Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-08-26

- w
destruction. One man he takes up and
through one spree pitches him into
eternal darkness This is rare case.
Very selduln. indeed. can you find q
man who will be such fool as that.
Satan will take another man to q
grade, to q descent at an angle about
like the Pennsylvania coal shoot or the
Mount Washington rail track, and
shove him of. But that is very rare.
When a man goes down to destruction,
Satan brings him to plane. 1t Is al
most level. The depression is so
light that you can hardly see it. The
man does not actually know that he Is
on the down grade. and 1t tips only a
little toward darkness-just little
And the first mile 1t Is claret. and the
second mile 1t Is sherry, and the third
mile 1t ia punch. and the fourth mile
It is ale. and the fifth mile 1t Is whis-
ky, and the sixth mile 1t is brandy,
and then 1t gets sleeper and sleeper
and sleeper until 1t Is impossible to
stop. "Look not thou upon the wine
when it Is red, when It giveth Its color
in the cup. whom It moveth itself
eright. At the last It biteth like SER
pent and stingeth like an adder"
The Safe Shelter.
Whether you tarry at home-which
will be quite as safe and perhaps quite
ms comfortable-or 60 into the cOun-
try. arm yourself against temptation.
The grace Of God Is the only safe shell
ter, whether in town or country. There
are watering places accessible to all Of
us. You cannot open a book Of the
Bible without finding out some such
watering place. Fountains open for
Gin and uncleanness. Wells Of saliva
ton. Streams from Lebanon. A food
struck out of the rock by Moses.
Fountains In the wilderness discover
ed by Hagar. Water to drink and wa
ter to battle In. The river Of God,
which "a full Of water. Water Of
which IL man drink he shall never
thirst. Wells Of water In the valley
OF Baca. Living fountains Of water.
A pure river Of water az clear as crys.
tel from under the throne Of God.
These are watering places accessible
TO all Of US. We do not have labori-
GUS packing up before we start-only
the throwing away OF our transgres-
sions. No expensive hotel bills to pay.
II Is without money and without
price" No long and dusty travel be-
fore we ger there. 1t is only one step
away.
In California IN FIVE minutes I walk
ed around and saw ten fountains all
bubbling up, and they were all diff
ferent, and in five minutes ! can go
through this Bible parterre and find
you so bright, sparkling fountains bub-
bling up Into eternal life-healing and
therapeutic. A chemist will go to one
Of these summer watering places and
take the water, and analyze 1t, and tell
you IL contains 80 much Of iron, and
so much Of soda. and so much Of lime.
and so much Of magnesia. I come to
this gospel well, this living fountain,
and analyze the water, and l find that
It's ingredients are peace, pardon, for
glyeness, hope, comfort, life, heaven.
"Ho, every one that thirsteth. come ye"
to this watering place! Crowd around
this Bethesda. Oh. you sick. you lame,
you troubled. you dying, crowd around
this Bethesda! Step In It, oh, step in
80 nv fnd 10 ~
stirs the water. Why do you not step
IN it? Some Of you are too weak to
take step in that direction. Then we
take you up In the arms Of prayer and
plunge you clear under the wave, hop
ing that the cure may be as sudden
and as radical as with Captain Naa-
man, who. blotched and carhuncled,
stepped into the Jordan and after the
seventh dive came up. his skin roseate
complexioncd as the flesh of little
child.