Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-10-07

will answer, II don't live nowhere"
They will sleep tonight in ash barrels, OF
under outdoor stairs, or on the wharf,
kicked and bruised and hungry. Who
cares for themP Once in awhile q city
missionary, or tract distributor, or a
teacher of ragged schools will rescue one
Of them, but for most people they are
only weeds.
Yet Jonah did not more completely
misrepresent the red alga about his
head In the Mediterranean than most
people misjudge these poor and forlorn
and dying children Of the street They
are not weeds. They are immortal flow
ers. Down in the deep sea Of woe, but
flowers. When society and the church
Of God como to appreciate their eternal
value, there will be more @. l.. Braces
and more Van Meters and more angels
of mercy spending their fortunes and
their lives in the rescue.
Hear it, o ye philanthropic and
Christian and merciful souls-not weeds,
but flowers. Iabjure you as the friends
Of all newsboys lodging houses, of oil
industrial schools, of all homes for
friendless girls and for the many re-
formatories and humane associations
now on foot How much they have al
ready accomplished Out of what
wretchedness, into what good honest
Of $1,000 Of these picked up out of tbs
streets and sent into country homes
only 10 children turned out badly.
In the last 80 years number that no
man can number of the Migrants have
been lifted into responsibility and
usefulness and Christian life. Many
of them have homes of their own.
Though ragged boys once and street
girls, now at the head Of prosperous
families, honored on earth and to be
glorious in heaven. Some Of them have
been governors of states. Some of them
are ministers of the gospel. In all de-
partments of life those who were
thought to be weeds have turned out to
be flowers. One of those rescued lads
from the streets of our cities wrote to
another, saying: II have heard you are
studying for the ministry. So am l."
My hearers, / implead you for the
newsboys of the streets, many of them
the brightest children of the city, but
with no chance. Do not step on their
bare feet. Do not, when they steal ride,
cut behind. When the paper is 8 cents,
once in awhile give them cent piece
and tell them to keep the change. I like
the ring of the letter the newsboy sent
back from Indiana, where he had been
sent to good home, to a New York
newsboys' lodging house: "Boys, we
should show ourselves that we are no
fools, that we can become as respectable
as any. of the conntrymen, for Franklin
and Webster and Clay were poor boys
once, and even George Law and Van
derbilt and Aston. And now, boys,
stand up and let them see you have
got the real stuff in you. Come out
here and make respectable and honor
able men, SO they can say, There; that
boy was once newsboy.s.p My hear
:ers;5join the Christian. philanthropy ists
]sWhQ are changing org ,glind ers and
II DO 0tDl aGzas "
q saa gsss
Fsbe kings and queens unto; God forever
It is high time that Jonah finds out that
! that which is about him is not weeds,
but flowers.
coRoNALs OF BEAUTY.
ASH examine this red alga which was
about the recreant prophet down in the
Mediterranean depths, when. in fireworks
of my text, he cried out, "The weeds
were wrapped about my head" and am
! led thereby to further examine this sub
marine world, am compelled to e1claim,
What wonderful God we have! am
glad that, by diving bell, and Crooks
deep sea sounding apparatus" and ever
improving machinery, we are permitted
to walk the floor of the ocean and report
the wonders wrought by the great God.
! Study these gardensof the sea. Easier
| and easier shall the profounds of the
ocean become to US, and more and more
| it's opulence of color and plant unroll,
especially as "Villeroy's submarine
boat has been constructed, making it
possible to navigate under the sea al
most as we'll as on-the surface OF the
sea, and unless God in his mercy ban
ishes war from the earth whole fleets Of
armed ships will yet far down under the
water move on to blow up the .argosies
that float the surface. May such sub
marine ships be used for laying open the
wonders of Gods workings in the great
deep and never for human devastation!
Oh, the. lnarvels Of the water world
These so called seaweeds are the pasture
fields and the forage of the innumerable
animals of the deep. Not one species Of
! them can be spared from the economy of
nature. Valleys and mountains and
plants miles underneath the waves are
all covered with fora and fauna. Sunken
Alps and Apennines and Himalayas OF
1 Atlantic and Pacific oceans. a continent
that once connected Europe and Amer.
ca, so that in the ages past men came on
foot across from where England is to
where we now stand, all sunken and
now covered with the growths of the
sea as it unll was covered with growths
of the land.
England and Ireland once all one piece
of land but now much of it so far sunk
IN as TO make channel, ana Ireland has
become an island. The islands, for the
most part, are only the foreheads of
sunken continents. The sea conquering
the land all along the coasts and crum-
bling. the hemapheres, wider and wider
become the suSaqueous dominions.
Thank God that skilled photographers
have made us maps and charts of the
rivers and lakes and seas and shown us
something of the work Of the eternal
| God in the water worlds.
Thank God that the great Virginian,
Lieutenant Maury, lived to give us ''The
| pbr,o;co1 aeoorro1,hv of the Sea- and