Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-01-08


mansion were to be lifted into the &C.
lestial city, they would be considered
uninhabitable rookeries, and glorifed
Lazarus would be ashamed to be going
in and out of either Of them.
God Is Taking Care.
There are many housekeepers who
could get along with their tolls if it
were not for sickness and trouble. The
fact is, one-half of the women Of the
land are more or less invalids. The
mountain lass, who has never had an
ache or q pain, may consider household
toll inconsiderable, and toward evening
she may skip away miles to the fields
and drive home the cattle, and she may
until 10 o'clock at night fill the house
with laughing racket; but, oh, to do
the work of life with wornout constitu-
ton, when whooping cough has been
raging for six weeks in the household,
making the night as sleepless as the
day-that is not go easyl Perhaps this
comes after the nerves have been shat
tered by some bereavement that has left
desolation in every room of the house
and set the crib in the garrett because
the occupant has been hushed into
slumber which needs no mothers lula
by. Oh, she could provide for the whole
group great deal better than she can
for part of the group, now the rest are
goneI Though you may tell her God is
taking care of those who are gone, it is
motherlike to brood both focks, and one
wing she puts over the flock in the
house, the other wing she puts over the
flock in the grave.
There is nothing but the old fashioned
religion of Jesus Christ that will take a
woman happily through the trials of
home life. At first there may be a TO-
nance or novelty that will do for
substitute. The marriage hour has just
passed, and the perplexities of the house
hold are more than atoned by the JOY of
being together and by the fact that when
it is late they do not have to discuss the
question as to whether it is time to go.
The mishaps of the household, instead
of being matter of anxiety and repre-
hension, are matter of merriment-
the loaf of bread turned into geologic
al specimen. the slushy custards, the
jaundiced or measly biscuits. 1t is a
very bright sunlight that falls on the
cutlery and the mantel ornaments of q
new home
"Better Is Dinner OF Herbs"
But after awhile the romance is all
gone, and then there is something to be
prepared for the table that the book
called Cookery Taught In Twelve Les
SONS" will not teach. The recipe for
making it is not a handful of this,
cup of that and spoonful of something
else. 1t is not something sweetened with
ordinary condiments or favored with
ordinary favors or baked in ordinary
ovens. 1t is the loaf of domestic happi-
ness, and all the ingredients come
down from heaven, and the fruits are
plucked from the tree of life, and it is
sweetened with the new wine Of the
kingdom, and it is baked in the oven Of
home trial. Solomon wrote out of his
own experience. He had a wretched
home. A man cannot be happy with two
wives, much less 600, and he says, writ
ing out of his own experience, Better
is dinner Of herbs where love is than
a stalled OK and hatred Herewith. %
How great are the responsibilities Of
Sometimes an indigest-
ible article of food, by its effect upon
king, has oyerthrown an empire A dis
statistician says Of 1000 un-
married men there are S8 criminals, and
Of 1000 married men only IS are GRIM
mails What suggestion of home infiu-
encesl Let the most be made of them.
by the food they provide,
BY the couches they spread, by the books
hey introduce, by the influences they
bring around their home, are deciding
he physical, intellectual, moral, eternal
lestiny of the race. You say Your life
S one Of sacrifice know it. But, my
listers, that is the only life worth liv-
ng. That was Florence Nightingale's
life; that was Paysons life; that was
jhrist's life. We admire it in others,
nut how very hard it is for US to exer-
Use it ourselves When, in Brooklyn,
'oung DR.. Hutchinson, having spent
whole night in diphtheritic room for
he relief of patient, became saturated
With the poison and died, we all felt as
we would like to put garlands on his
rave Everybody appreciates that.
Vhen, in the burning hotel at ST. Louis
young man on the fifth story broke
pen the door of the room where his
lother was sleeping and plunged in
mid smoke and fire, crying, Mother,
here are your" and never came out,
Ut hearts applauded that young man.
Lack of Christlike Spirit.
But how few of US have the Christ
Ike spirit-a willingness to suffer for
hers. A rough teacher in q school
llled upon poor, half starved lad who
ad offended against the laws of the
hool and said, "Take off your coat d.
city, sir. - The boy refused to take it
7, whereupon the teacher said again,
Take off your coat, sir, as he swung
e whip through the air The boy re-
sed. It was not because he was afraid
the lash-he was used to that at
it was from shame-he had
, undergarment-and as at the third
mmand he pulled slowly off his coat
ere went sob through the school.
aey saw then why he did not want to
move his coat, and they saw the
oulder blades had almost cut through
Q skin, and stout healthy boy rose
and went TO the teacher of the school
ID said: "Oh, sir, please don't hurt
is poor fellow. Whip me. See, he's
thing but a poor chap. Don't hurt
M; he's poor. Whip me" WELL"
i'd the teacher, cts going to be Sc
re whipping. I am willing to take
u as substitute. {" "Well," said the
Y. at don't care. You whip me. if