Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-10-11

found to live in the Plain of Oh, yesl
Will you support this new charity2
! Oh, yes! Do yon think tiat:this VIC
tim Of evil habit can lie refonneda
Oh, yesl Arc You willing to do any.
thing, wllotller obscure or rcsounding,-
for the welfare of the church and the
salvation of II ruined worli1 OH. yes!
But an sorry to say thatS the most
i populous plain in all5the earth today is
the Plain of Ono.
THE DEMON OF DESTRUCTION. ~.
Here now:we come towierestood the
fields into which Samson fred tie
foxes. The foxes are no. rarity in this
land. counted at onestime twenty
or thirty of them in one group,sand tie
cry al along the line was .Foyesl Look
at the foxes!" and at night they some
times bark until I'LL attempts to sleep
are IN absrlrdity Those !. saw and
I. heard II. Palestine might lave been de-
scendants of tile very foxes .tilatiS,uil.
son employed orahsappa ling in;endi-#
arisnl. The wealth, of that land was
I in llesharyests,s and it was the harvest
y \ time and tile STRAW. was dry Three
/ hundred foxes ere s.l,i 81 mud tied in
sconEtesss5 oilr VIII iacoinbilstfb,e
cord which tIlc l!a,ncs csnnot.diyidc.
and tircbrands arc fastened to these
couple Of foxes. and tie atfrighted
creatures are LIT loose and run every
+! whittier among the licrvests. and III the
awful blaze down gotiie corn shocks.
and tllevincyartls, and the olives. and
I'll through the valleys md over the
hills and among tie villages is heard
!, the cry Of" l.ire!" And in the burnt
pathway walk HnnScr:lnd Want and
Desolation.
All Ills for spite. Aad some theo-.
logians learn one thing and some am
other Butt learn FROM it that /, great
! man may sometimes sttnp to very
mean piece of business. ,,,1.lat!iat If men
would use as .nllirl, ingenuity il trying
to bleS; ast!icy do IL trying to destroy,
the world all the way down would
be in better condition. Yet the fire
of the foxes kintlled flat night In Pal
estine las not gone out. bat has leaped
the seas and the sly foxes. the l,anan
foxes, nra now still running every
! whittier. Ending r,stical fires. frs OF
religious. controversy. fires OF l,.tc.
! world vile fires. and the wllols har-
vests Of righteousness perish. 1t took
the har,l work Of multit,:ties GA ell
/ these plains OF Palestine for months
end months TO rear t,lc vine and raise
J tic corn. but it took only tl,rce;liun-
drc.l worthless foxes one night TO blaze
a.! into ashes.
| Brace !p your nerves now. r!,at You
may look while point them out. Yon-
der is Kiriath-Jcarin. w,,cra tiic ark of
God stait until David took it to JcT7l-
salem lfontlcr John the baptist was
born, Wonder is 1inlnn,is. where Christ
walked VT the disciples at oventide.
Here are men plowing. only one han
die t. t!la rlow. showing the accuracy
OF Chnst's aliusion When we .plow in
Alnerica or England there are two
hands on two handles, but in Palestine
only one handle. And so Christ uses
the singular saying. No rlans having
! put bis hand to the pillow. AMI looking
back is fit for the kingdom The Ok
| is lrgc.l or by a wooden stick pointed
With sharp iron. and the OK knows
enough not to kick. for lie would only
| hurt himself instead of breaking the
go.d And the Bible refers TO that
when it gays TO Saul. 1T is hard for
thee to kick against tia goas!S.
THE VALLEY OF AVALON.
Here is tlie valley OF Ajitl0n, famous
for ,Jos.luas pursuit of tlio five kings
and the lunar arrest. And il magma
ton sec the laoon in daytime halt.
Who has not sometimes seen the moon
dispute the throne with the sum- But
when the king of day and the queen OF
night, who never before Joshua's time
nor since then stopped moment in
their march,. halted at .joshua's CON-
mand, it was IL s;cne enough to make
| The universe silver Moon stand thou
still in the valley of Ajalon" AT an
other time We will see the sun stop
above Gibeon. but now we lave only
to do with the moon. and you nl,lst re-
, member chat il was more of an orb
f. than il is now. 1t l.; Il burnt oct world
now. IL dead world now, an extinct
world nos. Il corpse laid out in state in
tie heavens. waiting for the judgment
! day to bury it. But Oh the day OF
which! speak the moon was probably
living world, yet it halted at the
/ wave OF Joshua's finger, Stand, thou
still" DO not bulge ~ inch until
Joshua finishes those five kings, who
are there tumbling over the rocks,
svcrd of man slaslling them, hailstones
out Of the sky peltins them.
And there is the cavern of Make
dahl where they fed for safety. and
where they were afterward locked in,
and fron which they were taken out
to be slain. and in which they were of
tcrward buried; and you do well to OK
amino TINT cavern. for within Il few
hours it became three things which no
other cave ever was-fortress prison,
sepulcher.
Now we pass the place where once
lived one Of the greatest robbers OF the
century, Abou Gosh by name From
this point you see he coull look over
I'LL the surrounding country, and long
before the travellers earn, UP to him
the plan for tlie taking of their money
or their life or bo;!i WIS consunnnated.