Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-06-23


glorifled in the light that came through
windows, touching it with their deftest
fingers The acoustics so rare that
thousands Of ears wero In easy reach OF
common accumulation An organ Which
was o halleluiah set up in pipes anu
banked In keys, waiting for e mustciap's
manipulation, that would lead the COB
gregational song as On archangel mighs
lead heaven. Glorious organ When
1t died down into the ashes Of that nre,
perhaps it's soul went up, where handel
and Haydn began to play on 1t Ihe
most superb audience room that e7e<
gazed on or ever expect TO soc until enter
the temple of the sun. On one memorial
wall of that building. stone which
had rolled down from Mount Calvary.
where our Lord died, and two tables or
stone that were sawed off from Mount
Sinai and brought on oalnels across the
desert by my arrangement and part
of Paul's pulpit which the queen OF
Greece allowed me, from Mars hill
Architecture so chaste, so grand, so ap-
propriate, so suggestive, 50 stupendousl
One of the doxologies Of heaven alight-
cd. Well, perhaps we thought too much
of Ii. When we think too much OF our
children, the Lord takes them, and
when we think too much of our church
the Lord summarily removes it.
1 suppose another reason for the de-
parture OF that house was that it had
done its work. Church buildings, like
individuals, accomplish what they were
built for and then go One person lives
90 wears, another 40 years, another three
years, and when God takes an individ-
ual whether st 90 or 80 or years,
his mission is ended This last church
stood three years, and any person who
knows what multitudes have there as
sembled and what transactions for
eternity have there taken place will
admit that it was we'll 20 build it. even
if we had known ut the start that II
would only last from 1891 70 1894.
Another reason why I think this last
church went down was 20 keep me
humble The Lord bad wideued my
work through ChristcEdom anG with
two receptions The week before the cor
migration, the ouc CITY reception pre-
sided over by orr ,raver. ard the other
national and international reception
presided over bv olc of thO CHIEF Iuen
of the natior. VIE md recently stepped
from the presidential cabiI:yt and the
occasion honorcd IL address and let
tiers and cableSraHs iron, ;uea o. world
wide fame III church and state, and the
whole scene brilliant beyond descrip-
ton. and in compliment 70 myself, who
was brought up q farmers boy, there
was danger that l might become putfed
up and my soul be weakened for future
work. l did not yet feel any STRINGS OF
that sort. and had only felt humble
gratitude for what had been said and
done by friends Transatlantic and o:sat-
lantic, but I had ordered full reports OF
the meeting lnid aside for future perusal.
ond had engaged the feetest stenog-
rapher I know OF TO take down every
word, from the opening doxology OF the
first reception 10 the benedictioD OF the
last reception, and some time when
less busy, I would take IN all the elo-
0uence and kindness and splendor OF
that memorable week What might have
been the result upon myself l know not
I have seen upon others the whitening
etfect Of human praise. a cold chill OF
the worlds neglect1s no more destruct-
i've than the sunstroke from too much
heat of popular approval The disaster
NAV have been needed, and it came 50
close upon the adulation thatit acted as
M everlasting prevention IN the light
Of that awful blaze Of that Sabbath n
May, 1904, no self suflc!enoy could
stand q second.
Another reason for the fires, l think,
is that somehow, and IN q way that l
know not my opportunities are 10
widen. After each Of the other fires new
doors were open. 7 prayerfuliy expect
that such will be the sequence Of the last
confagration.
Will the Brooklyn Tabernacle Be iro-
built2 I know not, What or when or
whore shall be my work / cannot even
guess, nor have the leRst anxiety. Moth
ing but an inspired utteranoe Of the
Bible could bear such repetition IS |
have FOR the last ~ days given 70 the
words Of the psalmist, The Lord reign
eth; let the earth rejoice- "
have safely arrived on the Paoifc
coast A startling question was asked
me Just before reached hers. was III
deep slumber IN o section Of sleeping
cor when the curtain was pushed back,
and venerable lady seized hold Of me
and shrieked, WHO are you, ana what
are you doing here" Il was o sudden
calling Of the roll Of passengers and I
did not feel like answering 70 lpy name.
The question was repeated in more
earnestness, with louder voice I could
not at first understand why the inteTr0-
cation as TO my identity, bat after gath-
ering my senses together / mildly sug-
gested that perhaps she hed mistaken
my place FOR her OWL This was no
doubt the case ana she made quick
retreat The fact is that the sections
and berths Of a sleeping car are very
much alike. The new mode Of hang
ing the number of the berth IL Large
figures on the outside of the drapeCy OF
the sleeping place Is great improve
ment, but midnight peralnbulation, even
under the best Of circumstances, Is more
or less confusing The mistake that the
venerable lady made is mistake that
thousands of people make, for they think
some one else has their place Most Of
the struggle in the world Is III trying to
get some one else's berth. Better 20
back contented and take the place ss
signed you. In trying to get some one
else's place we may lose our own with
out getting his cannot lecr at the
old lady's mistake, for that night on the
Southern Pacific raiiroad ] b@thought
myself that ti!sre are during every presi-
dental campaign at least lo0, 600 PEG
pie trying to get the bcrths of the 1907