Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-06-23
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house the owner killed kid and sprin-
kled the blood upon the doorstep When
the invading soldiers came 10 this house
and saw the blood they supposed the
house had been sacked and they pass
ed on. Those Hollanders In the House
Of a Thousand Fears" found safety
through the blood of q kid. In this
world Of sin and sorrow hundreds OF
millions Of poor mortals have found
safety through the sacrifice Of the Di-
vine Lamb. In the judgment hall Of
Christ, Jesus will always save those
who have come pleading for mercy
! through his blood, as King Solomon
was always the friend and the savior
Of the weak and the helpless in the
great royal judgment hall Of the Jeru-
salem capital.
4 Worlds Christ.
When we talk about King Solomon
blessing his own people we also find
Christ the Saviour of the Jew. When
| we find King Solomon welcoming the
| queen Of Sheba TO his court we find
Christ the Saviour Of the gentiles as
well Jesus did not simply come 10 be
Hebrew Christ He came to be
worlds Christ. Can you not find this
symbol in the glorious welcome which
the ruler Of the Davidic capital gave 10
this beautiful, dusky queen Of the
southland?
"Oh, what is the use Of bOthering
with the queen Of ShebaY ! hear some
of the cabinet ministers say 20 the
king. "Shc is from a country way of
to the south. We can never get any
trade from her. If there was a canal
cut through the Sucz isthmus. that
might be different But all Intercourse
with that nation must come overland
| by camel back through regions infested
with robbers. Why do we not turn
and court the affections Of those nearer
at homer "Ah," methinks 7 can hear
the great king say, IF we can help any
people we must help them all alike.
All who will come TO me I shall help,
whether they be Jews or gentiles.
whether they be whites or blacks,
whether they be men or women. They
shall all be treated alike" And 80,
standing amid swaying palms and the
| incense bearing servants and amid the
bowling cOurtiers OF the welcoming
I king. I learn that when we 90 forth to
| Christian work we are not TO hem IN
our gospel Invitations by any national
| ity or by any one social class. We
must carry the gospel TO all peoples Of
all climes
Now comes the practical question.
Are you and | willing to come TO our
| Saviour King, as did the queen Of She
| ba, who sat at the feet of King Solo
mon? Are we ready, like this queen OF
my text, to bring our priceless gifts?
Are we ready to come and bow at the
feet of Jesus and give TO him the most
| priceless OF gifts-namely, the gift Of
our earthly lives and Of our eternal
soulsi Oh, my friends, if we continue
much longer to loiter in the faro6
county, 30 you believe we will ever
be able to come and SIT at the Masters
feet In tile new Jerusalefnf
The Poets Answer.
In closing I am going to ask you to
put TO yourselves the same question
the consumptive college student, Rich
ard Kirk White, put to himself. He had
but few more weeks to live. One day
while he was walking through flower
garden he found card with these
words on it pinned to a tall plant:
To think a spring is yet 10 come
That l am not 10 see.
To think a flower is yet 10 bloom
From dust that shall be
With that the dying poet took out his
pencil, and upon the back Of this card
he wrote these words, which he had 10
answer, as we'll as all of US have to an
swer:
fled
And times and seasons DER.
When all that can die shall be dead,
That / shall die no more.
Oh where shall then my spirit be,
Where shall spend eternity?
Immortal, travelling this road OF
death where are thou going 10 spend
eternity? Queen of the Land OF Sin.
wilt thou leave the far country and
come and bow at King SOlOmon's feet
in the Dayidlc capital? Down on Thy
knees, immOrtall And then when thou
hast uttered the publican's prayer thy
king will lift thee and cali thee his
child and thy brow wilt wear a royal
coronet And then-what tbenl The
glory of that moment no human hp
may describe. The half of that eterna.
triumph has never been told and never
will be told until, like the queen Of
Sheba, we shall be welcomed in the
heavenly capital. "Yea, the half OF the
greatness of thy wisdom was not told
me-"
ICopyright 1906 by Louis Klopsohl