Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-04-19

nothing against Jurisprudence; poor
physicians are nothing against medi-
cine: poor farmers are nothing against
agriculture. and mean, contemplate
professors Of religion are nothing |
against our glorious Christianity.
False Lights to BE Avoided.
Sometimes you have been riding
along on a summer night by swamp. |
and YOU have seen lights that kindled
over decayed vegetation--lights when
are called jack-o-lantern or will-o'
the-wisp. These lights are merely poi
sonous miasmata. My friends, on your
wav to heaven you will want a better
light than the will-o'- '-the-wisps when
dance on the rotten character OF morl-
hund Christians. Exudations from pol
sonous trees in our neighbors garden
will make a very poor balm for our
wounds.
Sickness will come, and we Will be
pushed out toward the Red sea whicn
divides this world from the next, ana
NOT the inconsistency Of Christians, Dut
the rod Of faith, will wave back the wa
ters os a commander wheels his host.
The Judgment will come with It's thun'
der shod solemnities. oh, then we VIII
not stop and say, There was mean
Christian: there was a cOwardly Chris
tian: there was an impure Christian"
In that day as now, "If thou be WISE
+hou shalt be wise for thyself, but II
thou scornest thou alone shall bear H.
Why. my brother, the inconsistency OF
| Christians. so far from being an argu-
ment to keep you away from Co..
ought to be an argument to drive you
to him. The best place for a sklliiui
doctor Is I'm neighborhood where there
are all poor doctors. the best place lor
an enterprislng merchant to open his
store is in place where the bargain
makers do not understand their Dusi'
ness. and the best place for you WHO
want TO become the illuStrl0us ana
complete Christian. the best place lor
| Won IL TO come right down among US
who are so incompetent and so incOn'
s,etont sometimes Show US how. Give
us an example.
Other persons apologize for not be
coming Christians because they lacH
time as though religion muddled TIE
brain OF tue accountant or trlppru Tue
non Of the author or thickened the
tongue of the orator or weakened lne
arm Of the mechanic or scattered the
briefs OF the lawyer or interrupted the
sales Of the merchant. They bolt thelr
store doors against it and fight 1t back
with trowels and with yardstlcks ana
cry. away with your religion from
our store. our office, our factory.
They do not understand that religion
in this workday world will help you TO
do ANYTHING you ought to do. IL can
Law a keel; it can sail ship; 1t can
Inv n cargo; 1t can work pulley; II
can paye n street; It can ft q wrist
hand. II can write a constitution; 1t can
marshal a host 1t Is as appropriate lc
the astronomer as his telescope, to the
chemist as his laboratory, to the ma
, son os his plumb line. to the carpenter
t as his plane to the child as bis mar
I HES to grandfather as his stan.
: Time to Be Religious.
/. No time to be religious here! Hot
e have no time not to be religious 1o'
e might as well have no clerks IN you
I store, 10 books in your library n'
: compass on your ship, no rifle IN th'
] hattie. no hat for your head, no Goa
3 for YOUR back, no shoes for your feet
e Retter travel on toward eternity bare
n headed and barefooted and houseles
J. and homeless and friendless than u
D 90 through life without religion. Dl'
r religion make Raleigh any less OF
!, statesman or Havelock any less or
l. soldier or Grinnell any less OF mer
l. chant or West any less or a painter
i Why, my friends, religion Is the pes
$ security in every bargain; 1t Is u
t sweetest note In every song; 1t IS III
$ brightest gem In every coronet. n
d time to be religious? Why, you WI
f have TO take time to be sick, to b
n troubled. 10 die. Our world Is only ID
8 wharf from which we are to embar
l. eor heaven. No time to secure III
d friendship Of Christi No time to bu
e lamp and trim It for that wal
d through the darkness which otherWis
t will be illumined only by the white
ness of the tombstones? No time
l. educate the eye for heavenly splendor
e or the hand for choral harps or the ca
s for everlasting songs or the soul fo
II honor. glory and immortality! On
e would think we had time for nothln
3. else.
d Other persons apologize for not ente
n ing the Christian life because 1t Is tim
r enough yet. That Is very like thoS
a persons who send regrets and say.
" will come in perhaps at II or II ocIocl
l. will not be there at the opening OF II
e banquet, but will be there at IL
e after awhile may not answer to IN
u brakes.
r. The Delusion In Delay.
If BE not among those who give tnel
a whole life to the world and then Civ
y their CORPSE u NiOu. IL NNNS NV -
e fair that while our pulses are IN III
D. play of health we serve ourselVe
ID pnd serve the world and then max
st God at last the present Of coffin.
d. does not seem right tha. we run oil
Is shin from coast to coast carrying ca
D. goes for ourselves and then, when II
b ship is crushed in the rocks, give
,o God the shivered timbers. 1t Is gre'
- thing for man on his dying pillow
No. repent-better that than never at a.
rG I but how much better, how much mo
on generous, it would have been II ne ht
10. repented fifty years before! My frieno
y you will never get over these procra
10. tinatlons.
"a Here is a delusion. People think,
,h can 90 on In sin and worldliness, b
NO after awhile I will repent and then
~h will be as though l had come at Il
ng very start" What mistake! NO OF
. ever gets fully over procrastination.
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