Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-09-27

thorouehfare he heard driver angrily
call out two or three times: Get OUT
of the way, old man! Haven't you any
sense? Are you too old to thinkf Iet
out of the way. there, gray hairs, OF
vou'll be run down. Mr. Deecher hur-
riedly looked around to nnd OUT wnat
old man was IN danger. To his sur
nrlse and chagrIn, no found that the
drayman was shouting to him ana that
he and no other was the "old man.
II ia not a hard struggle to physically
die. Dying is Just as natural an ACT
for tho body as IL the act OF Deing
born. But II Is hard to grow oid, 10
feel that you have to ride when once
II was an exhllaration to walk, 10
know that the mind is failing. that the
heart has not the old yigor, that the
hand which once grasped and welded
the hilt of n sword must now do the
small chores around the old homestead.
It Is hard to know that upon the uem-
bling shoulders OF old age even the
weight of n small grasshOpper's body
can become a burden, heavy, crush
ing burden.
The Great Burden Bearer.
Yet my friends, amid the decaying
faculties OF old age the grace or the
Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient to over
come the burden OF the buzging locusts.
What was the testimony OF the aged
Thomas Guthrie. the great Christian
warrior OF old Scotland? Standing be-
fore n large assemblage OF little chill
dren. he said: Don't call me an ola
man, as some people do. Why am as
young and happy as any child sitting
before me today. Ny limbs may not
be as strong as they once were. one
of my feet may be In the grave Dut
the other foot IL planted upon the earth
so firmly that its leg has sunken knee
deem In the clover tops. Ny hearing
NAV not be as accurate as 1t once was,
hut NV ears are continually hearing
the sounds OF sweetest music. MY eye
NAV not he ss keen TO read book. but
nv eyesight is continually becoming
moye iAsplred TO see the beauties OF
earth NJ. well as the beauties OF heaven.
| am not an old man. AS l approach
nv secend childhood ! have begun 10
live q life OF eternal happiness ana OF
never ending joys" Study the races,
the beautiful happy faces, OF the aged
Christian men and women about, ana
Won will learn as never before that the
grace Of the Lord Jesus Christ Is sum
cient. even amid the decaylng physical
and mental faculties, to lift the burden
of the buZzing locust. Oh, my young
brother and sister, while you are yet
physically strong will you not take into
your life this divine power that VIII De
such a mighty help to you, when the
keepers of the house shall trembie ana
the strong men shall bow themselves
and the grinders cease because they
are fewT'
, Tbus the burden OF the locust Is
very practical theme. The text teaches
that though the gospel OF Jesus Christ
: Is a good religion to die by, yeS IL Is
! inst az COED religion to live by. IL
r means that we should take Christ with
l ma 10 sing the lullaby to the baby ano
} 10 get the early breakfast. IL means
! that we should take Christ with US &c
D help harness up the horse and shuch
o the corn. II means we should ASA
: Christ to 90 into partnership with VI
r IN business and not have him be 81
s lent partner either. II simply meani
Q we should have Christ as practica
helpmate during the weekday as wei
as Sabbath companion on our wa!
y to church.
l. When the great founder OF Method
o ism WAS asked what he should DO II
Il the interim II he knew that ne wa
II eeing TO die at the end Of the next thir
70 ty-six hours. John Wesley rephed;
E. would do Just as intended to do.
d would ask Christ to go with me whel
q 7 preached tonight. | would ask Chris
70 to 20 with me when l meet my thre
'e different preaching appointments &c
Is morrow. one in the morning, one d
q. nom and one in the evening. | woul
10 ask Christ to sit down with me when
n- est nv meals. would ask Christ l
70 guard me when | sleep both tonign
es and tomorrow night, and then woul
r wake up in glory" Like John Wesley
lie In the everyday duties Of life, In IN
e, eating and work and sleeping as we
d. a, in the prayer meeting. Will you as
re the dear Christ to help you lift the oil
to ferent infiniteslmal burdens OF swari
at Of irritating, buzzing. nagging. tro'
e. bling locusts?
UT copyright. 1902. Louis klopsch' ~ Ii
nd