Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-10-29

he would have been dashed. F. W.
Robertson, the great preacher of Brigh-
ton, England, had his life work decided
by the barking of his dog. A neighbor
whose daughter was i'll was disturbed
by the barking of that dog one night
This brought the neishbor into commu-
nication with Robertson. That acquaint-
anceslip kept him from joining the
dragons and going to India and spend
ing his life in military service. and re-
served him for pulpit the influence of
which for Gospelization will resound for
all time and all eternity.
Why did not Columbus sink when in
early manhood he was adoat six miles
from the beach with nothing to sustain
him till he could swim to land but o
boats car? wonder if his preservation
had anything to do with America? Had
the storm that diverted the Mayfower
from the mouth of the Hudsonfor which
it was sailing and sent it ashore at Cape
Cod no divine superyisal? Does an
archy rule this world, or God?
St. Felix escaped lnartyrdoin by crawl
| ing through "a hole. ill., the wall, across
which tho pil eis; eliatei Eafser9
Els sIlerse cNtois Pew he
lsiole1 in tlleswall. @biit the spiders web
l5put:them off the track. A boy was lost
by his drunken father and could'not for
years find liis-way home. Nearly grown
he went into E'nlton Street prayer
meeting and asked for prayers that lie
might find his parents. His mother was
in the room and rose and recognized Lei:
long lost son. Do you say chat these
things "only ha. pened so?" Tell that to
those who do not believoin God, and
have no faith in the Bible. Donot tell
it to me- said to.an aged minister Of
much experiences: '.All the events of my
life seem to have bccn diyinely con.
nected. Do you suppose it is so in all
lives" lie answered. Eyes, but most
people do not notice the divine leadings.'
stand here this morning to say from
my own experience that the safest thing
in all the world TO do is TO trust tie
Lord. | never had misfortune or
persecution or trial or a disappcint-
mcnt, however excruciating at the time.
that God did not make turn cut for iny
good. Ny one wish is to follow ira
divine leading. want to watch the
finger of God.
A NATIONAL APPLICATION.
Nations also would do well to watch
for the finger of God. What does the
cholera scare in America mean: Some
say it means that the plague will sweep
our lantlincxt summer. do not believe
word of it. There Will be no cholera
here next summer. -Four or five s,lm-
mers ago there were those who said i:
would surely he here the following sum-
iaer because it was en- the way. BUTT
did not come. The sanitary precautions
established here will make ncxt summer
unusually bealthful. Cholera never
starts from where il stopped the season
before, but always starts i'll the filth Ut
Asia, and if it starts next summer it
will start there again-it will pct start
from New York quarantine. But it is
evident to he that the finger Of God sin
this cholera scare, and that he is point
ing this nation to something higher and
better. Ithas been demonstrated as never
before that we are in the hands Of God.
He allowed the plague to come to our
very gates, and then halted it. The
quarantine was right and necessary, but
oh, how easily the plague could have
leaped the barriers lifted against it!
Thanks 10 the president of the United
States, and thanks TO the health officers,
and thanks TO the Thirteen..l regiment,
and thanks 10 eli who stood betwecn this
evil and our national health, Int more
than all and higher than ail thanks to
God! Out Of that soleinnity we ought
to pass up to something better than any
thing that has ever yet characterized rs
as a nation. We ought To omit our ma
tionul sins, our Sabbath breaking, and
our drunkenness, and our impurities, and
our corruptions of ell sorts rs u people.
The tendency is in self graduation at our
prosperity to forget the mercy of God
that has kept Us fron, being blotted out
for our crimes, and that still multiplies
our temporal properties. Forward and
upward! Sec you not the finger OF God
in this protecting mercy?
rejoice that there are many encour-
aging signs for our nation. and one is
that this presidential campaign has less
malignity and abuse than any presiden-
lial campaign since We have been ma
tiCn. Turn over to the rictorials and
the columns CT the political sheets of
the presidential excitcnents all the way
back and see what contumely Washing
ton ard Jefferson and Madison and Mon
rce ard Jackson went through. Now
see the almost entire absence Of all that
The political orators, ! notice, this year
are apt to begin by eulogizins the hon.
esty ami good intentions of the opposing
candidate, End say that lie is better than
his party. Instead of vilriol, cd,nomile
flowers. Tl.at we seem to have escaped
hedegradation of The usual quadrennial
billinssgate is an encouraging fact. Per
baps this l:catcrmcnt may have somewhat
resulted from the sadness lowering over
the home Of ono OF tho caliG;t:i,eS, sad
ness in which the whole nation sylnpa-
tbizps. Perhaps we have i"'"n so ali
sorbed in paying honors to Christophei
Columbus that we have forgotten to
anatheniatize the prominent men of the
present. No man in this country is fully
honored until he is dead. Whatever be
the reason, this nation has escaped many
of the horrors that ordinarily accompany
the presidential contest. But let us not
pause too long in hilarity about the pres
emit and forget the fact that there are
not only temporal possibilities far great
er than those attained, bat higher moral
and religious possibilities. The God of
our fathers is the God Of their children,
,Dd Lis FINGER nnints I1y fO n higher ma.