Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-08-22


strings of the castled towers began 10
vibrate and send forth the sweetest OF
melodies. God sounds his sweetest
notes upon the harp strings OF our splr-
final hearts when we seem TO De the
most weak and helpless. He often de-
velops his children by the pruning hook
of trouble. He makes us lean heaviest
unon the divine heart when our own
hearts have been gashcd open by the
gravedigger's spade, and when the
dark nights OF sorrow have obliterated
all consultations save the one star
which cleaned over the Bethlehem crib
ON the night that Jesus was born.
God will bless the Christian workers
OF the present generation because
Christ has emphatically and distinctly
promised that by the weak things OF
this world God shall confound the
mighty. That means that no chlld OF
God is too young to lead sinners TO the
CROSS. no Christians arm is too weak
to WELD Il sickle in Gods harvest heid'
no lin is too dumb TO utter farreach-
ing prayer, If that lip only belongs to
n true disciple of Jesus Christ.
when Eloauencc Meant silence.
We can prove this statement by Nc
counting the history of the famous re-
yiyal services held among the students
of Edinburgh few years ago. liehr!
Drummond of blessed memory! llenr!
DrummOnd whose chief mission was
given to the redemption for CHRIST OF
student life, gave an account OF TINS
movement on his last visit to TINS
country. A couple of athletes of the
University of Edinburgh were about to
sail as foreign missionaries. Ihclr
classmates wanted TO give them n big
farewell. They hired one of the lar
gest halls in the city. AS those athletes
were about to go forth as missionaries
they prepared n big religious service
After these young men had departed a
few OF the Christian students lert ln
the college came together and decided
that they ought to hold such n re-
ligious service every week. These
services were to be addressed for the
most part by the students themselves.
A committee was selected and arrange
ments made. Every student who was
asked to address that meeting had to
have two characterlstics-the one, q
pure. noble life: the other, he had TO De
n man of plain speech. The only ban
TO an invitation to address that meeting
was eloquence. If n man was known
TO have the "silver tongue OF speech
he was compelled to keep a colder
silence" What was the result or these
series Of meetings, held Sunday aftei
Sunday in old Edinburgh by plain, un
assuming and. in most cases. by "on'
talent" students? Not only did crowds
of students weekly fill the hall, bu
scores and hundreds Of young mer
were brought to confess Christ. Tit
Ike Of that religious influence ha(
never before been seen In old Scotland
although Edinburgh had been blessed
with pulpiteers whose names wer'
famous all around the world.
Then the result of these meeting
began to spread. These humble, on
talent young men in patches Of fou
and FIVE were sent to other college
and universities and also to village
and towns. These plain young men
nv cOnsecrated Christian lives, no
only moved Edinburgh, but also al
Scotland and all England and al
Wales and. to some extent, religiousl,
Influenced the whole world. Mark you
my brother, that religious infiuenc
was not. started by a Jonathan Ed
wards or a Robert McCheyne or
Frederick Robertson, but by plain
humble individuals, who were conse
Grating their lives to Jesus Christ. l
God can and did bless those moder
Joshuas will he not bless us as 1ndl
yiduals II we here and now consecrat
our lives to his service and pray an
plead and work as we ought to pra
and plead and work? He will, m
Christian brother. He will, he VII
, He will, even though we may be phys
, ically and mentally weaklings. II
will IL we will only throw Onrselve
= upon his divine and Omnipoter
t strength.
! God will bless the old as well as tn
2 Young. Oh, how often in religion
, work | have heard this excuse giver
, 81 believe that l ought to give myse
o I'm TO religious work, but the trouble
| | am too old. l have wasted the be'
+ part Of my life. l am too old to stal
h life over again" Some people ma
think you are right In your decision;
n do not. Even now there may be
o glorious time for you, oh, man, o.
n woman. if you will start in Chrlstla
y work lust at the present time. L
. not believe 1t is too late for you
> start to serve Jesus Christ; not t(
late even though for you the HOT
hand of the clock of time may
nointinQ to the twelfth hour and Il
O minute hand to five minutes OF
o'clock
h Never Too Old For the Lords Worl
q How old was Moses when he bega
O 70 lead forth the children OF Israel in
,. the wilderness? Was he a young maj
r No. HIS hair must have been whit
Q His skin must have been wrinkle
q Michael Angeles wonderful chisel nj
o cut him in stone as giant. Inc
4 Moses sits in the Roman capital I
At day. with arms and back knotted
4 muscles, with beard tossed OF tel
+ pest. with features swarthy enout
a to frown down any mob and with fs
a. like a sledge hammer. But with
Ia of Michael Angeles genius he cou
!. not change the facts. His chisel had
% make Moses an old man. He had
I. most passed his eightieth milestone
70 life when he went forth to liberate Z
~ children of Israel from Egyptian sla
!. cry. How old was Joshua when t
" mantle Of the dead Moses fell upon
q shoulders? He had already passed
is fourscore years and five. He was
:, | roodv Drassino on toward his mir