Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-07-12

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Chicago, July G-An inspiring and
picturesque view Of the Christian life
If service and self denial is presented
| by Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage in
this discourse on the text Psalm cXXvi,
6. "He that gocth forth and wcepcth,
bearing precious seed, shall doubtless
come again with rejoicing, bringing his
Sheaves with him."
Almost every home is adorned with
companion pictures. If upon one side
of the room there is hung crucidXion
scene, upon the other side of the room
we want a picture Of "rhe First Easter
Morn" If upon one side we see the
wayward boy gathering all together
and taking his journey into a far coun-
try, upon the other side we want to
see the returning prodigal being wei
coined home by Il forgiying father.
If upon one side of the room we hang
Il picture of the twilight, upon the
other side we want TO see the picture
of the dawn. If John IIevenden paints
"The Breaking of the Home Ties" he
feels that his life would be incom-
plete unless he also paints "The Bring
ing Home of the Bride" John Mil
TONS paradise Sngained" is natural
outgrowth of his PARADISE Lost
Dantes Heaven" is a natural Sc
duence to his "Purgatory" and his
Hell"
SO this morning the sermon which ]
preach from the One Hundred and
Twenty-siXth Psalm of David is COM
panion sermon to the one recently de-
livcred upon the text, He that sowcth
to the flesh shall Of the flesh reap cor
ruptlon." 1t has a companion text
chosen on account Of its vivid con
trast. The text is selected TO prove
that the Christian sower has a right to
expect his gospel harvest fields TO be
stacked high with golden sheaycs OF
many blessings, to expect his seed TO
bring forth some thirty, some sixty
and some a hundred fold. 1t is the
picture Of n Christian worker garner
Ing the sheayes Of his Christ love. II
is the symbol of reward, the symbol
of glorifed hope and JOY. 1t is the
sweeter text because in it we hear the
triumphant songs Of heaven instead of.
the bitter sobs Of despair.
A precious shcaf, sarncred by the
Christian sower and reaper. is the joy
full realization that by his personal
acts he has been made the human
means in the divine hands through
which immortal souls have been saved
by Christ There is natural desire
inborn in almost every human heart
TO help those who are in trouble and
who cannot help themselves.
The Desire TO Help Others.
If the lookout sights shipwrecked
vessel, the captain does not have to
compel unwilling sailors to lower the
lifeboat and pull away to save the per-
ishing. No All that the mate las to
do is to call for volunteers, and, though
the sailors may feel the waves are
having their worst fit Of temper. they
will lower the lfcboat and pull away
until the last man il taken from the
doomed ship. When tie little band Of
English men, women and children
were imprisoned. during the Indian
mutiny, in the residency Of Lucknow
Havelock. with his few regiments. had
to fight his way through a hundred
thousand men. He Lad to march
thousand miles through a country
swarming with cutthroats, and when
the English soldiers courage and
strength showed signs Of wayering
Havelock reused them with this sim
pie sentence: "Men, would you dare
stop or turn back when helpless Wom-
en- and children are dying and must
be savedT There is in almost every
mans heart a desire to help those who
cannot help themselves. The same
kind of desire that drove Henry NJ.
Stanley into the dark continent 20
rescue David Livingstone and Emin
Pasha. The same kind of desire
which made Commander Schley turn
his ships prows northward to rescue
the arctic explorer Greely and bis
companions. 1t is the same kind Of
desire which inspired the United States
government to declare war against
Spain in behalf of suffering and bleed
ing Cuba.
Now, as JOY is nothing more or less
than the pleasant emotion produced in
the heart by the qualification Of any
desire as we have shown in reference
to the physical man, that the desire to
help those who are helpless is inn
planted in almost every heart what
greater Joy could come to the Christian
reaper than the realization that he has
been made instrumental in the saving
Of a soul? What earthly jog can be
compared to the holy eXaltation that
comes to us when we realize that by
prayers and plcadings we have been
able to bring a sinner face to face with
Christ? What greater JOY than to real
ize that our humble efforts have been
blessed to the saving of soul which
will live on and on through the coming
ages, on and on through eternitics, on
and on until at last the lights Of the
stars shall be snuffed out and time
shall be no lCnger? Only the other day
| read of q man who, at great per-
sonal risk to himself, was lowered by
Il rope from the top of twelve story
building in order to rescue a little kit
ten which had fallen into one Of the
rain cutters. If man could find joy
in risking his life to save kitten from
starvation, surely there must be in
finite JOY to the Christians heart when
be realizes that not one, but many,
immortal souls have been won to Christ
and to eternal safety and happiness
through his efforts, which God has so
richly blessed.
So on account of this transcendent
joy, we find that soul saving has be-
come a passion with some men. Just
as the mechanics wife, who has lit
tie back yard, digs and plants and hoes
and hovers over her gardens because