they may plunge in Afri-
can jungles. they may flee to the earth's
end-they cannot go SO far and 80 fast
but the prayers will keep up with
them
Power For Good.
speak to women who have the
eternal salvation of their husbands in
their right hand On the marriage day
you took an oath before men and angels
that you would be faithful and kind
until death did you part, and | believe
you are going to keep that oath, but
after that parting at the grave will it
be an eternal separations Is there any
such thing as an immortal marriage.
making the flowers that grow on the
top of the sepulcher brighter than the
garlands which at the marriage banquet
flooded the air with aroma? Yes. l
stand here as an ambassador OF the
most high God to proclaim the banns
Of an immortal union for all those who
join hands in the grace of Christ 0
woman. is your husband yonr father,
your son. away from Godl The Lord
demands their redemption at your
hands. There are prayers fer you to
offer. there are exhOrtations for you to
give, there are examples fer you to set.
and say now as Paul said to the Cor
inthian woman. '.What knowest thou
but thou shalt save thy husband :" A
man was dying. and he said to his
wife, "Rebecca, you wouldn't let me
have fNsnily prayers, you laughed about
all thar and you got me away into
worldliness and now I'm going to die,
and my fate is sealed, and you are the
cause of my ruinl" 0 woman, what
knowest thou but thou canst destroy
thy husband2
go +l,o,.o ,,ot eo,,,o of ron yho have
kindly influences at home? Are there
not some who have wandered far away
from God who can remember the Chris
tian influences in their early homer Do
not despise those influences, my broth
er. If you die without Christ, what
will you do with your mothers prayers
with your wife's opportunities, with
your sisters entreaties2 What will you
do with the letters they used to write
to you, with the memory of those days
when they attended you so kindly in
times of sickness? Oh. if there be just
one strand holding you from floating
off from that dark sea, / would just
like to take hold Of that strand now
and pull you to the beach For the sake
of your wife's God, for the sake of your
mothers God for the sake of your
daughters God. for the sake Of your
sister God come this day and be saved
Crowned In Heaven.
Lastly, l wish to say that one of the
specific rights of woman is, through the
grace of Christ, finally to reach heaven
Oh, what multitude of women in
heavenl Mary, Christ's mother, in
heaven; Elizabeth Fry in heaven. Char
lotte Elizabeth in heaven. the mother
of Augustine in heaven. the Countess
of Huntington, who sold her splendid
Jewels to build chapels. in heaven.
while a great many others who have
| no1.ar: haen hoard of ON earth or knnEn