Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-12-19


I without the palm, expresses without
the jewell You saw her yesterday O
the street You saw nothing important
III her appearance, but she is regnant
over vast realm Of virtue and goodness
"A realm vaster than Jeroboam ever
looked; at. You went down into the
house Of dcstitution and want and suf-
foring. You saw the story of trial writ
ten on the wasted hand Of the mother,
on the pale cheeks of the children, on
the empty bread tray, on the freless
hearth, on the broken chair. You would
not have given dollar for all the fur
nitnre in the house. But by the grace OF
God she is princess. The overseers of
the poor come there and discuss the case
and say, It's pauper. " They do not
realize that God has FURNISHED for her
crown, and that after she has got
through the fatiguing journey from Tir-
zah to Shiloh, and from Shiloh back to
Tirzah, there will be a throne of royalty
on Which she shall rest forever. Glory
yelled, affluence hidden, eternal rap
cures hushed up, a queen in mask,
princess III disguise
When you think Of queen, you do
not think of Catherine of Russia or Ma
ria Theresa of Austria or Mary, queen
of Scots. When you think of queen,
you think of plain woman who sat op-
posite your father at the table or walked
with him down the path of life arm i'll
arm-sometimes to the Thanksgiving
/ banquet, sometimes to the grave, but
always side by side, soothing your little
sorrows and adjusting your little quar-
rels, listening to your evening prayer,
toiling with the needle or at the spin
ming wheel and on cold nights tucking
YOU up snug and warm, and then on
that dark day when she lay a-dying,
putting those thin hands that had toiled
for you SO long-putting them together
in dying prayer commencing you to
! that God in whom she had taught you
to trust. Oh, she was the queen-she
was the queenl You cannot think of her
now without having the deepest emo
tions of your soul stirred, and you feel
as if you could cry as though you were
now sitting in infancy on her lap, and
if YOU call her back to speak your name
with the tenderness with which she once
spoke, you would be willing now to
throwsyourself on the sod that covers
hersgrave, crying, Mother, motherl"
All, she was Il queonl Your father knew
it. You knew it, She was the queen,
but the queen in disguise. The world
did not recognize it.
a Grand Disguise.
But there was grander Disgusting.
The favorita of great house looked out
of the window of his palace and he saw
that the people were carrying heavy
burdens and that some of them were hob
bling on crutches, and he saw some "
ing at the gate exhibiting their sores,
and then he heard their lamentation and
he said, II will just put on the clothes
of those poor people, and Twill 20 down
and see what their sorrows are. and L
will sympathize with them, and l will
be one of them, and will help them. :"
We'll, the day came for him to start.
The lords of the land camo to see him
off. All who could sing joined in the
parting song, which shook tho hills and
woke up the shepherds. The first few
nights he has been sleeping with the
hostIers and the camel drivers, for no
one knew there was king in town. He
went among the doctors of the law, as
founding them, for, without any doc
tors gown, no knew more law than the
doctors. He fished with the fishermen,
he smote with his own hammer III tho
carpenter S shop, he ate raw corn out of
the field, he fried fish on the banks OF
Gennesaret. He was howled at by crazy
people in the tombs, he was splashed OF
the surf of the sea, pilgrim without
any pillow, a sick man without any
medicamont, a mourner with no SYM
pathetic bosom in which he could pour
his tears. Disguise complete know
that occasionally his divine royalty
flashed out, as when in the storm on
Galilee, as in the red wine at the we'd
ding banquet, as when he freed the
shackled demoniac of Gadara, as when
he turned whole school of fish into tho
net of the discouraged boatmen, as when
he throbbed life into the shriveled arm
of the paralytic; but for the most part
be was in disguise. No one saw the
kings Jewels in his SANDAL no one saw
the royal robe in his plain coat; no one
knew that that sholterless Christ owned
all the mansions in which the hierarchs
of heaven had their habitation; none
knew that that hungered Christ owned
all the olive groves end all the harvests
which shook their gold on the hills of
Palestine; no one knew that he who
said, II thirstr' poured the Euphrates
out of his own chalice; no one knew
that the ocean lay in the palm of his
hand like dewdrop in the vase of a
lily; no one knew that the stars and
moons and suns and galaxies and con-
stellations that marched on age after
nge were, as compared with his life
time, the sparkle of FREELY Oh a sum-
mer night; no one knew that the sun in
midheaven was only the shadow of his
throne; no one knew that his crown of
universal dominion was covered up with
bunch of thorns. Omnipotence sheath
ed in a human body, omniscience hid
den in human eye, infinite love beat
ing in a human heart, everlasting har-
monies suhdued into q human voice,
royalty en- masquc, grandeurs of heaven
in earthly disguised
Masks Torn Of.
My subject also imprcsses me with
how people put Oh masks and how the
Lord tears them off. 1t was terrible
moment in the history of this woman