Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-11-15

ar5r1d OF tile liquor traffic, and at their
conventions nominating presidential
candidates will put in their platform q
plank as big as the biggest plank of the
biggest ocean steamer, saying: Re
solved unanimously that we always
have been and always will be opposed
to alcoholism"
But must spur on our Arab steed,
and here we come in sight of Beeroth,
said to be the place where Joseph and
Diary missed the boy Jesus on the way
from Jerusalem TO Nazareth, going
home now from q great national fes-
tivll. Where is my Child, jesus
says Mary. Where is my child, Jcsus?'
says Joseph Among the thousands
that arc returning from Jerusalem they
thought that certainly lie was walking
on in the crowd. They described him,
saying: ''FTe iss12 years old, and OF
light complexion and blue eyes. A lost
child" Great excitement in all the
crowd. Nothing so stirs folks MS the
news that a cliild is lost. I.shall not
forget the scene when, in asgreat out
door meeting was preaching, .sscnd
some one stepped on the platform and
said that 4 child was lost. We went on
with the religious service, but all our
minds were on tile lost Child.
IL t1,o
platform beautiful little tot that look
ed like a piece of heaven dropped
down, and said. "lIcre is that child"
And l forgot all that was preaching
about. and lifted the child to my Shout
der and said, Here is the lost child.
and the mother will come and get her
right away. or will take her home
and add her to my own BROOD" And
some cried and some shouted and
amid all that crowd instantly detect
ed the mother. Every body had TO get
out of her way or be walked over.
Hats were nothing and shoulders were
nothing and heads were nothing in her
pathway. and realized something of
what must have been Mary's anxiety
when size lost Jesus, and what her
gladness when she found her boy in the
temple of Jerusalem, talking with these
old ministers of religion. Shamnlai,
Hillel and Lctirah.
THE ANSWER TO PRAYER.
l bear down on you today with n
mighty comfort. Mary and Joseph
said, Where is our Jesus" and you
say, "Wlicrc is John? or where is Hen
ry? or where is Gcorge?" We'll, 1
should not wonder If you found him
after while. Where? In the same
place wIlcrc Joseph and Mary found
their boy-in the temple. What do l
mean by that: l mean. you do your
duty toward God and toward your
Child and you will find him after a
while in the kingdom of Christ. Will
you say. Il do not have any way of in
iluencing my child?" answer you
lave the most tremendous line of
influence open right before you.
As you write letter, and there
are two or three routes by which it
may go, but you want it to go the
quickest route, and YOU put on ii. ..via
-Eournarnpton, or via San francisco, J"
or 'svia Marscilles," put on your wishes
about your child, via the throne of
God" How long will such n good
wish take to get to its destination?
Not quite rs long as the lnillionth part
of q second. will prove it. The
promise is, Before they call l will an
swer." That means at your first mo-
ton toward such praycrful exercise the
blessing will conc, and if the prayer
be made Mt 10 o'clock at night it will
be answered five minutes before ten,
Before they call will answer"
Well. you say. nm clear discour-
aged about my son, and am getting
on in years, and ! fear I will not live to
see him converted. Perhaps not. New
erthelcss l think you will find him in
the temple, the heavenly temple. There
las not been an hour in heaven the
last one hundred years when parents in
glory had not had announced to them
the salvation of children whom they
left in this world profigate. We often
have to say II forgot" but God has
never yet once said 81 forgot" 1t
may be after the grass of thirty sum-
mers have greenel the top of your
grave that your son may be found in
the earthly temple. 1t may be fifty
years from now when some morning
the towers arc Ginning the mathis of
the elorifled in heaven that you shall
find him in the higher temple which
mas ''no need of candle or of sun, for
the Lord God and the Lamb are the
Eight thereof"
Cheer up, Christian father and moth
erl Cheer up! Where Joseph and
Mary found their boy you will find
yours-ln the temple. You see, God
could not afford to do otherwise. One
of the things he has positively promised
in c,o Bible is that he will answer earn
sst z,,a believing prayer Failing to do
that he would wre:k his own throne.
and the foundations of his palace
would give way, and the bank of heaven
would suspend payment, and the dark
word Reputation would be written
across the sky and the eternal govern
mcnt would be disbanded aud God
himself would become an exile. Keep
on with your prayer, and you will yet
find your child in the temple, either the
temple here or the temple above
THE RoBDER OVERCOME.
Out on the western prairies was q
happy but isolated home. Father,