Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-11-24


that clambered up on my knees and
looked into my face and asked me why
I didn't become Christian, and, all
tho time stroking my cheek, so l could
not get angry. insisted upon knowing
why I didn't have family prayers.
There are grandparents who have been
brought to Christ by their little grand
children. There are hundreds of Chris
tian mothers who had their attention
first called to Jesus by their little chill
dren. How did you get rid of the lepro-
sy of sin? How did you find your way
to the divine physician? "Oh, you say,
my child, my dying child, with wan
and wasted finger, pointed that way.
Oh, I never shall forget, you say.
"that scene at the cradle and the crib
that awful night. 1t was hard, hard,
very hard, but if that little one on its
dying bed had not pointed me to Christ
don't think I ever would have got rid
of my leprosy." Go into the Sabbath
school any Sunday, and you will find
hundreds of little fingers pointing in the
same direction, toward Jesus Christ and
toward heaven.
Years ago the astronomers calculated
that there must be world hanging at
certain point in the heavens, and a
largo prize was offered for some one
who could discover that world. The toll
escapes from the great obseryatories
were pointed in vain, but girl ut Man.
tucllet, Mass, fashioned telescope,
and looking through it discovered that
star and won the prize and the admira-
ton of all the astronomical world, that
stood amazed at her genius. And SO it
is often the case that grown people can
not SEQ the light, while some little child
beholds the star of pardon, the star OF
hope, the star of consolation, the star OF
Bethlehem, the morning star of Jesus.
'Not many mighty men, not many wise
men, are called, but God hath chosen
the weak things of the world to con-
found the mighty and base things and
things that are not to bring to naught
things that arc. ;" Oh, do not despise
the prattle OF little children when they
are speaking about God and Christ and
heaven. You SEQ the way your child is
pointing. Will you take that pointing
or wait until, in the wrench of some
awful bereavement, God shall lift that
child to another world, and then it will
beckon you upward? Will you take the
pointing, or will you wait for the beck
oning? Blessed be God that the little
Hebrew captive pointed in the right di-
rection. Blessed be God for the saving
ministry of Christian children.
A Sick Man.
No wonder the advice Of this little
Hebrew captive threw all Naaman's
mansion and Ben-hadad s palace into ex-
citement. Goodby, Naaman With face
scarifed and ridged and infamed by
the pcstilenco and aided by those who
supported him on either side, he stag
gers out to the chariot Hold fast the
fiery coursers of the royal stable while
the poor sick man lifts his swollen feet
and pain struck limbs into the vehicle.
Bolster him up with the pillows and let
him take a.lingering look at his bright
apartment, for perhaps the Hebrew cap
tive may be mistaken, and the next
time Naaman comes to that place he
may be dead weight on the shoulders
of those who carry him, an expired chief
tain seeking sepulture amid the lamen-
tations of an admiring nation. Goodby,
Naamanl Let the charioteer drive gen.
tly over the hills of Hermon, lest he
Jolt the invalid Hero goes the bravest
man of all his day captive Of a horri-
bic disease AS the ambulance winds
through the streets of Damascus the
tears and prayers of all the people 60
after the world renowned invalid.
Perhaps you have had an invalid go
out from your house on health excur-
sion. You know how the neighbors
stood around and said, "Ah, he will
never come back again alive" Oh, it
was solemn moment, I tell you, when
the invalid had departed, and you went
into the room to make tho bed, and to
remove the medicine walls from the
shelf, and to throw open the shutters,
so that the fresh air might rush into tho
long closed room. Goodby, Naamanl
There is only one cheerful face look
ing at him, and that is tho face of the
little Hebrew captive, Wig is sure he
will get cured, and who is so glad she
helped him. AS the chariot winds out
and the escort of mounted courtiers,
and the mules, laden with sacks of gold
and silver and embroidered suits Of ap-
parel, went through the gates of Da-
mascus and out on the long way. the
hills Of Naphtali and Ephraim look
down on the procession, and the retinue
e IS right past the battlefields where
Naaman in the days Of his health used
to rally his troops for fearful onset, and
then the procession stops and recllnes
awhile in the groves of olive and clean
der, and General Naaman so sick, SO
very, very sick
How the countrymen gaped as the
procession passed! They had seen Naa-
man go past like whirlwind in days
gone by and had stood aghast at the
clanls of his war equipments, but now
they commiserate him. They say: Poor
man, he will never get homo alive! Poor
MANI .-- 800,
General Naaman wakes up from a
restless sleep in the chariot and he. says
to the charioteer, How long before we
shall reach the Prophet Elishai' The
oharioteer says to waysider, How far
is it to Elisha's house?" He says, 1.-TWO
miles" 1.-TWO miles?' Then they whip
up the lathered and tagged out horses
The whole procession brightens, up at
the prospect of speedy arrival They
drive up to the door of the prophet. The
charioteers shout" Whoapl to the horses,
and tramping hoofs and grinding wheels
cease shaking the earth. Come out, Eli
sha, come out. You have company. The
grandest company that ever came to
your house has come to 1t now. No stir
inside Elisha's house. The fact was,
the Lord had informed Elisha that the,