Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-09-19

under him, when was seeking set
Element in which to preach the Gospel.
The letter gave me my first pulpit. DR..
Van Vranken has been dead more than
thirty years, yet feel the touch OF that
magnificent old professor. Strange
sensation was it when received II kind
message from Rev. Thomas Guard, of
Baltimore, the great Methodist orator,
six weeks after his death. BY w;ly OF
the eternal world? Oh. no. by way Of
this world
did not meet the friend to whom
he gave the message until nearly two
months after Thomas Guard had as
ccnded. Soyou cnnsstart a word about
some one that will be on it's travels and
vigorous long after the funeral psalm
has been sung a. your ohscquies. Kind
ness! Why, if fifty men I'LL aglowwith
it should walk through the lost world.
metllinks they would almost abolish
perdition.
INSPIRING EXAMPLES or KINDNESS.
Furthermore, there is kindness of &c.
ton. That is what Joseph showed to
his outrageous brothers. That is what
David showed to Mephibosletll for his
father Jonatllan's sake. That is what
Oncsiphorus showed to Paul in the Ro-
man penitentiary. That is what VIII
liam Cowper recognized when lie said
he would not trust a man who would
with his foot needlessly crush II WORTH.
This is. what our assassinatcd Prcsi-
dent Lincoln demonstrated when his
private secretary found him in tho
Capitol grounds trying to get bird
buck to the nest from which it had
fallen. and which quality the >illustrioua
man exhibited years before which llav-
ing some lawyers in the carriage Oh
the way to court passed OH the road q
swine fast in the nire. after awhile
cried to his horses. "IIo!" and said to
the gentlemen. Il must go back ana
help that hog out of the mire." And
he did go back. ard put on solid
ground that most uninteresting quad
ruped.
That was the spirit that was mani
tested by my departed friend, Honor
able Alexander II. Stephens, of Georgia
land loveIier man never exchanged
earth for heaven). Wien at Washing
ton. senator's wife. WHO told my
wife of the circumstances, said to him,
MIR Stephens, come and see my dead
canary bird" And lie answered, No.
| could not look ut the poor thing
without crying"
That is the spirit that Grant showed
when at the surrender at Appomattoy
lie said to General Lee. LAS many of
your soldiers are farmers and will need
the horses and mules to raise the crops
to keep their families from suffering
next winter. let each Confederate who
can claim i horse or IL mule take it
along with him.
That is the spirit which last night
ten thousand mothers showed TO their
sick children coming to give the drink
Mt tile twentieth call as cheerfully and
lis tenderly as at the first call Sup
pose all this aSseinblage. and all to
whom these words shall come by print
er's type. should resolve to make kind
ness al, overarcbing, undergirding and
all pcrvadilg principle of their life, and
then carry ont the resolution, why, in
six months the Whole earth would feel
it. People would say:
What is the matter? 1t seems to nae
that the world is getting to be a better
place to live in. Why. life after all is
wortl, living. WHY, there is shylock,
my neighbor. has withdrawn his law
suit of foreclosure against that man,
and because he has had SO much sick
ness in his family, he is going to have
the house for one year rent free. There
is an cid lawyer in that young lawyers
Office, and do You know what he has
gone in there for' Willy, lie is helping
fix up case Which is too big for the
young man to handle, and the white
haired attorney is hunting up previous
decisions and making out brief for
the boy.
Down at the bank heard yester-
day note was due. and the young
merchant could not meet it. and III old
merchant went in and got for him three
months extension. Which for the young
merchant is the difference between
bankruptcy and success in business.
and in our str>et is An artist who had
a 1ne picture Of the Rapids OF Niagara,
and he coultl not sell it. and his family
were suffering. and they were tiienl-
selves in tile rapids; and lady heard
of it and said, 1 do not need the
picture, but for the encouragement of
art and helping you ont OF your dis
tress will take it, and on the drawing
room wall are the Rapids of Niagara.
do you know that strange thing
has taken place in the pulpit and all
the old ministers are helping the young
ministers. and all the old doctors arc
helping the young DOCTORS and the
farmers are assisting each other i'll
gathering the harvest. and for that
farlner who IS sick the neishbors have
made bee. us they call it. and they
have all turned in to help him get lis
crops into the garner?
AN ALMOST INCREDIBLE INSTANCE.
And they tell me that the older and
more skillful reporters who have perlna-
nent positions on papers are helping
the young fellows who are just begin
ing to try and don't know exactly how
to do it. And alter few erasures
and interpretations on the reporters
pad they say: Now. here is a readable
account of that tragedy. Hand it in
and am sure the managing editor
will take it, And heard this morn