Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-05-18

of Du Chaillu and Livingstone In the
African thicket with a faint heart and
a weak knee? When a panther comes
within 20 PAGES Of you, and it has its
eye on you, and 1t has squatted for the
fearful spring, STEADY therew Cour-
age, o ye spiritual archers! There are
great monsters of iniquity prowling all
around about the community. Shall
we not in the strength Of God go forth
and combat them? We not only need
more heart, but more backbone. What
is the church Of God that it should fear
to look In the eye any transgression?
There Is the Bengal tiger Of drunken
ness that prowls around, and instead
Of attacking 1t how many Of us hide
under the church pew or the commun-
ion table! There Is so much invested In
1t we are afraid to assault it-millions
Of dollars in barrels, In vats, In splgots,
IN, ,corkscrews, in gin palaces with mar
BILE floors and Italian top tables, and
chased Ice coolers, and in the strych-
nine, and the logwood, and the tartaric
acid, and the nux vomica that 60 to
make up our pure" American drinks.
1 looked with wondering eyes on the
Heidelberg tun." 1t is the great liq-
uor vat Of Germany, which is said to
hold 800 hogsheads Of wine and only
three times In hundred years It has
at II said to myself: THAT is nothing
800 hogsheads. Why, our American
vat holds 100000 barrels Of strong
drink, and we keep 100000 men with
nothing to do but to see that 1t is fill
ed" Oh. TO attack this great monster
Of intemperance and the kindred mon
sters of fraud and uncleanness requires
you to rally all your Christian courage!
Through the press, through the pulpit,
through the platform, you must assault
II.
Christian Reform.
Would to God that all our American
Christians would band together, not
for crackbrained fanaticlsm, but for
holy Christian reform! think 1t was
in 1893 that there went out from Luck
now, India. under the sovereign. the
greatest hunting party that was ever
projected. There were 10000 armed
men In that hunting party. There |
were camels and horses and elephants. |
On some princes rode. and royal ladies |
under exquisite housings. and 800 |
coolies waited upon the train, and the
desolate places of India were invaded |
by this excursion. and the rhinoceros
and deer and elephant fell under the
stroke Of the saber and bullet. After
awhile the party brought back trophies
worth 10000 rupees. having left the
wilderness Of India CHASTITY with the
slain bodies of wild beasts. Would to
God that Instead of here and there q
straggler going out to fight these great
monsters Of inlQuity In our country
the millions OF members OF our church
es would band together and hew In
twain these great crimes that make
the land frightful with their roar and
are fattenlng upon the bodies and
souls of immortal men! Who is ready
for such a party as that? Who will
be mighty hunter for the Lord?
remark. again, If you want to be
successful In spiritual archery you
need not only to bring down the game.
but bring 1t In. think one Of the
most beautiful pictures of Thorwald-
sen Is his Autumn" 1t represents a
sportsman coming home and standing
under grapevine. He has staff over
his shoulder. and on the other end OF
that staff are hung a rabbit and
brace Of birds. Every hunter brings
home the game. No one would think
Of bringing down a roebuck or whip
ping up stream for trout and letting
them lie In the woods. At eventide
the camp is adorned with the treasures
If the forest-beak and fin and antler.
If you go out to hunt for immortal
souls, not only bring them down under
he arrow Of the gospel, but bring them
nto the church OF God, the grand
home and encampment we have pitch
ID this side the skies. Fetch them
n. Do not let them lie out In the open
ield. They need our prayers and SYM
)athies and help. That Is the meaning
If the church of God-help. o We
hunters for the Lord. not only bring
lown the game. but bring 1t in!
The MercifuI Huntsman.
II MIthrida.es liked bunting so well
hat for seven years he never went in
loors. what enthusiasm ought we to
ouls II DomltIan practiced archery
Until he could stand boy down IN the
Roman amphltheater with a hand out.
he fingers spread apart, and then the
ing could shoot an arrow between the
myers without wounding them. to /
What drill and what practice ought we
o subject ourselves In order to become
prtual archers and mighty hunters 8
efore the Lord! But let me say you 9
vill never work any better than you ,
ray. The old archers took the bow. ,
ut one end of it down beside the foot. :
levated the other end. and 1t was the {,
ule that the bow should be just the Q
ize of the archer. If it were just his {
ize, then he would go into the battle c
With confidence. Let me say that your I
'ower to project good in the world will '
orrespond exactly to your own spirit e
Ial stature. In other words, the first +
hing in preparation for Christian work il
8 personal conservation. c
Oh, for closer walk with God, a
calm and heavenly frame, Y
A light to shine upon the road
That leads me TO the Lamb
I am sure that there are some men :.
vho at some time have been hit by >,
he gospel arrow. You felt the wound Of y
hat conviction, and you plunged into :,
be world deeper, just as the stag when :,
be hounds are after it, plunges into =
chroon lake, expecting in that way :,
D escape. Jesus Christ is on your track =