Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-10-21

neln when In that darkest day OF Sslr
ufe no sprang to your side? No. 2 se
rame because you needed him. . n@'
how have you treated your Joseph,
failed today In the Egyptian dunseonf
The butler of my text was an IN
prate He was more to be condemned
than that He turned his back upon MS
friend-for what? For false friends.
No sooner did he get back to the pal
ace than one after another Of the cour-
tiers in all probability came up &c MIN
and congratulated him. "Ah," they
said. 1--WE are so glad to see you pack'
We missed you so much. Notning
went right at the royal banquets wniie
vou were away" Especially were the
underbutlers and the walters profuse
in their praise and laudations 10 MS
face. Then a smile OF satisfacuon
steals over the chief buffers counte-
nance as he says: "Ah, / am glad
have such good friends here! l am
Glad I do not have to associate any
longer with those criminals down IN
the iail. These are my friends, my
true friends"
Not Real Friends.
But were all the courtiers VINO cano
forward and congratulated the cniei
butler on his restoration to once MS
friends? Five hundred men OF Pha-
raoh's court already had been plottins
for his Office and wished he might neV-
or come back. In all probability the
second cupbearer, who congratulated
him. was biting his lips with anger uh-
tI the blood came. Course him" hear
him saw. Course him. Why did he not
die and make way for my promotionF
Curse him. curse himw All through
the nalace could be heard the words'
Course him. curse him" from those
who wanted his place. Now, my
friends, can you and / afford TO turn
our backs upon old friends and true
friends for those who are merely nom
or,no ne IN our success for what they
get out Of US?
Rut 7 cannot close without just one
more thought suggested by my text.
The greatest opportunities OF gospe'
a service may come to a man through us
' past experience If he renounces MS SINS
> and remembers his faults. / have aD-
= solutely no more respect for this selnsn
n character Of the butler than l have 1or
\ a Judas or an Iago or for Lady Mac
h beth or a Jezebel. He was miserable,
r contemplate, despicable hireEng, WIN
n q heart of stone He would forget
q any one who had served him. But no
= sooner did Pharaoh dream his dream
Q and no one could interpret 1t than at
10 once the butler thought Of Joseph. You
IT can see him. with flushed cheek ana
le CLASSY eye pushing his way into the
Il. throne room. You can see him WIN
IT reverence and sorrow written upon bis
face. "Ah," he says, master, nave
ia done wrong. l have forgotten my
X friend Joseph, who Is now in prison
Is Send for him, and he VIII interpret tns
IN dream" Pharaoh sent for Joseph. 20
,is semi came. The chief butler at the
to last moment was able and willing u
be. omen the way for the future prime min
ne ister TO save a nation from disease ant
ne hunger and death. Ny friends, at tni
as the sixth hour the ninth hour, the tenu
ch hour the eleventh hour, Of your refusa
ed to do your duty to the King OF KING
be and Lord Of lords will you not spea
en- the right word! VIII you come I
Ter Christ and bring your sinful friends I
m Christ as the ungrateful butler brough
er. Josenh and Pharaoh face to faceF
You are the father of home. 10
have no nursery, for your boys are q
Ter ready grown. But they have all grow
,ur away from God. Your hair whit
err. Your time is short. No one can orin
lty those boys to God but you. You kno'
me it. They dolize you. They believe 20
M are the one person to lead them, an
in YOU alone. o father, confess to &c
II your sins. Confess to your boys yo'
his sins. II is the eleventh hour. II
l late. but not too late. Bring your DO!
ge. 10 Christ as the butler brought JOSEF
'elf and Pharaoh face to face. You ca
SER do It. Believe me, you can do It.
bile As speak to father, as / speak
ave mother. as speak to wayward FRIEND
no thus may be speaking to the strapg
am. within the gates who thinks he has
you friend. Stranger, think not thus al
ack more. This is not strange place. III
to is Gods house. Perhaps years a
but there was some young man or SOL
.du- voung woman who might have oroug
,un- Won to Christ II he Or she had tris
,uld But the opportunity was neglect'
on You say you are parted forever. Ns
9TH NOT forever. You are not parted ev
run now. Let me lead you to the King. /
er's me utter the words that another NJ
lay lected 10 speak. Lord Jesus Christ,
for thou let my lips speak the words u
say: those silent lips should have uttere
get Stranger, thou art now no longer
you thy prison Of sin. Thou art IN the pr
tudy ence of my King This is King Jes
law He bids thee look and live.
speak unto thee these same wol
oun- which Peter spake unto the cripple
must the beautiful gate: "Silver and g
ler," have I none, but such as have CIV
,ge." INTO thee. In the name OF Jesus ]
she up and walk" wilt thou rise
the walk? Then thou art with my Mas
my Then I am the butler who, by the p'
llege or of the holy spirit, hath brought
much seph and Pharaoh into royal and nc
Her emily companionship.
grit rcoo,,r,obt 1so5 by Louis KIopsch.
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