Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-11-22


filled from the clouds, and this will be
no exception. Formonths after jacob
had completed the well people went by,
and out of respect for the dcluded old
man put their hand over their mouth
to hide a snicker. and the well re-
Inainod as dry as TIC bottom Of y kct-
lie that hasibeen hanging over the tire,
for three hours
But one day t!io sun was drawing
water and tile wind got round to the
east and il began to drizzle, and then
great drops splaslled all over the well
curb, and tic heavens opened their
reservoir, and the rainy season poured
its floods for six weeks, and there came
lnaidens to the we'll with empty pals
and carried Them away full, and the
camels thrust their mouths into the
trouglls and were satisfied, and the
water was in tile we'll three feet deep
and fifty feet deep and two hundred
feet deep, and all7tllc Dcdouins of tae
neghborhood and all the passers by
realized tllat;J acob was wise in.hayings
ibis own we'll. My llearer, it is your
part to dig your own we'll and it, is
Gods part to I'LL it, You do your part
and he will do his part.
Much is said about ''good luck, but
people who are Industrious and self
denying almost always have good luck.
You can afford to be laughed at be-
cause of yourapplication and economy,
for when you get your well dug and
filed it will be your turn to laugh.
BLESSED OR CURSED?
But look up from this famous well
and see two mountains and the plain
between them. on which was gathered
tile largest religious audience that ever
assembled on e;lltll. about five hundred
thousand people. Mount Ger:ziln,
about eight hundred feet high, on one
side, and on tile other Mount Ebal, the
former called the Mount of Blessing
and the latter called The Mount Of
Cursing. At Josliua's command SIX
tribes stood or Mount Gcrizin and
read the blessings for keeping the law,
and six tribes stood on Mount Ebai
reading the curses fer breaking the law,
while the live hundred thousand peo-
pie on the plain cried Amer" with an
emphasis that must have made the
earth trcmblc 81 do not believe that, "
says some one, ''for those mountain
tops are two mics apart, and how
could Il voice be heard from top to
topg' Ely answer is that while tue tops
arc two miles apart the bases of the
mountains arc only half mile apart,
and the tribes stood on the sides of the
mountains, and the air is so clear and
the acoustic qualities of this great nat
unl anpllitheatrc SO perfect that
voices can be distinctly heard from
mountain TO mountain, as has been
demonstrated by travellers fifty times
in the last fifty years.
Can you imagine anything more
thrilling nnd,sublimc and ovcrwlicIn-
ing than what .transpired on those two
mountain sides, and in the plain be-
tween. when the responsive service
went on-;,rltl<tllousands of voices on
Mount Gcrizilil cried, blessed shalt
thou be in the city, and blessed shalt
thou be in. the fields, blessed shalt be
thy basket and thy storc!." and then
from Mount Ebal thousands of voices
responded, crying: Cursed be lie that
rcmovcth his neighbours landmark !
Cursed be lie that maheth tho bin | to
wander out of the way" and then
there rolled up from all tho space be-
tween the mountains that one word,
with Which the dcvout OF earth close
their prayers, and the gloritled of
heaven finish their doyologics, Amen!
amen r'-tliat scene only to be SUR
passed by the times which arc coming,
when the churches, and the academies
of music, and the auditoriuns Of earth,
no longer large enough to hold the
worsllipers of God; the parks, the
mountain sides, the great natural am
phitheatrcs of the valleys, shall be
filled with the outpouring populations
of the earth, and mountain shall reply
to mountain, as Mount Gerizim to
Mount Ebal, and all the people be-
tween shall ascribe riches and honor
and glory and dominion and victory to
God the Lamb, and there shall arise an
amen like the booming of the heavens
iningling with the thunder of the seas.
TIE SAD DEATH OF ELI.
On and on we ride until now we
have como to Shiloh, u dead city on
llill surrounded by rocks, sheep, goats.
olive gardens and vineyards. Here
good Eli fell backward and broke his
neck. and lazy dead at the ncx from
his bad boys, Phincas and Hophni;
and life is not worth living after ones
children have turned out badly, and
more fortunate was Eli, instantly en-
pir;ng under such tidinss. than those
parents who, their cl1ildrcn recre-
ant and pronigate, livc on with
broken hearts to see them going
down into deeper and deeper plunge.
There are fathers and mothers here
today to whom death would be
happy release because of their recrcant
sons. And il there be rccreant sons
here present, and Your parents be far
away, why not bow your head in re-
pentance and at the close of this serv-
ice go to the telegraph Office and put
it on the wing of the lightning that you
have turned from your evil ways? Be
fore another twcntyfour hours have
passed take your feet Off the sad hearts
at the cid homestead. Home to tiny
God. 0 prodigal
Many, many letters do 1 get in pur-
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