Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-03-29

times to mean to you merely another
Ak to grind! So with money. We
thought II man had q competency he
was safe for al the future, but we
have learned that Il mortgage may be
defeated by an unknown previous in
cumbrance; that signing your name on
the back Of note may be your busi-
ness death warrant; that new tariff
may change the current Of trade; that
man may lie rich today and poor to-
morrow. And God, by all these mis-
fortunes Is trying to loosen our grip,
but we still hold on. God smites with
q staff, but we hold on. And he strikes
us with a rod. but we hold on. And he
sends over us the iron wheel Of misfor-
tune, but we hold on. There are men
who keep their grip on this world until
the last moment. who suggest to me
the condition and conduct Of the poor
Indian In the boat In the Niagara rap
ids, coming on toward the fall. Seeing
that he could not escape, moment or
two before he got to the verge Of the
plunge he lifted a wine bottle and
drank II off and then tossed the bottle
into the air. So there are men who
clutch the world, and they go down
through the rapids Of temptation and
sin. and they hold on to the very last
moment to life. drinking to their eter-
nal doom as they go over and go down.
Oh, let 90! Let go The best fortunes
are in heaven. There are no abscOnd-
ing cashiers from that bank, no falling
in promises to pay. Set your affections
on things above, not on things on the
earth. Let gol Depend upon it that
God will keep upon you the staff or the
rod or the iron wheel until you do let
go.
Another thing my text teaches us IS
that Christian sorrow is going to have
a sure terminus. My text says, Bread
corn is bruised because he will not ever
be thrashing It," Blessed be God
for that! Pound away, o fail! Turn
on, o wheel. Your work will soon
be done. "IIe will not ever be thrlRh-
ing it, Now. the Christian has almost
as much use in the organ for the step
tremulant as he has for the trumpet.
but after awhile he will put the last
dirge into the portfolio forever. 50
much of us as Is wheat will be scpa
rated from so much as is chat. AID
there will be no more need Of pound
ing. They never cry In heaven be
cause they have nothing TO cry about
There are no tears Of bereavement. for
you shall have your friends all round
about you. There are no tears Of pov
erty because each one sits at the
Kings table and has his own chariot
of salvation and free access to the
wardrobe where princes get their ar
ray. No tears Of sickness. for there
are no pneumonias in the air and no
maiarial exhalations from the rolling
river Of life and no crutch for the lame
limb and hO spint for the broken arm
but the pulses throbblng with the
health of the eternal God in climate.
like our June before the blossoms fall
or our gorgeous October before the
leaves scatter.
The Cure For the Souls Wounds.
In that land The souls VIII Ia r. oyer
the different modes Of thrashing. Oh.
the story Of the staff that struck the
htches and the rod that beat the cum
nj i,n hof
the corn! Daniel will describe the
lions and Jonah leviathan and Paul
the elmwood whips with which he was
scourged, and Eve will tell how aro-
matte Eden was the day she left 1t,
and John Rogers will tell of the smart
Of the flame and Elijah Of the fiery
team that wheeled him up the sky
sleeps and Christ Of the numbness and
the paroxysms and hemorrhages Of
the awful crucifxion. There they are
before the throne of God-on one ele-
vation all those who were struck Of
the rod, on the highest elevation and |
amid the highest attitudes of heaven
all those who were under the wheel.
He will not ever be thrashing it.
Is there not enough sal7e In this text |
o make plaster large enough to heal
III your wounds? When a child is hurt. |
he mother is very apt to say to it,
Now. 1t will soon feel better" And |
hat is what God says when he embos- |
ms all our trouble In the hush Of this |
,reat promise. Weeping may endure |
or Il night. but JOY co-,eth in the morn
ng" You may leave your pocket hand
,erchief sopping wet with tears on |
'our death pilloy. but you will go up |
Ibsomtely sorrowless. They will wear
,lack, you will wear white; expresses |
or them, palms for you. You will say: |
is 1t possible that am here? Is this
leaven? Am so pure now will nev
r do anything wrong? Am ! so well |
hat | will never again be sicE? Are
hese companonships so firm that they |
vil never again be broken? Is that
lary? Is that John? Is that my loved
ne | put away into darkness? Can it
e that these are the faces Of those
rho lay SO wan and emaciated in the
ack room that awful night dying? |
)h, how radiant they are. Look at
hem! How radiant they are! Why,
low unlike this place is from what |
hought when | left the world below.
1inisters drew pictures Of this land,
ut how tame compared with the reali-
y! They told me on earth that death
7as sunset. No, no! 1t is sunrise!
ilorious sunrise! | see the light now
urpling the hills, and the clouds fame
7ith the coming day."
Then the gates of heaven will be
pened, and the entranced soul, with
ne acuteness and power Of the celes-
al vision, will look thousands Of miles
own upon the hammered procession,
iver of shimmering splendor, and will
ry out, "Who are they?' And the
ngel Of God, standing close by, will
ly, do you not know who they areT"
No." says the entranced soul, Il can
OF guess who they are" The angel
ill say: Il will tell you, then, who
ley are. These are they who came out
? oyraot trihulo tiOn or thra ShinV and