Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-12-05

like the shoebl that reporter saw
near Now York city ball. He asked a
boy to black his boots The boy came up
to his work provokingly slow and had
just begun, when large boy showed
him aside and began the work, and the
reporter reproved him as being bully,
and the boy replied: "Oh, that's all
light am going to do 1t for I'm. You
&c, he's been sick in the hospital moren
month, SO US boys turn in and give i'm
q lift" "Do all the boys help him?"
asked the reporter. eyes, sir. When
thoy amt got no job themselves, and
Jim gets one, they turn in and help i'm,
for be amt strong yet, you see. " How
much percentage does he give your"
said the reporter. The boy replied: 81
don't keep none Of it, amt no such
sneak as that All the boys give up
what they git on his job. I'd like to
catch any Teller sncaking on a sick boy,
1 wouldW The reporter gave him %
cent piece nnd said, "You keep 10 cents
for yourself and give the rest to jim. I"
Cant do it. sir. It's his customer.
Here, JIM" euoh big souls as that
strew all the lower depths of the cities
and, got them converted to God, this
would BIO the last full century of tho
world S sin, and but little work Of evan-
gelization would be left for the next
century. Before this century expires let
there be combined effort to save the
great cities of America and Great Brit
ain and Of all Christendom. What an
awful thing it would be for you, o
dying century, to bequeath to the COM
ing century, as yet innocent and unscar-
red with single sin or burdened with
single sorrow, the blasphemy, the law
lessness, the atheism. the prohigaoy and
the woes of great cities still unevangel-
izedi
What we ought to see, o dying GEN.
fury, is a revival of religion that would
wrap the continents in confagrations Of
religious awakening, and that would
make legislation and merchandise and
all styles of worldly business wait awhile
at the telegraph Offices and the tele-
phone offices because they are occupied
with telling the story of cities and ma
lions born in day. Nearly all the CEN
turtles closed with something tremen-
dous Why may not this century close
in the salvation of America? l do not
know whether our theological friends
who have studied the subject more than
I have are right or wrong when they
say Christ will come in person 10 set up
his kingdom in this world; but, though
we would be overwhelmed with our I'M
worthiness, would like to see Christ
descend from heaven in one of the clouds
of this morning and planting his feet on
this Garth which he came centuries ago
to save, declare his reign Of love and
mercy and salvation on earth begun.
And what more appropriate place. say
it reverontially-for such divine land
ing than the capital of a continent never
Cursed by the tyrannies and supersti-
lions Of the old world?
Wonderful Sights.
What has this dying nineteenth cen
tury to tell US before he goes? We all
love to hear septuagenarians, octogena-
rians, nonagenarians and centenarians
talk. We gather around the armchair
and listen till it is far on into the night
and never weary of hearing their expe-
riences. But Lord Lyndhurst at SO years
of age pouring into the ears of the
house of lords in four hours address
the experiences of lifetime, and Apol-
lonius at 100 years of age recounting
his travels to thrilled listeners, and
Charles Macklin at 107 years of age
absorbing the attention Of his hearers,
and Ralph Farnham of our country at
107 years telling the Prince of Wales
the story Of Bunker Hill, can create no
such interest as this dying centenarian
if he will only speak.
Tell US, o nineteenth century, before
you go, IN a score of sentences, some of
the things you have heard and seen. The
veteran turns upon Us and says: II saw
Thomas Jefferson riding in unattended
from Monticello, only "a few steps from
where you stand, dismount from his
horse and hitch the bride to post, and
on yonder hill take the oath of the presi-
Dental office. 1 saw yonder capitol
ablaze with wars incendiarism. I saw
the puff of the first steam engine in
America. 1 heard the thunders of Wa
terloo of sevastopol and Sedan ard
Gettysburg. l was present at all the
coronations of the kings and queens and
emperors and expresses now in the
worlds palaces. have seen two pillows
roll across this continent and from ocean
to ocean; billow of revival joy in 1867,
and billow of blood in 1854. l have
seen four generations Of the human race
march across this world and disappear.
I saw their cradles rocked and their
graves dug. 1 have heard the wedding
bells and the deathknells of near hun
dred years. ! have clapped my hands for
millions of joys and wrung them in
millions Of agonies. l saw Maoready
and Edwin Forrest act and Edward Pay
son pray. heard tho first chime of
Longfellow's rhythms, and before any
L.