Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-08-24
Caln1aQe
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmade, ID. ID.

sermon shows the significance Of the
testimony Of Israel's great leader to
Jesus as the Messiah. The text Is
luke xvi, 81, "If they hear not Moses
and the prophets, neither will they be
persuaded, though one rose from the
dead"
The symbol of the graveyard Is used
By Jesus for his gospel teachings, just
as many artists use skeletons FOR
their models In great artistic master
pieces. The parable of Dives and
Lazarus is nothing more or less than
great panorama, collection OF YER
bal pictures, showing the eternal trag-
edy Of a misspent life.
Scene the First.-An eastern prince
is In his palace. All that wealth and
power and temporal grandeur can give
Is his. His clothes are Of royal purple
His dining room Is n banquet hall.
His walls are of white marble. HIS
floors are mOsalcs. His Railways and
bedrooms and parlors are filled with
statuary and richest tapestries and
beautiful artistic masterpieces. Upon
his doorstep crouches poor beggar,
starving to death, malodorous and or
/ feuslye from innumerable ulcers and
abscesses which have broken out over
his body ON account Of improper nour-
ishment
I Scene the Second.-Two graves and
the celestial advent Of the beggar and
the eternal incarceration OF him VINO
had once been king among men. The
earthly pauper has been crowned. The
earthly prince has been stripped OF MS
all. Then Dives, down In the region
Of the lost. looks up and sees Lazarus
who had once sat at his doorstep de
spfsed beggar, but now cherished ano
cared for by Abraham, the father oi
the faithful, and he cries out: Il pray
thee, father, that thou wouldst seno
Lazarus to my fathers house, for
have five brethren. that he may TESTIFY
unto them, lest they also come intE
this place Of torment"
Then what happens? God seems tc
reach down and lift skeleton out Of
its grave and clothe 1t again VIII
flesh. He stands this resurrected deat
man before us and points to him as h'
saws: sIf they hear not Moses and INT
| prophets. neither will they be per
suaded. though one rose from I'M
dead.v The statement practically Il
that II a man is open TO conviction N
Will be convinced by the writings o
Moses and the prophets; If lie Is no
convinced by them, nothing woul'
convince him-not even the testimon,
OF Il sracsSs aThls Is startling -assei
tion. Have we ever fully realize
that those words are so convincing
What was there in the life and VIII
ings of that ancient lawglver tha
makes them so influentialf
The Rank Of Moses.
Moses by the law Of adoption 100
the rank of one who was well borI
He was the adopted son of Pharaoh
| daughter. He was the heir apparen
of the greatest throne on earth. Ii
had all that wealth and position an
. honor could give him. He was Dor
great. He was rocked in a golde
cradle and fed out Of golden spoo
and had servants innumerable 10 ru
his bidding When he was carrie
j forth in one of the royal chariots II
- neople used to kneel and say, "Thel
goes the child who will one day ru
e over us as king" In the sight OF II
] law he was not pauper, slave
u Hebrew. He had been raised
q roval rank. All that he had to
was to keep his lips closed, and
might live in affluence and inherit
! throne. And yet this Egyptian prime
u this adopted child of Pharaohs daug
ter. was ready to surrender all OF KIN
" power in order to be a follower
the true God. Now, every effect mu
have logical cause. A man does n
surrender a great prize Of life 1u
for a whlm. There must nave be'
some great impelling force In Nose
life to have led him to serve God al
espouse the cause Of the Hebre
slave.
We have read Of men and wom
surrendering their faith for an earth
throne, but did you ever know OF
man surrendering an earthly thro
for his religion unless he deeply a
of conscientiously believed IN that re
gion? When n German princess tt
B, wears ago married Emperor Nichol
8. and became Empress Alix Of all
i Russias. she renounced the Luther
= church and joined the Greek churC
q, of which her husband IS the SPIRIT
head. When the English Prince
Ena Of Battenberg became Queen
IN toria of Spain, she left the Episcol
-es liam church. In which she had be
ist confirmed and baptized, and joined
Catholic church, which Is the est
N lished church of her adopted count
These two princesses changed tn
10 religious creed in order to win a 70,
on diadem. But what would you say
noS the present Prince of Wales should j
the Roman Catholic church? WI
would you say If he should turn fr
the Eplscopallan church and give
religious fealty to the pope OF Rol
as did Cardinal John Henry Newmi
- If he did this, he would by that
surrender all his rights to the Brit
throne. The British people VIII
have Roman Catholic for their ki
When they got rid of James H.,
last king of that religion, they mi
a perpetual stipulation that none
. Protestants should sit on the Brit
throne. The prince knows that
price he would have to pay for 1oir
s the Roman Catholic church would
the loss Of his throne. II he
cluded to join that church In spit
that penalty, you would say that
must be sincere. No man lightly
nounces throne. And yet this Is
what Moses did. He was the sol
Pharaohs daughter He had, IN