Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-10-13

Where will those feet yet walk? Toward
what destiny will that never-dylng soul be-
take itself. Shall those lips be tho throne OF
blnsphemy or bcnedction! Come, al we
SURVEYORS OF the earth, aud bring link and
chain and measure il you can It's possible
possessions Come, all ye astronomers OF the
earth, with your telescopes, and tell us II you
cau see the range of its eternal flight. Come,
oIl ye curonologists, and calculate the de-
cades on decades. the centuries on centuries,
the cycles on cycles the eternitleS on eter-
mites of lis lifetime. Oh to save
child! Am not right i'll putting tha1 among
ti;e great exploits. YcS, it beats the other
two for il you save the child you save the
man or Won save the woman Get the lirst
twenty years Of that boy or girl all right anu
| nlIess YOU have GOT manhood or womanhood
ali right, and their entire earthly ana cternnl
career all right Hut what nre you going TO
do with Those children who arg worse of
tL,n If their father or mother had died the
6ov they were born! There are tens OF
thousands of SUCH Their parentaso was
AGAINST them. Their name is against then
Tho structure of their skulls against tneIn
Their nerves and muscles contaminated ny
the inebrety or disso uteness OF their parents,
they arc practically at their Oifcn laio
ort on n blank in the middle OF the Atlantlc
Ocean in an equinoctial gale and told to make
for shore. The first greeting they get from
tho world is to be called Il brat or u ragamuln
o.. a wharf-rat What to do with them is
Tho question often asked. There is another
question quite rs pertinent ana that
is, what are they gong TO do Win
from now have as many votes az
fine same number of well-born children, and
they will hand this land over to anarchy and
political duunation just rs sure as we neglect
them Suppose We each one Of us save a boy
or a girl. You can do it. Will you! will
Take Il cake of perfumed soap an line
toothed comb, and u New Testament ana a
little candy and prayer and piece OF cake
and faith i'll God and common sense, anu Do
Gin this afternoon.
But how shall we get ready for ono or all
of these three expoitss We shall make
dead failure if in our own strength we Try TO
save n man or woman or child. But my
text suggests where we are to get equipment
The people that do know their God shall be
strong. and do exploits" We must know
Him through Jesus Christ in our own saliva
tion, and then we shall have His help in the
salvation OF others. And While you are
saving strangers you may save some or your
own kin You think your brothers and sis
tiers and children and grandchildren all safe.
but they are not dead, and no one is safe till
he is dead. On the English coast there WASH
wild storm aud u wrecl, in the ollng, and the
cry was: 'Man the lifeboat." But Harry
the usual leader of tho sailors crow, was
not to be found and they went without hin;
and brought back all the shipwreched people
except one. BY this time Harry, the leader
OF tile crew appeared and said: why did
You leave that one.' The answer was: He
could not help himself at all and we could
not get him into tho boat" Man 5:':7a'
llfebont," shouted Harry. and wo
will go for that onc.n "No," said his aged
mother standing by, "you must not go.
lost Your father in storm like this, and
Your brother viii went of six years ago ana
/ have not heard d word from Will since hc
left and ! don't know where he is, and
what has happened to him, poor Will,
and I cannot let you also go for | am
old and dependent on you." His reply was:
..Motler, / must go ana save that one man,
and il am lost God will take care Of you in
your old days" The lifeboat put out and
alter an awful struggle with tue sea they
picked the poor fellow out of the rigging
Just in time to save his life, and started
for the shore And as they came within
speaking distance, Harry, just before he
faintctl from the overcXertion, cried out:
I'VE saved him, aud tell mother 1T was
brother WIFI Oh, yes, my friends, les
lis start out to save some one for time
and for eternity, some man, and some
woman, and some child. And who
knows but it may, directly OF indirectly, be
the salvation of one OF our own kindred, anu
that will be an exploit worthy OF celebration
when the world itself is shipwrecked and the
sun has gone out like spark from snllte1
ayiyil and all the stars are deadl