Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-10-08
tho heights and depths CT heaven are
between you and your pursuers.
The Eternal Brooks.

The Eternal BROOKS.
We are told in Revelation xii, Is,
Without are dogs by which l con-
clude there is a whole kennel Of hounds
outside the gate of heaven. or, as when
q master goes in through door his dog
lies Oh the steps waiting for him to
come out, so the troubles of this life may
follow us to the shining door, but they
cannot get in. without are dogs!' l
! have seen dogs and owned dogs that l
would not be chagrined to see in the
heavenly city. Some of the grand old
watchdogs who arc the constabulary Of
the homes III solitary places and for
years have bcen tho only protection for
wife and child, some of the shepherd
dogs that drive back the wolves and
bark away the 1ccks from going too
near the precipice, and some Of the dogs
whose necks and paws Landseer, the
painter, has made immortal, would not
find me shutting them out from the gate
Of shining pearl. Some Of those old ST.
Bernard dogs that have lifted perishing
travellers out of the Alpine snow, the
dog that John Brown, the Scotch essay
ist, saw ready to spring at the surgeon
lest in removing the cancer he too much
hurt the poor WOMAN whom the dog felt
bound to protect, and dogs that we Ca
ressed in our childhood days or that in
later time lay down on tho rug i'll SEEM
ing sympathy when our homes were
desolated. say, if some soul entering
heaven should happen to leave the gate
ajar and-these faithful creatures should
quietly walk in it would not at all dis
turb my heaven. But all those human
or brutal hounds that have chased and
torn and lacerated the world-yea, all
that now bite or worry or tear to pieces
shall DO prohibited. Without are
dogs!" No place there for harsh critics
or backbiters or despoilers of the reputa-
lions of others. Down with you to the
kennels of darkness and despair! The
hart has reached the eternal water
brooks, and the Santirs Of the long
chase is quieted in still pastures and
"there shall nothing hurt or destroy in
all Gods holy mountain.
Oh, when some of you get there, it
will be like what hunter tells Of when
pushing his canoe far up north in the
winter and amid tho ice foes and 100
miles, as be thought, from any other
human beings! He was startled one day
as be heard stepping ON the ice, and
he cooked the rifle, ready to meet any
thing that came near He found q man,
barefooted and insane from long expo
sure, approaching him. Taking him into
his canoe and kindling fires to warm
him, he restored him and found out
where he had lived and took him to his
home and found all the village in great
excitement. A hundred men were
searching for this lost man, and his
family and friends rushed out to meet
him, and, as had been agreed at MS
first appearance, bells were rung and
guns were fired and banquets spread
and the 1escuer loaded with presents.
Well, when some of you step out of this
wilderness, where you have been chilled
and torn and sometimes lost amid the
icebergs, into the warm greetings of all
the villages of the glorified and your
friends rush out to give you welcoming
kiss, the news that there is another soul
forever saved will call the caterers of
heaven to spread the banquet and the
bellmen to lay hold of the rope i'll the
tower, and while the chalices click at
the feast and the bells cIang from the
turrets it will be Il scene so uplifting l
pray God I may be there to take part
| in the celestial merriment. "Until the
day break and the shadows flee away
be thou like Il roe OF Il young hart upon
the mountains of Bother. u