Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-09-16

your transcendentaI phraseorogy and tell
him he ought to have confidence In the
great Ito be-" and the everlasting "now,n
and the eternal "what is it% and go On
with your consolation and see II he Is
comforted.
60 to that woman who has lost her
husband and tell her it was o geological
necessity that that man passed out Of ex-
istence, Just as the ,negatherium disap-
peared In order to make room for 8
higher style Of creation, and go on with
your consolation and tell her that there
is q possibility that 10, 600, 900 years from
now we ourselves may be geological
specimens on the geological shelf, petri-
fed specimens Of the extinct human
race.
And after you have got all through
with your consolation, IL the poor af-
ficted soul is not utterly crazed, I will
send out the plainest Christian from my
church, and with one half hour of pray
er and the reading of Scripture promises
the tears will be staid, and the conso-
lation and the joy in that house viii be
like the calmness Of an Indian summer
sunset. There will be a glory flooding
the house from floor to cupola. Oh, peo-
pie are finding out Themselves they
all have troubles they find that philoso-
ply and science do not help them when
there is dead babe in the house. They
are coming back to our glorious old fash
toned sympathetic religion.
Oh, young man, do not be ashamed to
be found on the side of the Bible. Do
not join those young men who in this
day put their thumb in their vest and
swagger about the street and the stores
talking about the glorious nineteenth
century, about its light being sufficient
without any Bible and without any
Christ and without any God. The time
is coming-we may not live to see 1t.
but shouldsnot be surprised if we did
see it-when this whole country is to be
one great church, THE forests the aisles,
the Allegheny and the Rocky mountains
the pillars, the chain Of inland lakes the
tapestries, and the. wsrship the.,halleln-
iah chorus to3hinswha was 7andgis and
shall be evermore. Oh, come over to
the majority come underfhe banner Of
Emanuel.
Vernon was the son Of an English
squire. He was brought up in great
elegance. There was man working on
the place of the-name of Ralph. Vernon
used to often talk with Ralph. After
awhile Vernon went off to college and
came back with his mind full of skepti-
cism. He talked his skepticism to Ralph,
the workman. After awhile Vernon
went from home again. was gone for
years, came back, and among his first
questions when getting home was,
'fWhere is Ralph" "Oh!' said the fs
Their, "Ralph is in prison waiting for the
day of execution"
Vernon FASTENED to see Ralph. Ralph,
looking through the wicket of the pris-
on, said: "Vernon, how good you are to
come and see me! am glad to see you.
hardly expected you would come and
see me. I don't blame you; I don't
blame anybody; I only blame myself; but,
Vernon, want you to promise me one
thing. Will your Vernon replied, II
WILL II want yorto promise me never
to talk skepticism In the presented Of any
bedy.. Yc1ysee it might DO them harm.
When you used to say there was nothing
in the Bible. and 1t didn't make any diff
ference how we lived, We would come
out happy at the last, somehow it had
bad influence upon me, and went from
bad to worse until am here, and must
die for my crimes"
By almost superhuman effort the SEN
tence was changed, and he was to be
transported to another country for life.
The ship going there was wrecked on
Van Diemen's Land. Among those who
persisted was Ralph, the victim of Yer
mons skepticism. Vernon tells the story
today with tears and broken heart, but
it is too late! Oh, do not talk skepticism:
do not talk skepticism! Let God be true.
though every man be found liar.