Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-01-25

hand thrust deep into the mud Al tne
bottom Of. the river? No; that IS lm-
nossible. admit, so far as human
power is concerned, 1t is impossible
hut with God all things are possible.
After the tree branch was thrown upon
the surface Of Jordan 1.-The iron dld
SWIM"
Some one asks me, "Did you ever
see iron swimY Yes, yes; many
time. | saw soul hardened until
nothing could make 1t harder. All
STYLES of sin had piled that soul. IL
was petrifed as to all fine feeling. IL
had been hardening for thirty years.
II had gone into the deepest depths.
II had been given up as lost. The IA
ther had given it up. The mother, the
last to do so, had given 1t up. But one
day in answer to some prayer a Drancn
of the disfoliaged tree of Calvary was
thrown into the dark and sullen
stream. and the sunken soul responded
TO its power and rose into tho hght'
and TO the establishment Of the church
and the world, "the iron did swim
have seen hundreds of cases like that.
When the dying bandit on the cross
beside Christ's cross was converted
When Jerry McAuley, q ruffian gradu-
ate of Sing Sing prison, was changed
into a great evangelist, so useful III
reclamation Of wandering men and wo-
men that the merchant princes OF New
York established for him the water
Street and Cremorne missions ana
mourned at his burial, amid the lamen-
tations of a city. When Newton, the
hlasphaming sailor. under the power
Of the truth was brought to Christ ana
became one of the mightiest preachers
Of the gospel that England ever saw
When John Bunyan. whose curses
shocked even the profane OF the nsh
market was so changed in heart ana
life that he could write that wonder
full dream. "The Pilgrims Progress,
in such a way that uncOunted thou
sands have found through 1t the road
! from the "city of destruction" to the
celestial city" In all these cases
think iron was made to swim. wor-
chin the God who can do the impossi-
BILE.
Lost and Restored.
You have a wayward boy. Only Goo
knows how you have cried over him.
You have tried everything for his ref
ormation. Where is he nOw-in this
city. in this country, or has he crossed
the sea? "Oh," you say, Il do not
know where he is. He went away IL
tho sulks and did not say where he
was going" You have about made VI
YOUR mind that you will never hear
from him again. Pretty hard pay he
glves you for all your kindness ano
the nights you sat up with him wher
he was sick. Perhaps he struck you
one day when you were trying to per
suade him to do better. How different
was the feeling Of that hard MS
against your face from his little hane
In infancy patting your cheek! ia
therl Mother. That is an Impossible
that would like to see God take holC
of. the conversion Of that boy. for n
will never be anything but q boy u
. YOU. though you should live to see hin
!. fifty years Of age Did you say hi
heart is hard? How hard? Hard O
stone? "Yes," you say; "harder thai
that. Hard as IRON" But here is
, God who can lift the soul that ha
been deepest down. Here is a co.
{ who can raise a soul out Of the black
| est DEPTHS Of sin and wretchednesS
! Here IS q God who can make lro
q swim. the God Of Elisha. the God o
r the young student that stood in dis
q NAV on the banks Of the Jordan at tn
q time of the lost AK head. Lay hold o
t the Lord in a prayer that will take n
/ denial.
/. Alas, there are impossibles oefor
= thousands Of people-called to do wor
@ that it is impossible for them to d'
= called to bear burdens that it is In
!. possible for them TO hc"r. c?llod
o endure suffering that 1t is imposslbl
|. for them to endure. Read all the 60
J. pei promises, rally all your faith, ant
e while you will always be called
o worship the God Of hope, today, wit
all the concentered energies OF NJ
SOUL implore you to bow down al
worship the God who can turn u
= impossibles into the possibles. 1t WI
no trivial purpose, but for grand ar
\ glorious uses have spoken to yc
le today of the borrowed, the lost al
- the restored Ak head.
- tCopyrightJ 1902. Louis Klopsch, N. II