Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-05-09

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the light of the shining gate Of the
shining city-and it is good for rheu-
nlatisln, and for neuralgia, and for low
spirits, aud for consumption. 1t is the
catholic,n for all disorders. Yes. it
will heal all your sorrows.
Why did you look SO sad today when
you came in2 Alasl for the loneliness
and the heartbreak, and the load that
is never lifted from your soul. Some
of you go about feeling like Macaulay
when he wrote, III had another
month of such days as | have been
spending, | would be impatient to get
down into my little narrow crib in the
ground like a. weary factory child.
And there have been times in your life
when. you wished you could get out OF:
this life. You have sslid.z'.Olf, how
sweet to nlyilips would be the dust of
the valley. and wished you could pull!
over you in your last sIplnber the Gov
erlet Of green grass and daisies You
have said 4. OH howssbe autifnlIy quiet:
|sit must DO IN tie tomb. wish IS was
there. see:sail arr und abo out me
widowhood and orphanage and cliild-.
lessness, sadness, disappointment, per-
plexity. If | could ask all those to
rise in this audience WHO have felt no
sorrow, and been buffeted by no disap-
:pointlnent, if, could ask all sucil-to
rise how. NAM would riser Not one.
so.IE ILLUSTRATIONS.
A widowed mother with her little
child went west, hoping to get better
wages there, and she was taken sick
and died. The ovcrseer of the poor
got ller body and put it in box, and
put it in a wagon and started down
the street toward the cemetery at full
trot. The little child-the only child
ran after it through the streets, bare
headed, crying: Bring Inc back luy
inotherl Bring me back my lnother!'s
And it was said that as the people.
looked on and saw her crying after
that Which lay in the box in the wagon
all she loved OH earth-it is said the
whole village was in tears. And that is
what q great many of you are doing
chasing the dead. Dear Lord, is there
no appeasement for all this sorrow that
see about me? Yes. the thought Of
resurrection and reunion far beyond
tIlis scene of struggle and tears. They
shall hunger no more, neither thirst
any more, neither shall the sun light
on them, nor any heat; for the Lamb
which is in the midst of the throne
shall lead them to living fountains OF
water, and God shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes"
Across the touches Of your sick, and
across the graves of your dead, fling
this shower of sweet spices. Queen
Bal.sis, driving up to the piIlared por-
tico of the house of cedar, carried no
such pungency of perfume as. exhalcs
today from the Lords garden. 1t is
peace. It. is sweetness. tits comfort.
,.It,is, infinite satisfaction, this gospel
commend to you Some one conld not
understand why IN old German Chris
tian scholar used to be always SO calm
and happy and hopeful when he had
SO many trials and siclsncsscs and all
lnents A man sccreted himself in tho
house. Hc said, ~ mean to watch this
old scholar and Christian;" and lie saw
the old Christian man go to his room
and sit down on the chair beside tho
stand and open the Bible and begin to
read. lie read on and on, chapter
after chapter, hour after hour, until
Ills face WAS all aglow with the tidings
FROM heaven, and when the clock struck
twelve be arose and shut his Bible and
said: blessed Lord. we are on tho
same old terms yet. Good night, good
night.
Oh, you sin parched and you trouble
pounded, here is comfort, here is salts
faction. Will you COMO and get it3
cannot tell you what the Lord offers
you hereafter so well as can tell you
now. at doth not yet appear what
we shall be- Have you read of the
Tai MahaI in India, in some respects
the most majestic building On earthf
Twenty thousand men were twenty
years IN building it. 1t cost about SIX
teen millions Of dollars. The walls arc
OF marble, inlaid with canelian from
Dasdad, and trquois from Thibet,
anti jasper from the Punjaub, and am
ethyst from Persia, and all manner of
precious stones. A traveller says that
it seems to him like the shining of an
enchanted castle Of FURNISHED silver.
The walls are tuo hundred and forty
five feet high. and from the top of these
spring dome thirty more feet high,
thut dome containing the most wonder
full echo the world has ever known; SO
that ever and anon travellers standing
below with flutes and drums and harps
are. testing that echo, and the sounds
from below strike up and then co'ne
down as it were the voices Of angels
all around about the building. There
is around it a garden of tainarind and
banyan and palm and all the floral
glories of the ransacGed earth.
But that is only a tomb of dead
empress, and it is tame compared with
the grandcurs which God has builded
for your living and immortal spirit.
Oh, home of the blessed! Foundations
of gold! Arches of victory. Capstones
of praiseI And dome in which there
are echoing and re-echoing the halle
lujahs of the ages And around about
that mansion is garden-tle garden
OF God-and all the springing fount-
aims are the bottled tears of the church