Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-04-30

! low and to fight back imaginary devils.
And then they were laid out in highly
upholstered parlor, the casket covered
with flowers by indulgent parents
flowers suggestive of resurrection with
10 hope
AS you sat this morning at your
breakfast table and looked into the faces
of your children, perhaps you said
within yourself: Poor thingsl How l
wish l could start them in life with IL
competenccl How l have been disap-
pointed in all my expectations of what
1 would do for them" Upon that scene
of pathos break with pecan of con-
/ graduation, that by your financial losses
your own prospects for heaven and the
prospect for the heaven of your children
are nightly improved. You may have
lost IL toy, but you have won palace.
"How hardly shall they that have
riches enter into the kingdom of Godr"
1T is easier for q camel to go through
a needless eye than for rich man to
| enter the kingdom of heaven. What
docs that mean? 1t means that the
grandest blessing God ever bestowed
upon you was to take your money away
from you. Let me here say, in passing,
do not put much stress on the treasures
of this world. You cannot take them
along with you. AT any rate, you can
not take them more than two or three
miles; you will have to leave them at the
cemetery. Attila had three collins. So
! fond was he of this life that he decreed
that first he should be buried in q coffin
of gold and that then that should be in
| closed in cotlin Of silver and that
should be inclosod in coffin of iron,
and then large amount of treasure
should 30 thrown in over his body.
And so be WAS buried, and the men who
buried him were slain, so that no one
might know where he was buried and
no one might there Interfere with his
treasures. Oh, men of the world, who
want to take your money with you, bet
ter have three collins
Helpful Thoughts.
Again, 1 remark, you ought to make
the very best of your bereavements.
The whole tendency is to brood over
these separations, and to give much
time to the handling of mementos of
the departed and to make long vista
lions to tho cemetery, and to say: "Oh,
l can never look up again. My hope is
gone; my courage is gone; my religion
is gone; my faith in God is gone. Oh,
the wear and tear and exhaustion of
this loneliness. The most frequent be-
reavemcnt is the loss of children. If
your departed child bad lived as long as
you have lived, do you not suppose that
be would have had about the same
amount of trouble and trial that you
have bad? If you could make choice
for your child between 40 years of an
noyance, loss, yeXation, evaporation
and bereavements and 20 years in heav-
en-, would you take the responsibility
of choosing the former? Would you
snatch away the cup of eternal bliss
and put into that child's hands the cup
of many bereavements? Instead of the
complete safety into which that child
has been lifted would you like to hold
it down to the risks of this mortal state?
Would you like to keep it out on sea
in which there have been more ship
wrecks than safe voyages? Is it not
comfort to you to know that that child,
instead of being besoiled and flung into
tho mire of sin, is swung clear into the
skies? Are not those children to be con-
graduated that the point of celestial
bliss which you expect to reach by
pilgrimage of so Or GO or 70 years they
reached at flash: If the last 10, QUO
children who had entered heaven had
gone through the average of human life
on earth, are you sure all those 10, 600
children would have finally reached the
blissful terminus? Besides that, my
friends, you are to look at this matter
as a self denial Oh your part for their
benefit. If your children want to go off
in May day party, if your children
want to go OH fiowery and musical ex-
cursion, you consent. You might prefer
to have them with you, bat their jubi-
liant absence satisfies you. Well. your
departed children havo only gone out in
a May day party, amid tlowery and mu-
steal entertainment, amid joys and hi
laritics forever That ought to quell
some of your grief, the thought of their
glee.
So it ought to be that you could make
the best OF I'll hereayemcnts. The fact
that you have so mauy friends in heaven
will make your own departure very
cheerful. When you are going on avoy-
age, everything depends upon where
YOUR friends are-if they are on the
wharf that you loavo or Oh the wharf
toward which you are going to sail. In
other words, the more friends you have
in heaven the easier it will be to get
away fron. this I'd. The more friends
here the more bitter goodbys; the more
! friends there the more glorious well
comes. Some Of you have so many
brothers, sisters, children, friends in
heaven that do not know hardly how
YOU are going to crowd through. When
the vessel came from foreign lands and
brought prince to our harbor, the
ships were covered with bunting, and
sou reucrl Der how the men-of-war
::.a;idsrea broadsides, but there was no
.hcre compared with the JOY which
AL be demonstrated when you sail up
ay broad bay Of heavenly salutation'
lie more friends you have there the
easier your own transit What is death
to mother whose children are in heav-
en-? Why, there is no more grief IN 1t
Than there is i'll her going into nursery
amid the romp and laughter OF her
household. Though all around may be
lark, see you not the bright light in the
clouds-that light the irradiated faces
of your glorifed kindred?
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