Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-10-04


and brought specimens Of her kind
needlework and said :Dorcas made
this" ..Dorcas sswcl that, "Dorcaa
cut and fitted this" ''Dorcas hennned
that"
According to Lightfoot, the CON-
mentator, they laid her out in state in
a public room, and the poor wrung
their hands and cried and sent for Pc
ter who performed a miracle by which
the good woman came back to life and
resumed her benefactions. An especial
resurrection day for one womanl She
was the model by which many women
of our day have fashioned their lives,
and at the first blast of the horn of
T wintry tempest there appear ten thou
sand Dorc;lsas- Decreases Of brooklyn,
! Decreases of New York, Dorc;lses OF
] London, Decreases Of all tneancighbor-
sI}hoods and towns :an!l cities Of GAristen:
jjusts as goodsas the Dorcas Of
;;IIssJJoppa which q visited Thans Col :for
sRthe eyer inc
4 md md sEsas'
80; scARRYISG&uIs BED.
"a .syYhotgissth.t nan doing2' said to
the dragoinan il the streets of Joppa.
ooh, he Is carrying h;s bed Multi
tudes of people 81 cp Gilt CT doors, and
! that is tic way 50 ,n@ny in those hnds
become blind 1t is from the dew of
the night falling on the cyclids. As u
result of this, in Egypt every twentieth
person is totYhy blind. In Oriental
lands the bel i. made Of tilin small
mattress IL blanket and pillow. aad
when the ln...l rises il tho morning lie
just ties up the three into q bundle and
shoulders it ;l:il takes it away. 1t was
to t..at the Saviour referred when he
said to the sick nlnn. Take up thy bed
and walk. An American couch or an
English couch would require at leas;
four lnan TO carry if, but ono Oriental
can easily manage his slumber equip
ment.
TIE TANN,GnIE3 OF JoppA.
| But | inllaIe some of the odors of the
large tanncries around Joppl 1t is
there to this day. Il prosperous basi-
ness. this tlnnin', OF hides And tliat
reminds ne Of Simon. the tanner, who
lived at Joppa and WIS the lost Of
Peter. thp apostle. suppose the or
factories IF Peter were Us easily in
suited b. the odors of a tanAory as
others. Dat tie D:blo says, He lodged
with che Simon, the tanner" People
WHO go out to do raforInntoiy and Ills
sio.lary AMI Christian work must not be
too sensitive. S..non no doubt brought
to his homestead every night the NAL
odor; III tie c:,ifsiin, ;l:nl OK hides in
his tanncry, but Peter lo.lt,ci in fiat
home. ne: o:i:y bac.llse he may not
have been Invited t. tie houses Of
merchant pT..aecs surrounded b.! redo
lent gardens. bit to teach I'll HEEL and
woniei, engaged in trying to make the
world bctt.: that they must not be
squeaniisll and fastidio.s and tintcal
and OYER particular in doing the work
OF tie world
'fi.c church, of God is dying of fas-
tid;ulsiie.; We cry over tie s;rncr-
in:;s Uf the world i'll hundred 'i;'llar
pocket hand!;crclliolS. ard then put d
cent in t!,c poor bJH. There are i.aily
willing to tio Christian w,rk among the
clearly. and Tie refined. and tile Gle
giant, and tie educated. bnt excuse
t.,ain rro..I t;li,iil; Il loaf of lrc.,l down
a dirty alley, excuse them from teach
ing IL mission school among tie IN
colnbed anal the unw;Hilcu. excuse
them from touching the hand of one
whose finger nails arc in mourning for
departed soap. Such religious pre-
cisionis1s can to.l in atlnosplieres laden
with honcysuc.;Ie aul rosemary, but
not in air floating up from the NAL
odorcus watts 80, no, no! Excuse
:lleln from lodging with one Simon, the
'::anncr
During the last war there were in
Virginia SOHO sixty or seventy wound
ed soldiers in Il barn, on the second
/ floor. so near the roof that the heat OF
the August SUI was almost insupport-
able. The men were dying from sheer
exhaustion and suffocation. y dis.
tincuis!led member of the Christian
commission said to the nurse who stood
there. Wash the faces and feet of
these men and it will revive them. "
No" said the nurse y didn't come
into the army to wash anybody's feet. "
We'll" said the distinguished member
Of the commission, "bring lie water
and towel; will be very glad to
wash their feet" One Yves the spirit
of the devil. the other the spirit of
Christ.
THE HOUSE TOPS OF JoPPA.
But reference to Peter reminds Inc
i that we must go to the housetop in
Joppa where Ire was taught the de-
mocracy Of religion. That was about
the queerest thing that ever happened.
On our way up to that housetop we
passed an old we'll where the great
stones were worn deep with the-ropes
/ of the buckets, and it must be a well
many centuries old. and | think Peter
drank out fit Four or tive goat or
caIfskins filled with water lay about
the yard. We soon got mp the steps
and on the lousctop. 1t was in such
a place in Joppa that Peter one noon
while lie was waiting for dinner had a
hungry 1t and tainted away. and had
vision or dream or trance. said to
my family and friends on that house
top, Listen while read about what
happened here" And opening the
Bible we had the whole story.