Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-04-22

we're wounded and slain, aEong tie
wounded to death the bride. While the
bridegroom knelt on the carpet trying
to stanch the wounds the bride de-
manded that the ceremony be complet-
ed. that she might take the VOWS before
, her departure, and when tie minister
said, "Wilt thou be faithful unto
deathf' with her dying lips she said.
81 will, and in two hours she had de-
parted. That was the slaughter and the
sacrifice of the body, but at thousands
of marriage affairs there are daughters
slain for time and slain for eternity.
1t is not marriage. 1t is a massacre.
Affianced to some one who is only
waiting until his father dies so he Can
get the property; then little while
they swing around in the circles, bril-
liant circles; then the property is gone,
and. having no power to earn Il liveli-
hood. the twain sink into some corner
of society, the husband an idlnr and a
sot. the wife drudge, Il slave and u
sacrifice. All spare your dsn.;E2iations
from Jephthah's head and c::F2nd them
all on this wholesale modern martyr
dom.
1 lift up my voice against the sacri-
fee of children. look out Of my win
dow on Sabbath. and see a group of
children unwashed. upcolihcd I'M
Christianized. Who cares for them?
Who prays for them? Who utters to
them one kind word? When the city
missionary. passing along the park in
New York saw ragged lad and heard
him swearing, he said to him: "My
son, stop swearing You ought to go to
the house of God today You ought to
be good. You ought to be a Christian. y
The lad looked in his face and said:
"Ahl 1t is easy for yon to talk, well
clothed as you are and well fed. But
we chaps hain't got no chance. " Who
lifts them to the altar for baptism?
Who goes forth to snatch them up from
crime and death and woe? Who today
will go forth and bring them into
schools and churches2 No; heap them
mp, great plies of rags and wrecthedness
and filth. Put underneath them the
fires Of sacrifice, stir up the blaze, put
on more fagots, and, while we sit in
the churches with folded arms and in
difference, crime and disease and death
will go on with the agonizing sacrifice
Mightier Generation Coming.
During the early French revolution
at Bourges there was a company of
boys who used to train every day as
young soldiers, and they carried a flag,
and they had on the flag this inscrip-
tion "Tremble, tyrants, trembleI We
are growing up. Nightly suggestivel
This generation is passing off, and a
mightier generation is coming on. Will
they be the foes Of tyranny, the foes of
sin and the foes of death, or will they
be the foes of God? They are coming
up congratulate all parents who are
doing their best to keep their children
away from the altar of sacrifice. Your
prayers are going to be answered. Your
children may wander away from God,
but they will come back again. A voice
comes from the throne today, encourage
ing you-"I will be a God to thee and
to thy seed after thee. > and, though
when you lay your head in death there
may be some wanderer of the family far
away from God, and you may be 20
years in heaven before salvation shall
come to his heart, he will be brought
into the kingdom, and before the throne
of God you will rejoice that You were
faithful. Come at last. though so long
postponed his coming. Come at last
congratulate all those who are toll
ing for the outcast and the wandering.
Your work will soon be over, but the
influence you are setting i'll motion will
never stop. Long after you have been
garnered for the skies your prayers, your
teachings and your Christian influence
will go OF and help to people heaven
with bright inhabitants. Which would
you rather see, which scene would you
rather mingle in in the last great day
being able to say, 81 added house to
house and land to land and manufac-
tory to mandatory. 1 owned half the
city, whatever my eye saw had, what
ever 1 wanted l got, or on that day to
have Christ look you full in the face
and say, 81 was hungry and ye fed me;
was naked and We clothed me; was
sick and in prison and ye visited me;
inasmuch as ye did it to the least Of
these my brethren, ye did it to me?'