Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-01-21

gone. though my children be gone,
though my home be broken up. though
my health be sacrificed. 1t is well; it is
WE'LL" There is no storm on the sea but
Christ is ready to rise in the hinder
part of the ship and hush it. There is
no darkness but the constellation Of
Gods eternal love can illumine, and.
though the winter comes out of the
northern sky, you have sometimes seen
that northern Sky all ablaze with auroras
which seem to say: Come up this
way Up this way are thrones of light
and seas of sapphire and the splendor
of an eternal heaven Come up this
way
We may like the ships, by tempest be tossed
On perilous deeps, but cannot be lost.
Though satan enrage the wind and the tide,
The promise assures us the Lord will provide.
Home Duties.
Again. this woman of my text was
great in her application to domestic
duties. Every picture is home picture,
whether she is entertaining an Elisha
or whether she is giving careful atten-
ton to her sick boy or whether she is
appealing for the restoration of her
property Every picture in her case is
one of domesticity. Those are not disci-
pies of this Shunemite woman who,
going out to attend to outside charities,
neglect the duty of home-the duty Of
wife, of mother, of daughter. No faith
fitness in public benefaction can ever
atone fol- domestic negligence There
has been many mother who by indie
fatigable toll has reared a large family
of children. equipping them for the du-
ties of life with good manners and large
intelligence and Christian principle.
starting them out, who has done more
for the world than many woman
whose name has sounded through all
the lands and through the centuries. l
remember when Kossuth was in this
country there were some ladies who got
honorable regulations by presenting
him very gracefully with bouquets Of
flowers on public occasions. but what
was all that compared with the plain
Hungarian mother who gave to truth
and civilization and the cause of uni
versal liberty Kossuth3 Yes, this wo-
man of my text was great in her sim
plicity. When this prophet wanted to
reward her for her hospitality by ask
ing some preferment from the king,
what did she say2 She declined it. She
said. 81 dwell among my own people,
as much as to say, 81 am satisfied with
my lot; all I want is my family and
my friends around me; / dwell among
my-own people. .
Oh, what rebuke to the strife for
precedence in all agesl How many there
are who want to get great architecture
and homes furnished with all art, all
painting, all statuary who have not
enough taste to distinguish between
Gothic aud Byzantine and who could
not tell IL figure in plaster of paris from
Palmer "White Captive, and would
not know boys penciling from Bier
stads's Yosemite. " Men who buy
lars~ libraries by the square foot, buy
ing these Libraries when they have
scarcely enough education to pick out
the day of the month in the almanacl
Oh, how many there are striving to
have things as well as their neighbors
or better than their neighbors, and in
the struggle vast fortunes are exhausted
and business firms thrown into bank
ruptcy and men of reputed honesty
rush into astounding forgeries OF
course, l say nothing against refine
ment or culture Splendor of abode,
sumptuousness of diet, lavishness in
art, neatness in apparel-there is moth
ing against them i'll the Bible or out of
the Bible God does not want us to
prefer mud howell to English cottage or
Unframed sheepslsin to French broad
cloth or husks to pineapple OF the clum-
siness of a boor to the manners of
gentleman God who strung the beach
with tinted shell and the grass Of the
field with the dews of the night and
hath exquisitely tinged morning cloud
and robin redbreast wants us to keep
our eye open to all beautiful sights and
our ear open to all beautiful cadences
and our heart open to all elevating SEN
timents.
Great In Piety.
But what want to impress upon