Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-08-06

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Literature OF the Dust.
But while I speak Of Christ Of the
text, his stopping down writing In the
dust, do not think underrate the liter
ature Of the dust. It Is the most tire.
mendous Of all literature. It Is the
greatest Of all libraries. When Layard
exhumed Nineveh, he was only opening
the door of its mighty dust. The exca-
vations Of Pompeii have only boen the
unclasping Of the lids Of volume Of
nations dust. When Admiral Fsrraguo
and his friends visited that resurrected
city, the house Of Balbo, who had been
one of its chief citizens in Its prosperous
days, was opened, and table vas
spread In that house which 1910 years
had been buried by volcanic eruption,
and Farragut and his guests walked
over the exquisite mosaics and under
the beautiful fresco, and IL almost resm-
ed like being entertained by those who
10 centuries ago had turned to dust
Oh, this mighty literature OF che
dust! Where are the remains OF Sen
nacherib and Attila and Epaminoudas
and Tamerlane and Trajnn and Philip
Of Macedon and julius Cesar Dust!
Where are the heroes who fought on
both sides at Oheronea. at Hastings, at
Marathon, at Greasy, Of the ITO, 600
men who fought at A8incourt. Of the
$50, 900 men who faced death Of jena,
of the 400, 900 whose armor glittered in
the sun at Wagram, Of the 1000. 900
men under Darius at Arbela, Of the
2, Gal, 900 men under Xerxea ct Ther-
mopyl@? Dust Where are the guests
who danced the floors Of the Alharabra
OF the Persian palaces Of Ahaguer1s?
Dust Where are the musicians who
played, or the orators who spoke and
the sculptors who chiseled, and the
architects who built IN all the centuries
except our own? Dust Where are she
most Of the books that once entranced
the world? Dust Pliny wrote 30 books
Of history. All lost. The most Of Me-
handler writings lost. OF lS0 comedies
Of Plautus, all gone but 20. Euripides
wrote 100 dramas, all gone but 10.
.Eschylus wrote 100 dramas, all gene
but seven. Varro wrote the laborious
biographies Of 700 Romans, not frag-
ment left Quintilian wrote his favosite
book on the corruption OF eloquence, all
lost. Thirty books Of Tacitus lost Dion
Cassius wrote 80 books, only 40 remain.
Berosius' history all lost. Where there
is one living book there are thousand
dead books The greatest library in the
world, that which has the widest
shelves and longest aisles and the most
multitudinous volumes and the vastsst
wealth is the underground library. IL
is the royal library, the continental
library, the hemisphere library, the
planetary library, the library Of ahe
dust, and all these library cases will be
opened, and all these scrolls unrollsd.
and all these volumes unclasped, and az
easily Us in your library or mine We
take up book, blow the dust OF Of tt
and turn over its pages, so easily will
the Lord Of the resurrection pick ous Of
this library Of dust every volume Of hu-
man life and open it and read 1t and
display it, and the volume will b re-
bound, to be set in the royal library Of
the King palace or in the prison library
of the self destroyed.
The Candle In tho window.
Oh, this mighty literature Of Tho
dust. Il ia not so wonderful, after all,
that Christ chose, instead Of an iah-
stand, the impressionahle sand ON the
floor Of an ancient temple, and, Instead
of hard pen, put forth hts foYefngeT,
with the same kind of nerve and murole
and bone and flesh as that which makea
up our own forehnger, and wrote the
awful doom of hypocrisy, and full and
complete forgiveness for repentant SIN
ners, even the worst. We talk about the
ocean of Christ's mercy Put four ahips
upon that ocean and let them sail out
in opposite directions for thoueand
years, and see if they can find the aAoro
of the ocean of the divine mercy. Let
them sail to the north and the south
and the east and the west, and then aft
er the thousand years of voyage lot
them come back and they will report,
"No shore, no shore to the ocean Of
OOO molCy
And now can believe that which
read, how that mother kept burning
candle in the window every night foS
ten years, and one night, very late. o
poor waif of the street entered Tho
aged woman said to her, "Sit down By
the fire.. and the stranger sa!d. "Wey
do you keep that light In the Window"
The aged woman said: "That 10 to MGha
my weyward daughter when nhe Pc
turns. Since she went awey, tan ycaTs
ago, my hair has turned white Fo!hs
blame me for worrying about hsz, bus
you see I am her mother, and soae-
times, half dozen tinss night
open the door and look out into the
darkness and cry, Lizzie, ''Lizziep But
I must not tell You shy more about my
trouble for I guess, from the way JON
cry, you have trouble enough Of your
own. Why, how cold and sick you
eeem! Oh, my, can 1t be? Yes, yen ago
Lizzie, my own lost child Thank God
that you are homo again ' And what
time Of rejoicing there was In that
house that night. And Christ again
stopped down, and in the ashes Of that
heart, now lighted ap, not mora by the
great blazing logs than by the Joy Of q
reunited household, wrote the same lib
Grating words that had been written
more than 1900 years ago in the dust
of the Jerusalem temple. Forgiveness!
A word broad enough and high enough
to let pass through It all the armies OF
heaven, q millien abreast, on white
horses, nostril to nostril, flank TO aank.
-rncy Like Dewey.
A special correspondent Of tho Bala.
more Sun in Manila wTites thus: az
have mentioned Admiral Dewey 8 abiu-
ty as an administrator and diplomat
While maintaining g most vigorous
blockade, he willingly gave permirsiea
to 3 delegation Of British and German
merchants to remove their families 10
Cavite. He ordered thas place to 30
made sanitary, and placed Consul WILL