Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-11-19

him with an oath" When the peoplo
begon TO crowd about him Peter still
more vehemently began to protest HIS
Ignorance with oaths and curses. de
denied Christ. He denied him once
twice. thrice. He denied him IN tue
meanest. the most contemplate anu
covardly way. Yet when Peter re-
nented of his sin Christ forgave MIN
and restored him to his apostleshlp'
Christ is magnanimous. He VIII save
tho worst sinner If he comes TO MIN
in sincere penitence, grieving ror MS
sins and entreating pardon. But ior
the man who confesses him win his
lips. but denies him by his life, ne mas
no word but "woe, woe unto you hypo-
crites!' u..,
Not unto every one that calleth'
"Lord. Lord, open unto u.s." shan the
banouet hall Of Christ be opened. MOI
INTO the nominal church members snal.
tho invitation be given to come anu
SUD with the Divine Bridegroom. Wnae
became of these FIVE foolish virgins
who had no oil in their lamps? All the
ton virgins had the same kind OF
Iamns. The creed of man can aptiy De
symbolized in the lamp which Doius
the oil. They all believed in the COM
ing of the Bridegroom. They all Oe.
I,eved In Jesus Christ But the Oil or
conservation. the purity and devotion
of lie were lacking. If BELIEF In Chrlst
would suffice, Judas himself might
have been saved. The belief that mas
M effect on the life Is not faith at all
and can never bring man into spiritual
relation with Christ. Oh, nomiha'
cburch members, you must have conse-
Grafton of heart as well as perreclon
NJ creed You must have spiritual OIL
| for vour clamps of faith" else you can
never follow the Divine Bird degroom In
to the banquet hall Of the marriage OF
the Lamb.
These spiritual mendicants of my
text represent another class OF spirituai
beggars. They are the type Of men
and women who are not loafers, as we
call loafers. or mere hangers on. Ihey
represent the so called moral and up
right people who expect to go to heaV.
en- on account of the mere temporal
good which they have been able TO &c
some of their fellow men. They repre-
sent the large class Of people who ex
meet TO bribe their way into the wed
ding banquet because they have giver
TO some town a library or endowed
some college professorship or buildec
some hospital or financially helped tC
support some church or foreign mis-
sionary. They do not claim that they
have lived for the purpose OF honorlnt
Christ and consecrating their lives L
his service, but they do say that OF
account Of the good they have beer
able TO do Christ will invite them Il
ioin the wedding procession on th'
night that the Bridegroom cometh.
"yons That Doeth Good"
Is this true? VIII Christ allow an.
one to Join the wedding procession VIII
comes to him merely with the "laml
of good works" In his hand? on, no
For IL we are honest with ourselye
we know there is none that doetl
good-no. not one" We know tha
many of the acts for which the worl'
praises us we have done with III
most selfish desires and the most col
rlpt motives. Some Of them hav
been done to win popular applause
some to secure the good opinion of tn
church and the world. For these W
: have received our reward, but Chris
does not reward them. We know tina
{ there Is not one Of us who would lik
the thoughts of our brain and the de
? sires of our heart to be read by ID
most intimate Of our friends as a
, open book. l know some people sa
they are proud Of their past and @
e what they have done. John Churchii
( the first Duke of Marlborough, whe
t n very old man eXultantly lived owe
I the scenes Of his sturdy manhood
D Day by day his secretary used to rea
q 70 him the histories Of the militar
I campaigns of which Blenhelm an
i Families and Oudenarde and Malp'
: ouet battlefields were the successfl
o climaxes. When a particularly Dri
d liant move was described, on which IL
( success of the English armies turne
s as upon a pivot, the old dukes eye
e would flash as he raised himself an
said: wonderful Wonderful! Ina
? was a mastery movement. How did
n ever execute it?' He would glory
# and praise his own deeds, even
|. aged Dean Swift would glory IN u
t works of his youth when he sal
$ "What genius l must have had whe
l. wrote that"'
l. As Sands Of the Sea.
B n..k tbou0h thQ Duke OF MaflDO