Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-01-14

ais and reptiles and birds and polsons,
an oath that they never would Kill him.
These all gave a willing oath. Then the
gods. believing that Baldur was immor-
tai. began to strike him with swords,
spears. battleaxes and darts, but they
harmed him not. At last one OF the
gods picked up piece OF mistietoe.
He threw it at Baldur. The little twlg
pierced the skin and the heart, and Bal
dur dropped corpse. Many OF these
visits of the "destroyers OF time may
seem to be harmless. But are theyE
Like the despised mistletoe OF heather
mythology, they may be fatal for whole
days. whole months and years, that
should have been used In service Of the
Master.
Time Belongs TO God.
Would God we might one and all
fight relentlessly against these de
stroyers of time" You cannot afford to
give away what is not your own. Your
time belongs not to you, but to another
"Go with me to a concert this after
noon" said one salesman to another
who was employed in a large ware
house. 81 cannot 90 this afternoon"
was the answer. "My time Is not my
own; It belongs to another" 10
whomY "To my employer" The fol-
lowing Sabbath afternoon the same
salesman said to the same clerk, Come
and 90 riding with me this afternoon. l."
81 cannot" said the other. "My time is
not my own; 1t belongs to another"
ITO whom? "To God, who said, Re
member the Sabbath day to keep II
holy" VIII you and waste our pre-
cious moments hereafter? Shall we moi
always feel that in reality time does
not belong to us? 1t belongs, in tht
higher, nobler and purer sense, to then
whom we are sent to serve and to thu
great God, who will demand at th'
Judgment an accounting for every mo
ment we fritter away.
This thought flashed upon me as
sat upon the deck of the steamsnlI
Alameda, trying to figure out how
lost that day. If instead Of following
the setting sun | had been going to
ward the east | would not have lost
day. but gained an extra day; II ID
stead of going from New York to Sal
Francisco and New Zealand | had bee
travelling from London through tn
Suez canal to Australia, instead o
having lost a Thursday, ! would hay
had two Thursdays in one week.
mattered nothing on our voyage whic
course we took, but in the voyage Q
life it matters a great deal. They WI
take the star in the east" as the
guide in the journey Of life, who 10
low Christ, who are led by him, haV
no lost days. In this life they have IL
finite delights and in the end etern'
life.
, In which direction are you sailing
Are you going away from the haven
2 peace? Are you and / travelling ava
r from God? Are we following the "se
r ting sum-" where we have our 10
/ days." or are we leading toward II
D star Of the east" where we sha
B have our found daysY Are we sa
T ing from God at a point where we sha
8 crash upon the rocks Of sin, or are
Z sailing toward the harbor of peac
O where we shall meet all our dear on
Y with Christ?
n But perhaps, after all, the caption
my sermon is a misleading one. The
n is truly no "lost day" in mans III
!. Every day is yet to be found day
= All days will be found days" at t
Y Judgment seat Of Christ, where tn
q shall testify for our eternal salvau
!. or our eternal condemnation. May
d our days be days which shall be ole'
q ed by conservation to the service OF I
% Master. and may this day be the p'
~ Of all found days" for 1t Is here a
?, now deciding our destiny. Oh, for I
# golden sunrise of that millennial daV
N where sin and evil days have foreN
,t passed away.
in copyright, 1904, by Louis klopscn'