Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-05-16

loody swords and the spears ana the
lartyrdoms of Christians of apostolic
mes. The fight for emancipation went |
n among the cracking flames OF burn
" Rome. 1t clutched by their throats
ne man eating monsters that leaped
ITO the Roman Coliseum. 1t defed
he lowering looks and the blasphe-.
nous oaths Of the mobs that gathered
4 the Florentine square of beautiful
taly TO see Savonarola die. 1t suffered
II the agonies which Fox recorded III
is "History of the Lives and Suffer-
ngs and Triumphant Deaths OF the
Primitive as Well as the Protestant
iartyrs." 1t steeled the backbone OF
ion hearted Martin Luther as well as
4 John Huss. 1t fought its battle un-
il at last the opened Bible was placed
n the hand of the common people and
very man was free to worship God ac-
,ording to the dictates of his con-
science, whether In the Christian
,hurch. the Jewish temple or the Mo-
mosque.
No man can be said to worship God
n sincerity and truth unless he DoWs
before the mercy seat under the I'M
pulse of a free will. When Torque-
NADIA headed the inqulsltion ana
Charles TX. was drunk with human
blood and Bloody Mary" signed the
death warrant of over 300 martyrs and
forcibly drove the people
If his kingdom into the rivers, where,
Ike struggling cattle, the priests bap-
tized them by the wholesale, fear may
have made the frightened men ana
women bow and profess Christ, but
fear never yet made a true Christian.
You cannot terrorize a man into the
kingdom of God with the executoner 8
AK or the slave masters lash.
The Bible is full of the gospel invita-
tions "to come" Come, for all things
are now ready. Come, come, come!
Rut upon no page of the Bible can you
find anywhere the words written;
"Come to Christ against your Will!
"Come with hate in your heart!
"Come with defying sin on your lips!
"Come as a trembling murderer Is LED
TO the scafTold or TO incarceration Tor
lifew Thus we find that the second
great onward movement for the world
redemption was taken when bigotry
swafthy limbs were manacled, wher
the Kissing tongue of persecution was
stirIed and when religious liberty coulc
.Hft up. her smiling face toward ths
heavens and stretch forth her white
hands to lead. as well as to protect,
free human race.
The World In sympathy.
The next great onward movement 10
the worlds redemption is to be foun(
IN the commercial supremacy whlcl
has brought all the five continents an'
the islands Of the sea into sympatheti
touch. There was a time when a mai
rarely travelled 100 miles from the plac
where he was born. His grave wa
ding only q short distance from wher
the tree was planted out or whlcn hi
cradle was cut The world was no
only divided into nations, but the M
tions into distinct and Antagonist
clans. The Scotchman born in IN
highlands could not understand the q
alect of the lowlanders. But now eN
erywhere commercialism is making
one blood all nations that dwell upo
the face of the earth. The America
soilor's "Yo. heavew is heard by II
wharfs of Tarshish. The East lndla
merchantmen and the ships for Chin
and japan and the Philippines an
Australia and New Zealand follow eac
other through the Suez canal. IL
railroads of Brazil and the steamsh
lines of Chile and Buenos Ayres al
Cane Town are owned by foreign ca
ital The Russian warships are beir
built in the American shlpyarus'
creat international war is becomlT
more and more an impossiDlllty D
cause the Turkish mortgages are ne
in Paris, Berlin and London ana wa
street. and the foreign capitalists mu
rise or fall together.
But from a spiritual standpoint WI
do we say that a great battle was W.
bocause commercialism has brought
the world into sympathetic touch!
tbe cable sunken u.der the seas, I
+oloqranhic wires strung overhead, t
railroad lines bringing New York a.
san Francisco into closer commune
tion than were once New York Il
Georgia. and the great steamboat In
turning all oceans into ferries-are a
of these to have anything to do WI
the advent of the millennial dawn
that wonderful invention OF johann
Gutenberg called printing. the o
growth of which is the modern neV
. naper press. to have no part III
worlds redemption? Oh, yes. l
, Bible does not say that the world sh
, grow gradually better and better
n does say that when the "gospei
the kingdom shall be preacheo III
the world for a witness unto all
r,ons then shall the end come A
tSw % can that gospel be preached qui
. er to ell people than through the
,, dunn Of the telegraph and teieph'
! and railroad train and passeni
steamboat lines and freight Doa
When tbe revision of the New Les
ment was completed some years
l. was not the book telegraphed verpal
\ in one night from New York to |
{ cago? And can we not, through
L conquest of a mercenary commerc
l. ism. scatter practically in the I"
king of an eye the gospel OF Je
Il u Christ to the farthermost parts OF
~ earth. so that whole nations snail
l. born in day?
l. Promise of Universal Peace
y Another great preliminary pat.le
D. the worlds redemption was fought
s. won when the parliament Oh relgl
IL assembled at the worlds fair IN
lie caco. Then all the intelligent mem.
W of the Anglo-Saxon race reaiiHeu