Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-10-23

ness more than half q century ago. The
good he has done, the homes he has kept
inviolate, the high moral sense with
which he his infused ten generations,
are story that neither earth nor heaven
can afford to let die Derided, belittled,
caricatured. maligned for quarter Of
q century as few men have been, he has
lived on until at his decease universal
newspaperdom speaks his praise, and the
eulogiums of his career ON this side of
the sea have been caught up by the ca
thedral organ sounding his requiem on
the other His whole life having been
for God and the worlds betterment,
when at half past o'clock in the after
noon of Oct 2 he left his home Oh earth
surrounded by loving ministries and en-
tered the gates of his eternal residence,
| think there was a most unusual vel
come and salutation given him. Multi
tudes enter heaven only because OF what
Christ has done for them, the welcome
not at all intensified because of any
thing they had done for him. But all
heaven knew the story of that good
mans life, and the beauty of his death
bed, where lie said, II long to be free. "
| think all the reformers Of heaven came
out to hail him in, the departed legis-
lators who made laws to restrain intern
perance. the consecrated platform ora
tors who thrilled the generations that
are gone, with righteousness temper
ance and judgment to come. Albert
Barnes and John B. Cough were there
to greet him, and golden tongued patri-
arch Stephen H. Tying was there, and
John ". Hawkins. the founder of the
much derided and eloriously useful
"Washingtonian movement" was there,
and John Stearns and Commodore Foote
and DR.. Marsh and Governor Briggs
and Eliphalet Mott, and my lovely
friend Alfred Colqlitt, the Christian
senator, and hundreds of those who la
bored for the overthrow of the drunken
ness that yet curses the earth were there
to meet him and escort him to his
throne and shout at his coronation.
The Departed Neal Dow.
God let him live on for near cen-
tury to show what good habits and
cheerfulness and faith in the final tri-
umph of all that is good can do for a
man in this world and to add to the
number of those who would be on the
other side to attend his entrance. But
he will come back again. Eyes, )" say
some of you, with Martha, about Laza-
rus to Jesus, II know he will rise at
the resurrection Of the last day." All,
do not mean that. Ministering spirits
are all the time coming and going be-
tween earth and heaven-the Bible
teaches it-and do you suppose the old
hero Just assembled will not come down
and help us in the battle that still goes
on? He will Into the hearts of discour-
aged reformers he will come to speak
good cheer When legislators are decid-
ing how they can best stop the rum traf-
fic of America by legal enactment, he
will help them vote for the right and
rise up undismayed from temporary de-
feat. In this battle will Neal Dow be
until the last victory is gained and the
smoke of the last distillery has curled
on the air, and the last tear of despoil-
ed homesteads shall be wiped away.
o departed nonagenarianl After you
have taken a good rest from your strug-
gle of 10 active years come down again
into the fight and bring with you
host of the old Christian warriors who
once mingled in the fray.
In this battle>the visible troops are
not SO mighty as the invisible. The Cos
pei campaign began with the super
natural-the midnight chant that woke
the shepherds, the hushed sea, the eye
sight given where the patient had been
without the o. tic nerve, the sun oblit-
Grated frcin tie MONDAY heavens, the
law of gravitation loosing its grip as
Christ assembled, and as the gospel cam
paign began with the supernatural it
will close with the supernatural, and
tie winds and the waves and the light
nings and the earthquakes will come III
OIL the right side and against the wrong
side, and our assembled champions will
return whether the world sees them or
does not see them do not think that
those great souls departed are going to
do nothing hereafter but sing psalms,
and play harps, aud breathe franklin
cense, and wall, seas of glass mingled
with fire Tie mission they fulfilled
while in the body will be eclipsed by
their post mortem mission, with facul-
ties quickened and velocities multi
piled, and it ma- have been to that our
diving reforme1 referred when he said,
81 long to be free There may be big
ger worlds than this to be redeemed
and more gigantic denominations to be
overthrown than this world ever saw,
and the discipline got here may on
ly be preliminary drill for campaign
in some other world and perhaps some
other constellation. But the crowned
heroes and heroines, because of their
grander achievements in greater spheres,
will not forget this old world where
they prayed and suffered and triumph
ed. Church militant and church tri-
umphant, but two divisions of the same
army-right wing and left wing.
One army of the living God,
At his command we bow.
Part of the host have crossed the hood
And part are crossing now.
A Famous Duel.