Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-12-05
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to mans condition is What God has
done for him! Man is sinner; here is
pardon. He has lost Gods image;
Christ retraces it. He is helpless; Al.
mighty grace is protfered. He is a lost
wanderer; Jesus brings him home. He,
is blind; and at one touch of him who
cured Bartilneus eternal glorics stream
into his soul. JESUS, sing thy grace!
Cure Of worst disease. Hammer to
slnite off heaviest chain Light fer
thickest darkness! Grace divine! Devils
scott at it and men reject it, but
heaven celebrates it'll
HEALTH, PLENTY AND LIBERTY.
I wish you good cheer for tile nation,
al health Pestilence, that in other
years has come to drive out It's thou
sand hearses to Greenwood and Laurel
Fill, has not visited our nation. It's
q glorious thing to be well. How
strange that we should keep ourllealtll
when one breath from marsh, or the,
sting of an insect, or the slipping OF: o.
foot,- or the falling Of a tree branch
might fatally assault our life Regular
,lythe lungs, work, and Their motion
seems to- be spirit withinins pan ting
after its Immortality Our sight fails
not, though the air is SO full of objects
which by one touch could break out
the souls window. What ship, after
years tossing on the sea, could como in
with SO little damage as ourselves.
though we arrive after years voyage
today?
wish you good cheer for the ma
tiond harvest. Reaping machines
never swathed> thicker rye, and corn
husker's peg never ripped out fuller
ear, and NOW poles never bent down
under sweeter hay, and windlnill's liop1
per never shook out larger whcat::ss'
Long trains of white covered wagons :
have brought the wealth down to the
great thorouglffares. The gamers arc
full, the storehouses are overcrowded,
the canals ere blocked with frcights
pressing down to- the markets. The
cars rumble all through the darkness
and whistle up the hagman at dead of
night to let the western harvests come
down to feed the mouths of the great
cities. A race of kings has taken pos
session OF this land-King Cotton, King.
Corn, King Wheat, King Rice, King
Grass, King Coal.
I wish you good cheer for civil and
religious liberty. No official spy
watches our entrance here, nor does
an armed soldier interfere with the
honest utter,nce of truth. We stand
here today with our arms free to work
and our tongues free to speak. This
Bible-it is all unclasped. This pulpit
there is no chain around about it.
There is no swapping of musketry in
the streets. Blessed be God that to-
day we are free men, with the prospect
and determination of always being
free No established religion-Jew and
GENTLE, Arminian and Calyinist, Trim
itarian and Unitarian, Protestant and
Roman Catholic on tile same footing.
If persecution should come against
the most unpopular of all the sects,
-belieNe..that all Other denominations
would band together and arm them
selves, and hearts would be stout. and
blood would be free and the right of
men to worship God according to the
dictates of their conscienccs would be
contested at the point Of the bayonct
and will, blood flowing up to the bits
of the horses brides.
For mercies temporal and spiritual
let consecratcd lives be offered. When
ever Gods light shines and Gods rain
descends, and Gods mercy broods, let
the thanksgiving arise!