Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-12-17
snfe From Temptation.

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Safe From Temptation.
Again, notice that during that 4
days of storm which rocked that shi
OH that universal ocean Of Noah's tim
the door which shut the captain of th
ship inside the craft kept him iron
many outside perils. How those wrath
ful seas would like to have got thei
wet hands OH Noah and pulled him on
and sunk himl And do all Of you of tn
great army of the shut in realize that
though you have special temptation
where you are now, how much of tn
outside style of temptation you escape
Do you, the merchant inoarcerated il
the sickroom, realize that every hou
of the day you spend looking out Of tn
window, or gazing at the particular fig
ure on the wall paper, or listening tt
the clocks ticks men are being wrecked
by the allurements and uncertainties o
business life? How many forgeries ar
committed, how many trust funds ar
swamped, how many public moneys ar
being Incorporated, how many bank
ruptcies suffered 1t may be, it is, yer,
uncomfortable for Noah inside the ark
for the apartment is crowded and tn
air is vitiated with the breathing of 81
much human and animal life, but it j
not half as bad for him as though h
were outside the ark There is not al
OK, or a camel, or an antelope, or {
sheep inside the ark as badly off as thu
proudost king outside. While you arr
on the pillow or lounge you will MAXI
no bad bargains, you will rush into NJ
rash investments. you will avoid thu
mistakes which thousands Of men a
good as you are every day making.
Notice also that there was limit tt
the shut in experience Of those ancient
mariners. suppose the 40 days Of The
descending and uprising foods and the
$50 days before the passengers could &c
ashore must have seemed to those eigb
people in the big boat like small eter
nifty. Rain, rain, rain!" said the wife
of Noah. "Will it never stop?' For &C
mornings they looked out and saw not
one patch of blue sky. Floating around
amid the peaks of mountains Shem and
Ham and Japheth had to hush the fears
of their wives lest they should dash
against the projecting rocks But after
awhile it cleared off. Sunshine, glorious
sunshinel The ascending misrs were
folded up into clouds, which instead of
darkening the sky only ornamented it.
AS they locked out of the windows
these worn passengers clapped their
hands and rejoiced that the storm was
over, and I think if God could stop
such storm as that he could stop any
storm in your lifetime experience. II
he can control vult1ESe that flies in at
-steTnuow. AT the right time he
will put the rainbow on the cloud and
the deluge Of your misfortunes will dry
up | preach the doctrine of limitation,
relief and disenthrallment. At Just the
right time the pain will cease, the
bondage will drop, the imprisoned will
De liberated, the fires will 20 out, the
body and mind and soul will be free.
9atience An old English proverb re-
erring to long continued invalidism
ays, "a creaking gate hangs long on
is hinges, and this may be protract-
d case Of Observation-Disclosures but you
will have taken the last bitter drop,
ou will have suffered the last misin-
you will feel the gnawing
the last hunger, you will have faint
d the last time from exhaustion, you
ill have felt the cut of the last lancet,
on will have wept under the last
'neliness. The last week of the Noachi-
deluse came, the last day, the last
our. the last moment. The beating of
le rain on the roof ceased and the
ashing of the pillows Oh the side Of the
Zip quieted, and peacefully as a yacht
owes out over quiet Lake Cayuga,
ONO or Luzerne the ark, with it's IL
strious passengers and important
ieght, glided to its mountain wharf.
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Cheer For the Sick.
Notice also that on the cessation of
e deluge the shut ms came out, and
ey built their houses and cultured i.
cir gardens and started a new world F.,
the ruins of the old world that had I.
en- drowned out. Though Noah lived /,
0 years after this worldwide acct ;
ut and no doubt his fellow passengers +,
rived centuries | warrant they never :.
over talking about that voyage. =
wv have seen Dore's pictures and ;.
my other pictures of the entrance into !,
ark, two and two, of the human n
nily and the animal creation into that y
p which sailed between two worlds q
world and the post. a
vivian world-but l never saw a pic n
e of their coming out; yet their en- Il
kation was not more important than E,
If Decentralization Many crew has q,
cred ship that never landed. Wit Il
& the steamer Portland, few days y,
, with 100 souls on board, going e,
va 18th all its crew and passengers. :"
tpess the IlD6 " ban shine reoch.
like O submarine cable OF .E 80 IL
oss the ocean depths from America y
Europe. If any ship might expect h
nplete wreckage, the one Noah COM "
Dded might have expected it. But Ii
those who embarked disembarked. r.
er the plank reaching down the side Il
the ark to the Armenian cliffs on /,
ich they had been stranded the pro- :,
sion descended. No other wharf felt Ii
solid or aff9 9GJf lArs2uch attractiyeness v
seaaas5 De put their feet on it. 70 elen' T,
ner had the last one, the invalided r.
e of Japheth. been helped down the n
ok upon the rock than the other ct
rtments of the ship were opened, and on
dash Of bird music never filled
air as when the entire orchestra Of
in redbreast, and morning lark, and 80
finch, and mockipg bird, and house ~,
How took wing into the bright sky, a.
lie the cattle began to low aud the 9" S