Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-02-10
NUMBER 81

men who have led disreputable, I'M
moral life. Scandals have besmlrched
their garments everywhere. They come
into the church. The church Is sus-
nicious of them. At once they become
angry. They say that the people are
not treating them right. Il VIII 20
hack 70 NV old companions in SIM
They at least will treat me as an
equal" Is that right? Is that lalrF
If q man does wrong has not the Chrls-
fan world right to be suspicious OF
him until he proves that by the grace
oP Cod he intends to do rlghtT Here
IS q reformed drunkard or a REFORMED
thief. Has he the same right 10 lhe
resnect of the world in the first DAYS
of his repentance as the man VINO mas
heen living near to Go6for three long
vaars down in the sands of an ARABIAN
desert? No, no, my friends fauI
could never have had his tremendous
influence as a gospel evangelist unless
he had first been willing to efface hlm-
self for Christ. Thus may you De
willing 70 20 into Arabia for Jesus
after you have been for years pa
FAINT and an unrelenting despiser OF lne
cross.
Needed Human Society
Rnt there is another fact to which
want 70 call your attention. Even III
Arabia. with God and Christ, Paui ieit
tbe need of a human agency to heip
him over the rough experiences OF the
christian life What did he doF Let
me read to you his very words: Mel
thor went I up to Jerusalem to tnem
which were apostles before me, Dut
went into Arabia and returned again
unto Damascus. Then, after three
wears. I went up to Jerusalem TO see
Poter and abode with him hrteen
davs." Cannot you see what TINS
means? "Why," Paul said to himself
"before | go forth to preach the gos-
mel will 90 and see Peter. VIII ma
out from him what Jesus himself SAID
and learn all | can of that divine llte.'
Poul was a scholar and Peter only an
untaught fisherman, but Paul was Will
ing 70 take the learners place. Cannot
Won see how wise Paul was in his hu-
mility?
Seven days pass by, a whole week,
and still Peter and Paul do not cease
their talking. Paul asks Peter TO tel
him all about Christ Then methinks
can see Peter take Pauls arm and say:
"Come Paul. / want to take you up
TO Bethany to meet Mary and Martha
and Lazarus. Come, | want to show
Won the garden of Gethsemane, where
we all slept, and the palace where l
denied him. Come, and | will show you
where he died and where he was resur-
rected and where he left us for the last
time" The days slipped into the first
week. then into the second, and the M
teenth day came and still they talked.
Then Paul said, "Wen, Peter, l bad
better leave you now and go and work
for my Master We both love him, Pc
fer. You walked with him in the flesh.
7 saw him face to face at Damascus.
MAY God help me to testify Alright for
. him." AS Paul went up to Jerusalem
TO put himself under the influence OF
Peter, the great Christian apostle, are
Won and ready to put ourselves under
the care Of the noble Christian men
and women who are around US?
, And now comes the practical ques-
ton. Where are the modern Arabian
, deserts? In order to find one do we
: have to travel to Damascus, as Paul
, did, and journey to the east? Nay.
We have our Arabian deserts In the
7 western hemisphere as well as In Asia,
, in our lives as Paul had in his life. l
. think that one of our Arabias may be
. our sick beds. Hour after hour we may
have to lie in the inyalid's room. On,
;. how near to God we can then get!
>, Then another Arabia is when death
> comes to some Of our dear ones.
= "Alone alonew we say. "All, all
alonew We are not alone. We are in
the desert. Then another Arabia is
when persecution or slander comes.
> Our best earthly friends may turn
against us, but God never turns If we
call upon his name Another Arabia
; may be Just after we have been living
over again the past Even now we
Il seem to see the dear faces Of our de
y parted kindred come up. We seem &c
Il again see the day when we first conse
1t Grated our lives to God at the church
altar
II My friend who described for me tha
= trip over the desert told me also abou
le the wonderful mirages. He said they
- would be travelling along, when sud
.! denly ahead Of them would be seen ;
brook and falling waters and noun
- - tains and green fields and gardens
- They were all there. He would turI
=, to his travelling companion and ask
y "Do you see this? Do you see thatE
yes" would be the answer; Il SCI
them ALL" That, of course, was onl.
er false vision. But here today in tn
le Arabian desert of Paul am not show
Or ing to you a false vision as I ask: cd
ly you see your old home? DO you Sc
is the family at prayers? Do you Sc
~ vour father and mother taking you {
IT, church? Do you see the mansions i
o. heaven? Do you see your loved one
ID there to greet you? Do you see you
IN Heavenly Father beckOning you
IT. come? DO you see Christ standing b.
he your side to save you from sin? d
ST. YOU see the cross and the crown" Al
OF this is no mirage, no false vision! Thl
ID is the Arabian desert wherein Paul
OF communing with Christ and consecra
ing his life to the Divine Masters ser'
ne ice.
III [Copyright, 1905. by Louis Klopsch.l
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