Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-02-29

death?'' Then when they found her,
why did we declare the news all through
the households, and everybody that
knew how to pray said, "Thank Godf"
Because we are all one, bound by one
great golden chain Of sympathy. Oh,
yes, but have to tell you that if you
will aggregate all neighborly, manly,
wifely, motherly sympathy, it will be
found only a poor starving thing COM
pared with the sympathy of our great
Shiloh, who has held in his lap the sor-
rows of the ages and who is ready to
nurse on his holy heart the woes of all
who will come to him. Oh, what a
God What a Saviour we havel
But in larger vision see the nations
in some kind of trouble ever since the
world was derailed and hurled down
the embankments The demon of sin
came to this world, but other demons
have gone through other worlds. The
demon of confagration, the demon of
volcanic disturbance, the demon of de-
struction.
La Place says he saw one world in
the northern hemisphere 16 months
burning. Tycho Brahe said he saw an
other world burning. A French astrono-
mer says that in 800 years 800 worlds
have disappeared. do not see why in
fidels find it so hard to believe that two
worlds stopped in Joshuas time, when
the astronomers tell US that 1900
worlds have stopped. Even the moon is
a world in ruins Stellar, lunar, solar
catastrophes innumerable. But it seems
as if the most sorrows have been reserv-
ed for our world. By one toss of the
world at Ticuboro, of 1000 inhabitants
only &c people escaped. By one shake
Of the world at Lisbon in five minutes
60, 900 persisted, and 200, 900 before the
earth stopped rocking A mountain falls
in Switzerland, burying the village of
Goldau. A mountain falls in Italy Ill
the night, when 1000 people are asleep,
and they never arouse. By conyulsion
of the earth Japan broken off from Chi
ma. By CONFUSION Of the earth the
Caribbean islands broken off from Amer
lea. Three islands near the mouth Of
the Ganges, with $40, 900 inhabitants
great surge Of the sea breaks over
them, and 214,00 perish that day.
Alas, alas, for our poor world 1t has
been recently discovered that whole
continent has sunk, continent that
connected Europe and America-part OF
the inhabitants of that continent going
to Europe, part coming to America over
the tablelands of Mexico, up through
the valleys of the Mississippi, and we
are finding now the remains of their
mounds and their cities in Mexico, in
Colorado and the tablelands of the west
It is matter of demonstration that a
whole continent has gone down, the
Azores off the coast of Spain only the
highest mountain of that sunken CONT
nent Plato described that continent,
its grandeur, the multitude of its inhab-
itants, its splendor and its awful de-
struction, and the world thought it was
romance, but psychologists have found
out it W. history, and the English and
the Germ. and the American fleets
have gone (, .th with archeologists, and
the Challenger, and the Dolphin, and
the Gazelle Lave dropped anchor, and
in deep sea soundings they have found
the contour of that sunken continent.
The Rock of Ages.
Oh, there is trouble marked on the
rocks. on the sky, on the sea, on the
fora and the fauna Astronomical trou-
BILE, geological trouble, oceanic trouble,
political trouble, domestic trouble, and
standing in the presence of all those STU
pendous devastations I ask if am not
right in saying that the great want of
this age and all ages is divine sympathy
and omnipotent comfort, and they are
found not in the Brahma of the Hindoo
or the Allah of the Mohammedan, but
in the Christ unto whom shall the gath
ering of the people be. Other worlds
may fall, but this morning star will
never be blotted from the heavens. The
earth may quake, but this rock of ages
will never be shaken from its founda-
lions. The same Christ who fed the
1000 will feed all the worlds hunger.
The same Christ who cured Bartimeus
will illumine all blindness. The same
Christ who made the dumb speak will
put Oh every tongue hosanna. The
same Christ who awoke Lazarus from
the sarcophagus will yet rally all the
pious dead in glorious resurrection. Il
know that my Redeemer liveth," and
that ''to him shall the gathering of the
people be" All, my friends, when
Christ starts thoroughly and quickly to
lift this miserable wreck of sunken
world it will not take him long to lift it.
1 have thought that this particular
age in which we live may be given up
to discoveries and inventions by which
through quick and instantaneous com
niunication all cities and all communi-
ties and all lands will be brought to-
gethAr, and then in another period per-
haps these inventions which have been
used for worldly purposes will be
brought out for gospel invitation, and
some great prophet of the Lord will
come and snatch The mysterious, SUBJ
lime and miraculous telephone from the
hand Of commerce, and, all lands and
kingdoms connected by a wondrous
wire, this prophet Of Il Lord may.
through telephone communication, in
an instant announce to all nations par
don and sympathy and life through
Jesus Christ, and then, putting the
wondrous tube to the ear of the Lords
prophet, the response shall come back,
ST believe in God, the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus
Christ, his only begotten Son.
You and I may not live to see the
day. think those of us who are over
40 years Of age can scarcely expect to see
the day. l expect before that time our
bodies will be sound asleep in the ham
mocks of the old gospel ship as it goes
sailing on. But Christ will wake US up
in time to see the achievement. We who