Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-07-06

Chickering grand of city parlor or tiddl
Of mountain picnic can consecrate tina
which God hath cursed.
Gate the Third. -Indiscreet apparel
The attire of woman for the last feV
years has been beautiful and graceful
beyond anything have known, bu
there are those who will always carr,
that which is right into the extrnordi
nary and indiscreet. I charge Christian
women, neither by style Of dress nor ad
justment of apparel, to become admin
istrative of evil. Perhaps none else viii
dare to tell you, so I will tell you tina
there are multitudes of men who ow'
their eternal damnation to what ha
been at different times the boldness O.
womanly attire Show me the fashion
plates Of any age between this and thu
time of Louis XVI of France and Henry
VIII Of England, and will tell yor
the type of morals or immorals of thai
age or that year. No exception to it
Modest apparel means righteous PEG
pie. Immodest apparel always means {
contaminated and depraved society. Yor
wonder that the city of Tyre was de-
stroyed with such terrible destruction
Have you ever seen the fashion plate Of
the city of Tyre? Twill show it to you
Moreover, the Lord saith, because
the daughters of Zion are naughty and
walk with stretched forth necks and
wanton eyes, walking and mincing as
they go, and making tinkling with
their feet, in that day the Lord vii.
take away the bravery of their tinkling
ornaments about their feet, and Their
cauls, and their round tires like the
moon, the rings and nose jewels, the
changeable suits of apparel, and the
and the wimples, and the crisp
ing pins ~
That is the fashion plate of ancient
Tyre. And do you wonder that the Lord
God in his Indignation blotted out the
city, so that fishermen today spread
their nets where that city once stood?
A Stupendous Gate.
Gate the Fourth. Alcoholic beverage.
Oh, the wine cup is the patron of i'm
purityl The officers of the law tell us
that nearly all the men who go into the
shambles of death go in intoxicated. the
mental and the spiritual abolished, that
the brute may triumph. Tell me that a
young man drinks, and know the whole
story. If he becomes a captive of the
wine cup, he will become captive Of
all other vices. Only give him time. No
one ever runs drunkenness alone. That
is carbon crow that goes in flock, and
when you see that beak ahead you may
know the other beaks are coming. In
other words, the wine cup unbalances
and dethrones ones better Judgment,
and leaves one the prey Of all the evil
appetites that may choose to aiight upon
his soul. There is not place of any
kind of sin in tho United States today
that does not find its chief abettor in the
chalice of incbriety. There is either a
drinking bar before, or one behind, or
one above, or one underneath. These
people escape legal penalty because they
are all licensed to sell liquor. The
courts that license the sale Of strong
drink license gambling houses, license
libertinisln, license disease, license
death, license all sufferings, all crimes
Ill despoliations, all disasters. all muir
iers, all woe. It is the, courts and the,
lex fsfa5fn v-tI.tst 5iI,t Ssl',,,sSs
this grinding, creaky, stupendous gate
IF the lost
But you say: "You have described
these gates Of hell and shown US how
they swing in to allow the entrance to
the doomed. Will you not, please, be-
fore you get through the sermon, tell us
now these gates of hell may swing out
70 allow the escape of the penitent?" I
reply, Butyvery few escape. Of the thou
sand that go in 900 perish. Suppose
one of these wanderers should knock at
your door. Would you admit her? Sup
pose you knew where she came from.
Would you ask her to sit down at your
dining table? Would you ask her to be-
come the governess of your children?
Would you introduce her among your ac-
1uaintanceships? Would you take the
Of pulling on the outside
If the gate of hell while the pusher OH
he inside of the gate is trying to get
out? You would not. Not one of a thou
sand of you would dare to do so. You
would write beautiful poetry over her
sorrows and weep over her misfortunes,
out give her practical help you never
will. But, you say, "Are there no ways
oy which the wanderer may escape?"
Oh, yes Three or four The one way is
he sewing girls garnet, dingy, cold,
blasted. But, you say, Is there
40 other way for her to escape" Oh,
yes Another way is the street that
leads to the river at midnight, the end
If the city dock, the moon shining down
III the water making it look so smooth
she wonders if it is deep enough. 1t IS
No boatmm near enough to hear the
plunge. No Waterman near enough to
pick her out before she sinks the third
lime. No other way? Yes; by the curve
If the railroad at the point where the
engineer of the lightning express train
cannot see a hundred yards ahead to
he form that lies across the track. He
nay whistle "down brakes, but not
soon enough to disappoint the one who
seeks her death But, you say, Isn't
God good, and won t he forgive" Yes,
but man will not, woman will not, So
,iety will not. The church of God says
t will, but it will not. Our work, then,
must be prevention rather than cure.
A Call to Christians.
Those gates of hell are to be Frustrated
lust as certainly as God and the Bible
ire true, but 1t will not be done until
Christian men and women, quitting
heir prudery and squeamishness in this
natter, rally the whole Christian senti-
ment Of the church and assail these great