Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-08-04

Ct thA seWnnH mn .hlns IL so
Bless God for them.
In this roll also find the heroes who have
uncompiain;ng,y endured domestic injus.
tees There are men who for their toll and
anxiety have no sympathy in their homes.
EAhausting application 10 business gets them
n livelihood, but an uufrusal wife scatters
it. He is fretted at from the moment he en-
ters the door until he comes out OF it. The
eyaspsraiicns Of business life augmented by
the exasperationS of domestic life Sucn
men are laughed at, but they have heart
breaking trouble, and they would have long
but for the grace of God. Society
to day is strewn with the wrecks of
nen. who under the northeast Storm Of
domestic infelicity have been driven on tue
rocks, There are tens of Thousands of drunk
ards in this country to-day, made such by
their wives. That is not poetry. That Is
prose But the wrong is generally in the o2-
Jos te direction. You won d not have TO 70
far to find wife whose life is n pcrpetu Il
martyr,lom Something heavier til''n y
stroke OF the fist: unsin.l words staSssril:
homo at midnight, and constant ma!trent-
mcnt which have loft her olly wreck nf
what she was on that day when in tn midst
OF brilliant asssinblaSe the VOWS were taken,
AMI full organ p!ayet the we lding march,
and the carriage rolled away with the
burning of Latiner and Ridley at the stake
compared with this? Those men soon becam,
unconscious in the fire, but here Is fifty
years martyGom, a fifty years putting to
death, vet accomplishing No bitter words
when the rollicking companions at = O'clock
in tie morning pitch the husband dead drunS
iuto the front entry. No bitter words when
wiring from the swollen brow tie b'oo.l
struck out in midnight carou5al:
Ro,,lipu ha huttprp1 and
bruised form OF him. who when be t7ol
her from her fathers home, promised love,
and kindness, and protection, yet nothing
but sympathy and prayers, ami forgiveness
before they arc asked for. No bitter words
when the family Bible goes for rum, ami thu
piwlbroler's shop gets the last decent dress.
Some dag, desiring to evoke the story OF her
SORROWS you say: iWell, how are you get
ting along now'' and ralying her trembling
voic., and qieting her quvering lip. she
snys: Pretty we'll. 1 thank you, pretty
we'll" She never viii tell you In tne de-
lirium of her last sickness she may
tell al the secrets of her lifetime.
but she will not tell that. Not
until the books OF eternity are opehed Oil the
what she has suffered. Oh. ye who are
twisting garland for the victor, put it Oil
that pale brow When she is dead the
neighbors will beg linen to make her
shrold and she will be carried out in IL pain
toX With no silver pate to tell her years, Tor
she has live,l thousand years of trial and
anguish. The gamblers and swindlers who
destroyed her husband will not come to the
funeral. One cariase will bo enough
for tlat fun.ral-one carriage TO curry the
orphans and the two Christian women VINO
pre'iuc.l over the oGssquies. But there IS q
HASH and the opening or celestial door, and
2 shout: Lift up your head, We everlasting
LAT l,a.., it,t9 And Cl.rict trIli
step forth and say: "Coms III! We suffered
With NJ, on earth, be glorisiel with me in
heaven" What is the highest throne in
heaven. You SAY: 1.-The throne of the Lord
sol Almighty and the LAMB" No doubt
about 1t. What is the next high thron, in
heaven: While speak it seems to me that it
viii! liz the throne OF tn, drunkari'S wife, if
she with cheerful patience endured all her
earthly torture. Heroes and heroineS.
l find also in this roll the heroes of Christian
charity We "a. admire the George Pea
DO lys and the James J.enoSes Of the earth,
VINO give tens ami hundreds of thousands of
dol ans to good objects.
But am speaking this morning OF thoso
VITO, out OF their pinched poverty, help
othsis--of such III III us those Christian MS
siJna,ioS at the West. w;o are living OH $50
year that they may proclaim Carit TO the
sop o on, OF them, writing to tue Secretary
in New York, saying: 81 thank you
for that So. Cn5il Yesterday NO
have hid no meat in our house for
three months We have ST. Tered t.rrib.y.
NV children have no shoes this wintcr.a AMI
O: those people who have only halt loaf Of
bread. but give Iiece of it to ttlerS who
are hungrier: and OF tLos, wlo ha e only
scuttle OF coal, bat ilslp Others to fuel: and
o., those who have oAly do.iar in Their
pocket aud give Twenty-Five celts to some-
DO ly else; and of that father who, wears q
s;,ubby coat, ami of that mother who wears
q failed dress, thattheir children may be wei
n o;,arellcd. GU call them .paupsrs, or
ri:.a.n films, or einigrautS call than
h roe, and heroin.s. on all lnay notGno :
where they live, or what tnei. NAM Is. t!od
knows and they have moe angels lowering
over them than you and have, and they
will have higher seat in heaven.