Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-05-04

Vincent spent his time preaching the
gospel to the sufferers and GS.J06 peo-
pie perished, seven fatalities in the
house where be- lived. did II just hap.
pen so that he came through unhurt
In Fulton street prayer meeting, New
York, young man rose and said: IL
have been an infidel II years. | had
the prayers Of a plous mother, but /
spurned them. have not seen her for
10 years. suppose she has given me
up as lost. ! don't know where to find
her. but | would like to tell her what
the Lord has done for me in answer to
her earnest prayers" Did it Just hap
pen so that his mother was present and
cried out. "Ch. my son. my SOM" You
know or the glorious Christian work IN
Japan, but do you know how it beganl
A New Testament was dropped from
an English ship in the harbor Of To.
kyo. The little book came into the
| hands of prominent Japanese who
read it and was brought to God and
immediately began to commend Christ
to the people. Did all that merely hap
pen so? Tell that to those who do not
believe there Is God. but do net tell
II TO at least hundred CT US who have
had in our own lives proyidentlal res.
cues as easily proved ms that we have
ever lived at all.
God Infinitely Wise.
But we live IN times when there ore
so many clashlngs There seems al |
most universal unrest Large fortunes
swallow up small fortunes. Civilized |
nations trying to gobble up barbaric
nations. Upheaval Of creeds. and peo-
pie who once believed everything now
believing nothing. The old book that
Moses began and st. John ended bonn.
barded from scientific observatories
and college classrooms. Amid all this
disturbance and uncertainty that which
many good people need is not q stim-
ulus, but sedatiye. and in my text |
find it-divine observation and guild
ance Of mlnutcst affairs. And nothing
Is to God large or small. planet or ant
hill, the God who easily made the
worlds employing his inhnity in the
wondrous construction of a spiders
foot.
Before we leave this subject let US
thank God for those who were willing
to endure the fatigues and self sacri-
fees necessary to make revelation OF
the natural world, so reinforcing the
Scriptures. If the microscope could s
speak, what a story it could tell of {
hardship and poverty and suffering and
on the part Of those who 7
employed it for important discovery. ,
1t would tell of the blinded eyes of NJ. =
Strauss, of the Hubers and of scores of
those who, after inspecting the minute =
objects Of Gods creation. staggered i
put from their cabinets with vision de- l.
'troyed. This hour in many a pro- S
'essor's study the work of putting eye r
sight on the altar of science is going
IN. And what greater loss can one
suffer than the loss of eyesight unless /,
t be loss of reason? While the tele- !.
scope is reaching farther up and the .
microscope is reaching farther down,
10Th are exclalmlng: There is q God, 8
oreverr I'D, d,in6niteIv q
And now bethink myself OF tue ' IN.
hat we are close TO a season of the
year which will allow US to be more
)ut Of doors and to confront the les.
sons of the natural world. and there
ire voices that seem to say. "Go to the
int; go to the bird; go to the flowers; 20
20 to the fields; go to the waters" Lis a
en- TO the cantatas that drop from the
gallery of the tree tops. Notice in the
,ath where you walk the lessons Of in 4
lustry and divine guidance. Make
latural religion commentary on re-
ealed religion. Put the glow of sun.
ise and sunset into your spiritual ex.
norning star Of the Redeemer and ev-
ry aromatic bloom make you think of
lin who is the Rose of Sharon and the
lily of the Valley and every overhang-
ng cliff remind you of the rock of %
ges and every morning suggest the r.
day spring from on high which Civ. O.
tn light to those who are in darkness" AZ
nd even the little hilock built by the pl
oadside or In the fields remind you Of
he wisdom Of initiating in temporal
nd spiritual things the insectile fore
bought, (which, having no guide. over
eer or ruler, provdeth her meat in the
lmmer and gathereth her food in the
arvest."
lCopyright. 1901. BY Louis Klopsch. n. VI