Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-01-19

/ your intellectual faculty be brilliant OF
dull and your worldly resources opu
lent or poor you may have at the gate
OF heaven Jnbilant and triumphant re-
ception. All soldiers cannot be HannI
balls and Marlboroughs, all admirala
cannot be DupOnts and Farraguts. all
authors cannot be Bacons and South.
eys, neither can all Christians be Pauls
and Richard CecIls Do your best right
where you are. asking Gods help. and
you Will not only win glorious admis-
sion. but you will make all your life In
heaven a grander and higher life.
1t Is a good thing to have a healthy
ambition In this world. and why not an
ambition not 10 stand among the com.
parative failures Of heaven saved as
| by fire." but to be classified among
those who did something worthy of
immortals7 The Bible distinctly tells
that there will be grades In heaven.
"as one star di1ereth from another
star in glory" WIN you be among the
lower grades when you may be among
the higher? or course cherubic and
seraphic orders are fixed. and you can.
not enter them. but In what low or
high order Of the sainthood you may
live and reign forever you are now de
Gliding by your present half hearted.
ness or enthusiastic ardor Be the
means Of salvation of one man or one
wCman and you stir all the heights
celestial. for there is JOY In heaven
among the angels Of God over one sin. |
ner that repenteth.
But imagine one Of these scarcely |
saved" Christians entering the shining
realm. He passes In a stranger. Saint
says to saint. who comes there?" and
angel to angel. "Who is thatY He
moves up and down the streets and
meets no one whom he helped to get
there. He goes into the great temple
and finds among the throngs of the
white robed not one soul whom he
helped to Join the doxologies. He goes
into the house of many mansions"
and finds not one spirit whom he help
ed to start for that high residence.
am glad that he got In, but am amaz-
ed that In the 80 or 40 or 10 years of
bis life he did nothing for God and the
oetterment Of the world which woke
the heavenly echoes. Oh, child of God,
II you had never thought of II before.
present the startling fact that you
are now deciding not only the style Of (
your heavenly reception, but the grade
)f your association and enjoyment OF !
he world without end. Are you salts.
led with yourself that you can afford {
o throw away raptures and Ignore
possibilities and elect your.
elf to lower status and classify your. ,
ELF amid the less efficient when you ,
nay mount higher heaven?
While I thus discourse | am aware Q
hat some have not taken the first step
oward heaven. and they feel like ia. '
oh Strawn. who took some ministers v
( the gospel on the top, of his house to
how his farms. reaching In every d. o
ection as far as eye could see. He
Tas asked how many acres he owned. o
nd he replied 10000. How much is
worth per acre. was asked. and he p
eplied. Fifty dollars at least"
Then" said the minister. you are I
orth S2,000.O00" Yes" said Strawn.
and made Il all myself" Then the
mister said. "You have shown me "
ese vast earthly possessions. and now y
Ill you look up yonder" pointing to u
e heavens. How much do you own NJ
, therei" and Strawn answered, with Oh
ars In bis eyes. "Oh, am afraid III
n poor mp there" Alas. how many af
ere are who have acquired all earth pc
properties and advantages. but
we no treasures In heaven. They are ST.
or up there. q
But I am today chiefly addressing 81
ose who are started for heaven and ~
'uld have them know that while we o'
e apt to speak Of a Lanpher the W
under Of Fulton street prayer meet VI
ys. as having an abundant entrance; 'e'
Alfred Cookman. the flaming evan %
list, as having an abundant entrance. "o
Thomas Welch and Fletcher, the an
'rious preachers Of the gospel as EN- ,
Wing an abundant entrance. and aii
IN Rogers and Lat!mer and Ridley. SUE
ending. Ike Elijah. 10 n chariot Of er
!, as having an abundant entrance. t'n
] also, II you love and serve the lei
I'd and fulfill your mission whether wn
'e applauded or unknown. will have I'll
en- your work on earth ls ended and
| are called 10 come up higher an -
y. a bissful, an enrapturing. an .
lndant entrance pop
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