Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-03-22
MIN ana show him my salvation"

far from that, religion will give new
brllliancy to the intellect, new strength
to the Imagination, new force to the
will and wider swing to all the intel
lectual faculties. Christianity Is the
great central fire at which philosophy
has lighted it's brightest torch. The re-
l.gion OF Christ is the fountain out or
which learning has dipped It's clearest
draft. The Helicon poured forth no
such inspiring waters as those which
flow from under the throne OF God
clear as crystal. Religion has given
new energy to poesy, weeping In DR..
Young's might Thoughts" teaching In
Cowper's "Task," flaming in Charles
Wesleys hymns and rushing with
archangelic splendor through Milton's
paradise Lost" The religion Of Christ
has hung in studio and in gallery OF
art and in Vatican the best pictures
Titian's Assumption" RaphaeFs
TRANSPORTATION" Rubens Descent
From the Cross" Claude's Burning
Bush" and Angeles Last Judgment"
Religion has made the best music or
the world-Haydn's Creation" Han
deps Messiah" Mozarts Requiem"
Is it possible that religion which
builds such indestructible monuments
and which lifts its ensign on the. high
est promontories of worldly power can
have any effect upon mans intellect
but elevation?
Now. commend godliness as the
best mental discipline, better than
bellies lettres to purify the taste. better
than mathematics to harness the mind
70 all intricacy and elaboration, better
than logic to marshal the intellectual
forces for onset and victory. 1t Will go
with Hugh Miller and show him the
footprints of the Creator In the req
sandstone. 1t will go with the botanist
and show him celestial glories encamp-
ed under the curtain Of water lily. IL
win 20 with the astronomer on the
great heights where God shepherds the
Great flock of worlds tat wander on
the hills Of heaven answering his voice
as he calls them all by their names.
Again remark that Godliness IS
nroftable for ones disposition. Lord
Ashley. before he went Into great
battle. was heard to offer this prayer
30 Lord, | shall be very busy today
II forget thee, forget me not" with
such a Christian disposition as that a
man is independent Of all circum'
stances. Our pIety will have tinge
of our natural temperament. II mar
he cross and sour and fretful naturally
after he becomes a Christian he VIII
aIways have to be armed against the
rebellion Of those evil inclinations. Bu'
religion has tanned the widest natures
II has turned fretfulness into gratitude
despondency into good cheer. and thos'
who were hard and ungovernable ant
uncompromising have been made Pill
able and conciliatory, Good resolution
refornatory effort, VIII not effect th'
change. 1t takes mightier arm ana
m,ohtier hand TO bend evil habits thar
tho hand that bent the bow of Ulysses
and II takes a stronger lasso than eve
held the buffalo on the prairie.
Influence of the Gospel
Il man cannot 90 forth with any hu
man weapons and contend successtuli'
AGAINST these Titans armed with up
torn mountains. But you have know
men into whose spirit the influence 0
the gospel of Christ came until tnel
disposition was entirely changed. .
n was with two merchants in Ne'
, York. They were very antagonisti(
They had done all they could to lnJur
each other They were in the sam
line Of business. One Of the merchant
was converted to God. Having bee
) converted. he asked the Lord to teac
him how to bear himself toward tina
business antagonist. and he was III
nressed with the fact that 1t was III
duty when a customer asked for cel
! tain kinds Of goods which he had no
; hut which he knew his opponent ha'
r N recommend him to go to that stor
, I suppose that is about the hardest thin
n man could do; but, being thorough
converted to God. he received to DO th'
very thing. and. being asked for ce
tain kind of goods which he had no
!, he said. "You go to such and such
store. and you will get It," Aft'
> awhile merchant No. 2 found the'
a customers coming, so sent ana
found also that merchant No. l ha
been brought to God, and he sougl
the same religion. Now they are goC
! friends and good neighbors. the gra'
:, of God entirely changing their dlspo'
Q tons.
> "Oh," says some one, 81 have roug
!. Jagged, impetuous nature, and reiigl'
:, can't do anything for me-" DO "
know that Martin Luther and RoDe
Newton and Richard Baxter had II
petuous and all consuming natures, y
. the grace of God turned them into {
y mjghtiest usefulness? A manufactt
er cares but very little for a strea
that slowly runs through the meade
but values a torrent that leaps fro
a rock to rock and rushes with mao en'
:, ~ through the valley and out iowa
l. the sea. Along that river you VIII IL
G huttering shuttles and grinding m
q q and flashing water wheel. And a
- ture the swiftest. the most rugged a
~ the most tremendous-that Is the I
- ture God turns into greatest user
, ness. Oh, how many that have be
"A pugnacious and hard to please a
a irascible and more bothered about
r. mote in their neighbours eye than abb
70 the beamlike ship timber in their o
a eve who have been entirely chang
ga by the grace Of God and have fou
II. out that "godliness Is profitable
=. the life that now is as we'll as for
20 life to come"
es Religion In business.
as Again l remark that religion Is g
k, for worldly business. | know the g
eral theory Is the more business
en- less religion, the more religion the
nd business. Not so, thought DR.. Hans
ne his Biography OF Christian NJ
Ion chant" when he says: "1e grew