Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-08-29
NUMBER 9


not only saved n woman. but saved q
man. There may be in this audience
gathered frou ell parts of the world
there may be man whose behavior to-
ward wornanhood has been perfidious.
Repent Stand mp, thou masterpiece
of sin and death. that may charge
you'll AS far as possible make repara-
ton. Do not boast that you have her
in your power, and that she cannot
help herself. When that fine collar
and cravat and that elegant suit of
clothes comes off and your uncovered
. soul stands before God. you will be bet
I ter off if you save that woman.
SUFFER I.ITTLE CrfLDltES.'
There is another exploit you can do,
! and that is to save child. a child
does not seem to amount to much. 1t
is nearly year old before it can walk
attall. For the first year and a half it
cannot speak a word. For the first ten
years it would sstaryc fit had to earn.
its; own fOod For .tlleelrst fifteen
years itssopinion on any subject is nD-
solutely valucless And then there are
so many OF. them. N.Y. what lots of
children! And some people have con-
tempt for children. They are good for
nothing but to wear out the carpets
and break things and keep you awake
nights crying.
Well, your estimate OF II child is quite
different from that mothers estimate
who lost her child this summer. They
took it to the salt air of the scasllore
and to the tonic air Of tile mountains.
but no help came. and the brief para
graph OF its life is ended. Suppose that
life could be restored by purchase, how
much would that bereaved mother
give? She would take all the Jewels
from her fingers and neck and bureau
and put them down.
And If told that that was not enough.
she would take her house and make
over tile deed for it, and if that were
not enough she would call in all her in
vestments and put down all her
mortgages and bonds, and if told that
were not enough she would say: Il
have made over all my property. and
if can have that child back will
now pledge that will foil with my OWL
hands and carry with my own shout
ders in any kind OF hard work, and live
in cellar and die in a garnet. Only
give lie back that lost daring!
ain glad that there are those who
know something of the value of a child.
It's possibilities are tremendous. What
will those Lands yet do? Where will
those feet yet wall2 Toward What
destiny will that never dying soul be-
take itself! Shall those lips be the
throne of blr;3llelny or benedictions
Come. chronoloSists. and calculate the
decades on decades, the centuries on
centuries, of its lifetime. Oh. to save
child Am I not right in putting
that among the great exploits1
But what are you going to do with
those children who gre worse no, oft than
thousands SUCH Their parentage was
against them. Their name is against
them. The structure of their skulls is
against them. Their nerves and NUS
cles contaminated by the inebrety or
dissoiutencss or their parents, they are
practically at their birth laid out on a
plank in the middle OF the Atlantic
ocean in an eqninoctial gale and told
to make for shore. What to do with
them is the question often asked.
There is another question quite as
pertinent and that is, What are they
going to do with us2 They will ten or
eleven years from now. have rs many
votes as the same number of well born
children, and they will hand this land
over to anarchy and political damnation
Just as sure as we peglect them. Sup
pose we each one of us save Il boy or
save girl You can do it, Will you2
! will.
GOD WILL GIVE STRENGTH.
How shall we get ready for one or
all of these three exploits3 We shall
make dead failure if in our own
strength we try to save man or won-
an or child. But my text suggests
where we are to get equipment. 1.-THE
people that do know their God shall be
strong and do exploits. We must
know him through Jesus Christ in our
own salvation and then we shall have
his help in the salvation of others.
And while you are saving strangers you
may save SOM. 81 your own kin. You
think your brothers and sisters and
children and grandchildren all safe.
but they are not dead. and no one IS
safe till lie is dead.
On the English coast there was wild
storm and wreck in the of1ing. and
the cry was ''D1an the lifeboatF' But
Harry, the usual leader of the sailors
crew, was not to be found, and they
went without him, and brought back
all the shipwreclled people but one.
By this time Harry. the leader of the
crew, appeared and said. why did
you leave that one2" The answer was,
s.He could not help himself at all, and
we could not get him into the boat
MAN the lifeboatl" shouted Harry,
land we will go for that one"
"No," said his aged mother, stand
ing by, "you must not go. | lost your
father in storm like this, and your
brother Will went of six years ago,
and have not heard a word from VIII
since he left, and | don't know where
he is, poor VIII, and cannot let you
also go, for ain old and dependent on
you" His reply was, Mother, I must
go and save that one man, and If am
lost God will take care of you in your
old days"
The lifeboat put out, and after an
awful struggle with the sea they picked
the poor fellow out of the rigging just