Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-04-01

Poor. Distressed and Unfortunate.
Copyright. 1893. by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
WASHINGTON, March 26.-Frora the
pathetic scene of Christ's last hour Of
suffering DR.. Talmage in this sermon
draws lessons of comfort for people in
trouble; text, John xix, 80, "When
Jesus therefore had received the vine
gar.
Tho brigands Of Jerusalem had done
their work. 1t was almost shutdown,
and Jesus was dying Persons in cruel
fixion often fingered on from day to day.
crying. begging. cursing, but Christ
had been exhausted by years of NAL
treatment Pillowless. poorly fed, fog
ged-as bent over and tied to low
post his bare back was inhamed with
the scourges intensified with pieces OF
lead and bone-and now for whole
hours the weight Of his body hung on
delicate tendons. and. according to Gus
tom, a violent stroke under the armplts
had been given by the executioner.
Dizzy, nauseated, feverish-a world OF
agony is compressed in the two words,
II thirstl" o skies of Judaa, let q drop
of rain strike on his burning tonguel
o world, with rolling rivers and spar
king lakes and spraying fountains, give
Jesus something to drink If there De
any pity in earth or heaven or hell, let
it now be demonstrated in behalf OF his
royal sufferer.
The wealthy women Of Jerusalem
used to have fund Of money with
which they provided wine for those
people who died in crucifxion, pow
erful opiate to deaden the pain, but
Christ would not take it. He wanted to
die sober. and SO he refused the wine
But afterward they 30 to a cup OF
vinegar and soak a sponge in it and
put it on stick Of hyssop and then
press it against the hot lips of Christ
You say the wine was an anpsthetic
and intended to relieve or deaden the
pain. But the vinegar was an insult.
In some lives the saccharine seems to
predominant. Life is sunshine OH Il bank
of flowers. A Thousand hands to clap
approval In December or in January
looking across their cable, they see all
their family present. Health rubicund
Skies famboyant. Days resilient. But
in great many cases there are not so
many sugars as acids. The annoyances
and the vexations and the disappoint-
ments of life overpower the successes.
There is gravel in almost every shoe
An Arabian legend says that there was
a worm in Solomon's staff, gnawing
its strength away, and there is weak
spot in every earthly support that
man leans On. King George of England
forgot all the grandeurs of his throne
because one day, in an interview, Beau
Brummel called him by his first name
and addressed him as servant, cry
ing, "George, ring the belll" Miss
Langdon, honored ali the world over for
her poetic genius, is so worried over
the evil reports set ahoat regarding her
that she is found dead, with an empty
bottle Of prussic acid in her hand. Gold
smith said that his life was wretched
being and that all that want and con-
tempt could bring to it had been
brought and lies out, "What, then, is
there formidable in jail2" Correggio's
fine painting is hung up for a tavern
sign. Hogarth cannot sell his best
painting except through rattle An
Dire del Sarto makes the great fresco In
the Church Of the Annunciata at Flor
ence and gets for pay sack of corn,
and there are annoyances and vexations
in high places as well as in low places,
showing that in a great many lives are
the sours greater than the sweets.
"When Jesus therefore had received
the yinegarl'