Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-01-19

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? you can surround yourself by inspirir
> social life 1t Is good place to stay 8
= the year round. But alas for the tho
sands OF good and noble women wi
, are dying by inches In Its solitudesl
I Now, the mother Of whom spes
as living on the banks OF that gre;
river In Ohio or Alabama or Maine hf
gone through all the drudgery mention
ed. and her children have turned O,
well. good and useful men and womel
ornaments Of society. pillars In th
house Of God. and that whole famll,
after the years have passed by an
their work IS done, Will meet In III
heavenly country. From such a famil
some will certainly have preceded hel
and the time Of her expected arriva
will be announced to all the member
OF that family already glori6ed and t
the old earthly nelghbors who pu
down their tolls little sooner than sh
did. and she will have the warmes
kind OF bone coming, and she will q,
through the gate as easily as ever sh,
lifted the latch Of her front door com
Ing from the old country meetinl
house where she used to worship Gc
In, mother. Heaven has been waitins
for you a good many years. Got rio
OF all your aches and pains and weari
ness. have your Go anywhere In
heaven. and they will be glad to see
you. On the highest throne you will
find one who said. Behold thy moth
err Sit anywhere you please. You
VIII be at home anywhere Take your
pick out Of that sheaf OF scepters.
What! The wrinkles have all gone out
or your face. and the once rheumatic
step has become like that Of the bound
Ing roe. Just as expected. you aged,
glorfied soul, you had an abundant
entrance.
The Gates Thrown Wide.
There is another kind Of spirit who
will have radiant admission to the up-
per dominion. There is a fact which
ought to have most emphatic pro-
nouncement All over the world today
there are men and women OF conse-
Grated wealth. They are multiplying
by the day and hour. People who feel
themselves the Lords stewards. and
from their opulence they are making
a distribution which pleases the heav-
ems. The checkbook In the office draw.
n ho
story Of beneficence clear up into the !
sublime. In all the round of the worlds |
suffering and ignorance and woe you
cannot mention one worthy object TO
which that prosperous and good man
has not made contribution. He is not
lrritated. as many are. by solicitation
FOR aims. In some poor woman. In
thin shawl. holding In her arms a child
With rheum In Its eyes. this good man
sees the Christ who said. "Inasmuch
Is ye have done 1t unto one of the
east Of these. ye have done II unto
ne."
Well. this man Of consecrated af1u-
nee is about 10 go out of this world.
lie feels In brain and nerve the strain
4 the early struggles by which he won
lis fortune and at 60 or 70 years col.
apses under the exhaustions of the
wenties and thlrtles of bis lifetime
When the morning papers announce
hat he Is gone. there Is excitement not ,
My on the avenues where the man.
Ions stand. but all through the hospi- ,
ais and asylums and the homes Of
hose who will henceforth have no {
elper. But the excitement Of sadness 6
D earth Is very tame affair compar. (
! with the excitement Of gladness In ]
eaven. The guardian angel OF that
'od mans life swept by his dying pill 7
W the night before and on swift wing
)ward announced that in few hours I
. would arrive. and there Is a mighty =
lr In heaven. HE comes" cries SER q
'h to seraph. The Kings heralds are r
the gate to gay. Come. We blessed" II
I'd souls who were saved through the
urches that good man supported and q
ndreds who went up after being by a
N helped in their earthly struggle @
III come down off their thrones and b
t Of their palaces and through the j.
'eets to hail him into the land which q,
ay reached some time before through g
J Christian philanthropy Now. that y
what | call an abundant entrance L
III see, II Is not necessary to be Il
lure on earth In order to be success W
heaven. "
Received With Joyful Acclaim. ea
But | promise that all those who al
We lived for others and been truly
ristian. whether on large scale or
all scale. will have lllUstrous intro
rtlon into the impearled gateway
re and there in some large family st,
! see an attractive daughter who de- wa
les marriage that she may take care Lac
father and mother In old days. This pc
not an abstraction. have known rel
b. You have probably known such col
IRE are 10 this world womanly souls va
Dig as that They cheerfully endure ry.
whimsicalitles and querulousness sec
ch sometimes characterize the aged tio
watch nights when pneumonia ls we
and are eyes to the blind IL
sit In close rooms lest the septua. sell
arian be chilled and count out the hin
It number Of drops at the right yor
E. The mother of little child has hal
hands full. but the daughter who MT
g at home to take care of an aged L,
er or mother has her hands Just as rue
emo
ter years Of flial fidelity on the
Of this self sacrificing daughter IT
old folks 60 home. Now the IN
yhter is free from marital alliance. mr.
the damask rose In her cheek is tr,c
d. and the crows feet have left vor
r mark on the forehead. and the wo
efulness is gone out of the figure, dou
the world calls her by mean and o,m
lllant name. But. my Lord and Not
God. surely thou wilt make 1t up
hot IL