Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-08-18


fact that he has so long been kept out
OF jail, II mnn should go into poli.
ties to reform politics and with the
right spirit. he will come out with the
right spirit and unhurt That was
Theodore Frellnghuysen Of New Jer-
sey. That wns George Briggs of Mas
sachusetts. That was Judge Mclean
OF Ohio
Then look around and see the allure.
ments TO dissipated life. Bad books.
unknown to father and mother. vile as
the reptiles Of Egypt. crawling into
some of the best Of families Of the
community. and boys rcAd them while
the teacher is booking the other way or
at recess or Oil tie corner of the street
when the groups are gathered These
books are read late at night. Satan
hnds them smooth plank on which he
can Slide down into perdition some OF
your sons and daughters Reading bad
books. one never gets over It. The
books may be burned. but there ls not
enough power In all the apothecary's
preparations 10 wash out the stain
from the sOnl Fathers hands. moth.
ers' bands. sisters hands will not wash
1t out. None but the hand Of the Lord
can wash It out
God Does Not Excuse Sin.
And what IL more peri!ous In regard
TO some Of these temptations we may
not mention them While God I'm his
Bible from chnpter to chapter thunder. |
cd his dcnuncintions against these |
crimes. people expect the pulpit and |
the printing press to be silent on the |
subject and just I'm proportion as peo-
pie are Impure are they fastidious on
this theme. They are 50 full Of decay
and death they do not want their sep
ulchers opened. God Will turn into
destruction all the unclean, and no
spleDdors OF surrounding can make
decent that which he has smtten. God
VIII not excuse sin merely because IL
has costly array and beautiful tapestry
and palatial residence any more than
he VIII excuse that which crawls,
blotch of sores, through the lowest eel.
lar. Ever and anon, through some law
suit, there flashes upon the people of
our great cities what is transDiring In ,
seemingly respectable circles. You call
1t high life" you call 1t fast liv.
ing" you call it peoples eccentric
ity," and while we Kick off the side
walk the poor wretch who has not the
means 10 garnish his Inqulty, these
lords and ladies'. wrapped In purple
and In linen. go unwhipped Of public
Justice. All, the most dreadful part Of
the whole thing is that there are per-
sons abroad whose whole business Il
Is to despOil the young What an eter.
nifty such n man will have! AS the
toor opens to receive him thousands
of voices VIII cry out, "See here what
7ou have done" and the wretch will
wrap himself with fercer fame and
cap Into deeper darkness. and the
multitude he has destroyed Will pursue
lin auh hull at him the long bitter,
elentless. everlasting curse Of their
lYp -anglushy IfutbeTe be Que cur. of. !.
ternal darkness more bitter than an
ther, they VIII have TO drink 1t to the .
regs. II in all the ocean Of the lost
World that comes bIllowing up there be
ne wave more fierce than another. II
vfll dash over them. But there is hope
or oil who will turn.
| stood one day at Niagara falls,
nd | saw what you may have seen
lere-six ralnbows bending over that
tremendous plunge. never saw any
hing like It before or since. Six beau
ful rainbOws arching that great cata-
ict! And 80 over the rapids and an-
ry preciplces Of sin. where so many
ave been dashed down. Gods beauti-
Il admOnltions hover a warning arch ly
g each perll-siX Of them. fifty of Or
lem, thousand of them. Beware. 81
eware, beware!
Young men. while you have time to
fleet upon these things and before
e duties Of the office and the store W
I'd the shop come upon you again.
ok over this whole subject, and after "
e day has passed and you hear In the
ghtfal the voices and footsteps Of
Q city dying from your ear, and ii
rs so silent that you can hear dis VI
lctly your watch under your pillow --
ing "tick, tick" then open your eyes
ID look out upon the darkness and
e two pillars of light. one horizontal,
@ other perpendicular, but changing
cir direction until they come togeth-
and your enraptured vision behOlds m
the cross. Uu
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