Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-08-24

ing bread. She knows all about that.
Two or three times in her life she came
to her last loaf At 10 o'clock that
night she goes over to sit up with some
one severely sick. She knows all about
it. She knows all about fevers and pleu
risies and broken bones. She has been
doctoring all her life, spreading plasters
and pouring out bitter drops and shak-
ing up hot pillows and continuing things
to tempt poor appetite. Drs. Aber-
nethy and Rush and Hosack and Harvey
were great doctors, but the greatest doc
tor the world ever saw is an old Chris
tian woman. Dear me Do we not re-
member her about the room when we
were sick in our boyhood? Was there
any one who could ever SO touch sore
without hurting it?
Where did Paul get the ink with
which to write his comforting epistle:
Where did David get the ink to write
his comforting Psalms? Where did John
get the ink to write his comforting Rev
citation? They got it out Of their own
tears. When a man has gone through
the curriculum and has taken course
of dungeons and imprisonments and
shipwrecks, he is qualified for the work
of sympathy.
When 1 began to preach, my sermons
on the subject Of trouble were all poetic
and in semiblank verse, but God knocked
the blank verse out of me long ago and
I have found out that / cannot comfort
people except as I myself have been
troubled. God make me the son of con-
ISOLATION to the people! would rather
be the means of soothing one perturbed
spirit today than to play tune that
would set all the sons of mirth Keeling
in the dance.
am an herb doctor. I put into the
caldron the root out of dry ground,
without form or comeliness. Then I
put in the rose of Sharon and the lily
of the valley. Then I put into the cal
dron some Of the leaves from the tree OF
life and the branch that was thrown
into the wilderness Marah. Then I pour
in the tears of Bethany and Golgotha;
then I stir them up. Then kindle un-
der the caldron fire made out of the
wood of the cross, and one drop of that
potion will cure the worst sickness that
ever afflicted q human SOUL Mary and
Martha shall receive their Lazarus from
the tomb. The damsels shall rise. And
on the darkness shall break the morning
and God will wipe all tears from their
eyes.
Jesus had enough trial to make him
sympathetic with all trial. The shortest
verse in the Bible tells the story, "Je-
sus wept" The scar on the back Of his
either hand. the scar on the arch of
either foot, the row of scars along the
line of the hair, will keep all heaven
thinking Oh, that Great Weeper is just
the one to silence all earthly trouble,
wipe out all stains of earthly grief.
Gentle Why, his step is softer than the
step of the dewe twill not be tyrant
bidding you to hush up your crying. 1t
will be q father who will take you on
his left arm, his face beaming into
yours, while with the soft tips of the
4fngefs- ef-stlae.Eisht 9hand no -shaal 'sEal'es
away all tears from your eyes.
Homesick For Heaven.
Friends, if we could get any appre-
citation of what God has i'll reserve for
us, it would make us SO homesick we
would be unfit for our everyday work.
Professor Leonard, formerly of Iowa
university, put in my hand a meteoric
stone, stone thrown off from some 9th
er world to this. How suggestive it was
to mel And have to tell you the best
representations we have of heaven are
only aerolites flung off from that world
which rolls OH bearing the multitudes
of the redeemed We anelyze these aero
lites and find them crystallizations Of
tears. No wonder, flung off from heav-
en- "God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes. +"
Have You any appreciation of the
good and glorious times your friends
are having in heaven? How different it
is when they get news there of Chris
tan's death from what it is herel 1t is
the difference between embarkation and
coming into port. Everything depends
upon which side of the river you stand
when you hear Of Christians death.
If you stand on this side of the river,
you mourn that they 60 If you stand
Oh the other side of the river, you re-
joice that they come. Oh, the difference
between a funeral on earth and jubi-
lee in heaven-between requiem here
and triumph there-parting here and
reunion there! Together Have you
thought of it? They are together. Not
enc of your departed friends i'll one land
and another in another land, but to-
gether, in different rooms Of the same
house-.the house of many mansions.
Together
never more appreciated that thought
than when we laid away in her last
slumber my sister Sarah. Standing there
in the village cemetery, looked around
and said, "There is father, there is
mother, there is grandfather, there is
grandmother, there are whole circles Of
kindred, and I thought to myself. ITO
gether in tine grave-together in glory"
I am SO impressed with the thought
that I do not think it is any fanaticism
when some one is going from this world
to the next if you make them the bearer
of dispatches to your friends who are
gone, saying. "Give my love to my par
ents, give my love to my children, give
my love to my old comrades who are IN
glory, and tell them 1 am trying to fight
the good fight of faith and 1 will join
them after awhile " I believe the mes
sage will be delivered, and 1 believe it
will increase the gladness of those who
are before the throne. Together are they,
all their tears gone.
My friends, take this good cheer home
with you These tears Of bereavement
that course your check, and Of persecu-
ton, and of trial, are not always to be
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