Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-09-30

wandering and Febellious planet, HThat
world at last shows disposition to ap-
preciate what I have done for it, and
with one wave Of my SCARED hand I will
bless and reclaim and save it."
That such a celebration Of our Lords
birth, kept up for days and months,
would please oil the good Of earth and
nightly speed on the gospel chariot
and please all the heavens, sanity,
cherubio, seraphic, archangelic and d.
vine, is beyond question. Oh, get ready
for the worlds greatest festivityi Tune
your voices for the worlds greatest an-
them. Lift the arches for the worlds
mightiest procession. Let the advancing
standard Of the army Of years, which
has inscribed on one side Of 1t 1890"
and on the other side 1901. have also
inscribed on 1t the most charming name
of all the universe-the name of Jesus
Whether this suggestion Of worlds
celebration Of the nativity be taken OF
not, 1t has allowed me an opportunity in
q somewhat unusual way of expressing
my love for the great central character
Of all time and all eternity. He Is the
| infinite nonesuch. The armies Of heaven
drop on their knees before him. After
Bourdaloue, before overwhelmed au-
diences, has preached him. and Milton
in immortal blank verse has sung him,
and Michael Angelo has glorifed the cell
ing Of the Vatican with his Second COM
ing, and martyrs while girdled and
canopied with the flames Of the stake
have with burning lips kissed his men,
ory, and in the s'hundred and forty and
four thousand" Of heaven with feet on
seas of glass intershot with sunrise, have
with uplifted and downswung baton,
and sounding comets, and waving BAN
ners, and heaven capturing doxologies
celebrated him, the story Of bis lowell
ness, and his might, and his beauty, and
his grandeur, and his grace, and his In
tercession, and his sacrifice, and Of his
birth, and his death will remain untold.
Be his name on our lips while we live,
and when we die after we have spoken
I farewell to father and mother and wife,
and child let us speak that name which
is the lullaby Of earth and the transport
Of heaven.
Before the crossing Of time on the
midnight between Dec. 81, 1900, and the
list of January, 1901, many of US will be
gone. Some Of you will hear the clock
strike 10 Of one century and an hour
after it hear 1t strike Of another GEN.
tury, but many Of you will not that
midnight hear either the stroke Of the
old city clock or Of the old timepiece In
the hallway Of the homestead. Seven
years cut wide swath through the
churches and communities and nations.
| But those who cross from world to
world before Old Time In this world
crosses that midnight from century to
century will talk among the thrones Of
the coming earthly Jubilee, and on the
river bank and in the house Of many
mansions, until all heaven will know OF
the coming of that celebration, that will
fill the earthly nations with Joy and
. help augment the nations Of heaven.
But whether here or5there we will take
part in the music and the banqueting II
1 we have made the Lord our portion.
/. Oh, how I would Like to stand at my
4 front door some morning or noon or
ylsn i; Sstand $theb blessed
lsEord desca person lot he viii
come In the last udgment, with fire and
| hail and earthquake, but in sweet ten
derness to pardon all sin, and heal all
wounds, and wipe away all tears, and
feed all hunger, and right all wrongs,
and illumine all darkness, and break oil
1 bondage, and harmonic all discords.
Some think he will thus come, but about
that coming I make no prophecy, for I
am not enough learned in the Scriptures,
as some of my friends are. to announce
q very positive opinion.
But this I do know, that It would be
we'll for US to have an international and
an interworld celebration Of the ami
versary of his birthday about the time Of
the birth Of the new century, and that 1t
will be wise beyond all others wisdom
! for us to take him as our present and
everlasting coadjutor, and Il that dar-
ling of earth and heaven will only accept
you and me after all our lifetime Of un-
worthiness and sin we can never pay
! him what we owe, though through all
/ the eternity to come we had every hour
new song and every moment new
ascription of homage and praise, for you
zee we were far out among the lost sheep
that the gospel hymn so pathetically de-
scribes;
| Out in tho desert he heard its cry,
! Sick and helpless and ready to die,
But oil through tho mountains. thunder
riven,
And up from the rocky steep,
There rises cry to the gate OF heaven.
'Rejoico, I have found my sheepl''
And tho angels echo round the throne, .,
"Reioice. for the Lord BRINGS beck his ownTs
BED Gown.
When ,yoman is sick and tired
and has to make good appearance
she can belle her feelings by putting
on red dress. If that charitable,
warm tinted toilet is not at hand.
get crimson, claret or cardinal scarf
! or ward of silk and fashion kerr