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

teamed up against the side OF the pulpit
md wept out his discourse, whiie
George Whitefeld. with the manner
and the voice and the start Of an actor.
overwhelmed his auditory. Ii would
have been different thing II Jonathan
Edwards had tried to write and dream
about the pilgrims progress to the ce-
lestial city or John Bunyan had at
tempted an essay on the human VIII.
Brighter than the light. fresher tnan
the fountains. deeper than the seas, are
these gospel themes. Song has no mel
ody, flowers have no sweetness, sunset
sky has no color, compared with these
elorious themes. These haryests OF
grace spring up quicker than we can
sickle them. Kindling pulpts with their
fire. and producing revolutions Win
their power. lighting up dying peds
with their glory. they are the sweetest
thought for the poet. and they are the
most thrilling illustration for the ora
tor. and they offer the most intense
scene for the artist. and they are TO the
ambassador Of the sky all enthusiasm.
Complete pardon for direst guilt
Sweetest comfort for ghastllest agony.
Brightest hope for grlmmest death.
Grandest resurrection for darkest sep
ulcher. Oh. what gospel to preach!
Christ over all in 1t. His birth, his
suffering, his miracles, his paraDies'
his sweat. his tears, his blood. his
atonement. his intercesslon-wha gio'
rious themesl Do we exercise faith!
Christ is It's object Do we have love!
II fastens on Jesus. Have we fond
ness for the church? 1t Is because
| Christ died for 1t. Have we a hope OF
heaven? 1t is because Jesus went
ahead. the herald and the forerunner
Saved Through Christ.
The royal robe of Demetrius was SO
costly. so beautiful. that after he had
nut II off no one ever dared put 1t on.
| But this robe OF Christ, richer than
that, the poorest and the wannest ano
the worst may wear. Where SIN
abounded grace may much more
abound"
"Oh, my sins. my SINS" said Martin
Luther to Staupltz; my sins, my sins!'
The fact Is that the brawny German
student had found Latin Bible that
had made him quake, and nothing else
ever did make him quake. and when be
found how. through Christ he was
pardoned and saved he wrote to 9
friend, saying: Come over and join US
great and awful sinners saved by thu
grace of God. You seem to be only
slender sinner, and you don't much ex
fol the mercy of God. but we who have
been such very awful sinners praise
his grace the more now that we hay'
been redeemed" Can It be that yo'
are so desperately egotlstical that yo'
feel yourself In first rate spiritual trim
and that from the root OF the hair Z
the tip of the toe you are scarless AM
immaculate? What you need Is look
ing glass. and here 1t Is In the BLDG
Poor and wretched and miserable an
blind and naked from the crown OF tn
head to the sole of the foot, full Q
, Wounds and putrefying sores. n
health In us. And then take the fac
, that Christ gathered up all the note
, against us and paid them and then o.
: fered us the receipt.
, And how much we need him IN on
sorrowsl We are independent Of eli
4, cumstances II we have bis grace. Wh.
he made Paul sing In the dungeon. an
. under that grace St. John f.om desola'
: Patmos heard the blast Of the apoc'
: lyptic trumpets. After all other cal
dies have been snuffed out this Is II
light that gets brighter and brignt'
;, unto the perfect day, and after, und'
:, the hard hoofs of calamity. all Il
pools of worldly enjoyment have bee
= trampled into deep mire, at the loot
o the eternal rock. the Christian ITO
i, CUPS of granite, lily trimmed ana VII
q covered, puts out the thirst or DIS Sol
~ - The Final Hour.
I. Again I remark that Christ Is aoo'
4 all in diving alleviations. | have u
It any sympathy with the moroidi
n. abroad about our demise The emper
a. of Constantinople arranged that on {
g. day of his coronation the stonemas
d should come and consult him about
IS tombstone that after awhile ne wou
10 need. and there are men who are me
h. omanical on the subject Of departu
nj from this life by death. and the me
they think Of 1t the less prepared a
i'd they to go. This Is an unmanliness
yh worthy of you, not worthy OF me.
IS Saladin. the greatest conqueror OF
". day. while dying ordered the tunic
1d had on him to be carried after
be death on a spear at the head or
On army. and then the soldier ever a
id anon should stop and say: "Behoiu
Is. that is left Of Saladin, the emperor q
rk conoueror! or all the states he G
e? ouered, Of all the wealth he accun
t" lated. nothing did he retain but I
ia shroudr' | have no sympathy W
in sucb behavior or such absurd dem
on stration. or with much that we d
nv uttered in regard to departure IT
10. this life to the next. There Is q c'
,ry mon-sensical idea on this subject I
Is YOU and | need to consider-that ID
we are only two styles OF departure.
list A thousand feet underground,
-ds light of torch toillng in miners Sd
ble n ledge Of rock may fall upon u.s.
400 we many die a miners death. Far
es: at sea, falling from the slippery
rds lines and broken on the halyards'
I'm. may die q sailors death. On miss
for Of mercy in hospital. amid pro
ave bones and reeking leprosies ana
we ing fevers. we may die n philant
hat pist's death. On the field OF ba
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through the heart, the gun CARR
NAV roll over us, and we may dl
owe patriots death. But after ALL u
.en- are only two styles of departure
II. death Of the righteous and OF
lat .x-o oil want tO die