Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-05-01
"Halleluiah, for the Lord God ON
nipotent reigneth.n

nipotent reigneth."
That song of love, now low and far,
Ere long shall swell from star to star;
That light, tho breaking dry which tips
Tho golden spired Apocalypse.
Importance of Little Things.
Again, I learn from my subject that
! events which seem to be most insignifi-
can't may be momentous. Can you i'm
agine anything more unimportant than
the coming of a poor woman from Moab
to Judah? Can you imagine anything
more trivial than the fact that this Ruth
Just happened to alight-as they say
just happened to alight on that field of
Boaz? Yet all ages, all generations,
have an interest in the fact that she
was to become an ancestress of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and all nations and king
doms must look at that one little Incl
dent with a thrill of unspeakable and
eternal satisfaction. So it is in your
history and in mine. Events that you
thought of no Importance at all have
been of very great moment. That casual
conversation, that accidental meeting
you did not think of it again for long
while, but how it changed all the
phases of your life.
1t seemed to be Of no importance that
Jubal invented rude instruments of mu-
sic, calling them harp and organs, but
they were the introduction of all the
worlds minstrclsy, and as you hear the
vibration of stringed instrument, even
after the fingers have been taken away
from it, so all music now Of Lutte and
drum and cornet is only the long con-
tinued strains Of Jubal's harp and Ju-
balls organ. 1t seemed to be q matter Of
very little importance that Tubal Cain
learned the uses of copper and iron, but
that rude foundry of ancient days has
it's echo in the rattle of Birmingham
machinery and the roar and bang of fac
tories OIL the Merrimac.
1t seemed to be matter Of no tmpor-
lance that Luther found Bible in a
monastery but as he opened that Bible
and the brass bound lids fell back they
Jared everything, and the rustling of
the wormed leaves was the sound Of the
wings of the angel of the reformation
1t seemed to be matter of no impor-
lance that Il woman whose name has
been forgotten dropped tract in the
way of Il very bad man of the name of
Richard Baxter He picked up the tract
and read it, and it was the means Of
his salvation. In after days that man
wrote book called 1.-The Call to the
Unconverted, that was the means of
bringing q multitude to God, among
others Philip Doddridge. Philip bod
bridge wrote a book called "The Rise
and Progress Of Religion, which has
brought thousands and tens of thousands
into the kingdom of God and among
others the great Wilberforce Wilber-
force wrote book called "a Practical
View of Christianity, :" which was the
means Of bringing great multitude to
Christ, among others Leigh Richmond.
Leigh Richmond wrote tract called
'Thc Dairyman's Daughter, " which
has been tie means of the salvation OF
unconvertcd multitudes. And that tide
of influence started from the fact that
one Christian woman dropped Chris
tian tract in the way of Richard Bax-
ter, the tide of influence rolling on
through Richard Baxter, through Phil
! ip Doddrid9e, through the great Wilber-
force, through Leigh Richmond, on, on,
on, forever, forever So the insignif-
can't events of this world seem, after
all, to be most momentous
Female Toilers.
Again, see in my subject an illus
tration of the beauty of female industry.
Behold Ruth toiling in the harvest
field under the hot sun or at noon TAX
ing plain bread with the roapers or eat
ing the parched corn which Boaz handed
to her. The customs of society, OF
course, have changed, and without the
hardships and exposure to which Ruth
was subjected every intelligent woman
will find something to do.
I know there is a sickly sentimental
ity on this subject. In some families
there are persons of no practical service
to the household or community, and,
though there are so many woes all
around about them in the world, they
spend their time languishing over new
pattern or bursting into tearsatmidnight
over the story of some lover who shot
himself. They would not deign to look
Mt Ruth carrying back the barley on her
way homo to her mother-in-law, Naomi
All this fastidiousness may seem to do
very we'll while they are under the shell
ter of their fathers house, but when the
sharp winter of misfortune comes what
of these butterflies? Persons under in
dulgent parentage may get upon them
selves habits of Incidence, but when
they come out into practical life their
soul will recoil with disgust and. cha
grin They will feel in their hearts
what the poet so severely satirized when
he said: