Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-01-21

scottereth abroad" AS come 10 this
closing part Of my sermon l tremole
with excitement. know. as yoo
ought TO know. the tremendous resuitt
of vour decision. Why do | trempie!
Because your father. your motner' your
wife. your child or the preacher OF tnis
morning cannot make you become
"child Of light II you are not Wiling
TO do so Of your own accord.
The gospel light. like that OF tne
sun's light. with all Of its creating,
saving power. is the easiest OF all great
influences to be resisted. Inc hgn'-
nings strike everywhere. They cut "
the right and to the left. win one
blow they can split rocks and wreck
homes and dlsmantle trees. The suns
heat cannot be ignored. even II one
would. When the hot summer months
come all who can do so fee from the
cities and HE themselves away TO the
woods or the seashore. Closed doors
ond windows make the stifing air only
the more oppressive. The poor httie
children moan and cry. The SICK Il
thev are not taken away to the sea-
shore or the high mountains, often ole'
The city parks are crowded with SUI
fering humanity.
Cannot Escape Thunder.
You cannot escape II you would tne
sounds Of the cannonading Of the eie'
ments when the thunderstorm pegiDs
to prowl and to crash. The frightened
o,rl NAV run to her bedroom and Close
" the windows and draw the snaoes an'
'' brrv her ears in the pillows. I'M
= hooming discharges Of the heaveni'
o artilleries send their echoes eVe'
3 through stone walls. But the suniign
! can be overcome so easily that all on
Z has 70 do is to close the eyellds ana u
- n bandage over the face, and as DIM
J. man no will have to grope MS wa
ie along the darkness. All one mas 70
'r 10 "a nlant the flowers under the shae
- ows of q wall. and you can see 'nei
C. male and droop and wither ana oi
ie light may have q creating. deveiol
~ y ing. a protecting. saving inhuene ~
u bnt light will never force Its VIC
y y through blocked vestibule or tnroui
=. a thick obstruction which mas Ue'
NJ erected to keep 1t out. Thus the go
r r.e pel light will never enter your nea
~ unless you wish it to come Chfi
W sa,d 81 am the light" What Is yo
~ ~ answer? VIII you accept that hgn
49, Will you reject 1t and live IN e'ern
,or darkness? ,,.
.er what Is your life to be? what
~, vopr death to be? What Is your e'er'
d, 70 to be? One moonlight night up
- the Hudson river there came tne qui
~ ring of the pilots bell warning tne
o,neer that danger was ahead. IL "
A moonlight night No boat was ne
,ol- The ship was in midstream, so the
'aii gineer could not tell what the s's'
cen meant. He went at once to tue pi
as house There be found the old pilot
san ,no As he lifted up the prostrate n
ual tbe nilot murmured: "lt is dark.
I mist has settled upon the river AM
my cannot see. Tell the captain II Is d
nid- and I can't see." oh. my friends'
ers vorr l,fe's close to be shrouded In q
was mists? Is your "river Of death 10
OF in a spiritual sense like that OF
ling Hudson river pilot-in an atmospr
0 dark. impenetrably. awfully ana e
no' nally dark2 r.o,
low when King Philip III. OF Fra
not called 1.-The Hardy" returned from
ONE war against the Moors ana MS
was quest over the hey OF Tunis' It Is
the that he brought back In his tram
by rofins. He came back to Paris. pr
that inc the dead bodies Of bis fatner,
g wife. his son. his brother-in-law ano
d OF brother. Can 1t be, o God. tnat
your our gospel campaign in thy name
uses must give to thee dead, the eterl
Paul dead. spirits; the souls dead 10 al
the pel light of any Of these thy dear o
his God forbid. Open your eyes ana
ware hearts to him who is the light OF
light world" Today become children OF
are messengers of light and conqueroi
the and through the light. I'VE are
r the light Of the world"
,hris- o,.,. ,oo6 bv Louis Klopscl
light "