Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-05-30


ual light, everlasting light. For lack
OF it the body stumbles, and the soul
stu1nbles Oh. thou Father of Lights,
give us light!
The great German philosopher in bis
last moment said, II want more light.
A minister of Christ recently dying
cried out In exultation, II move into
the Iightw Mr. Toplady, the immortal
hynlnologist, in his expiring moments
exclaimed. Light Light" Heaven
itself is only more light. Upon all
superstition. upon all ignorance, upon
all sorrow let in the light Bat now
the light of the first Monday is reced-
ing. The blaze is going out. The col
ors are dimlning. Only part Of the
earths surface is visible Its 6o'clock,
z o'clock. s o'clock; observation and
darkness. Ii is Monday night. And
the evening aud the morning were the
first day."
THK PARTING OF THE WATERS.
s. Now tits Tuesday morning Aisssdel;
icate and tremendous undertaking is
set apart for this day. There was q
great su7erabundance of water, God
by the wave of his hand this morning
gathers part of it in suspended .reser-
voirs and part ofithe orders down into
the rivers and lakes and seas How to
hang whole Atlantic oceans in the clouds
without their spilling over, except in
right quantities and ut right times was
an undertaking that no one but Olnnip
offence would have dared. But God
does it as easily Us you would lift a
glass of water. There he HOSTS two
clouds each thirty miles wide and five
miles high and balances them. Here
he lifts the CIRCUS clouds and spreads
them out in great white banks as
though it had been showing in heaven.
And the CIRCUS stratus clouds in long
parallel lines SO straight you know an
Infinite geolnetcr has drawn them.
Clouds which are the arlnory from
which thunder storms get their bayo-
nets of fire. Clouds which are oceans
on the wing. No wonder, long after
this first Tuesday of creation week, Eli
hu COMPOUNDED Job with the question,
"Dost thou know the balancings of the
clouds2"
Half of this Tuesday work done, the
other half is the work of compelling
the waters to lie down in their destined
places. So God picks up the solid
ground and packs it MP into five eleva-
lions, which are the continents. With
his finger lie makes deep depressions in
them, and these are the lakes. while at
the piling up of the Alleghanies and
Sierra Nevadas and Pyrenees and Alps
and Hinalayas the rest OF the waters
start by the law OF gravitation to the
lower places, and in their run down
hill become the rivers, and then all
around the earth these rivers come into
convention and become oceans beneath,
as tile clouds are oceans above How
soon the.rivers got to their places when
God said, Hudson and James and
Amazon down to tile Atlantic; Oregon
and SACRAMENTO down to the Pacific. :"
Three-quarters of the earth being water
and only one-quarter. being land moth
ing bot Allnightiness could have Gagged
the three-fourths SO that they could not
have devoured tile one;fourth. Thank
God for water and plenty of it. What
a hint that God would have the human
race very clean Three-fourths of the
world water. Pour it through the
homes and make them pure. Pour it
through the prisons and make their
occupants moral Pour it through the
streets and make them healthy. There
are several thousand people asleep in
Greenwood who but for the filthy
streets of Brooklyn and New York
would have been today well and in
churches. Moreover. there never was
filthy street that remained a moral
street.
How important On agency of reform
water is, was illustrated by the fact
that when the ancient world got out
rageously wicked if was plunged into
the Deluge and kept under for months
till its iniquity was soaked out of it.
But rejoice that on the first Tuesday
of the worlds existence the water was
taught to know it's place, and the
Mediterranean lay down at the feet OF
Europe, and the Gulf of Mexico lay
down at the feet of North America,
and Geneva lay down at the feet Of
the Alps, and Scroon lake fell to sleep
in the lap of the Adirondacks. "And
tue evening and the morning were the
second day.
GREEN THINGS BEGIN TO GROW.
Now it is Wednesday morning of the
worlds first week. Gardening end hor-
ticulture will be born today. How
queer the hills look, and so unattract-
i've they seem hardly worth having
been made. But now all the surfaces
are changing color. Something beauti-
full is creeping all over them. 1t has
the Of emerald. Aye, it is herb
as Hail to the green grass geo.
favorite color and Gods favorite plant,
as judge from the fact that he makes
q large number Of them than of any
thing else. But look yonder! Some
thing starts out of the ground and goes
higher up, higher and higher, and
spreads out broad leaves. 1t is a palm
tree. Yonder is another growth, and
it's leaves hing far down, and it is a
willow tree. And yonder is growth
with mighty sweep OF branches. And
here they cone-tho pear, and the up
pie, and the peach, and the pornegran-
ate, and groves and orchards and for
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