Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-03-14

urluk, no GdkeS Wuihhy. Duu WHICH, az
American wants to take drink he takes
anything he can lay his hands on.
Foes to BE Overcome.
Plenty of statistics to tell how much
money is spent in this country for rum,
and how many drunkards die. But who
will give Us the statistics of how many
hearts are crushed under the heel OF this
worst demon of the centuries? How
many hopes blasted: How many chill
dren turned out on the world accursed
with the stigma of a debauched ances-
try? Until the worm of the distillery
becomes the worm that never dies and the
smoke Of the heated wine watts becomes
the smoke of the torment that ascendeth
up forever and ever Alcoholism, swear
ing-not with hand uplifted toward
heaven, fer from that direction it can
get no help. but with right hand stretch
ed down toward the perdition from
which it came up-.swearing that 1t
VII not cease as long as there are any
homesteads to despoil, any magnificent
men and women to destroy, any immor-
tai souls to damn, any more nations to
balk, any more civilizations to extin-
guish.
Then there is what in America we
call socialism. in France communism
and in Russia nihilism, the three
names fer one and the same thing, and
having but two doctrines i'll its creed.
First, there is no God; second, there
shall be 10 rights of property. One of
their chief journals printed this senti-
ment Dynamite can be made out of
the dead bodies of capitalists as we'll as
out of hogs" One of the leaders of COM
munism left inscribed on his prison
wall, where he had been justly incar-
cerated, these words: when once you
arc dead, there is al end of everything.
Therefore, ye scoundrels, grab whatever
You can-only don't let yourselves be
grabbed. Amen" There are i'll this
country hundreds Of thousands of these
lazy scoundreis. Honest men deplore
it when they cannot get work, but those
of whom | speak will not do work when
they can get it. tried to employ one
who asked me for money. l said,
"Down in my cellar l have some wood
to saw, and l will pay you for it. " For
little while heard the saw going, and
then heard it no more. l went down
stairs and found the wood, but the
workman had disappeared, taking for
company both buck and saw.
Socialism, communism and nihilism
mean, "Too wicked to acknowledge God
and too lazy to earn 4 living, and
among the mightiest obstacles to be over
come aIe those organized elements OF
domestic, social and political ruin.
Myriads of Battlements.
There also are the Businesses of inf
deity and atheism and fraud and politi-
cal corruption and multiform, hydra
headed, million armed denominations all
over the land While the mightiest
agencies for righteousness on earth are
good and healthful newspapers and good
and healthful books and our chief de-
penf nee for intelligence and Christian
achievement is upon them, what word
among the more than 100, 600 words III
our vocabulary can describe the work OF
that archangel of mischief, corrupt
literature? What man, attempting any
thing for God and humanity, has escaped
a stroke of its filthy wing? What good
cause has escaped its hinderment? What
other obstacle in all the land so appal-
ling? But | cannot name more than one
half the battlements, the bastlons, the
intrenchments, the redoubts, the fortlfi-
cations to be stormed and overcome If this
country is ever taken for God. The sta
tistics are so awful that if we had moth
ing but the multiplication table and the
arithmetic the attempt to eyangeIlze
America would he al absurdity higher
than tie tower of Babel before it drop
ped OIL the plain of Shinar. Where are
the drilled troops to march against those
Notifications as long as the continent?
Where are the batteries that can be IN
limbered against these walls? Where
are the guns of large enough callber to
storm these gates: Well, let us look
around and see, the first of ALL who is
our leader and will be our leader until
the work is done. Garibaldi, with l 1000
Italians, could do more than another
commander with 10, 900 Italians. Gen
eral Sherman, On one side, and Stone
wall Jackson, on the other, each with
$1,000 troops, could do more than some
other generals with 1000 troops. The
rough boat in which Washington crossed
the icy Delaware with a few half frozen
troops was mightier than the ship OF
war that during the American Revolu-
ton came through the Narrows, gun
at each portfolio, and sank in He'll Gate.
Our leader, like most great leaders,
was born in an obscure place, and 1T
was an humble home, about five miles
from Jerusalem. Those who were out of
doors that night said that there was
stellar commoiion, and music that came
ont of the clouds, as though the front
door of heaven mad been set open, and
that the camels heard his first infantlle
CRY. Then he came to the falrest boy
hood that mother was ever proud OF,
and from II to 30 years of age was off
in India, if traditions there are accu-
rate, and then returned to his native
land, and for three years had his path
way surrounded by blind eyes that he
illumined, and epileptic patients to
whom he gave rubicund health, and
tongues that he loosed from silence into
song, and those whose funerals he stop
ped that he might give back to bereaved
mothers their only boys, and those
whose fevered pulses he had restored
into rhythmic throb, and whose paralyt-
ic limbs he had warmed into healthful
circulation-pastor at Capernaum, but
flaming evangelist everywhere, hushing
crying tompests and turning rolling seas
into solid sapphire, and for the rescue
of a race submitted to courtroom filled
with bowling ,niscroants, and to mar
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