Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-01-13

over those hilsides. We can see the
runners, with the speed of the winds,
coming back to that capital telling OF
victories won. We can picture the al
tars of gold and silver. We can see the
palaces filed with the richest art treas
, ures and see the vast amounts Of mon
eys squandered for the worship Of the
god of wine called Dionysus. But right
under the shadow Of the prison in
which Socrates was compelled to quar-
the poisonous hemlock ignorance and
filth were everywhere. And when the
/ poor became sick they were not cared
for as we care for our sick; but they
were left alone to starve and die. Or
they were driven out upon the noun
tain sides as the Hebrews drove their
lepers to the tombs Of the dead, cry
ing: "The leper, the leper! Room for the
leperl Rooml Roomw All, yes, the
Greeks in social sense had a duty to-
ward their poor fellow men. Have we
not as great If not a greater duty
"Thou art thy brothers keeper" Thou
art his keeper In a financial way-you
must give him work; in a mental way
you must build for him schools; In a
physical way-you must care for him
when he is sick and helpless. Are you
doing 1t? And the times of this igno-
rance God winked at, but now COM
mandeth all men everywhere to re-
pent."
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But God has borne with our past mis-
sionary ignorance as we'll as our past
social ignorance. We have a duty to
fulfill in reference to the kind of homes
IN which our brethren sleep and eat.
We must see that they have the right
kind Of schools in which to be taught.
But above all we must see that they
are made acquainted with the gospel Of
Christ and the mercy Of the true God.
And yet some people who are members
Of Christian churches profess to believe
that they are not responsible for the
kind of God their heather brethren
worship. BY their actions they practi-
cally say: Christ did not mean any
thing when he said, Go We therefore
and teach all nations, baptizing them
in the name Of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Ghost But he does
mean for us simply to go and teach our
friends and our own families and our
own kith and kin"
All, my brother, when man is indif-
ferent to the missionary effort to
preach Christ unto all men and send
Christ's missionaries into the farther
most parts Of the earth ne resembles
In his religious selfshness the sultan |
Of Turkey. Tourists who have been to |
Constantinople tell US that the "sick |
man Of Europe" is living in daily ter
ror Of his life. His Bloody hand has |
been against all his enemies. Murder |
and rapine have gone wherever his rule |
has gone. He dethroned his elder
brother and shut him up in prison for
many years. He is said to have slain
two Of his nearest relatives, either one
Of whom would have become sultan
had he died. He has killed scores and
hundreds and thousands Of his subjects
In the hope that their deaths might
make his life more assured, and yet
there he trembles in his palace, year in
and year out, afraid Of his foreign foes
and fearful Of bis enemies, -skulking
within his own capital.
The Sultan's Fears.
But once a week the sultan, even in
spite Of his own fears, goes regularly
to the mosque to prayer. He goes there
with one motiye-to insure his own sal
walton. 1t is Of himself, his eternal safe
ty, that he thinks and not Of the well
fare of his people. Can 1t be possible
that any Christian resembles him in
this? Are there Christians whose sole
desire in worship is their own salvation
and who care nothing for others?
The broader conceptions of the gos-
pei never seem to enter their lives.
That because Christ is their Saviour
they should try to present him to those
who know him not, ah, this indeed has
never been the purpose of their hearts.
Now, all this narrow conception of
must stop. We must be
eyes to the blind and ears to the deaf
and crutches to the lame and food for Z
the hungry. But we must be more
than that-we must be the means, ,
through the missionaries, of bringing :
Christ to dying world. I
Thus in closing l would point you
C Mars hill, the most glorious. pulpit I
n the world with the exception Of =
Calvary. And then I would point out =
or your exemplar the mightiest gos-
)el preacher Of all times with the ex- =
'eption Of Jesus Christ himself. And .
would tell you that Paul did not 90 =
o Athens to preach Christ. He was O
worn out with work. He was resting :
here for Silas and Tlmotheus to come :
o him. But while he rested he saw
he Athenians in sin. Then he could y
lot rest any longer. The Bible says, '
His spirit was stirred in him when
e saw the city wholly given to idol
try" Therefore be went forth to tell
be Athenians about his Christ. All, z
ny friends, in our modern Athens Of
lmerica will your hearts burn within f;
ou as Paul's burned within him when a
e saw the wickednesses of mankind? Il
VII you here and now promise not to
est this side Of the grave until you Il
ave told as many people as you can 81
bout the Jesus who alone can save Il
lem from their sins? May every hour 81
Z every day Of the coming year find b
on proclaiming the gospel tidings 81
ON some Mars hill until at last you ol
and before the throne Of heaven, IL
here Christ shall reveal himself to Y,
i his redeemed ones face to face.
copyright, 1905. by Louis KlopschJ N
Mexican Mormon Colonies. o
The four Mormon settlements estab. =,