Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-02-25

own f0Ff0nC| oNf u their own brain,
out of their own sweat, out OF their own
industries. Not mollusk on all the
beaches OF all the seas would have 8
house of shell if it had not itself built
one Do not wait for others to shelter
you or prosper YOU All the crustaceous
creatures Of the r,rth from every fake
OF their covering and from every ridge
OF their tiny castles on Atlantic and Pa
cifc and Mediterranean coasts say, "Help
yourself, while God helps you to help
yourself.
Those people who are waiting for their
father or rich old uncle to die and leave
them fortune are us silly as mollusk
would he to wait for some other mollusk
to drop on it sisllYuipment 1t would
kill the nlulnsk as In most cases it de-
stroys a man not one person ont OF
hundred ev,4 was strong enough to stand
o large estate by inheritance dropped on
him in chunk. Have great erpecta-
tons from emily two pcrsons-God and
yourself Let the onycha OF my text be-
come your preceptor.
But the more examine the shells the
moro am impressed THAT God is God
Of emotion. Many scott at emotion and
seen, to think that God is God Of cold
geometry and iron laws and eternal
apathy and cnthroued stoicism. No!
No! The SHELLS with overpowering em'
phasis deny it While law and order
reign in the universe you have but to
zee the lsvi.hnrs, OF color OH the crus-
tacea. all shades Ut crimson from faint
est blush to blood Of battlefield, all
shades OF blue. all shades OF green, all
shades OF all colurs from deepest black
to whitest light. just called out on the
shells with no more order than mother
pre1neditates or calculates how many
kisses and hugs she shall give her babe
waking up In the morning sunlight.
Yes. my God is al emotional God,
and he says. we must have colors and
let the sun paint I'LL OF them on the scroll
of that shell. and we must have music
and here is a carol for the robin. and
psalm for man. and doxology for the
seraphini, and resurrection call for the
archangel.- Aye, he showed himself
God of sublime emotion when he flung
himself OH is world in the personality
of Christ to save it. without regard TO
the tears it would take. or the blood il
would exhaust. or the agonies it would
crush out
When see the Louvres und the Lux
embourgs and the Vaticans OF Divine
painting strewn along the 5000 miles OF
coast, and hear III u forest Oh summer
morning musical academies aud Han
dels societies OF full orchestras, | say
God is God OF emotion, and II he OBJ
serves mathematics it is mathematics
set to music, and his figures are written
not in white chalk on blackboards, but
written by finger Of sunlight on walls
of jasmine and trumpet creeper.
wRnAvR a CI.RAN RELIGION.
In my study Of tho conchology OF the
Bible this onycha Of the text also I'M
presses me With the fact that religion Is
perfumed What else could God have
meant whc" he said to Moses, "Taxe
unto thee sweet spices. stacte end ony
char Moses took that shell OF the ony-
cha, put it over the fire, and as 1t crum-
bled Into sa,.es it.exhaled an odor that
hung in every curtain and filled the all
Gent tabernacle. and its sweet smoke es
capped from the sacred precincts and sat
urated the outside air.
Perfume! That Is what religion is.
But instead Of that some make 1t NAL
odor They serve God in rough and
acerb way. They box their child's cara
because he does not properly keep Sun.
day insteSd of making Sunday SO attrac--
i've tho child could not help but keep 1t.
t. make him learn by heart difficult
chapter In the book Of Exodus. with all
the hard names because he has been
naughty. How many disagreeable good
people Their. arel No one doubts their
piety. and they will reach heaven. but
they will have to get fixed up before
they 20 there OF they win make TROUBLED
by calling out 10 as: Keep eff that
grsss!" What do you ricaa BY pluck
Ing that flower" SHOW your ticketsF
Oh. how many Christian psople need
to obey my text and take into their wor-
ship and their behavior and their oonso-
ciations and presbyteries and general as
senbhes I'LL | conferences more onycha
| have sometimes gone In very gala CT
spirit into the presence Of some disagree
able Christians and in Eve minutes felt
wretched, and at Some other time have
gone depressed into tho company OF
suave and genial souls. and in few mo-
ments felt exhilarant. What was the
difference?' 1t was the difference in what
they burned on their censers. The one
burned onycha: the other burned asa-
tetidn
TIKI ROYAL PURPLE
In this genealogical study Of the 81
Bile also l. ,ticc that the mollusks or
shelled anilnais furnish the purple that
you soc richly durkeuing so many Scrip
ture chapter The purple stuff in the
ancient tab. rrncle. the purple girdle of
the priests, no purple mantle OF Roman
emperors. the apparel Of Dives In purple
and fine liavn-aye. the purple robe
which in mockery was thrown upon
Christ-were colored by the purpleof the
shells on the shores Of the Mediterra-
mean. It was discovered by q shepherds
dog having stained his mouth by break
Ing one Of tho shells. and the purple
aroused admiration.
Costly purplel Six pounds Of the pur-
ole liquor extracted from the shelltishes
we're used to prepare one pound of wool.
Purple was also used on the, pages OF
books. Bibles and prayer books ap-
peared in purple vellum, which may still
be found in some Of the national libraries
of Europe Plu;arch speaks OF some pur'
pie which kept its beauty for 1870 years.
But after awhile tho purple became