Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-04-27
Christ Sets the Example.

First. Christ must be above oil else
I'm our preaching. There are so many
book on homlletlcs scattered through
the world that all laymen, as well as
all clerGymen, have made up their
minds what sermons ought to be. mat
sermon is most effectual which most
pointedly puts forth Christ as the par
don of all sin and the correction or all
evil. individual, social, political, ma
tional. There Is no reason why we
should ring the endless changes on u
few phrases. There are those VINO
think that II an exhortation or a dis
course have frequent mention or 1ustl'
fication, sanctifcatlon, covenant OF
works and covenant Of grace, there
fore II must be profoundly evan
gelical, while they are suspicious OF
discourse which presents the same
truth. but under different phraseology
Now. say there is nothing in all the
onulent realm of Anglo-Saxonism ol
all the word treasures that we inherit
od from the Latin and the Greek anC
the Indo-Europcan but we have rign
to marshal 1t in religious discussion
Christ sets the example. His illustra
tions were from the grass, the flowers
the spittle, the salye, the Darnyar'
fowl. the crystals Of salt. as wen d
from the seas and the stars. and we u
not propose In our Sunday school teacn
ing and in our pulpit address to be pu
on the limits.
know that there Is a great deal sal
in our day against words. as thoug
they were nothing. They may be mis
used, but they have an Imperial power
Thev are the bridge between soul an
sonl between Almighty God and tn
human race. What did God write upo
tbe tables of stone? Words. What al
Christ utter on Mount Olivet? Word
Out of what did Christ strike the spar
for the Illumination Of the universe
Ont Of words. LET there be ligh'
and light was. or course thought
the cargo and words are only the shi
but how fast would your cargo get 9
without the ship? What you need. n
friends, In all your work. In your 81
day school class, in your reforInato'
institutions. and what we all neeo
70 enlaese our vocabulary when v
come to speak about God and Chr
and heaven. We ride few ola wor'
70 death when there Is such illimltaD
resource. Shakespeare employed lo'o
different words for dramatic purpose
= Milton employed 5000 different wor
for poetic purposes; Rufus Choate el
ployed over 1000 different words
legal purposes. but the most OF US ha
less than thousand words that
d. can manage. less than 500. and tn
oi makes US so stupid.
Pardon For Dirent Guilt.
When we come to set forth the 10
of Christ, we are going to take the u
derest phraseology wherever we nnu
and II it has never been used IN II
direction before all the more shall
use IT. When we come to speak OF
glory Of Christ the conqueror' we
- going to draw our SMILES from triu
nbal arch and oratorio and everyth
Grand and stupendous. The Frer
navy has IS flags by which they 6
signal, but those IS flags they can
into $4,000 different combinatio
And have to tell you that these sta
u navy have IS flags by which they {
combinations infinite and varie'
everlasting. And let me say to yo'
men who are after while going
= nreach Jesus Christ, you VIII nave
| largest liberty and unlimited resou
You only have to present ChrlS'
! your own way. u~,,
Jonathan Edwards preached Chris
tho seyerest argument ever pen