Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-02-14

business friends and employers and
employees about a bread which can
give life to the physical body, will you
be dumb In reference to that spiritual
bread Of life which Christ offers to all
who come to him?
Give Testimony mt Home.
Would that the dumb lips Of Chris
tan testimony might be unloosed by
our own fresdes among our loved
ones, as well as among the strangers
dwelling outside the four walls Of our
home. | place this spiritual obligation
upon my own heart and life as well as
upon yours. There is many minister
who Is so anxious about the souls OF
his congregation that sometimes he
oyerlooks the souls destinies OF his
own children and brothers and sisters
and parents. Some time ago | buried
q noble man of God named Rev. Will
liam e. McCrea. In conversation with
me one day he said that the sweetest
moment of all his life, not excepting
his own conversion, was when he was
able to lead his own venerable fatner
TO the foot of the cross. His father was
q moral and, from a worldly stand
point a good man, but not processing
Christian, and, though he had son In
the ministry, yet no one for years had
ever asked the father to give himself
in love to the Lord Jesus Christ. But
one day Rev. Mr. McCrea, after he had
been five years in the ministry, came TO
his father and said: Father, do you
not want to become q Christianf DO
YOU not want to take mothers Christ
and my Christ as your Christ? DO you
not want me to pray with you nowT'
The tears started from the old mans
ewes; his lips quivered. He shook with
emotion as he answered: Eyes, Willie,
do. oh. Willie, l have been waiting
so long for some one to ask me to come
TO Christi Why did you not do 1t be-
foreY" SO today let us start to plead
everywhere with Christian testimony;
let us begin right In our own homes.
Let us begin first and at once among
those who are closest to us, as Andrew
first sought his own brother to bring
him to Christ.
My friends, members Of JEFFERSON
Park church, l here and now conse'
crate nv life to new work. am 60
ing back to the days and life which
used to live when l first entered the
ministry. In those old days | did moi
sock so much to comfort and please the
members of my church as to win Souls
Ny only desire was to reach out fol
those who were outside of the church
and who never had confessed the name
of Jesus. Before | entered my pulpl'
I would get down on my knees anc
saw. "Oh, God, let me speak the rlgn
word for that young man and woman
, whom | may never see again until
meet them at thy thronew Such Is my
purpose now; such is the purpose o.
. my new assistant. Brothers and SIS
ters. we have been too long dwelling
together In selfish fellowship. We hav'
. enjoyed each cther's society well. Bu
{ TO be happy together is not enough
t Will you here and now clasp my han'
in a holy purpose? VIII yOn here ant
now move forward with me to seek on
!. the strayed lamb which is lost upol
l the mountain OF SIN? VIII you g
I forth with me out into the storm. pei
: haps to battle against de.ision an
: sneers? VIII you 20 in tie name o
? Jesus Christ? VIII you pr mise her
: and now to carry the gospel mcssaG
8 to the great urchurched and to tn
=, sinful men and wonen who are livin
? under the shadows of our own doors?
q Copyright. 1903 by Louis Klopsch.l