Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-07-25

No more bolstering up of the weary
head No more changing from side to
side to get an easy position. No more
use Of the bandage, and the cataplasln.
and the prescription. That invalids
chair may be folded up, or taken apart.
or set away, but it will never lose its
queenly power; it will always preach
Of trust in God and cheerful sublnis-
sion. Suffering all ended now With
respect to that invalid the words of my
text have been fulfilled, Thou shalt
be missed. because thy seat will be
empty"
BABY'S PLACE.
pass on and fad one more vacant
chair. 1t Is high chair. 1t is the
child's chair. If that CHAIR be occupied
l think it is the most potent cllairin all
the household. All the chairs wait on
IT.; all the chairs are turned toward It,
1t means more than David's chair ut
Saul's banquet. At any rate, it makes
more racket. That Is n strange house
that can be dull with a child in it.
How that child breaks up the har.l
worldhness of the place and keeps you
young to sixty, seventy and eighty
years OF agel If you have no child OF
your own. adopt one; it will open
heaven to your soul. 1t will pay its
way. It's growing in the morning will
give the day cheerful starting, and
its glee at night will give tho day
cheerful close. You do not like chill
dren9 Then you had better stay out
OF heaven, for there are so many there
they would fairly make You crazyl
Only about five hundred millions Of
then The old crusty Pharisccs told
the mothers to keep the children away
from Christ "You bother him, they
said; you trouble the Master" Trou-
BILE hilnl lie has filled heaven with
that kind of trouble.
A pioneer in California says that, for
the first year or two after his residence
in Sierra Nevada county, there was not
single child In oil the reach of hun
dred miles. But the Fourth of July
came, and the miners were gathered to-
gether, and they were celebrating the
Fourth with grafton and poem and a
boistcrous brass band, and while the
band was playing an infants voice was
heard crying, and all the miners were
startled, and the swarthy men began to
think OF their homes on the eastern
coast, and of their wives and children
far away, and their hearts were thrilled
with homesickness as they heard the
babe cry.
But the music went on, and tho child
cried louder and louder, and the brass
band played louder and louder, trying
to drown out the infantile interruption.
when swarthy miner. the tears rolling
down his face, got up and shook his
fist and said, stop that noisy band
and give the baby chance" Oh,
there was pathos in it, as well as good
cheer in it. There is nothing to arouse
and melt and subdue the soul like a
child's voice. But when it goes. AWAY
about you
In three-fourths of the homes of this
there is vacant high
chair. Somehow you never get over it.
There is no one to put to bed at night;
no one to ask strange questions about
God and heaven. Oh, what is the use
Of that high chair9 1t is to call you
higher. What drawing upward it is
to have children In heavenl And then
it is such preventive against sin. If
a father is going away into sin he leaves
his living children with their mother;
but if father is going away into sin
what is he going to do with his dead
children floating about him and hover
ing over his every hayward step? Oh,
speak out, vacant high chair, and say:
Father, come back from sin; mother,
come back from worldliness. I an
watching you. an waiting for YOU
With respect to your child, the words of
my text have been fulfilled, Thou
shalt be missed. because thy seat will /.
be empty"
DEPARTED VOICES.
My hearers, have gathered up the
voices OF your departed friends and
tried to intone item into one invitation
upward. set in array all the vacant
chairs Of your homes and Of your so
cial circle, and bid them cry out this
morning: Time Is short. Eternity is
near. Take my Saviour BE at peace
with my God. Come mp where 1
am. We lived together on earth, come
let us live together in heaven" We
answer that invitation. We come.
Keep scat for US, as Saul Kept scat
for David, but that seat shall not be
empty. And OH, when we are all
through with this world and we have
shaken hands all around for the last
time. and oil our chairs in the home
circle and In the outside world shall be
vacant. may we be worshiping God in
that place from which we shall go out
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no more for ever. ] thank God there
will be no vacant chairs in heaven.
There we shall meet again, and talk
over our earthly heartbreaks. low
much you have been through since you
saw them last On the shining shore
you will talk it all over. The heart
aches. The loneliness The sleepless
nights. The weeping until you had no
more power to weep, because the heart
was withered and dried up. Story of
empty cradle, and little shoe only half
worn out never to be worn again, just
the shape of the foot that once pressed
it. And dreams when you thought the
departed had come back again, and
the room seemed bright with their
faces, and you started up to greet
them, and in the effort the dream
broke and you found yourself standing