Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-07-22
panorama of the flashing lightnings Oh
my text symbolic 1t.
naa Ma.vena Sheefn Of Fire.

Could we find more resplehueht
pageantry for the second coming Oh
Christ than In the chariotS OF clouds'
with the flashlights of dazzling hght-
ninps? "Gird the sword upon thy thigh,
D most mighty, with thy glory and thy
majesty cries the psalmist Yes we
nave seen Christ in symbol glrding on
his sword and clothing himself IN the
ylory and in the majesty OF the storm.
Some years ago we took long dfiVe
Of some ffty miles over the Michigah |
hills. Before we got back to our SUN
mer cottage an awful storm overlook
us The night settled In. The Diack
clouds eclipsed for us the light OF every
star. 1t was as black as the plague OF
darkness in Egypt. From an adjacent
farmhouse we borrowed lantern. Inc
wov became so black that even the
horses could not see the road. The III
tie children in the stage crept up close
10 their mothers In fear. The silence
became as still as the famous halt hour
NJ silence In heaven when the celestlai
hosts horror struck, could not utter
whisper Immediately after the dying
ngony of Cavarys tragedy was endeu.
Then came the rushing OF mlghty
winds. 1t seemed as though all the
snirits demoniac as well as celestial
were sweeping past me and meeting
In mighty conflict Then the whole
heavens became sheets Of fire. Morrill,
east south and west, everyHhere Ae
heavens were ablaze. The flames SEEM
ed TO mount higher and higher, az
though they were climbing up thou
sand story building. Then II seemed
as though the clouds with Their mighty
Niaqaras rushed toward them ana
drowned out those Kissing furnaces OF
Nebuchadnezzar, seven times-aye sew
enty Unrestricted. Then the huge trees
alongside the road would benz anu
groan like shudderlng LAGOON In death
grin OF huge monsters. Ahead OF the
horses | walked with the lantern TO
show the way. Now | could see the
big stage following after me. Now
after the thunders had rolled and swell
ed and died away, ! could near tne
faint cry of a child or the soothing
tones OF a mother trying to quiet her
babe she. the mother, just as fright
ened as the child. Then suddenly eV'
erv tree. every rock. every hillside
vould come out as clear In outline as
during the day. Then midnoon In an
instant would be changed Into mid
night Power, power. omnipotent, in
finite power! Do you wonder that the
glory and the majesty OF the coming
Christ were symbolized by Jesus him
self in the sublime scenic effects OF
"the lightnings coming out of the east
and shining even unto the westf
swifter Than n Bullet.
fear that our artists and poets anc
: religious teachers have too often dwell
unon the humanity and the humility
and the belplessness of Christ and have
!. not emphasized enough his glory anC
. majesty and power as symboIized II
= the lightnings and the chariot cloud
, OF his second coming. 1t Is right an'
Just that we should i impress pG rnp9na Sas
NJ Christ incarnated In the nesn Vi
S u,t,o child The master artist drew
$ true lesson for US when he mace MAI
S and the divine infant sleep betwee'
c the great paws of the old Egyptla
J. ototne There was the moon noVerlu
ove, the silent, bleak desert as I'd
Il omniscient eye of God the faIhe
It watching his only begotten Soi
II There was Joseph, the carpenter grii
E. and silent as a sentinel, keeping guar'
e. There in the background rises the mug
y statue. half man, half beast cniseie
H. and anchored to It's foundations tho
b. sands OF wears before Christ was Dol
le and still there watching, watch'n
i: waiting waiting thousands OF yea
Z after Christ is dead. Christ the mel
H. less Christ there, became helpless
a. ,vmpathy with US. But older than |,
ny oldest rocks OF the pyramids was u
CD same life of that divine CHRIST. Long
re than those rocks shall ever exist SUI
on tho eternal existence Of Christ endul
ne Creoter than the power Of Heroo' :"
ou made Bethlehem a slaughter house
IN innocent blood, and greater than |
IN snlendors of Rameses H., whose pai'
.ch grounds we're once Tapped by the "
"a ters Of the river Nile and whose "ol
10 mon made the desert blossom as
'us rose are the strength and tne pow
by and splendor of that sleeping eni
ias ChrIst's second advent shall Eey
ia him an omnipotent, an omnlselea' d
as an omnipresent God. CHRIST Nv
the coming shall be visible to aA peo
ich nc he Is girded with glory and ma3es
eth BY the flaming swords OF the hs
elp ninps nv text in symbol pictures
you glorious. sublime, respiehuen'
ay' Celestial panorama. Let me repeat
Won the glorious message OF my "
irst Hear how the sublimity OF that
He lennIal day echoes down the nails
] in time "As the lightning cometh out
RIB; the east and shlneth Into the west
his shall the coming of the Son OF man
a Lightning travels swifter than
into birds wing, swifter than rines
pen LET. swlfter than a hunters na'
toll; sw,fter than any other agency OF
con- or death in the world. Within
Cal seconds it can belt the whole glooe
slve come back to the place from whic
has started. 1t is so swift In It's mot
e in that the swiftest moving oDJec.S
old. earth seen by the gieam OF tne oia
his lirhtnings always appear to De ST
the ins still. For the light that you
ords flashing across the heavens only
mil pears before your eyes IN the 81
Is Of est part Of a second.
their Christs Second Coming.
oofs. The Rev. Mr.. Butler some years
s of gave an account Of the death OF
RS Of reapers he had seen killed una
Il be tree where they had gone TO nnu
hal ter during thunderstorm. Inere
e his were, eating their noon meal. vi
ctory The dead men at the time, DR..