Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-02-08
Calnnage
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmade, d. ID.

Los Angeles, Cal, Feb. 2-ln th's
sermon the preacher describes the no
blest of passions, the pursuit or which
he assures US will bring to US more
satisfaction and enduring happiness
than anything else on earth. Ihe text
is Proverbs xi, 80, "He that winnetn
souls is wise"
Every man wants TO make the nost
out of his life. AS the blossom changes
to the bud and the bud opens into the
flower. so man wants the latest BUDS
of his better life to mature and rlpen
and then spread their leaves far ana
wide that he may scatter their ira
GRANGE everywhere. The heart Is not
q silent tomb filed only with the de-
COMPOSING corpses of dead memories.
IT is a great hall in which myriads OF
voices are chanting In chorus. And all
those voices are sounding clarion call
TO the higher life, which God bids all
his children live.
OF course man does not always obey
these calls to the higher life. Inc
snirit may be willing, but the flesh is
very weak This means in plain Eng
lish that our good intentions are often
like the seed Christ described In the
posnel of Mark: "And some fell by the
wayside. and the fowls came ana de-
voured II I'D. And some fell on stony
| ground, where 1t had not much earth'
and Immediately 1t sprang up, because
II had no depth Of earth, but when the
sun was up 1t was scorched, ana De
cause II had no root 1t withered away
And some fell among thorns, and the
thorns grew up and choked It." Ii
other words. our good intentions, like
the good seed In the hand OF the soWer
are In our hearts, but no sooner arr
they planted than the thorns OF temp
tation rise I'D and choke them, and In
stead of our lives becoming flower
garden they are nothing but a Darrel
waste But that does not disprove IN
fact which have already asserted
namely. that our hearts are great mu
sic halls In which myrlads OF voice
united in chorus are sounding fortl
the clarion calls for US to lead the bel
ter life.
Soul Winning Versus Gold.
King Solomon In my text tells u
how we can make good use OF ou
lives. He says: "Soul winning Is IN
greatest OF all work open to us o
earth. It is better than seeking gol'
II Is better than seeking fame. 1t
better than having high political pos
tions. Its returns overtop those OF Q
other mental and physical and spirl
, nal endeavors. No matter what yo'
brain or worldly opportunities may D
the grandest, the best and the happle
work ON earth IS the work of bringlI
4 men and women to the cross. L
that winneth souls Is wise" or, 10 p
this truism in another way. Solomon
saving. mo matter what a man MI
be accomplishing, If he Is not SO
winner for Christ he Is missing u
greatest opportunity Of his life.'
And this assertion is the more anna
tho because we find 1t in the book
Proverbs. OF all the writer's OF I
two Testaments there Is not one W
represents worldly wisdom In Its cie'
est type as did King Solomon. A m
may not believe In the rest OF the
hle but he must believe In the truth
most of these proverbs. Indeed, II D
been asserted that Solomon could l
have written the book Of Proverbs, [
must have collected the proverbs
many lands and combined them In Q
hook. And yet right in the midst
those invaluable nuggets or worl'
advice he wrote these words OF
text. "He that winneth souls Is WIS
ell lot rs study for little while why
occunation of soul winning Is
". oreatest and the most important q
OF the MANIFEST business in which Q
man can engage.
Tn the first place, when Christ
wins a soul for Christ he deals W
the only part Of man that IS INN
tal He deals with the only part o
man that will never die. The sou
that unweighable, unanalyzaDle So
thing in the human body which dw
IN the flesh, but which springs out
the flesh when that flesh dies. Z
then. taking upon itself the pinions
Immortality, it flies away to anot
realm. another world, another place
existence. where it lives and contln
ha to live after the worlds themsel
sT ST shall be no more The soul Will ne
)u, die.
are The Soul the Vital Part
Now. If the soul Is the only par
man that Is going to live on thro
the coming ages the wisest act OF
NJ lives must be to put the chief emf
re- re- sis of our work upon that part OF
which alone has immortal life.
surely are not going to expend
YOUR energies of mind upon the p
,ess =, ical body, which at most can 1--we
no' a few years, while the soul Is goln
will live forever. You may say you
ER the body, and so you do. But
ED, merely love the body because the
is In it. When the soul Is gone,
that body will soon become mas
decomposition. I was talking a
- this matter the other day to II
- NJ mine who had lately lost his Il
| er. Her body. according to her
| pressed wish, was cremated. Her
Il es only a few days before had
N brought home and deposited
IN bronze urn on the parlor table.
II 9 uncanny," said, "that fine' 81
III - tito vour mother shOul,