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

are contrary to nature, as though the
low were stronger than the God who |
made the law! Again and again in BlDie :
times was that law revoked! Witness
the scene on the banks Of the same Jor-
dan. where, in after time, the ak head
sank and rose. Elijah stood there,
wearing cape Of sheepskin, when there
was a mighty stir In the air and
flashing equipage descended. EllJah
stepped into it, and on wheels OF hre'
drawn by horses Of fire, he rose. t1fty
men for three days searched the noun
tains to see If the body of Elijah hao
not been dropped among the rocks ana
picked at by birds Of prey, but the
search was in vain. The law of gravi-
tation had been defeated.
wonders of Divine Power.
There Christ stood by his disciples
on the Mount of Olives after his COM
ing out Of the sepulcher. No ladders
LET down for his ascension, but his feet
lift from the hill, and he goes up untll
the curtain Of cloud drops, and he Is
invisible. Law Of gravitation again
embarrassed. Enoch, Methuselahs IA
ther. escaping death, went up bodily
and will have no need of resurrection.
So will all the good who shall be stlli
allye at the end OF the world. They
will not need wings. Every one OF the
millions Of our planet who loved and
served the Lord, If then alive, VIII "De
caught up," as the Bible says, body as
we'll as soul, the law Of gravitatlon
paralyzed. God mightier than any law
he ever created. Oh, like the mira
cles because they show God independ-
ent of everything.
Notice also the divine power In the
bockwoods. Wonderful things were
done at the cities of Jericho and Jeru'
salem and Babylon and Nineyeh, ana
the great cities of our time have seen
the divine power. but this miracle or
NV text was in the backwoods, far
away from the city. in the lumber diS-
trIcts where the students had gone 10
cut timber for the new theological
seminary. And If this sermon shall
come. as 1t will come, like my other
sermons for the last thirty years, with
ont missing a week. let me say to those
far away from the house Of God ana
i'm the mountain districts that my text
shows the divine power in the back
woods. The Lord by every stream as
he certainly was by the Jordan. on ev-
cry mountain as surely rs he was on
Mount Zion. on every lake as on II
berias. by every rock as by the one
whose gushing waters slaked the thirst
of the marching Israelites.
Do not feel lonely because your near
est neichbor may be miles away, be
cause the width Of the continent may
separate you from the place where YOU
cradle was rocked and your father
crave was dug. Weakened though yol
may be by lions roar or panther
scream. God will help you. whether a
the time the forest arOuBd you raves
I'm the midnight hurricane or you sulfe
from something quite insignificant, lik'
the loss of an ak head. Take you
Bible out under the trees, If the weath
| er will permit, and after you have lis
tened to the 500 Of bird in the tree
, TONS or the long meter psalm of tn
= thunder. read those words Of the BiDle
which must have been written out o
, doors: THE trees of the Lord are ful
If san. the cedars of Lebanon whlc
he hath planted, where the birds max
their nests: as for the stork, the Il
trees are her house. The high hills ar
= q refuge for the wild goats and IN
v rocks for the comics. Thou makes
r darkness and it is night, wherein a
Z the beasts of the forest do creep fortf
4 The Young lions roar after their pre-
4 and seek their meat from God. Id
d sun arIseth. they gather themselves t
Y gether and lay them down In their den
s Man goeth forth unto his work and I
=. his labor until the evening. . Lore
n how manifold are thy works! In WI
!. dom hast thou made them all. III
l. earth is full Of thy riches" HOW q
,e YOU like that sublime pastoral?
y Overcome Evil.
'e NV subject also reminds us Oh II
e Importance Of keeping our chief impl
le ment for work in good order. l thin
u that young theological student on II
banks of Jordan was to blame for n
D. examining the ax before he lifted
o. that day against tree. He could In
,e moment have found out whether Il
re helye and the head were firmly "a
D. tened. The simple fact was the
~ was not in good order or the stronge
ls stroke that sent the edge into the ha
u; sycamore would not have left the II
r. nlement headless. SO God has Civ
IT. every one Of us an AK with which
ne hew. Let us keep 1t IN good ord'
be having been sharpened by Bible stu
ct and strengthened by prayer. The re
TX son we sometimes fail In our work
or because we have dull AK or we
not know how Alright to swing 1t. 1
head is not Alright on the handle.
NJ rho time we want the most skill !
,al work and perfect equilibrium we lc
Id OUR head. We eXpend in useless
it. element the nervous energy that
No ought to have employed In dire
yn straightforward work. Your ak III
ell be a pen or a type or yardstick OF
ed scales or q tongue which in legislau
10. hall or business circles or SaDDi
,te class or pulpit is to speak for GOD
zee righteousness, but the ak will not
,ey worth much until it has been sha
ow ened on the grlndstone of atl1lction:
.ho Go right through the world, ana
ifs right through all the past ages
ev show me one man or woman who
ve done anything for the world wo
-he speaking of whose ak was not grol
Is on the revolving wheel of mighty tr
BILE. 1t was not David, for he was
IN. throned and bounded by unhlial .
Ilv salon. Surely it was not Paul, TOT
ON was shipwrecked and whipped W