Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-05-20

HE that beIieveth and IS baptized
shall be saved, but he that believeth
not shall be damned" He says again,
"I am the way, the truth and the life;
no man cometh unto the Father but by
me-" Are not Christs words clear
enough upon this subject? Are we
ready to make the necessary prepara-
tions for the building Of our spiritual
watchtowers by becoming one with him
through the atonement Of the crossr
Having accepted Christ after we
have laid the foundations Of our watch
towers, are we going to persevere IN
the building? We have read that
Thomas A. Edison becomes so absorb
ed when working on great invention
that ne will shut himself up In his lab
oratory and stay there for days and
weeks. He will not leave his office
even for his meals, but has them
brought to him. We have been told
that when George Westinghouse was
perfecting his famous car brake he
could talk about nothing else. When
he walked along the Pittsburg streets
and would meet q friend out OF bis
pocket at once would come the patent.
| On the street be would talk and talk
| TO prove that his brake was feasible.
We have read how the great workers,
the great inventors, the great artists,
those who have won the great success
es of the world, have thought nothing
of giving up ten, twenty, thirty, forty,
fifty years Of perseverance to the ac-
complishment Of their life's purpose.
Shall we not be willing to give the same
perseverance to the service. of Christ?
Lastly, we must offer to Jesus more
than proper preparation and persever-
ance. Can we bring to his service a
true character or a spotless moral life!
Ah. think this last is the rub with
many Of u.s. The reason our spiritual
towers are only half completed is that
we are not willing to give up our pet
sins. The younger Pliny wrote
strange. weird account Of the tribe of
Psylll. They were immune to the pol
son OF snake bites because all their
lives they were accustomed to handle
these poisonous serpents as pets. They
fondled them and put them to sleep
with their little children. When one of
their ambassadors, HexagOn by name,
came to Rome to prove to the consuls
that no poisonous serpent could Kill
Ia -olf 70. hn n
q bed surrounded by swarms Of wrig
Cling. death dealing adders. But, though
Hexagon could sleep among poisonous
serpents. no true Christian can build
spiritual watchtower with the poison
Gus serpent of sin clasped around his
breast and heart. Are you ready, [
man. to give up that sin, that pet sin
for Christ? Are you ready to offer Il
Jesus Christ the tribute of pure life I
This is call from God to you. II
the far east the Mohammedan mosque
are flanked by minarets, or tall watch
towers. There at certain hours OF tn
day the priests come, and upon thes
watchtowers they cry aloud Come t
prayers! Come to prayers! All ye chill
dren, come to prayers Then the Nc
hammedans, no matter where the.
may whether as Arabs In the des
ert. princes and princesses in their pa
, aces. merchants in their streets or Ia
borers in the streets, kneel, bow thel
heads to the ground and pray. Oh, m
friends, shall the coll of the Moham
medan priests in the minarets OF tn
far east have a more potent infiuenc
over Mohammed's disciples than TIL
|, call of service and conservation whic
Christ makes to us? VIII you offer [
Christ your heart? VIII you give
, him your unremitting serviceF WI
, YOU come to him with clean hands an
a clean, moral life?
, copyright, 1905. by Louis Klopsch'l