Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-01-23

for Abraham, "Ablu" for Abel. and 80
on. Twenty-Five feet underground has
been found seal inscribed with the
words "Haggai, son of Shebaniah, "
thousands of years ago cut, showing
that tie Prophet Haggai, who wrote a
part of the Bible. was not q myth. The
royal engineers have found, 80 feet be-
low the surface of the ground at Jerusa-
lem, Phmnician pottery and hown stones
with inscriptions, showing that they
wero furnished by Hiram, king of Tyre,
just as the Bible says they were. The
great names of Bible history, that many
suppose are names of imaginary beings,
arc found, cut into imperishable stones
which have within few years been
rolled up from their entombment of
ages, such as Sonnacherib aud Tiglath-
Pilcser. On tho edge of bronzcd step
and on burned brick has been found tho
name of Nehuchadnc&zar. Henry Raw
linson and Oppcrt and Hincks and Pal
estine exploration societies and Asyrlolo-
gists and Psychologists have rolled an
other Bible up from the depths of the
earth, and 10, it corresponds exactly
with our Bible, the rock Biblo just like
the printed Bible, inscriptions on cylin-
ders and brickwork cut $500 years be-
fore Christ testifying to the truth OF
what we read 1897 years after Christ.
The Tower of Babel.
Tho story of tho tower of Babel has
been confirmed by tho fact that recently
at Babel an oblong pilo of brick ITO
feet high evidences tho remains of a
fallen tower. In the inspired book of
Ezra we read of the great and noblo
Asnapper, a nnmc that meant nothing
especial until recently in pricd up
Egyptian sculpture we have the story
there told of him rs a great hunter rs
we'll as great warrior. What l say
now is nows To those prejudiccd against
the Bible They are so far behind the
times that they know not that the old
book is being proved true by the prying
eye of the antiquarian and the ringing
hammer of the archnologist and the
plunsing crowbar Of the geologist. No
more is intldelity characterized by its
blasphemy than by its ignorance, but
oh, what high mountain Of prejudice
against tho Bible, against Christianity,
against churches, against all evangellz-
ing onterpriscs-a mountain that casts
its long black shadows over this COLI
tinent and over all continents. Geog-
raphers tell us that Mount Everest is
the highest mountain in the world. Oh,
no! The mountain Of prejudice against
Christianity is higher than the highest
crags that dare the lightnings of heaven.
Before our Zerubbabel, can it ever be-
come a plain?
Another mountain Of hindranco is
that Of positive and outspoken I'M
morals. There is the mountain of inc
briacy. 1t is piled high with kegs and
demijohns and decanters and hogsheads,
on which sit the victims of that traffic
whose one business is to rob earth and
heaven of the most generous and large
hearted and splendid of the human race.
If their business was to take only the
mean and stingy and contemplate and
useless, we would not say much against
the work for there are tens of thousands
of men and women who are nuisance
to the world. and their obliteration
from human society would be an adj
vantage to oil that is good. The re-
moval of these moral deficits would not
arouse in rs much of protest. But in
sobriety takes the best.
The mountain of inebriacy stands in
the way of tho kingdom OF God, and
hundreds of thousands Of men, but for
that hindrance, would step right into
the ranks of the Lord 8 host and marc
heavenward, each one taking regi
ment with him. The mountain Of inc
bracy is not an ordinary mountain, but
it is armed 1t is q line of fortresses
continually blazing away its destructive
forces upon all our neighborhoods, towns
and cities, their volleys of death poured
down upon the homes and churches.
Under this power more than 100, 600
men and women are in this country
every year imprisoned, and an army of
600, 900 drunkards almost shake the
earth with their staggering tread. 1t
causes in this country 500 murders and
400 suicides year.
Inebrincy on the Sea.
This mountain Of inebriacy has not
only assaulted the land, but bombarded
the shipping of the sea, and some of the
most appalling shipwrecks on Atlantic
and Pacific coasts have been the result.
What sank the steamer Rothsay Castle,
Oh the way from Liverpool to Dublin,
destroying 100 human lives? A drunken
sea captain. What blew up the Ben
Sherrod OIL the Mississippi and sent 100
to horrible death? A drunken crew.
What drove OIL the breakers steamer
making its way from New York to
Charleston and sent whole families, on
the way homo from summer watering
places, to the merciless depths of the
sea? A drunken sea captain. Gather up
from the depths of the river and lakes
and oceans the bones of those ship
wrecked by intoxicated captains and
crews, and you could build out of them
temple of horrors, all the pillars and
affairs and floors and ceilings fashioned
of human skulls Is it possible that such
mountain of inebriacy can ever be
made plain?
Yonder also is the mountain of
crime, with its strata of fraud and
malpractice and malfeasance and black
mail and burglary and piracy and
embezzlement and libertinism aud
theft, all its heights manned with the
the cutthroats the pick
pockets, the thimble riggers. the plum
derers, the marauders, the pillagers,
the corsairs, the wreckers, the bandits,
the trickstcrs, the forgers, the thugs.
the garroters, the fire fiends, the dyna-
miters, the shoplifters, the kleptomani-