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

neignD0r s house something that por-
tended death in the family. They say
it is a sure sign of evil if bat fly into
a room on a summer night or they see
the moon over the left shoulder. They
would not for the world undertake any
enterprise on Friday, forgetful of the
fact that if they look over the calendar
of the world they will see that Friday
has been the most fortunate day IN all
the history of the world.
As near as 1 can tell, looking over the
calendar of the worlds history, more
grand, bright, beautiful things have
happened on Friday than any other day
of the week. They would not for the
world begin anything on Friday. They
would not for the world go back to
the house for anything after they
had once started. Such people are
ready to be duped. Ignorance comes
along, perhaps in the disguise of med
ical science, and carries them captive,
for there are always some men who have
found some strange and mysterious weed
in some strange place and plucked 1t i'll
the moonshine, and then they cover the
board fences with the advertisements OF
"elixir" and "panaceas' and "Indian
mixtures and "ineffable cataplasms"
and "unfailing disinfectants" and
lightning salves" and instantaneous
ointments, )" enough to stun and scarify
and poultice and kill half the race.
They are all ready to be wrought upon
by such impositions. All, my friends,
do not be among such dupes. Do not act
the part of such persons as have been
describing. Stand back from all CHI
canery, from all imposition. They who
practice such imposition shall be exposed
in the day of Gods Indignation. They
may rear great fortunes, but their dap
pie grays will be arrested on the road
some day, as was the ass by the angel
Of God with drawn sword. The light OF
the last day will shine through all such
subterfuges, and, with voice louder
than that which accosted this imposition
OF the text: Come in, thou wife OF Jer-
oboam. Why feignest thou myself to be
another?' with u voice louder than that
God will thunder down into midnight
darkness and doom and death all two
faced men, and all charlatans, and all
knaves, and all jockeys, and all swind-
lers. Behold how the people put Oh the
masks and behold how the Lord tears
them off
Fixed Providence.
Ny subject also impresses me with
how precise and accurate and particular
are Gods providences. Just at the mo-
ment that woman entered the city the
child died. Just as it was prophesied,
so it turned out, so it always turns out.
The event occurs, the death takes place,
the nation is born, the despotism IS
overthrown at the appointed time. God
drives the universe with a stiff rein.
Events do not just happen so. Things
do not 90 slipshod. In all the book Of
Gods proyidcnces there is not one "if. y
Gods proyidences are never caught III
dishabille. To God there are no surprls-
es, no disappointments and no accidents.
TIE most insignificant event flung out
in the ages is the connecting link be-
tween two great chains-the chain of
eternity past and the chain of eternity
to come.
am no fatalist, but should be COM
pletely wretched if 1 did not feel that
all the affairs of my life are in Gods
hand, and all that pertains to me and
mine, just as certainly as all the affairs
of this woman of the text, as this child
of the text, as this king Of the text, were
in Gods hand You may ask me hun
bred questions 1 cannot answer, but l
shall until the day of my death believe
that am under the unerring care OF
God, and the heavens may fall, and the
world may burn, and the Judgment may
thunder, and eternal ages may roll, but
1ot hair shall fall from my head, not
shadow shall drop on my path, not
orrow shall transfx my heart without
being divinely arranged-arranged by a
loving, sympathetic Father. He bottles
our tears, he catches our sorrows, and
to the orphan he will be Father, and
to the widow he will be husband, and
to the outcast he will be home, and to
the most miserable wretch that this day
crawls up ost of the ditch of his abom-
nation crying for mercy he will be an
all pardoning God. The rocks shall turn
gray with age, and the forests shall be
unmoored i'll the last hurricane, and the
sun shall shut its fiery eyelid, and the
stars shall drop like blasted figs, and the
continents shall go down like anchors
in the deep, and the ocean shall heave
It's last groan and lash itself with expir'
ing agony, and the world shall wrap it.
self in a winding sheet of flame and leap
on the funeral pyre of the Judgment
day, but Gods love shall not die. 1t
will kindle its suns after all other lights
have gone out. 1t will be billowy sea
after the last ocean has wept itself away.
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