Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-08-04
Caln1age
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee, ID. ID.


careless. the Indifferent and the irrey-
erent. who in church keep one eye on
the sermon and the other on business or
pleasure, this sermon has a direct ap-
plication. The text selected is Acts XXX,
0. "And there sat IN a window GER
tain young man named Eutychus, being
fallen into deep sleep
No class of men work harder for
Christ than do the travelling evangelists.
When such men as John Wesley and
George Whitefeld and d. l.. Moody
have world for parish, they realize
how large that field is, and they do
everything in their power to raVel
over it before they die. The true evan
gelst breaches on Sunday. lie also
breaches on Monday, Tuesday, Wednes-
day, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
He not only breaches at night, but In
the afternoons and in the mornings.
He breaches at all times and under all
conditions. He seems to say to HIM
self: THE harvest is plenteous, but the
laborers are few. o God, give me
strength to WELD thy sickle with super
human power and gather thy sheayes
bv the multitudes into the gospel gran
ary"
No work is too great for the true gos-
pei evangelist if he can only get an
audience to hear him preach. Turn TO
the letter which Daniel Baker wrote to
his son In 1854 He was then an aging
man of sixty-three. Yet he wrote these
words: "My speaking amounts to some
three or four sermons day. ana TINS
for some three or four months past.
| Many persons express their astonlsh-
ment why, Mr.. Baker, how can you
stand It? You can break down SIX
preachers. confess it does seem a
little strange, but 50 it IS. When l FIN
| ish one meeting, | begin another the
very next morning, sometimes the very
| same evening. My Master sustains me
and is it not written. They that wall
| upon the Lord shall renew then
strength"
John Wesley the travelling eyangel
ist' always began his days work at
O'clock in the morning. Many were
the times he preached two sermons
Ibefore breakfast. On an average NJ
used to travel every year nearly o,oO'
miles. He preached from two to fou
sermons every day of his life. NO
only that but he everywhere dissem
mated his printed appeals for Christ
Truly Tyerman was right when n
eulogized John Wesley's herculean Ia
bors in these words: Looking at Ill
travelling. the marvel is how he foun'
time TO write. and, looking at his BOOKS
tbe marvel is how he found time I
preach" But preach he did He KEEP
on preaching under all conditions. III
seemed to say, "My life Is slippin
away so fast that | must carry I'd
J gospel to as many people as possiDl
before die" Wesley preached in III
early morning to the miners OF Cr'
marty. He preached In the marke
places at noon. He preached IN III
fields in the afternoon. lie preache
in the churches at night He preache
at all times, under all conditions, TO a
who would hear the message or til
: atoning love Of Jesus Christ.
Paul the Early Wesley.
Now. if / might not seem irreverer
7 would say that the Apostle Paul wa
the John Wesley among the early Oil
ciples. In all probability he was n'
an impassioned speaker like Pete
Peter always seemed to me to be IL
George Whitefed Of the apostol
band. | can imagine him preachin
ON the day of Pentecost as Geors
Whitefeld so often stood before b
audiences. with flaming eyes and ca
nest gesture and resonant voice. "
what a power Peter must have beel
But. though George Whitefield had Ii
work to do, John Wesley had his wol
also. and a far greater work. Jor
Wesley went from place to place, n
only preaching, but also organlzli
churches and collecting money for q
evangelistic work. Such was the wol
Of Paul. He was the John Wesley
the apostolic band.
Now, today we find this ancle
John Wesley on one of his great M
sionary tours. He wants to make 4
most of his trip, so he stops only
short time at Troas. l think L he
him say to his travelling companio
Luke. do you think we can 9
through our work here in q weekY'
do not believe so," answers DR.. LUZ
"a week is a very short time"
know it." says Paul, "but If we WI
o for the sailing OF another vessel the
is no telling how long we may nave
;r remain here. 1 would like to prea
.s 70 these friends for months instead
or n week. But we must hasten on.
want to present the gospel to as ma
or different cities as can before L die
D. think if we get up early in the mol
ling and preach before breakfast a
~ keep on preaching during the day d
~ preach late in the evening l can SO"
~ Good many seeds. Our time Is ve
short We must hasten on 10 Ass
and Mitylene and thence go TO On
and TrogylIum and Miletus.'
sleeping Christians.
Thus we see Paul hard at work
Troas. Six days slipped by only
quickly. On the last day before
sails he has so much to say that
continues his talks far on toward
midnight. While he is exhorting
Christians of Troas to be true to tn
faith a young man who Is sitting
the window sill of the room uoz
loses his balance and falls out
breaks his neck. "And there sat II
window a certain young man nan
Eutychus, being fallen into u
sleep. and as Paul was long preach
he sunk down with sleep and fell dc
from the third loft and was taken
dead" Now, would like to cons
with Won the reason why this 70