Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-11-11

name to Them; but Goa knows they are
drunkl Some Of you o month Or ssi1
weeks ago had no more religion than
you ought to have, and aftsy the elections
are over, to calculate how much religion
you have left.wili DO a sum in vulgar
fractions. Oh. tho pressure Is tsemen.
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POLITICAL; VACCINATIONS.
How many mighty intelleots have gone
down under the dissipation Of politicss
I think of one who came from the west.
He was able to stand out against the
whole American senate God he'd given
him faculties enough to govern q king
dom or to frame a. constitution. His
voice was terrible to his oountry's enc
miles and a mighty inspiration in the day
Of national peril. But 90 glasses OF strong
drink day were his usual allowance,
and he went down into the habits Of a
confirmed inebriate.
Alas for him! Though costly monu-
ment has been reared over his resting
place, the young men of this country
shall not be denied tho awful lesson that
the agency by which the world was
robbed Of one of Its mightiest intellects,
and our country of one of It's ablest con-
stitutional defenders, was the dissipa-
ton of political life. You want to know
whom mean2 Young man, ask your IA
Their when you get home. The adverse
tide is fearful, and warn you against it!
You need not 80 fur off to find the
wornout politician. Here he is, STUN
bling along the highway, hislimbs hardly
able to hold him up. Bent over and pale
with exhausting sickness. Surly to any
body who accosts him. His last decent
article of apparel pawned for strong
drink. Glad if, when going by grocery;
some low acquaintance invites him in to
take sip Of ale, and then wiping his
lip with his greasy sleeve. Kicked of
the steps by men who once were proud
to be his constituents. Manhood oblit-
Grated. Lip blistered with curse.
Scars of brutal assault on cheek and
brow. Foul mouthed. A crouching,
staggering, wheeling wretch. No
friends. No God. No hope. No heaven.
That is your wornout politician. That
Is what some of you will become unless
by this mornings warning, and the
mercy Of God, your steps are arrested.
Oh, there are no words enough potent,
enough portentous, enough consuming,
enough damning to describe the horrible
drunkenness that has rolled over this
land, and that has bent down the necks
of some of the mightiest. intellects, until
they have been compelled to drink out
Of the trough Of bestiality and abomina-
toni warn young men against pohti-
cal life unless they are teetotalers and
consecrated Christian men.
Again, counsel you that, when you
90 to the ballot box at the city, or the
state, OF the national elections, you rec
ognize God and appeal to him for his
blessing. There is power higher than
the ballot box, than the gubernatorial
chair, than the presidential White
House. It is high time that we put less
confidence in political platforms and
mora confidence in God. See what q
weak thing is human foresight How
little our wise men seem to knowl See
how, every autumn, thousands of men
who are clambering up for higher posi-
tions are turned under. God upsets
..,-over,,-'~ purify every
nation, has mission to perform. Fail
ing to perform 1t, down he goes.
TIE CAUSE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
God said to the house of Bourbon,
Remodel France and establish equity"
House Of Bourbon would not do it.
Down 1t went. God said to the house
of Stuart, MAKE the English people
free, God fearing and happy" House
Of Stuart would not do 1t. Down 1t
went. God says to the political parties
in this day, "By the principles of Chris
hanityremodel, govern, educate, save the
people," Failing to do that, down they
go, burying in their ruins their disciples
and advocates. God can spare all the
political intriguers Of this day. and can
raise up another generation who shall
10 justice and love mercy.
IF God could spare Luther before the
was done, and if he could
pare Washington before free govern
nent had been fully tested, and If he could
pare Howard before more than one out
# a thousand dungeons had been allie
rated, and If he could spare Robert Nc
Jheyne just as Scotland was gathering
0 his burning utterances, and if he could
pare Thomas Clarkson while yet mil
ions of his>fellow men had chains rust
ng to the bone then he can spare any
IAN, and he can spare any party. That :
ian who, through cowardice or blind {
lolatry of party, forsakes the cause of e
ighteousness, goes down, and the armed .
attalions of God march over him. 2
o Christian men, take out your BIZ +
lie this afternoon, and in the light of y
nat word make up your mind as to :
hat is your duty as citizens. Remem-
ar that the highest kind of a patriot is
Christian patriot. Consecrate your b
Ives first to God, then you will know e
wv to consecrate yourselves to your Il
'untry. All these political excitements d
i'll be gone. Ballot boxes and guber- f
ltorial chairs and continents will Of
loke In the final conhagration, but D,
ose who love God and do their best IN
all come to lustrous dominion after II
3 stars have ceased their shining, and Ok
. ocean has heaved its last billow, and Dc
3 closing thunder of the juds- th
,nt day shall toll of the funeral Of e,
world. Oh, prepare for that dayi
Next Tuesday questions of the state
Il be settled, but there comes day
len the questions of eternity will be Sc
,ided. You may vote right and get ce
} victory at the ballot box and yet suf- Pl
eternal defeat. After you have cnst Is
ar last vote where will you got In a.
s country there are two parties. You wi