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

Chicago. May 10.-In this sermon
the preacher takes an optimistic vie"
Of the spiritual outlook and sees III tne
growing predominance of the Anglo
Saxon race an augury that foreshau-
ows the spread of the gospel through
ont the world. The text Is EXODUS
xiv. Is. Speak unto the children OF
Israel that they go forward"
Napoleon Bonaparte, in some respects
,he greatest warrior of modern times
once declared. "There sometimes comes
crisis in battle or campaign wheh
victory. as a bird, will hover over the
standards of that general who has
brains and grit enough to give tne
command. Forward, march,! Ihis
was the way the French COMMANDER
defeated the two great wings OF lhe
Austrian army at Montenotte ana
Cavo This was the way he won his
battles at Arcola and Marengo anu
Wapram. This was the way he trleu
70 win Waterloo, when he COMMANDED
Marshal Ney to lead the Old Guaru
against the solid squares OF the british
Infantry. And this was the way Moses,
the great law giver and soldier, leu
the children of Israel out of egypt
over the sands and on through the heu
ron and freed them from the onrush-
ing charge of the pursuing Egyptians
Rut the divine command given to the
children of Israel that they go ior.
ward" is applicable to the childreh VI
Cod ot the present time. l believe we
ore at crisis In the worlds history
In 1890 my father preached sermon
entitled Last Decade Of the Cen
tury." BY it he tried to show now
easily the world could be brought 10
Christ within ten years if every Chris
tIon would annually bring only one
soul TO Christ and these new converts
in turn would also individually bring
ono soul to Christ every following
wear. But today l want to show that
the world can be brought to Christ
oven in less time than that If the Chris
tion church will only realize It's tuii
opportunity and grasp 1t. l want 10
show this because | believe all the
great preliminary battles have been
fought and won which are necessary
for this final triumph. AS Concord ana
Lexington and Bunker Hill and Prince
ton and Saratoga had to precede tne
Yorktown surrender, so would trace
the great onward movements Oh tne
human race to show how we are fast
onnroaching the golden milestone
where the world can be redeemed from
=. sin. Then would try to show how tne
Anqlo-saxone race, as o human agency,
can take the chief part In this glad
some and worldwide triumph IL we
will only move forward in Gods name
The worlds Redemption.
The first great battle for the world
redomntiou was fought and won when
every mans fireside became his city
of refuge" or his impregnable castle
from which no feudal lord or arbitrary
chieftain could dislOdge him. Ii was
u won when husband and father
could walk into his home and shut the
e door and defy the great wide worlu a.
q he said: "These goods are mime Ihl'
l. wife is mine. These children are mine
q and M man dare touch them" 1t was
won when an honest man, no matter
how humble he might be, had rign
in fee simple to the property which III
energy had earned, to the woman
r whom lie had led to the marriage aita
and TO the children who were born u
them.
rho right of n man to own his owl
-- home and to have an exclusive ciain
:, over his wife and children Is recoe
l. uizcd in exery civilized land. We nav
all read the story of "The Miller an
the Emperor" Frederick the Grea
wanted to enlarge his palace grounds
4 miller owned a little patch OF Ian
near the royal domain. The king oitel
ed to buv 1t. The miller would not sci
The king offered three, four, five tune
the value of the property. Inc miiie
still refused. That land was TO Ill
above the value of money. IL repr'
sented TO him the home OF his chli'
hood and the home Of his ancestor
",Then." said the king, 81 will conn
cate YOUR land and take 1t forclDl
from YOU" "Then" said the miller
) the king. 81 avill go to law ana comp
Won to give me back my property
The king was helpless. He knew Ill
in Prussia the king might sit upon
throne. but there was a power great
than the king. That one was the Id
i protecting the man intrenched penn
-u' the impregnable walls OF his o"
home.
Rut this condition of individual righ
II of y man and of family did not
~ WAYS exist in the human race. Inc
was n time when the names husDa
nv and wife did not mean what they
today. There was a time" wrote
Jobn Lubbock in his book entiti
. "The Origin of Civilization" when
many tribes the children took the nal
of the mother instead of the father
cause the name of the father was IN
or known" There was a time WIZ
by the old feudal system the coln
stone of society was not in the home
the laborer, but in the castled walls
the near by ruling lord. The teu'
Z lord not only owned his peoples
tle and sheep and horses, but II
wished he could do what he wo'
with his serfs wife and chilur
rbore was n time when every Won
became by law the wife Of every m
member of her tribe and every u
the husband of every female memL
Thus the communism of the brute I
- vailed. Thus the human being was
animal, beast pure and simple. Il
DOWN % Bible times we find mat Al
ham was not only the husband OF
rah. but also the father OF lsnmael
David ana ~