Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-04-21
Ca(r1age
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee. ID.

the remedy is simple faith and obedi-
ehce. The text is John iv, AZ, Except
w see signs and wonders, ye VIII not
believe"
ave are always demanding gospel
proof. Like Gideon Of old, we want
oar faith bolstered up by the wet
Aeece. Like doubling Thomas we
Want TO see Christ in the flesh ana 10
tlrust.our fingers into the torn pallnS
of fbe hands and into the wounded slde
before we will believe that he IS risen
from the dead. When any fact ABOUT
God or the prophecies of the BlDle -
told Ms we at once say, GIVE US lhe
evidence or we will not believe Now
I want to show you not only that "iaitn
is the substance Of things hoped 1or'
the evidence of things not seen' Dut
that we should believe and trust Goa
and accept his words and promises
oven when there are no signs ana won
doris visible to confirm our faith. May
God helm MS as. in Lis name, we enter
unon this most important and vital
subject. ,uo
Signs and wonders theological nave
oorno to rs God and his attributes
mass all the realms of human eXplaha-
tion The story is told that one DAY
Michael Angelo entered the studio OF
Raphael. You know that the iloren
+,na master was nearly decade Older
than the painter Of the Sistine Madon
M As an artist who had won hi'
enurs he had right to give advice u
the Younger man. Michael Angelo stoo'
Cor some time before one Of Raphael
. o,sels The young man at this tim
% ,vos absent from his studio. Anger
ufted q pencil and drew the curves o
tho aorro mon the canvas along Droao
er lines. Then under the picture Il
wrote this one word three times; All
rtifvl Amplifyl Amplify" You WI
have stood before the wonderful cre'
t t,ons Of the architect Of ST. Peters
Rome know what he meant by 'n'
word lie meant increase the concel
tion Of YOUR subjects" Oh, Kaphat
knot the muscles Of your model
or,ns and make swarthier necks nj
broader shoulders and more leonn
countenances. The tauntlng Phillsun
e not a dwarf, but . giant. The ma
ter builders of history are not pyglhi'
W hut Titans. NertunSs tEsent does D
y rnle n mill pond but has for its rea.
t,e mighty deep. Amplifyl Ampiil
smpNfy! Good adyte' that for keI
a. IN an artistic sense. Good adv
Cor ne in n theological sense. we ha
It. received certain revelations given
reference to Gods personality, but
must not stop with these reyelatlo
We must be continually enlarglhB
,doos Of God. We must try to gan
convention of him greater thah
avos can see and greater than our
man lntellects can explain.
We must amplify our belief OF Io
nersonality in reference to his ete[
existence. The first verse OF the L
chanter of Genesis says, I'm the De'
ninq God created the heaven ana
eortbv But that beginning sim
'ar- olIudes TO the creation OF the W.
me; and the planetary system. Friend
Aliu W not Cod exist before that! "Oh' y
The Won answer; "God has always exist
Rrt what do you mean by "aiWaS
follow Hugh Miller, the Scotush
ologist. in his Testimony ol
Rocks" and in his "FootprlhtS ol
creator" and he tells me that tle
davs Of creation were not slA ua3
+,,.ortv-four hours each, but that
dav represented ages upon useS
time This conception OF the tini
tho creation was well expressed DS
nsolmist when he said, "A thou
vcors in thv sight are but as yeste
when it is past, and as Watcn Il
night" In the creation Oh 'nc
+he seconds of time are cehlurles'
.bo minutes are millenniums the
ore eras. and the days are ages
ages. If you 90 and stand Dy lhe
of Niagara the scientists VIII '''
+ho+ the falling waters wear
ohort six feet Of rock every year
e tile +hov will take you for miles dow
.h he rapids. toward Lake Ontario anu
~ ~ nv nv Won where those rocks have grao
,NIS boon worn away by the falling W
Y you of thousands of years. Next the'
anter o1ocists will open the leaves o
ID all vocl,s and tell you that those
which have been worn away tooh
nnon ages to form. Then, after
hack thousands upon Thousand
vears to the creation of the Worl'
ora NOT vet at the beginning Oh
gent. eternal existence, for Oou eAiS''
fore the world was.
Oaks What Eternal Means
a., Mr. What the eternal existence o
,,oors cannot be better illustrate
Nv the following words Of NJ. {
FIommarion. the celebrated a.
NOR What this French write
obout the heavens we can easily
IL 20 Tho duration Of time: Let us
9 inc that we sail million year
the velocity of light 1S6'OOo Il
second. Are we at the connlles
,.;eil,lo universe? See the Dia
,ooneities we must cross! But
new stars are lit up in the dept,
heavens. We push on toward
we reach them-agan a million
NOW revelations. new starry spi
r needs ne~ '. l,.sto,,a new worlds, new
What never an end? We are
vestibule Of the infinite we w Il
b, Va vanced a. DI. the same IlrSr Spoint+the ce