Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-01-23
q 3. VA. SATURDAY, JANUARY %, 1892

goes down the street all the raga-
mullins take hold of her dress and
cry, Auntie, when are you going to
bring us some more books and shoes
and things? And when in times of
revival there is some hard case back
in IL church pew that no one else can
touch, she goes where he is, and in
n minute she has him ;l-crying, and
the first thing we know she is
fetching the hardened man up to
the front to ho prayed for, anil
says, Here is /, brother who wants
to find the way into the king
dom of God. And if nobody seems
ready to pray she kneels down in the
aisle beside him and says, % Lord.!'
with pathos and a power and a
triumph that seem instantly to eman-
cipate the hardened sinner Oh, no.
you must not call her q. thoughtless
butterfly in our presence. You see
we would not stand it" The fact is
that the son and daughter of that
family did not promise much at the
start. but they are now an Echo, a
glorious Echo. a prolonged Echo of
parental teaching and example.
PLANTING FOR TIME AND ETERNITY.
A Vermont mother as her boy was
about to start for a life ON the sea,
said: Edward. have never seen the
ocean. but understand the great
temptation is strong drink Promise
me you will never touch it. !" Many
years after that, telling of this in
meeting. Edward said: ii gave that
promise to mother. and have been
around the world and at Calcutta,
the ports of the Mediterranean, San
Francisco, Cape of Good Hope and
north and south poles, and never
saw IL glass of liquorin all those years
that my mothers form did not APP
pear before me. and do not know
how liquor tastes. never have
tasted it and all because of the prom.
Use made to my mother.
This was tho result of that CONVEX
sation at the gate of the Vermont
farmhouse. The statuary of Thor
wallsen was sent from Italy to Ger
many. and the straw in which the
statues had been packed was thrown
upon the ground The next spring
beautiful Italian flowers splang up
where this straw had been cast. for
in it had been some of the seeds OF
Italian flowers, and whether CON
scious of it or not we lle all the time
planting for ourselves and planting
for others roses or thorns. You
thought it only straw, yet among it
were anemones.
But here is a slipshod home. The
parents are IL golless pair AThcy let
their children do as they please. No
example fit to follow. No lessons of
morality or religion. Sunday no bet
ter than any other day. The Bible
no better than any other book. The
house is sort of inn where the older
and younger people of the household
stop for awhile. The theory acted
on. though perhaps not announced,
is: The children will have to do as
did and take their chances. Life is
Il lottery anyhow, and some draw
prizes and some draw blanks and we
will trust tn luck
Skip twenty years and come back
to the neighliorhood where that fam
lily used to live. You meet on the
street or ON the road an old inhabi-
tant of that neighbolhood, and you
say, Can you tell me anything about
the PetelSons who used to live here2"
Yes" says the old inhahitant, Il re-
member them very well. The father
and mother have been dead for
years. We'll. how about the chill
dren9 What has become of them2"
The old inhabitunt replies: They
turned out badly. YoA know the
old man was about half an inlidel and
the boys were all intidels. The old
est son married. but got into drinking
habits, and in few years his wife
was not able to live with him any
longer and his children were taken
by relatives. and he died of delirium
tremens on Blackwell's island. His
other son forged the name of his en-
ployer and fled to Canada. One Of
the daughters of the old folks mar
ried an inebliate with the idea of re-
forming him, and you know how
that always ends-in the ruin of both
the expelimenter and the one ex
pelilnented with. The Other. daugh-
ter disappeared mysteliously and
has not been heard Of There was
young woman picked out of the
East river and put in the morgue,
and some thought it was her. but |
cannot say" is it possiblef" you
cry out. Yes. it is possible. The
family is a complete wreck" My
hearers that is just what might have
been expected. All this is only the
Echo, the dismal Echo. the awful
Echo. the dreadful Echo of parental
ubliquity and unfaithfulness. The
Did folks heaped up Il mountain of
wrong influences, and this is only
what my text calls The sounding of
the mountains. !"
Indeed our entire behavior in this
world will have resound. While
opportunities fly in a straight line
and just touch us once and are gone
never to return. the wrongs we prac-
tee upon others fly in circle and
they come back to the place from
which they started. Doctor Guillo-
tine thought it smart to introduce
the instrument OF death, named after
him; but did not like it sowell when
his own head was chopped off with
the guillotine
MAKE YOUR RECORD FOR JUDGMENT