Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-06-17


Their command the angel of mercy, con-
corning your husband at his conversion,
as in the parable of old. "Put ring en-
his hand.
The Dearest Sacrifice.
No letter Of more Importance ever
came to the great city of Corinth, stu
ated on wha. was called the bridge of
the Sea-, and gEistening with sculp-
ture and gated with style of brass the
magnificence of which the following
ages have not been able to successfully
initiate and overshadowed by the Aero
Corinthus, fortress of rock 2, 600 feet
hight say no letter ever came to that
great city Of more importance than
chat letter in which Paul puts the two
startling questions: "What knowest
thou, Q wife. whether thou shalt save
thy husband? Or how knowest thou,
o man, whether thou shalt save thy
wife?' The dearest sacrifice on the
part of the one is cheap if it rescue the
other Better go to the smallest, weak
est, most insignificant church on earth
and be copartners in eternal bliss than
pass Your earthly membership in most
gorgeously attractive church while your
companion stays outside of evangelical
privilege Better have the drowning
saved by scow or sloop than let him
or her go down while you sail by in
the gilded cabins of Majestic or Cam
pania.
Second remark: If both of the mar
ried couples be Christians, but one is
so naturally constructed that it is i'm
possible to enjoy the services of par
ticular denomination, and the other is
not so sectarian or punctilious, let the
one less particular go with the other
who is very particular. As for myself
feel as much at home in one denom-
nation of evangelical Christians as an
other, and think l must have been
born very near the line. like the
solemn roll of the Episcopal liturgy,
and like the spontaneity of the Metho-
dists and like the Importance given to
the ordinance of baptism Gy the Bap-
lists and like the freedom Of the Con-
gregationalists and like the govern
ment and the sublime doctrine of thu
Presbyterians and l like many of the
others Just as much as any have men
toned and I could happily live and
preach and die and be buried from any
of them. But others are born with a
liking so stout, so unbending, SO in
exorable for some denomination that It
is positive necessity they have the ad.
vantage of that one. What they were
intended to be in ecclesiasticism was
written in the sides of their cradle, if
the father end mother had eyes keen
enough to see it. They would not stop
crying until they had put in their
hands as a plaything Westminster
Catechism or the Thirty-nine Articles
The whole current of their tempera-
ment and thought and character runs
into one sect of religionists as naturally
as the James river into the Chesapeake
1t would be torture to such persons to
be anywhere outside of that one church
Now, let the wife or husband who Is
not so constructed sacrifice the milder
preference for the one more lntexlble
and rigorous. Let the grapevine follow
the rugosities and sinuosities of the oak
or hickory. Abram, the richer in fiocks
Of Christian grace, should say to Lot,
who is built on smaller scale: LET
there be no strife, pray thee, between
me and thee and between my herdmen
and thy herdmen. Is not the whole
land before thee" AS you can be edi-
fed and happy anywhere, go with your
companion to the church to which he
or she must go or be miserable.
Agree to Differ.
Remark the third: Ii both the mar
ried couple are very strong in their sec
tarianism, let them attend the different
churches preferred 1t is not necessary
that you attend the same church. Re.
ligion is between your conscience and
your God Like Abram and Lot, agree
to differ. When on Sabbath morning
YOU come out of your home together
and one goes one way and the ether the
other, heartily wish each other a good
sermon and time of profitable deyo-
ton, and when yon meet again at the
MONDAY repast let it be evident, each
to each, and to your children, and to
! the hired help. that you have both been
on the Mount of TRANSPORTATION, al
though you went mp by different paths,
| and that you have 10th been fed by the
bread of life, though kneaded BY differ