Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-11-10

resolve on self control, and just as you
have come to what you think is perfect
self control to suddenly come upon some
little coat or picture or shoe half worn
out and how all the floods Of the soul
burst in one wild wall of agonyl Oh,
my God, how hard it is to part, to close
the eyes that never can look merry at
our coming to kiss the hand that will
never again do us kindness I know
religion gives great consolation in such
an hour, and we ought to be comforted,
but anyhow and anyway you mako it
it is awful.
No Tears Nor Grape.
On steamboat wharf and at rail Car
window VIC may smile when wo say
farewell, but these goodbys at the death
bed-they just take hold Of the heart
with iron pincbers and tear it out by
the roots until all the fibers culver and
curl in the torture and drop thick blood
These separations are wine presses, into
which our hearts, like red clusters, are
thrown, and then trouble turns the
windlass round and round until we are
utterly crushed and have no more ca
pacity to suffer, and we stop crying be-
cause we have wept all our tears.
On every street, on every doorstep, by
every couch, there have been partings
But once past the heavenly portals, and
you are through with such scenes for
ever. In that land there are many hand
claspings and embracings, but only in
recognition. That great home circle
never breaks Once find your comrades
there, and you have them forever. No
Grape floats from the door Of that bliss
full residence No cleft hillside where
tho dead sleep. All awake, wide awake,
and forever. No pushing out Of emf
grant ship for foreign shore. No tolling
of bell as the funeral passes. Whole
generations in glory. Hand to hand,
heart to heart, JOY to joy. No creeping
up the limbs of the death chill, the feet
cold until hot fannels cannot warm
them. Norattle of sepulchral gates. No
parting, no pain.
Further, the heavenly city will have
no pain of body. The race Is pierced
with sharp distresses. The surgeons
knife must cut. The dentists pinchers
must pull. Pain is fought with pain.
The world is hospital. Scores of dis
eases, like vultures contending for a car
cass, struggle rs to which shall have it.
Our natures are infinitely susceptible to
suffering. The eye, the foot, the hand,
with immense capacity of anguish.
The little child meets at the entrance
of life manifold diseases. You hear the
shrill cry of infancy as the lancet strikes
into the swollen gum. You see its head
toss in consuming fevers that take more
than half of them into the dust. Old
age passes, dizzy and weak and short
breathed and dim sighted. On every
northeast wind come down pleurisies
and pneumonias. War lifts its sword
and hacks away the life of whole gener
ations. The hospitals of the earth groan
into the ear of God their complaint.
Aisiatip ,felholeras and ship fevers and ty-
worlds knees Knock T5sesy@es- make the
Earthly Suffering.
Pain has gone through every street
and up every ladder and down every
shaft 1t is on the wave, on the mast,
on the beach. Wounds from clip Ct ele-
plants tusk and adder's sting and croc-
odile's tooth and horses hoof and
wheels revolution. We gather mp the
infrmities of our parents and transmit
to our children the inheritance aug
mented by our own sicknesses, and they
add to them their own disorders, to
pass the inheritance to other genera
tons In A. D. 262 the plague i'll Rome
smote into the dust 5000 citizens daily.
In 544, in Constantinople, 1000 grave
diggers were not enough to bury the
dead. In 1918 ophthalmia seized the
whole Prussian army. AT times the
earth has sweltered with suffering.
Count up the pains Of Austerlitz,
where 3d. 600 fell; of Fontenoy, where
100, OOU fell; of Chalons, where 300, 600
fell; of Marius' fight, in which 900, 600
foil; of the tragedy at Herat, where
Genghis Khan massacred 1, 600, OOOmen,
and of Nishar, where he slew l, TAT, 600
people; of the IS, 900, 900 this monster
sacrificed in ii years as ho went forth
to do as he declared, to exterminate the
entire Chinese nation and make the en-
piro pasture for cattle.
Think of the death throes OF the
s. 900, 900 men sacrificed in one cam
paien of Xerxes. Think of the 100, 600
that persisted in the siege of Ostend, OF
800, 900 dead at Acre, of l, 100, 600 dead
in the siege of Jerusalem, of 1,S16, 600
of the dead at Troy, and then complete
the review by considering the stupen-
dous estimate of Edmund Burke, that the
loss by war had been 30 times the en-
tire then present population of the globe.
Go through and examine the lacera-
tions, the gunshot fractures, the saoer
wounds, the gashes of the battleax,
the slain of bombshell and exploded
mine and falling wall and those de-
stroyed under the gun carriage, and the
hoof of the cavalry horse, the burning
thirsts, the camp fevers, the frosts that
shiyered, the tropical suns that smote
Add it up, gather it into one line, COM
| press IL 1utO Olc WOluj SPOAA Az 49, No
syllable, clank it in one chain. pour 1t
out in one groan, distill it into one tear.
Ave, the world has writhed in 5000
years of suffering. Why doubt the pos
sibility of future world of suffering
when we see the tortures that have been
inflicted in this? A deserter from Sevas-
tOpol. coming over to the army Of the
allies, pointed back to the fortress and
said, "That place is perfect hell. "
Our photographers, aware of the I'm.
mense necessity of having plenty OF
words to express the different shades OF
trouble, have strewn over their pages
such words as annoyance, distress, "
"grief," bitterness, "heartache' "
misery" "twinge,' "pang " tor
ture "affliction, anguish, " ''tribu-
lation, - "wretchedness, woe. But
I have a glad sound for every hospital
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