Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-04-02
ACCOMAU C. IT, VA. SATURDAY APRIL2 1898

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victim Of dissipation? Why, the physi-
clan was kept up night by night on pro-
fessional duty. Life and death lowered
in the balance. His nervous system was
exhausted. There came time of cpl
demio and whole families were pros
trated and his nervous strength was
gone. He was all worn out in the serv-
ice of the public. Now he must brace
himself up, Now he stimulates. The
life of this mother, the life of this
child, the life of this father. the life of
this whole family must be saved and of
NIL these families must be saved, and he
stimulates and he does it again and
again. You may critioise his Judgment,
but remember the process. 1t was not a
selfish process by which be went down.
1t was magnificent generosity through
which he fell.
Do Not Be Hard.
That attorney at the bar for weeks
has been standing in poorly ventilated
courtroom, listening to the testimony
and contesting in the dry technicalities
of the law, and now tho time has come
for him to wind up, and he must plead
for the life of his client, and his nerv
GUS system is all gone. If he fails in
that speech, his client perishes. If he
have eloquonco enough in that hour, his
client is saved. Ho stimulates.
That journalist has had exhausting
midnight work. He has had to report
speeches and orations that kept him up
till very late hour. He has gone with
much exposure working up some case of
crime in company with detective. He
sits down at midnight to write out his
notes from memorandum scrawled on
pad under unfavorable circumstances
His strength Is gone. Fidelity to the
public intelligence, fidelity to his own
livelihood, demand that he keepup. He
must keep up. He stimulates. Again
and again he does that, and he goes
down. You may criticise his Judgment
in the matter, but have mercy. Re-
member the process. Do not be hard.
My friends. this text will come to
fulfllment in some cases in this world.
The huntsman in Farmsteen was shot
by some unknown person. Twenty years
after the son of the huntsman was in
the same forest, and he accidentally
shot man, and the man in dying said,
"God is just; I shot your father just
here 20 years ago." A bishop said to
Louis XII of France, MAKE an iron cage
for all those who do not think as we do
AN iron cage in which the captive can
neither lie down nor stand straight up"
It was fashioned-the awful instrument
of punishment. After awhile the bishop
offended Louis XI and for IA years he
was in that same cage and could neither
lie down nor stand up. 1t is poor rule
that will not work both ways. with
what measure ye mete it shall be meas
ured to you again.
Oh, my friends, let US be resolved to
scold less and pray morel
What Roadway will we make in the
Judgment if in this world we have been
bard on those who have gone astray?
What Roadway will you and l make in
the last great Judgment when we must
have mercy or perish? The Bible says,
"They shall have Judgment without
mercy that showed no mercy. -
see the scribes of heaven looking up
into the face uf-gqvh ,lIau, coy ing.
"What. you plead for mercy, you
whom in all your life never had any
mercy on your fellows? Don't you re-
member how hard you were in your
opinions of those who were astray?
Don t you remember when you ought to
have given helping hand you employ
ed hard heel? Mercy You must mis-
speak yourself when you plead for mer-
cy here. Mercy for others, but no mercy.
for you. Look, - say the scribes OF
heaven, "look at that inscription over
the throne of judgment, the throne of
Gods Judgment. See it coming out
letter by letter, word by word, sentence
by sentence, until your startled vision
reads it aud your remorseful spirit ap-
propriates it: with what measure we
mete it shall be measured to you again.
Depart, ye cursed!'