Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-03-16
Calnnage
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmase, ID. ID.

TGlmage shows In this sermon how
true to life are the portraits In the
Bible story and how common In our
day are the identical faults and SINS
that characterized men in the time OF
Christ. The text is Luke xii, l, BE
ware of the leaven of the Pharisees,
which Is hypocrisy"
The Bible may be compared 10
family album. When you turn the sd
cred pages. the different faces you see
there are like your own ancestors
They are men of another age and an
other land. but they are men like our
selves. Their faults and their good
qualities are plainly described, ana we
see that they were such men as those
we associate with today. Moses anu
Joshua and Gideon and David ana
Paul and Peter and Mary and Martina
and Lazarus do not seem to be so
much Jews as human beings like our
selves-not strangers, but your own
flesh and blood. By their own mis-
takes and sins and faillngs and splr-
itual trlumphs they are preaching their
practical lessons. They seem to sit
Inv vour side and say: "My son, would
not live as you are living. / would
not sin as you are SHINING. The only
true and happy life is the gospel llfe'
| know your temptations by expert
ence. There were black days in my
life as there are in yours, but they
were the dark days when l was tol-
lowing my own selfish will. When
surrendered my life to the divine VIII,
there were no dark days. Try to live
for Christ. my child. BY my own sad
history | want you TO learn this les
SON" Yes, the Bible pages are Simply
filed with pictures of those who are
.part of us, as you seem to be part ol
them.
But though the Bible Is great
photograph album with its hunured'
Of sanity faces pleading with us to bt
good. the Bible also has its rogues' gal
lerv as well. There the fiendish faces
are pIlloried for our warning. There arr
Cain. the murderer, and Jezebel, tn
nolnted hag. whose bleeding carcass Il
being eaten by the dogs under the wall
Of Iezreel. There Is the swaying corps
of Prime Minister IIaman dangling iron
the hanCman's moose which be mad pre-
.pared for Just Mordecai. There IS IN
J 3ahylonish banquet hall where Be
shazzar and his intoxicated reveler
were holding the high carnival 0
deotb There are the cruel face o
bloody Herod and the demonac visag
of the unrepentant thief blasphemin
Christ when they were both dying III
ON the cross. There is Judas, the ira
, for. clutching the blood money forwhic
, he had sold his Master These sinfl
I faces are all there. They seem to 3
Y human lighthouses, flashing out tns
. red lights over the stormy seas OF III
B warning us away from the fatal rocH
I unon which they have eternally toui
= dered Yes. the Bible seems to |
crowded with two kinds OF picture
There we find the saints and the mend
The pictures Of the saints are pleadlI
with lis TO come and kneel at the 1o'
of the cross. The fends by their mi
erable fate are continually calling, b
ware, beware. beware"
- Whited SepuIchers.
Among all the eXcorlated sinners
the Bible not any are more vehemeI
. lv denounced by Christ than the Pha
sees In one place Christ compar
. them to the whited sepulchers NIL
with dead mems bones and all unclea
ness. In another place Jesus compar
these Pharisees to the woman "
cleanses the outside Of her cups a
vet leaves the inside corrupt and HUI
or In another place Christ describes
~ Pharisee and publican praying III
u temple. TO the Pharisee God is tul
IL ing n deaf ear To the publican u
Is reaching out the hands OF forgl'
n ness and love. In another place Chr
of is comparing the Pharlsee to a W
crawling around in sleeps clothll
In nv text he calls them hypocrlt
In other words, these Pharisees ID
seem TO have the face of an angel,
thev have the claws Of tiger. Thou
they may seem to be the friends a
helpers of mankind. yet everythl
, they touch they pollute and destroy
does the infectious hand of leT
"Woe unto you scribes and Pharlse
hynocrites. for ye compass sea 9
land to make one proselyte, and WI
rs. he IS made We make HIM twofold m
the child of he'll than yourielTeS. 1
was Christ's iiea Of the Pharls
ms when he was upon earth. 1t is just
at- true picture Of the Phnrisees toda.
Now. why should the faces OF
Pharisces always be found in
rogues' gallery of the Bible! In
,1en. rs a class, represented the bra
ic- and the wealth of the east. Iiiey
among their representatives most
the social and political and eccies
. tical leaders Of Palestine. When
didates were about to be inducted
their order they had to take vows
= piety and pledge themselves that [
IL would give one-tenth of all their III
,ial income to the Lord. They
most of the seats in the sanhedrin,
here Christ is denOuncing them
worse than thieves and murderers
1 social outcasts. Why is all thlsF
-" us study their origin and then II
to the spiritual degeneracy of these 4
~ who were outwardly fair to look u
VIC but inwardly were as writing Il
md Of decomposition.
First their origin. But what Is
use n.
etymology of the word? Pha
lnO originally comes from the He
word perushim or sepa-atIsts. a b
inu isee in broad terminology mean
separator" A separator from VIII
Their Origin.
AVrav hack In the time of Jeh0la