Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-01-09
ACCOMAC c. H. VA SATURDAY, JANUARY g. 1904.

ner should be there to whom a church
member would be unwilling to extend q
gospel invitation and with whom he
would feel diffidcnce I'm talking about
his Saviour, Jesus Christ. But the great
stumbling block In the way Of most
new church members is this-they think
as new members that they should take
back seat. They feel that older Chris
tians, and not the new converts, should
move up and down among the people.
They feel that church ought to be
run like the United States senate; that
In Il no new member has a right to be
conspicuously seen or heard until he
has served a silent apprenticeship OF
at least six or ten years. The inevi-
table result is when a Christian Is will
ing to remain silent in the beginning OF
his religious life he is very apt to re-
main dumb all through his earthly
Christian career.
The Call to Christian Life.
Oh. that our new converts in our sac
red Sunday night aftermeetings would
Immediately begin to testify for Je-
sus! Testify as Paul testified on the
day after his conversion. No sooner
did the good Ananias open his blinded
eyes then he Immediately began to
talk about Jesus, and him crucifed.
He Immediately began to work for the
conversion Of souls until he was at last
driven over the Damascus wall, and
he had to flee the town by night. oh,
that our new converts In the sacre1
aftermeetings on Sunday night w00id
testify for Christ as did James Tissot
with his brush Immediately after his
conversion This noted French artist
was once the idol of Partisan society.
He made his first fame as a portrait
painter Of society women. But one
day while studying the French society
woman in an attitude Of prayer In a
Partisan cathedral he gave his heart
to Christ. Immediately to bis old
friends Tissot became a changed man.
He not only turned his back upon his
old life, but that he might the more
ably portray the scenes In the life OF
Christ he lived for many years In the
far east. The famous series of Christs
life in art is the result of Tissots tes-
timony. Church member, plead at
once for Jesus. Plead at once wherev-
er you go. Especially plead for him
and work for him In the sacred after
meeting held Immediately following
the benediction of the Sunday night
preaching service.
Thus the call to the Christian life is a
bugle blast for work. The church pew
Is not meant for a bed Of roses, where
Incidence and sloth can lie down for
perpetual slumber. Consecrated church
membership is a sacred affinity for in
tense missionary activity as well as for
gospel rest" A famous musician once
said, "If | stop practicing upon the
piano one day will feel my deteriora-
ton. If two days the musical critics will
feel 1t, If three the world at large in my
promiscuous audiences will feel IT," III
the consecrated church member stops
working for Christ one day he himself
will feel his own spiritual deteriora-
ton. II two days his Christian friends
will realize it, IL three days the world
at large will be the sufferer because of
1t. Faiths wings are movable. They
must be kept working all the time.
Now comes the practical determination
for the Christian to settle-where are
you specially fitted to go to work for
Christ? Choose your spiritual occupa-
tions From among the many fields Of
gospel opportunities choose them now.
copyright 1903. by Louis Klopsch.]