Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-09-22

IAnu one uuy coming DeIOre jail Wnere
he suspected his king might be incar-
cerated he sang two lines Of song and
Immediately King Richard responded
from his cell with the other two lines,
and so his whereabouts was discovered,
and successful movement was at
once made for his liberation. So let us
go up and down the world with the
music OF kind words and sympathetic
hearts, serenadlng the unfortunate and
trying to get out OF trouble men who
had noble natures, but by unforeseen
circumstances have been lncarcerated,
thus llberating kings More hymn
book and less razor.
Especially ought we to be apologetic
and merciful toward those who while
they have great faults have also great
virtues. Some people are barren Of vlr-
tues; no weeds verify. but no flowers.
I must not be too much enraged Mt
nettle along the fence II II be in field
containing 40 acres OF ripe Michigan
wheat. Some time ago naturallsts told
miles long, but from the brightness and
warmth concluded 1t was a good deal
Of a sun still. The sun can afford to
have a very large spot upon 1t. though
II be 10000 miles long, and am very
apologize for those men who have
great faults while at the same time
they have magnificent virtues.
Gods Providence.
Again, when | read In my text that
the Lord shaves with the hired razor Of
Assyria the land Of Judea think my
self OF the precision Of Gods provi-
dence. A razer swung the tenth part
of an inch out of the right line means
either failure or laceration, but Gods
dealings never slip. and they do not
miss by the thousandth part Of an Inch
the right direction. People talk as
though things In this ,rld were at
loose ends. Cholera sweeps across
Marsellles and Madrid and Palermo,
and We watch anxlously. VIII the cpl
demic sweep Europe and America?
People say: THAT will entirely depend
on whether the incubation is a sue
cessful experiment; that will depend
entirely on quarantine regulations; that
win depend on the early or late ap-
pcarance Of frost; that epidemic is
pitched into the world, and 1t goes
laundering across the continents. and
II Il all guesswork and all appalling
perhaps" think perhaps that God
had something to do with It and that
his mercy may have in some way pro-
tected us, that he may have done as
much for us as the quarantine and the
health officers. 1t was right and,a ne
cessity that all caution should be used,
but there have come enough macaroni
from Italy and enough grapes from the
south OF France and enough rags from
tatterdemalions and hidden In these
articles of transportation enough chol-
eraicigerms to have left by this time all
the cities mourning IN the cemeteries.
l thank all the doctors and quaran-
tines but more than all and first Of all
and last of all and oil the time thank
God. In all the 5000 years OF the
wf,ri.fa exis+ence there has not one
thing merely happened So" God Is
not an anarchist, but King. Father.
When little Tad. the son Of President
Lincoln, died, all America sympathized
with the sorrow In the White House.
He used to rush into the room where
the cabinet was In session and while
the most eminent men Of the land
were discussing the questions Of ma
tional existence. But the child had no
care about those questions. Now, God
the Father and God the Son and God
the Holy Ghost are In perpetual session
in regard to this world and kindred
worlds. Shall you, his child, rush In to
criticise or arralgn or condemn the d.
vine government? No. The cabinet OF
the eternal three can govern and Will
govern In the wisest and best way, and
there never will be mistake and, like
razor skillfully swung, shall cut that
which ought to be avoided. Precision
to the very hairbreadth. Earthly time
pieces may get out of order and strike
wrong, saying 1t is l o'clock when 1t Is
2 or 2 when it is 3. Gods clock Is al
ways right, and when 1t Is 1t strikes
/, and when 1t Is IL 1t strikes II, and
the second hand Is as accurate as the
minute hand.
The Lords Hired Raxors.
Further, my text tel us that God
sometimes shaves nations: I'm the
same day shall the Lord shave with a
razor that is hired" With one sharp
sweep he went across Jud@a, and down
went its pride and its power. In 1861
God shaved the American nation. We
had allowed to grow Sabbath desecra-
tion and oppression and blasphemy and
fraud and impurity and all sorts OF tur-
pitude. The south had its sins and the
north It's sins and the east its sins and
the west its SINS We had been warned
again and again. and we did not heed.
At length the sword Of war cut from
the st. Lawrence to the gulf and from
Atlantic seaboard to Pacific seab0ard.
The pride of the land, not the cow
ards, but the heroes, on both sides
went down. And that which we took
for the sword Of war was the Lords