Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-10-05

other logs began to force them ILL.,
Then those huge logs were closing over
your head when your little companion
Law down fiat upon his stomach and ex-
tended to YOU his fishing pole and pull
ed YOU out Just in time. Or perhaps
vour narrow escape from death came
In some awful runaway. You can see
now the horses plunging and taxing
the bits in their teeth. You can near
tbe crash as the wagon is shattered
against tree. Or perhaps, like George
Washingtons mother, during mum
1erstorm YOU had friend struck
dead before your eyes by the lightning.
I do not know what that early escape
was. but this l do know-there Is
hardly man, woman or child WHO nas
not in youth come so near death as u
almost feel the cold air OF the tohD
tanning the cheek. Why, you were so
near death that just one step more
and YOU would have been over the
nrecinice or under the revolving wneei
of the car. Now, what was the reac-
tion of that sudden escape from neath
in the early days Of your youthF
The Reaction.
At first YOU began to tremble like an
ospen leaf. You did not do TINS whiie
Won were still looking into the yawh'
ing abyss of the grave. The grave
onened and shut so quickly that you
did not realize what was happening
until all danger was past. Then the
cold sweat began to break out over
! Won: your nerves began to twitch; you
hogan to say: 80 God, l never Khe"
fill now how near one could colne "
death and vet escape 1t. For what
hast thou saved me| And all tnrousn
the succeeding days and nights the
ord Jesus Christ seemed to be stand
ing by your side, saying: Il have saw
ed YOU that you might become my dls'
c,nIe God gave you a divine reveal
ton at that time, just as Christ ap-
neared unto Paul in the scene OF my
text when he was taken up into tne
third heaven and knew not whether ne
was in the body or out of the BODY.
The next glorious revelation which
came to you may have been te"
vears later. when, under the power OF
: . great gospel revival, you surrendered
vour life to the Master, joined tut
5 church and sat at the table OF the noII
communion. How that scene comes
back now! There Is the little "nit'
i church with its straight backed pews
e There IS the choir loft In which you
d sister used to sing There is the OH
/ nrayer meeting room below, when wa
used for the Sunday school before I'll
: Sunday morning preaching. liner
e were the gravestones you used to pla
n among on week days and try 10 rea
e the epitaphs on Sunday, when the NH
e. lister would persist in praying aDou
t, everything. from the creation down
s. the president Of the United States an
Is all others In authority.
- The Influence Of the Holy Spirit.
~ IF some one should ask you how tn'
- revival started you could not answe
- Suddenly, without any apparent caus
u. the mower of the Holy Spirit began
~ descend 1t was visibly felt throut
~ all the country. One Sunday the o
- minister instead Of giving out his tex
-. ne usual. opened the service In wor'
~ something like these: Brethren, ha
" t,iad to write sermon this week, D
~ Il has been an impossibility. Eve
~ time entered my study the still, sm'
20 voice of God kept saying: Down
-. vour knees and pray. Pray for 4
on on people Pray, pray, pray! And
no dear people, dare not disoDey
III voice of God. AS l have been prayl
~ so much for you this week, l thoue
would turn this mornings serVl
~ into a simple prayer meeting. In
va will meet in the church during
1otl coming week each night, and we 81
nrav for each other and for our de
ones.v You remember how your moi
.no opened wide with astonishment'
tr the different people arose one atter
ari & other to pray, you got tired ana &C
tho menced to wriggle' in your seat
w somehow q strange feeling OF unr
p ',, came over you when your dear mot
ans arose to pray. You never heard
~. nray in public before in your lie.
1 when she commenced with tremDi
an ~, voice and said, 20 Lord, dear Mas
- ~. nrecious Saviour, come into our mi
and take these little lambs into
80 arms" you could not keep back
% teors. You knew she was praying
line you.
trr Then that ride home! The old ia
,o,,, " farm wagon never had qui'
burden to carry than on that
Even your youngest brother did
try to grab the reins, as he SO OF
Vi had done. Your father was quiet; J
y mother was very quiet. She al"
IL did sneak those words, My de
'ain sweetly, but she never spoke then
l.e. e., tenderly as on that day. Then at
"ru dinner. when your father tried 10
thc the blessing. he broke down. You
'n", , or saw him cry like that but
per since. and that was when you led
- | aWaV SOME years iotSh AAN
go, ." ter's open grave. And then that a
~ NJ noon-it was the longest afternoon
o0l. ~ ever spent. Elizabeth went 10
ie 80 =, room. And your mother went 10
nv" , room. Though they were each
, n when YOU went near to their d
"" vou could hear them talking.
- :, were not alone. They were talkli
tbar God about you. Then you went Of
.onId | the barn, and there you found
father. He was on his knees pra
.,t,o What were they all praying al
os And then you went to your room.
mons YOU closed the door you just dro
tb down by the bed and began to SOD
vas cry. You kept saying: 20 COD
, the God! o Godw You could not get
Won further. But suddenly you fei
, yor arm about your neck. No one ou
li1xQ thar.