Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-04-23

DR.. Talmago breaches Tn Easter Sermon
from the Text. "Surely the bitterness
OF Dea.u, Ii pnst"-.su Our Troubles
End with Life.
DnooxLYx, April 17.-Bcing Easter
morning the Brooklyn Tabernacle con
crcgntion Ind been invited to bring
flowers the night before, and bank OF
than was on tho front OF tho pulpit and
wreaths of them over the pulpit. The
word Resurrection was spelled out In
letters of white lilies. Especial music
was added to the great congregational
Text, Samuel xy. go, Surely
the bitterness of death is past"
SlA4gied Asag, and the only objection
I have TO this text is TINT bad man ut
torcd it. Nevertheless, 1t is truo, and in
q higher and better sense than that in
which it was originally uttered. Years
ago legend something like this was
told mo. In u hut lived very poor
woman by the name OF Misery. In front
Of her door WAS y pear troe, which was
hsr only resource for living. Christ,
tho Lord, IN poor garb was walking
through the earth and no one would on
terrain him. In vain he knocked at the
door OF palaces and of humble dwell
inss. Cold and hungry and insufficient
" clad, as he WIS. mono received him.
But coming one day to tho hut Of this
woman, w!.oae name WAS Misery, she
received him and offered him few
crusts H,d asked him to warm himself
Mt the handful Of GOALS. and sho sat up
ill night that tLe w;.yfarer might haze a
pillow to rest on.
In the morning this divine being asked
her as no departed what sho would have
him do in the way Of reward, and told
her that he owned the universe and
would give her what she asked. All she
asked was TINT her pear tree might be
protected, and that tho boys who stole
her fruit. onco climbing the tree, might
not be able TO get down without her con-
sent. So it was granted, and al who
the tree wero compelled to stay
there. After while Death came along
and told tho poor woman sho must go
with him. but pho did not want to go,
for, however poor ones lot is, no one
wants to so with Death. Then she said
to Death, Il will 20 with you if you will
first climb Up into my pear tree and
bring mo down fow pears before
start This he consented to do, but
having climbed into the tree no could
not again come down.
Then the troubles Of the world began.
for Death did not come. The physicians
had no pa:icnts, tho undertakers no bus
mess, lawyers no wills to maize, the poo
pie who waited for inheritances could
not get them. the old men staid in all
the professions and occupations, 80 that
there was no room for tho young who
wero coming on, and the earth got over
crowded, and from al tho earth tho cry
wont up: "Oh, for De2thl Where ie
Death?~ Then the people came to the
poor woman and begged her to let Death
descend from the tree. In sympathy for
tho world sha consented to let Death
come down on one condition, and that
was that be should never modest or take
her away, ard on that condition Death
was allowed 10 come down, end he kept
his word sntl rcver removed her, and
for that reason we always have Misery
with us.
TIE MIGHTIEST MERCY.
In that ellegorv some ono has set forth
the Truth that mean to present on this
Easter morning, which celebrates the
of Christ and our coming
osurrcction-that one Of the grandest
and nighticst 1ncTcics of the earth is
our divine perm ,sion to quit it. Sixty
four persons every minnie step off-this
planet. Thirty million people every
year board this planet. AS steamer
must unload before it takes another
cargo, and as the passengers of a rail
train must lcsve it in order to have an
other company OF passengers enter it, so
with this world.
What would happen to an ocean
steamer if man, taking staterooln,
should stay in it forever? What would
happen to rail train if one who pur-
ctascs "a ticket should always occupy the
scat assigned him2 And what would
happen TO this world if all who came
into it never departed from it? The
grave is rs much a bnncdiction as the
cradle, What sunk that ship in the
Black sea few days aSof Too many
What was the matter with
that steamer or the Thames which, q
few years ago, went down with 600
lives? Too many passengers. Now, this
world is only astip. which was launched
some six thousand years ago. 1t is sail
ing st the rate Of many thousand miles
III hour. II is frcightel with mountains
and cities, and has in its staterooms and
steeragc about sixteen hundred million
SO many are coming aboard,
it is necessary that a good many disem-
bark.
Suppose that I'll tho people that have
lived since the days of Adam and Eve
WOTO Sui ttliFt-N d ClQUoS1CO
place this world would bono elbow
room, no place to walk, no privacy,
TO cat OF wear, OF if anything
we're left the human race would, like a
crew, have to be put on
small rations, each of us having perhaps
only biscuit q day. And what chance
would there be for tho rising genera
lions? The men and women who stated
when the world started would keep the
modern people lack and down, saying:
'.We are 81, thousand years old. Bow
down. History is nothing. for wo are
oldc- than history" What mercy for
tho human rice was death. Within a
few years you can get from this world
al there is in H.
After you have had fifty or sixty or
seventy snringimes, yo1 have seen
enough blossoms. After fifty or sixty
or seventy a'ltnuns, you have seen
enough Of gorgeous foliage. After fifty
Of sixty OF seventy winters, you have
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