Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-07-16

Blaine heaved deep sigh as he sald,
"Oh. Hastead, | could have stood 1t
all IL | had not lost my two boys" He
was finding then, as Hanna found, and
as a host Of famous men have found,
that happiness and true satisfaction
cannot be obtained from the World.
The world msrepresents them, ridicules
them and decrles them, and, whether 1t
gives them It's prizes or not, 1t wounds
and tortures them.
Hammers In Not In Wealth.
Oh. rich man! | appeal to your ex-
perience. Have you not realized that
happiness IS not in wealth? Have
there not come times In your life when
you have felt that money and honor
and power alike fail to give you salts
faction? You are disappointed with
your life. Turn to Christ, who says TO
such as you, "He that drlnketh of the
water that shall give him shall never
thirst again." Come to him. Thou
art not far from the kingdom Of God.
Almost saved, Yes, know it. Why?
For weeks, perhaps, you have been ly-
Ing PROSTATE with a danerous sickness
near the dividing line, the crossing OF
which means the recreation and the
naturalization and the redemption OF
your life. That sick bed means to you
in spiritual sense what an invalid's
bed meant in a physical sense to him
sick of the palsy who was laid at
Chrlst's feet. In the second chapter or
Mark we read about the wonderful
incident which took place in Caper-
naum. No sooner did the people of
that city hear that Jesus had come
than the multitudes began to gather
about him They crowded into the
room where he was. They crowded
the front yard Of his residence. On the
outskirts of the crowd we see a couple
Of men carrying between them one who
was sick Of the palsy. "Oh," they say
to each other, IF we can only bring our
brother to Christ, he will cure him"
think, from reading between the lines
OF this chapter, that the Invalid him
self did not care whether he saw Christ
or not. He was too sick to care. His
limbs hung limp and heavy. His eye
lids dropped the eyes were CLASSY. His
skin was fabby and almost dead. But
because the invalid was nine-tenths
dead that made no difference to the
two friends. AS they could not push
ha 10 xrrh
about the front door they climbed up
to the roof of the house They then let
down the ropes and pulled the sick man
up, bed and all. Then with their axes
they broke open the roof and lowered
the sick man down through the roof to
the feet of the Saviour, who, seeing
their faith, said unto the sick of the
palsy, "Son, thy sins be forgiven thee"
And he arose The loose muscles stiff
ened. The eyes became alert. The
blood again coursed rapidly through
the clogged arteries. He walked; yea,
the sick man walked. He was healed
by being placed, a hopeless, helpless
invalid, at the feet Of Jesus Christ.
Sickness has been a spiritual bless
ing to yoa, @ mar, aasst.Ie palsy was to
the invalid OF old 1t has placed you
almost within touch Of our Saviour
and King. For years and years you
did not know what a pain meant.
When you heard people complaining
about their invalidism you had no SYM
| pathy. You would petulantly say:
"Nine-tenths of these so called invalids
are mere hypochondriacs II men and
women would only get up and stop
their complaining and stop dosing
themselves with medicines they would
be all right" When a minister in
church would preach from the text,
Thou fool, this night thy soul shall
be required of thee" you would settle
back in your seat and smile. You
would say to yourself: Perhaps. Per
haps not. My ancestors were all long
lived. l guess l will be also" Then
you would complacently pat your chest
as you expanded your lungs three or
four inches, and you would say: "Well,
my ancestors never had finer breath
ing apparatus than / have. Perhaps
shall die tonight. Perhaps not"
But two years ago there came that
sudden attack of illness. 1t came al
most without any warning at all. You
remember how your cheek became as
white as that Of corpse and your lips
turned blue and cold. You remember
how that pneumonia stabbed at YOU
lungs, or how that typhoid made yor
sink so low that for weeks and weeks
YOU hovered between life and death
You remember how asthma chOked yor
until it seemed as though you woulC
20 mad with the agony. Aye, that sick
ness made out of you changed man
When the minister now announces th'
text, Luke, twelfth chapter and twen
tieth verse, Thou fool, this night thy
soul shall be required Of thee" you d'
not fippantly say: Perhaps. Perhaps
not" You know it is not out of thu
range of possibilities that this nigh
YOU NAV be brought face to face will
God at the judgment seat Of Christ
o man, even while | speak today al
the good and the bad Of your past life
are flying swifter than the winds
Il through your seething brain. Aye,
they are flying as swiftly as the pano
rama of bygone years in second OF
time moves before the vision of q
drowning man. Your past sicknesses
have changed your feelings toward
God. The pain at your heart is warn
!, ing you that God shall bring every
work unto judgment, with every Sc
cret thing, whether it be good ol
whether it be evil" This day-aye
this very minute-on account Of thai
past sick bed, thou art not far from
the kingdom Of Cod"
, Signs of the Time.
| Almost saved Yes, you are. know
il. Why? The many 'signs OF the
, time" tell us that hundreds and thou
sands of immortal men and womer