Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-11-18
AccOMAC c. H. VA SATURDAY, NOVEMBER Is, 1900.
lucated for glory or perdition.

day in college Is called commencement
day" when it Is the last day Of college
exercises, but graduation days are
properly called commencement day. To
all the graduated 1t Is the commence
ment Of active life, and our graduation
day from earth will be to us COM
mencement of our chief life, our larger
life, our more tremendous life, our
eternal life. But what day commence
ment day on earth Isl The student new
er sees any day like 1t. At any rate,
never did Old Niblo's theater in New
York comes back to me. the gowned
and tassel hated professors behind us,
and our kindred and friends before US
and above us, and the air redolent with
garlands to be thrown to us. What 8
commencement day it was for all Of us
about to graduate! But mightier day
will 1t be when we graduate from this
world Will it be Kisses Of cOndemna-
ton or handclapping Of approval? VIII
there be flung to us nettles or ,wreaths !?
VIII it be resounding Gomez or
reverberating depart"
In the real college, before graduation
and commencement comes examina-
ton day, and before our graduation
and commencement will come examina-
ton. 1t will be asked what we have
been doing, what we have learned IN
der the tutelage Of years Of JOY and
sorrow, and under the. teaching Of the
Holy Ghost are we educated for heav-
en-. Have we done our best with the
curriculum Of study put before every
mortal and immortal? Oh this world
is not the terminus Of journey! It
is not Il theater on whose stage we are
enacting the tragic or comic. 1T Is,
schoolhouse for splendid or disgraeeful
graduation. and death lB commence
ment. All that is settled In heaven.
Gods Cause.
Another thing decided in the high
places Of the universe Is that this
world, with or without US, will be
made over into n scene Of arbores-
cence and purity. Do not think that
such a consummation depends upon
our personal fidelity. 1t will be done
anyhow. Gods cause does not 60
a-begging. If all the soldiers, Of Jesus
Christ now living should become de-
serters and so over to the enemy. that
would not defeat the cause. A large
part Of the Bible is taken up with tell
ing us what the world will be-. There
Is large army, human and angelic,
now in the field, but Gods reserve
forces are more numerous and more
mighty than those now Mt the front,
and if he could in Gideon's time rOut
the Midlanites with q crash of crock
cry, and If he could in Shamgar's time
overcome host with an OK gOad. and
If in Samsons time he could defeat an
army with a bleached jawbone, and If
the walls Of Jericho went down aDder
q blast of perforated rams horn, and
IL In Chrlst's day blind eyes were
cured by ointment of spittle. then God
can do anything he says he will do. AS
yet he has taken only one sword out
Of whole armory of weapons. Do
not get nervous as If the Lord were
going to be defeated. The redemption
of these hemispheres was settled In
heaven, and Isaiah and Ezekiel and
Habakkuk and Malachi and st. John
only reported what the Lord God AL
mighty had decided upon. Ny only
fear is that our regiment will not get
into the fight to do something worthy
Of the Christ who redeemed US and we
be left in lazy encampment at Tampa
when we ought to have been at San
tiago.
Oh, that coming day Of the worlds
perfection. The earth will be so chang
ed that the sermonology will be chang
ed. There will be no more calls to re-
pentance, for all will have repented;
no more gathering Of aims for the
poor, for the poor will have been en-
riched; no hospital Sunday. for dis
jointed bones will have been set and
the wounds all healed, and the iEcura-
BILE diseases Of other times will have
been overcome by materia medica and
pharmacy and dentistry and
therapeutics that have conquered
everything that afflicted nerve or lung
or tooth or eye or limb-healthology
complete and universal. The poultice
and the ointment and the panacea and
the catholicon and the surgeons knife
and the dentists forceps and the sci.
entist's X ray will have fulfilled their
mission.
Gospel Influences.
The social life Of the world will be
perfected. In that millennial age
imagine ourselves standing in front OF
house lighted for levee. We enter
among groups filled with gladness and
talking good sense and rallying each
other In pleasantries and in every pos
sible way forwarding good neiGhbor-
hood; no looking askance,. no Wills
pered backbiting, no strut OF preten-
sion, no oblivion Of some ones pres
ence because you do not want to know
him; each one happy. determined on
making some one else happy; words OF
honest appreciation instead Of hollow
fattery; suavlties and genlalities in
stead Of limitations and composites;
equipagc and upholstery and sculpture
and painting paid for; two hours Of
mental and moral Improvement; oil
the guests able to walk as steadily
down the steps of that mansion as
when they assembled them; No awaking
next morning with aching head and
bloodshot eye and incompetent for the
days duties; the social life as perfect
as refinement and common sense and
culture and prosperity and:religion can
make it; the earth made better than
1t was at the start. and all through
gospelizing Influences, directly or. In
directly.
1 suppose the greatest tidal wave
that ever rolled the seas was That
which In 1865 was started by the Pc
ruyian earthquake. At africa, Peru, the
rsvo moo HO foot hiph and sTunG war