Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-01-05
NUMBER 20

to ner wasted words? If they were,
then all efforts which are being put
forth in our Florence Crittenton ana
Jerry McAuley missions are wasteu
efforts. All the attempts to lift up the
fallen are futile. No. The unwrltteh
words and deeds Of Jesus live. Ihey
live in the lives Of the men whom he
redeemed by grace. They live as the
unwritten words and deeds with whlch
we try to lift up our fallen brothers
and sisters 20 Christ shall live through
all eternity.
working For Peace.
Rut cannot close without showing
YOU how the unwritten words or Jesus
must have affected those who did not
follow him as they should haYe follow
ed him. 1t was not all peace and hap
piness in the disciples camp. There
they had their little frictiOns and Jeal-
ousles. and Jesus unwrltten words
must have been continually pleading
for peace. peace, peace. Not one word
do we find in the gospels about these
conversations. But those pleadlngs for
peace must have been uttered.
Turn to the first two verses Of the
fourth chapter of st. John, when,
therefore, the Lord knew how the
Pharisees had heard that Jesus made
and baptized more disciples than John,
though Jesus himself baptized not, but
his disciples" Stop there. | want to
ask you why Jesus himself did not
baptize his new converts, but left 1t 10
his disciples so to do. Jesus did not
baptze his disciples" wrote a great
commentator. "because If he had bap-
tlzed some of them it might have made
unhappy divisions among his followers.
Those might have considered them
selves more worthy or honored who
had been baptized by him than those
baptized by the disciples" Don't you
see the force Of this Interpretation!
Jesus IS practically saying to his dis
/ clples: I'VE must do everything in our
power to keep down the troubled wa
ters of jealousy. We must do every
thing in our power so that we, each
and all Of US, shall work in harmony
with each other. Peace, peace! Let
us sacrifice everything in order that
we should work for the glory Of God
in peace." Yet we find not one word
Of this conversation recorded in the
Scriptures.
The Value of Harmony.
,t~ov1c fl1nodinO
for harmony In Christian work among
Christs followers? Are we doing all in
{ our Dower to have our homes harmonl-
GUS and our churches harmonious and
our different sectarian organizations
working hand in hand for the glory OF
God and not for self? Are we ready to
| sink ourselves for that peace and for
the glory Of Christ? During the dark
est DAYS Of the attempt to amalgamate
a lot of petty German principalities In
TO one great German empire Prince
Bismarck said to a friend: "Oh, that l.
could live to see the day when all
these German peoples shall be united
together in one great purpose to ~
feet and care for each other. | M {
not think of what my enemies mays y
or,do. To attain this .endI must brave
all dangers-exile, even the scaffold IT.
self. What matter If they hang me,
provided the rope with which l am
hanged binds this new Germany firmly
TO the Prusslan throneY Can you
speak like that for your divine Kingr
Shall your life be spent not only In
bringing social outcasts to the cross,
but in binding all Christians closer and
closer together with the Christs lover
While we dwell on these episodes in
the life of Christ that the evangellsts
have left unrecorded, we feel sure that
they were very kind and tender and
pure. He could not have acted other
wise. That divine life must hare been
consistent throughout, and the parts
that we do not know have been in har-
mony with those we do know. SO 1t
should be with us. Like Christ we
have an unwritten life, or. rather, an
| unrecorded life in the public sense.
: And thank God. that life can become
an infinite power for the saving OF
2 souls for Jesus Christ Shall our un-
! written words and deeds be truly con-
secrated to the divine Master? on,
= the unwrtten life Of every mortal
D man. VIII you heed and grasp these
4 opportunities today?
Let me, then, be always growing,
2 Never, never standing still;
! Listening learning, better knowing
: Thee and thy most blessed VIII,
That the Masters eye may trace
Day by day my growth in grace.
Copyright 1906 by Louis Klopsch.l