Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-08-25

| HI ninety, anu DhuuOiO, tne uOSe VI
Venice. leading his soldiers In battle at
the age OF ninety-fve. and Homer
blind old man, writing his odyssey"
when nearly all OF the contemporaries
Of his own generation were dead and
gone, were not any greater physical
marvels than this young man who Is
the prototype of this mornings text.
| Stronger Than Peter.
But we do not have to turn to Reve'
lation to prove that John was phys
ical!y marvel. There is another rea-
son why know ST. John had superb
physical body. When we read the
twentieth chapter of st. John we find
Peter and John running toward the
rlfed tomb on the morning Of the res
direction. Which was the swlfter OF
| foot2 There, In Johns own words,
we read, And the other disciple did
outrun Peter" Now, no one for mo-
ment would judge the physique of Pc
ter to be that of yaletudinarian. Oh,
no! His muscles were those Of pow
erfully formed fisherman. His skin
was bronzed from many hot sun and
tempest beating down upon Lake Call
lee. When the artists draw his picture
It Is always with the swarthy neck and
the deep chest. Yet this other disciple
did outrun Peter. When John sur
rendered his life to the work Of the
Master he did not have to say. Here,
Lord. IL a pair of wheezy lungs and a
heart whose valves are out Of gear and
a brain with all It's corpusoles white"
He did not say. Here. Lord, are my
weak nerves, too much out OF tune to
do anything but call for a medicine
chest" Oh, no-that was not st. John!
He came to the Master and said:
Here, Lord, is q fine physical body. /
was bo-- well. promise to take care
of this body to my uttermost and
make 1t q mighty agent to do thy
work. / will keep 1t we'll supplied
with food. will look after 1t to my
best ability, so that l may live on
earth dvescore years II possible to do
thy work. Here 1t is, Master. Take 1t
| for thy service" viii we consecrate
our bodies to God, as did John? If we
are prone to physical ailments, will we
do all In our power to win back that
health In order to become physical as
well as spiritual athletes In the Mas
ters serricesf
"Oh, yes" say some people, John
way wa an ytltiug to hurt anybody's isel-
,oSs soy He, wsHid go miles and miles 70 70
n,, .nsS. ). n,easSnt nsct. he would 20 miles
aet oma . Mites TO escane telling an unpieas-
ant truth In Other WORDS mos. a.r u.o
lists paint John WITH an a ene a Toce
face Co.. He is supposed 70 have a act haCt
laee, l1's,cn 90 could never belong to d great
surgeon, who has to drive ilstne An,o 1,,ho
or TO a tsreat proseouting attoNSs "nS ~
Sos ~ 70 orxaigrf a criminal at thercar ol
Justice or to Il great commander w"o
bos 20 lead on his soldiers In Dattie -
80 . ~reot strtesman who has TO s'gn =
deotb warra nj when 1t Is necessa-s .
and right SO t>O 40. We 90 not pN'u.' ,'
him os a man OF wrath and denuncla'
t,on but only ot pardon and OF peace
whereas in fact, no human race 9noS.e AZ
no chiseled with lSxnner features u ~
cisjon. He WAS a positive man ln.0's-
and through. he seeusd to be aDie y y
handle the thundgboNts 81 heaVe" a.
no ,nsnired writer before Or since na'
over been able to do. Where 'San w.
And such awful descriptions OF e>>s'na
| punishment as In his book OF hsNe'"
ton? Where such denunciaoon OF ~.
! and eternal death as In his ap%eHo
Ivnse and his visions2 Ii you "0oS
he an APOSTLE like st. John yon mus
no an uncompromising foe OF eVii a.
! well as one who breaches the love an|
the pardon and the mercy ana Inc p0'
aIyeness Of Jesus Christ.
st. John No Compromkser'
st yohn was one Of the favorlte us
| c,nIes ~ Jesus Christ on account oI ni
nositiye,7 ,7ess When the question o
r,obt and wrong came up he was ou
and ont. up and down. throtigh an
through for the right. There was n
comoromIse. Are we going to be 'ik'
John in our denunciation or eVll
When II Is necessary TO use the knir'
unon the deadly cancer a good sur
geon will keep on driving 1t IN and cut
ting down until he gets cut all or tn'
roots2 II is a dangerous matter, thi'
; tamperIng with evil. In my Chicago
church there sat Sunday after Sunday
heantiful woman who was th'
mother of three fine children. One day
she came TO me and said. The doctor
wants me TO 20 to the hospital ant
have a lump upon my breast cut out
The next day she had this operation
done. But the surgeon was one O
those yacIllating men. he never di'
h,s work thoroughly. He made a smaI
,ncision and took out the lump. bu
he did not take the roots away. within
fonr months the lump came back. Thel
another surgeon saw it. He said: "Ha'
l done the first operation l could nav
saved her life. l fear 1t Is too lat
now" Then he laid that woman upol
the table and began to cut Ho Gu
away the heshy part OF that woman
right side, from the waist up into tn
cords OF the neck. But, alas! be begal
his cutting too late. That mother
now in her grave because the first sur
geon did not cut deep enough. Thl
charge can never be made against 81
John. When he uses the knife upol
the cancer of sin he cuts clear dow
to the root He was map OF posltiy
: characteristics. His lip was a smiling
! lIp but it was a firm lip. May Coz
, help US to be like John. May W
learn how to denounce evil, as well a