Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-02-17

did not come from your companld $,
though there never were finer men to
trough IT. with than those who were
your associates at that time. But
somehow you did not care to talk that
night So you made up your bed OF
green boughs and covered them with
the soft leaves. Then you spread your
blankets and lay down. You did not
lie down to sleep You lay down to
rest and commune with God. Before
you the sun, which had long since set,
was throwing its light up over the
western bills and dyeng the evening
clouds in pigments of gold ana IN
some places making them look ike
great burning caldrons and lakes OF
fire. Then it began to grow darker
and darker. You heard an owl boot
and n hyena call. Then the stars be-
gan TO come out one by one.
At first you tried to count them.
You said "Ope, two, three, four, five,
ten, twenty, fifty" Then the heavens
were lighted up with myriads of lights,
md your eyes became confused. You
hogan to think of the numbers OF the
stars on the other side Of the world.
"TIcre." YOU said, 1--WE have the Dip
nor There is the Southern Cross we
aever see" Then you thought Of the
oyciopean eye of the telescope looking
farther and farther into space, and eV-
ervvhere it looked there were stars
mon stars. thousands Of them, myrlads
Of them. Then you looked up ana
cried out. 80 God, how many stars
are there?" And the answer seemed
70 come to you: "There are as many
stars as the leaves of the trees in the
forests about thee. They are greater
than any man can number" "Oh'"
Won saw. "it is impossible for any man
10 count the stars" Yes, my friend,
YOU are right; It is impossible
Rut here an overwhelming thought
comes rolling over me like tldal
wave. They who have turned many
IN righteousness are a great multitude
Not only in our day, but in past years
and past centuries, men have been WIZ
ninc souls for Christ, and we, il we
have been laboring for him, will live
and shine among that innumeraDle
tbrong. We are not going to be ike
great fashlight shining in the nea''
ons above but our stars shall shih'
with other stars. All the prophets ahu
Al
the apostles will be there. All III,
ovonoelists and the sweet singers ol
Israel will be there. All the mlghty
leaders for God in the past ages VII
no there. No earthly "hall OF talhe
would ever be large enough to holo
that vast assemblage Of gospel heroes
and heroInes. Cannot you Ieei tn'
on,r,tual electric thrill of such an us
semblage as that?
You know that an audience or grea'
collection Of people has its pecuilar Ell
titv as we'll as a single human oeins
A dear friend Of mine some years age
was attending in London a great inter
national gathering of the Representa-
tivos of the Salvation Army For hour'
he stood in the gallery watchlng sn'
convention progress. "As meeting loi
lowed meeting" said he, "a strans'
snirit of conservation seemed to take
nossession of that vast assempiage
Won could almost see this spirit as wei
os Fool II You were swept along DI
the holy enthusiasm of the delegates
whether YOU were a Salvation Army
man or not. So powerful became thi'
snirit that a man standing near M
,rbo was not Christian said: There
must be something in Chrlstlanlty
There must be something supernatura
about It. These people are in deaI
earnest. | cannot get away from It.
Tbus in heaven, when we get there
we shall all feel the spiritual electrl
thrill of being in close touch with nun
dreds upon hundreds and millions upol
millions of soul winners. Nheh Ill
those vast multtudes of souf>Whher
shall lift ND their voices in praise the'
will lift us up. Oh, my friends, do yo'
not rejoice that in heaven you VIII
snend an eternity with those who nav
elorified God on earth? There you shal
be in touch with them in numbers a
the stars which shine forever and ever
, An Ideal Heaven.
Rut though like today to think o
the multitudes Of soul winners WI
shall lie enrolled among the inhabitant
of heaven. I cannot think Of am dea
heaven simply as a great mass OF III
mortal souls, jostling each other on III
> | houlevards Of the New Jerusalem.
, would not care for a heaven wherel
every man and woman and chlld Is
lose his individuality and cease TO nav
| afFinities with other immortal sOuN
! | Oh. no. I would not want a heaven llh
that 7 believe that in heaven we sha
, moot multitudes Of immOrtals Wn
. have been soul winners on earth, Dt
I also relieve that those soul winner
= shall keep their individualities ana thi
the same loves of earth which mad
: husband cling to wife and wife to hu'
! hand and parents to children ana chi
dren TO parents and friends to FRIEND
o will all be there By the stellar glor
), of the night think we may infer !
= For "they that be wise shall shine
: the brightness Of the armament, an
9 they that turn many to Righteousness
o as the stars forever and ever"
Y The more we learn Of the stars an
r their movements the more clearly do'
u this appear The unscientific man ca
q see nothing but chaos and confusion
e the stars Of the heavens. AS he loot
y up into the armament he says: M
q how many stars there are! They see
e TO be everywhere. There seem to
u stars tumbling and stars jostling an
If stars pushing. Here is falling sta
& and yonder that mass Of white is &C
lection of stars so close together th'
they seem to be perfect mob OF sta