Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-10-15

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I they have already landed-and they viii
wrangle for the possession of this herni-
sphere, and they will make great head
j way and feel themselves almost estah.
| lishetl.
But God will not forget the rrophe-
! cics which encouraged Columbus about
the lends Of the earth seeing the snl.a-
! ton cs Gn;." nor the Christian anthem
! which Columbus led Gu tho morning of
! The 18th of October, 1902, Oh the coast
of Sdn Salvador. Like That flock o.
land birds which met the Santa MART
and the Pintl and the l1ina far ont Al
sea, indicating to the commanders of
that feet that they were approaching
some country, SO Il whole flock of prom
iscs and hopes, golden winged and Song
full, this morning alight arornd ua. rs
ss,ring us thatwc are approaching the
glorious period of American evangelical
| ton.
A divine iufuence will yet sweep the
i Continent flat vii make iniGuity :tiroI,
alacketl lime Z and make theslneat
/ .tlatant inlllelity declare it was only
l olSing sWhe sliidd the Bible was not
true. and the worst atheism announce
that it always did believe in the God Of
nations. Let others call for requiem
and dead march. call for George Fred
erick Handels "Hallelujah Chorus"
There has been much talk of late about
communication with other worlds.
Mars has come so near we can see it's
canals, and it has been hoped that by
signals after awhile we may communi-
cate with other stars. All, that will not
lie possible until our world has been re-
formed and evangelical!
1t would not do for our world in its
lost and ruined state to have commune
cation with other worlds. 1t woul.l
spoil their morals. But wait until this
world is fully redeemed, as it will be.
and then perhaps in.erstellar correspond
ence- may be opened. Till then this
smitten and sickcned world of ours must
DC quarantined from coming too near
the unfallen worlds. Bnt, thank God.
the prophecies which cheered Columbus
in his great undertaking cheer US.
America for God! Yea, the round worl.l
for God! There can be no doubt about it.
That great Italian navigator also I'M
presses me with the idea that when one
does IL good thing lie cannot appreciate
it's ranliications. To tho moment Of his
death Columbus never knew that he had
discovered America, but thought that
Cuba was part Of Asia, Ho thought
the island Hispsnicla was the Ophir Of
Solomon. He thought be had only
opened u new way to old ASH. Had he
known what North and South America
were and are, and that lie hat. found a
country three thousand miles wide, ten
thousand miles long, ofseventeen million
square niles, and four times as large US
Europe, the happiness would have been
too much for mortal man to endure.
He had no idea that the time would
come when nation of sixty million peo-
| pie oil this side of the sea would be Joined
by nllthe intelligentnations on the other
side the sea for the most part Of year
reciting bis wonderful deeds. Fl took
centuries to reveal the result Of that one
Transatlantic voyuge. So it has always
been. Could Paul on that June day
when he was decapitated have had any
idea-of what-effect his letters and the
account Of his life would have ON
Christendoln? Could Martin Luther
| have had any idea of the echoes that
would ring through the ages from the
bang of his hammer mailing the Latin
theses against church door at Wittel-
berg?
Could Eli Whitney have realized the
continents of wealth that would lie
added TO the south by the invention of
his cotto,. gin? Could John Gutenberg,
toiling year after year making type
and laboriously setting them side by
side, and with presses changed now
this way and how that, and sued by
John Faust for money loaned, and
many of the people trying to cheat Gut
enberg ont of his invention, he toiling
OH until he produced what is known rs
the Mazarin Bible, have any ilea that
rs result of his Invention there would
be libraries that placed side by side
would again and again engirdle the
earth, or the showers Of newspapers
that snow the world under?
When Manhattan island was sold to
Che Dutch for twenty-four dollars, neither
ghcy who sold or bought could have
soreseen New York, the commercial me-
tropolis Of America that now stands ON
it. Can man who breaches sermon,
VI woman who distributes tracts, or q
teacher who instructs class, OF passei'-
by who utters encouraging words real
ize the iniritudes of useful result: The
teacher at Harrow school who toileG
with William Jones. the most stupid
boy in school and ct the foot Of his class,
did not know that he was fitting for his
work the greatest oriental scholar OF
modern times-his statue now in St.
Paul's cathedral, London. Every mosaase
yon make for God, however insigniii-
can't in your own eyes or in the eyes of
others, touches worlds larger than tine
one Columbus discovered.
Why talk about unimportaDt things:
There are TO uninportant things. In
irity is made up Of infinitesmals. On y
clear night tho smallest dewdrop holds
n star. Each one of you is at the cente.
of universe, and all you say and d.
somehow vibrates to the extreme Of thai
universe in all directions. promise cy-
erlasting renown to those who will SO
forth with Christian and sympathetic
words. After the battle of Copenhagen,
Nelson, the admiral, went into hospital
and halted at the bed of wounded
sailor, who had lost his arm, and said.
"Well, Jack, what is the matter with
you?" and the sailor replied, "Lost my