Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-10-29
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understand Tie good things ahead of ns
than child at school studying his A B
e call understand What that has TO do
with his reading John Ruskin's Seven
Lamps Of Architecture" or Dante's 'Di-
vina Commedia The eatisfactions and
joys we have as yet had are l:lze the
music a boy makes with his first lesson
on tho violin compared with>what was
evoked from his great orchestra by my
Gear and ill5:striors and transcendent
but now departed friend. Patrick Gill
more, when he lifted his baton AMI AL
the strings vibmted. and all The trum-
pets pcale:l fn1sh. a.i;i all the flutes car
oled, and al tie drums relied, and all
the hoofs Of the cavalry charge which
he initiated we're in full beat: Look
ahead! The finger Of God points for
ward.
.oh. but" says some one, al an get
ting old. and J. have u touch of rheIlln ~
stisr5 Joy etisii,as
s1ot sstaidI IS nfucI used
congratulate you. for that shows yol,
are getting, nearer TO the time when yp:;
are going to enter immortal youth a..d
he ..trcnY clcngh to iinlIi oI tnsil,attle
ments Of heaven ;.n;- bandit who by, IN
heard of l:urglaiy.l.::2ht break into the
Golden City. "Int,' says some one, Il
feel SO lonely. The l!.pst Of MY friends
are gone. and the bereareirentS of lie
have lnnlr:.iicd Until this .twor..l tli::s
was once 81 bright to lie. las lost i.
charm congratulate you, for wiM.-l
yon 90 there will he fcwl. here to holl
you hack and mere tberc to pull you in.
Lool, ahead! The finger of Cod is po;l:s.
ing forward. We Fit here in church.
and by hymn and prayer and scrn"I'
and Christian association we tryfo get
into frame Of niui that will be accept
able to God an;l pleasant 10 ourselves.
But what /: stupid sizing it. all is COM
pared with what ii will be when we have
gone beyond psGlinbook and sermon m.l
Bible, and we stansi. our last imperfec-
ton gone, in the presence Of that chaIi,l
CT tho univcrse-the blessed Christ-and
have him look III our face and say: II
have been watching you and sympa;hiz-
ing with you ard helping you all these
years, and no% YOU are here. Go where
you please end never Enow,;t sorrowanil
never she'd 4 rear. There Ii your mother
now-ahe is coming to greet vol,-an,l
there is Your father. and there are yorr
children. SIT down under this tree Of
life, and ON the LaEi;s Of this river tai
it all over" tell You there will Ls
more JOY l.. enc niii:ntc of that than il
fifty years Of earthly cSrltation. Look
ahead! Look at tile finest house on Garth
and know that Jon will have Il finer one
in heaven. Lock NJ the healthiesr pei
son yoil can find and know you will yet
be healthier Look up The one who has
the best eyes;Shto of any one you have ever
heard of, and know yon will have better
vision. Listen to the sweetest piima
donna that ever trcd the platform. AMI
know That in heaven you will liftapo.e
enrapturing song thsn ever enchanted.
earthly audiroriun,.
A VISION OF sPl.ENDCI.s,
Ely friends. do not know how We arc
going to stand i'll mean the full inrush
of that spleno-. Last sllnllner.I saw
Moscow, in some respects the most
splendid city under the sun. The enl-
reror afterwarl asked me If l had seen
it, for Moscow is the pride Of Russia.
told him yes. and that lad seen Mos
COW burn. will to-! yo;, what meant.
After examining nine hundred brass
cannons which were picked out CT tho
snow after Napoleon re:reated from
Moscow, each cannon deep cut with the
letter ~, Il assembled the tower CT some
two hundred and fifty feet. jrst before
sunset, and on each platform there were
bells, large anil s,nall. and climbed up
among the BELLS. and thcn as reached
the top I'll the bells underneath me
began to ring. and they were joined by
the bells of fourteen hundred towers
and dolnes and trrrets. Some of the
bells sent out faint tinl:lc Of sound, Il
sweet t;.tinnalulaticn that seemed to
bubble III the air. and others tllua,;crcd
forth boom after honln, boom afcer
boom, until it seemed tt a:lake the earth
and fill the hcl"cns-sornds so weird,
so sweet. so awful. So grand. so CHARM
ing, so tremendous, 80 soft, 20 riprlius,
SO reverbera.i1y-;lEd thcy seemed to
wreathe anu whirl and rise aud SILK AID
burst and roll and mount and die.
When Napoleon saw Moscow .bnrn it
could not have bee,i more brilliant THAI
when ! saw I'll tn" fourteen hundred
turrets afame with the sunset, roofs Of
gold and walls of malachite, and archi-
lecture of all colors lningliilg the brown
of autunlEal forests and the blue Of
summer heavens. and the confagration
of morning skies. and the green Of rich
and rhe foam Of tossing seas.
The lninylilg of So many colors v-ishso
many sounds was an enhancement
almost too much for human nerves or
human eyesor human ears. | expcctto
see nothing to eQaal it until you AID
see heaven. But that will surpass itand
make tirrmemoTy IF what | saw that {
July evening in Moscow almost tame
and insipid. All heaven aglow and all
heaven a-rirs-not i'll the sunset. E:!t III
the sunrise. Voices uf our own kindred
miAgling with tie tinxolosias of empires.
Organs of eternal worship responding to
the tlrlmpcts that have Weakened the
dead. Nations i'll white. Centuries in
coronation. Anthems ike the voice Of
many waters. Circle of martyrs. Circle
of~apostles. Circle of prophets. Thrones
of cherubinl. Thrones Of seraphim.
Throne Of archange!. Throne of Christ.
Throne Of God. Thrones! Thronesl
Thrones! The finger Of God points that
way. Stop not until you reach that
place. Through the atoniny Christ all
| speak of and more may be yours and
mine. Do you not now hear the chime
of +bo l,1,lc M tI,.t ,uatr.nDoliS of fine J1ri-