Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-12-23

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between the darkness before and the
brightness afterward was overwhelm-
ing. And I tell You the glories of heaven
will be thousandfold brighter for those
who never saw anything on earth.
While many with good vision closed
their eyes in eternal night, and many
who had a good, artistic and cultured
ear went down into eternal discord,
these afflicted ones cried unto the Lord
in their trouble, and he made their sor-
rows their advantage, and SO the lame
took the prey"
In the seventh century there was a le-
gend of st. Modobert. 1t was said that
his mother was blind, and one day while
looking at his mother he felt so sympa-
thetic for her blindness that he rushed
forward and kissed her blind eyes, and
the legend says her vision came imme-
diately. That was only a legend, but it
is truth, glorious truth, that the kiss
of Gods eternal love has brought to
many blind eye eternal'illumination.
HOPES OF THE FUTURE.
A step farther: There are those in all
communities who toll nightly for live
hhood. They have scant wages. Per-
haps they are diseased OF have physical
infrmities, so they are hindered from
doing continuous days work. A city
missionary finds them up the dark al
ley. with no fire, with thin clothing, with
very coarse bread. They never ride in
the street car; they cannot afford the 5
cents. They never see any pictures save
those in the show window on the street,
from which they are often jostled and
looked at by some one who seems to say
in the look: Move onl What,are you
doing here looking d. pictures?"
Yet many of them live on mountains
of TRANSPORTATION. At their rough table
he who fed the 5 1000 breaks the bread.
They talk often of the good times that
are coming. This world has no charm
for them, but heaven entrances their
spirit. They eften divide their scant
crust with some forlorn wretch who
knocks at their door at night, and on the
blast of the night wind, as the door
opens to let them in, is heard the voice
of him who said.-"I was hungry. and he
fed me-" No cohort of heaven will be
too bright to transport them. By Gods
help they have vanquished the Assyrian
host. They have divided among them
the spoils. Lame, lame, yet they took
the prey.
MORE CASES IN POINT.
Twas riding along the country road
one day, and 1 saw man on clutches.
I overlook him. lie was very old. He
was going very slowly. At that rate it
would have taken him two hours to go
mile. I said, Wouldn't you like to
rider" He said: "Thank you, would.
God bless you" When he sat beside
me, he said: "You see, I am very lame
and very old, but the Lord has been q
good Lord to me. ] have buried all my
children. The Lord gave them and the
Lord had right to take them away.
Blessed be his nalnel ! was very sick,
and had no money, and my. neighbors
came in and took care ofn1es and wanted.
nothing. ] suffer agreat dea with pain,
but then I have so many mercies left.
The Lord has been q good Lord to me"
And before we had got far was in
doubt whether was giving him ride
or he was giving me ride! He said;
CHOW, if you please. I'll get out here.
Inst help me down on my crutches, if
you please. God bless you. Thank you,
sir. Good morning. Good morning.
You have been feet to the lame, sir, you
have. Good morning.
Swarthy men had gone the road that
day. do not know where they came
out, but every hobble of that old man
was toward the shining gate. With his
old crutch he had struck down many
Sennacherib of temptation which has
mastered you and nae. Lame, so fear
fully lame, so awfully lame, but he took
the prey.
A step farther. There are in all COM
munities many orphans. During our
last war and in the years Immediately
following, how many children at the
north and south we heard say, "Oh, my
father was killed in the war" Have you
ever noticed fear you have not-how
well those children have turned out2
Starting under the greatest disadvan-
tage, no orphan asylum could do for,
them what their father would have done
had he lived.
The skirmisher sat one night by the
light of fagots in the swamp, writing a
letter home, when sharpshooter's bull
let ended the letter which was never
folded, never posted and never read.
Those children came up under great dis
advantage. No father to fight their way
for them. Perhaps there was in the old
family Bible an old yellow letter pasted
fast, which told the story of that fathers
long march and how he suffered in the
hospital. But they looked still farther
on in the Bible, and they came to the story
of how God is the father of the father
less and the widows portion, and they
soon took their fathers place in that
household.
They Daccled the way TOT their nolner.
They came on up, and many of them
have already, in the years since the war,
taken positions in church and state,
north and south. While many of those
who suffered nothing during those times
have had sons go out into lives of indo-
lence and vagabondage, these who start
ed under SO many disadvantages because
they were so early bereft. these are the
lame who took the prey.
A step farther; There are those who
would like to do good. They say, ooh,
if I only had wealth, or if l had elo-
quence, or if I had high social position,
how much would accomplish for God
and the church, l stand 1:ere roday TO
tell you that you have great opportuni-
ties for usefulness.
Who built the pyramids? The king
who ordered them built? No; the plain