Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-12-02
VICTORIES OF PEACE.
THANKSGIVING THE SUBJECT OF Or.
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Sic Euumerates Many OF the BIenH-
inus For Which We Should BE
Observation-Disclosures Has Lighten-
cd nurdens-God sent the Wheel.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-Ihis us
course of DR.. Talmage is sermon OF
fer the national observ-
once of this week and in an unusual
way calls for the gratitude OF the peo-
pie; the text, Ezekiel Y, 13. LAS for the
wheels. it was cried uRtO them IN my
hearing, o wheel!"
Next Thursday will, by proclamation
of president and governors, be ODD
served in thanksgiving for temporal
mercies. With what spirit shall we
enter upon it? For nearly year ana
n half this nation has been celebrating
the triumph of the sword and gun anu
battery. We have sung martial airs
and cheered returning heroes anu
sounded the requiem for the slain ID
battle. Methinks 1t will be healthfui
change If this Thanksgiving week, IN
church and homestead, we celebrate
the victories OF peace, for nothing was
done at Santiago or Manila that was OF
more Importance than that which IN
the last year has been done In farmers
field and mechanics shop and authors
study by those who never wore nm
epaulet or shot a Spanlard or went
hundred miles from their own doorslii.
And now l call your attention to the
wheel of the text.
Man. a small speck in the universe
was set down in big world, high
mountains rising before him, deep seas
arrestng his pathway and wild beasts
capable OF his destruction. yot he was
to conquer 1t could not be by physical
force, for compare his arm with the
ox's horn and the elephants tusk, and
how weak he is. It could not be by
physical speed. for compare him TO the
antelope's foot and ptarnligan'S wing.
and how slow he is. II could not be by
physical capacity to soar or plunge. for
the condor beats him in one direction
and the porpoisc in the other. Yet he
WIS to conquer the world. Two eyes.
two hands and two feet were INSULT
Gent. He must be re-rnlurrea. so God
sent the wheel.
TWENTY-FIVE times Is the wheel men
toned In the Bible. sometimes. as IN
Ezekiel illustrating Hrovidentiai move
ment: sometimes. as in the Psalms,
crushing the bad; sometimes. ms IN
Judges, representing Gods charlloted
progress. The wheel that starred IN
Exodus rolls on through Proverbs
through Isaiah. through jeremiah
through Daniel. through Nahum
through the centuries. NIL the time
gathering momentum and splendor,
nntil seeing what It has done for the
worlds progress and happiness, we
clap our hands in thanksgiving and
employ the apostrophe Of the text
crying. 20 wheel"
Triumphs OF Machinery.
| call on you In this Thanksgiving
week to praise God for the triumphS OF
machinery. which have revolutionized
the world and multiplied its attrac-
tious. Even paradise, though very pic
turesuue must have been comparative
" dull. hardly anything going on, no
agriculture needed for the harvest was
spontaneous; no architecture required,
for they slept under the trees; no man
ufacturer's loom necessary for the
weaving of apparel. for the fashions
were exceedingly simple. 10 dress the
garden could not have require; ten
minutes day.
Having nothing to do they got into
mischief and ruined themselves and
the race. 1t was sad thing to be
turned out Of paradise, bat, once turn
ed out, a benehcent thing to be com
PEELED to work. To help man up and
on God sent the wheel. If turned
ahead. the race advances; if turned
back, the race retreats. To arouse you'
gratitude and exalt your praise | would
show you what the wheel has done fol
the domestic world. for the agricultural
world, for the travelling world. for the
literary world .As for the wheels, II
was cried unto them in my hearing, c
II heel"
An domestic life the wheel has
w-ought revolution. Behold the sew
ing machine! II has shattered the
ho11seWtfe's bondage and prolonged
wonaaurs life and added immeasurablt
sdvanta ces. The needle for ages haC
nunctured the eyes and pierced the
side and rrlde terrible massacre. nc
prepare the garments Of whole house
hold In the spring for summer and IL
fine AUTUMN for winter was an eX
hausting process, Stitch, stitch stitch!
uhomas Hood set it to poetry. but mil
lions of persons have found it agoniz
ling prose.
Siaia by the sword. we buried th'
bcsno with sDead March" In saul" ant
fsa.ss at half mast. Slain by the peedle
nc one ,knesv it but the household cha
watched her health giving way. Th
Writer after that the children were
ragged aud eald and hungry or in tn
aimshouse. 'Nhe hand that WELDED
the needle had forgotten Its cunning
Soul and body had parted at the seam
The tlfimbIe bad dropped from tn
palsied finger. The thread or LIE MAJ
snapped and let suffering human III
drop into the grave. The spool was al
unwound. Her sepulcber was digse'
not With sections spade, but with
sharper aud shorter implement
needle. Federal a1d Confederate dea'
b ave ornamented graves at Arlington
a Fights and Richmond and Gettysburg
thousands by thousands. but it VII
ts Ike the archangel's trumpet to I'LL
the million graves Of the vaster arm
Of women needle slain.
Besides ali the sewing done for IN
household at home. there are hundred
of thousands Of sewing women. In
| tragedy Of the needle is the tragedy
hunger and cold and insult and home
sickness and suicide-tive acts.
/ A Cheerful Slave.
1 But hear the rush-of wheel. Won
! nm nufs on the band and adjusts tn