Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-02-20

freshet and disaster, when a govern
nent station was opened for the sup
ply of bread, and it took the officers
of the law to keep the sufferers in
line because of the great rush for
food. When this famine struck
world realizes that the church is u
government station set up by the
government OF the universe to pro
vide the bread of eternal life for all
the people, the rush will he unpre-
cedented and llnimaginable.
WHAT SCIENTISTS HAVE not DONE.
Astronomers have been busy meas,
uring worlds. and they have told US
how great is the circumference OF
this world and how great is its diam
eter, yea, they have kept on until
they have weighed our planet and
found its weight to be six -sextilllon
tons But by no, SCIENCE tae
weight Of this worlds trouble been
weighed. Now, Christ standing on
the level of our humanity stands in
sympathy with every trouble. There
are so many aching heads; his ached
under the thorns. There are SC
many weary feet; his were worn
with the long journey up and down
tho land that received him not.
There are so many prosecuted souls.
Every hour OF his life was under
human outrage. The world had no
better place to receive him than
cattle pen, and it's farewell was q slap
on his cheek and a spear in his side.
So intensely human was he that
there has not been in all our race q
grief or infr7nity OF exhaustion OF
pang that did not touch him once
and that does not touch him now.
The lepels, the palalytics, the i'm
beetle, the maniac. the courtesan, the
rcpentant bligand- which one did he
turn off, which one did he not pity.
which one did he not helps The uni.
veisal trouble CT the world is be-
reavcment. One may escape all the
other troubles. but that no soul cs-
capes. Out of that bitter cup every
ono must take drink. For instance,
in order that all might know how he
sylnpathizes with those who have
lost daughter, Christ comes to the
house of J;ll-ius. There is such big
crowd around the door he and bis
disciples have to push their way in.
From the throng of people conclude
that this girl must have been very
popular. She was one of those chill.
dren whom everybody likes.
After Christ got in the house there
was such Il loud weeping that the or.
binary tones of voice could not he
heard. | do not wonder. The dead
daughter was twelve years ofa;,e. Its
about tho happicst time il most lives.
Very little children suffer many in
Justices because they are children,
and childhood is not a desirable
part of human eXistence-.they get
whacketl or set on. But at twelve
years of4.aye the child has come to
self assertion and apt to mako hcI
rights known. And then, twelve
years of age is too carly for the cares
and anxietie, of life. So this girl was,
| think, the meriimeDt of the house
hold. She furnished for them the
lnilnicry and the harmless mischief,
and reused the g7lifaw that often
rang through that happy home. But
now she is dead, and the grief at hc1
departure is as violent as her pres
cnce had becn viyacious and i1sp!rit-
ing. Oh, the bereavement was sc
sharp, so overwhelming How could
they give her up
suspect that they blamed them.
selves for this or for that. Oh, if
they had had some other doctor, OF
taken some other medicine. or had
been more careful of her health, or if
they had not given her that reproof
sometime when she had not really
deserved it. Oh, if they had been
more patient with her hilaritics and,
instead of hrshing her play, had par
ticipated in it! You know there are
so many things that parents always
blame themselves for at such times.
Only twelve years of agel So fair,
50 promising. so full Of life few
days ago, and now so still Oh, what
it is to have Il daughter dead The
room is full of folks, but yonder is
the room where the young sleeper is.
The crowd cannot go in there, Only
six persons enter, five besides Christ
three fripnds, and, Of course, the
father and mother. They have the
first right to go in. The heaviest
part of the grief was theirs. all eyes
in that room are on the face of this
girl.
There lay the beautiful hand, white
and finely shapen, but it was not
lifted in greeting To any of the group.
Christ stepped forward and took hold
of that hand and said, with tone
and accentuation chargedSwith ten
derness and command, "Dalnsel,
say unto thee, arisel" And without
moments delay she arose, her eyes
wide open, her cheeks turning from
white lily to red rose. and the parents
cry: She lives! She livcs! and in
the next room they take up the
sound, She Ives She ivesl" and
the tlrong in trout of the doorway
repeat it, She lives She livesF
VIII not all those who have lost a
daughter feel that such Christ as
that can syrnpathize2
TILE COMPASSION OF CHRIST.
On another occasion he showed
how be felt about the loss OF son.
Here are the obseqrues: A long pro-