Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-11-30

into you to see whether you will jump
and examination day, with four or five
wise men looking over their spectacles
to see If you can parse the first page
In Youngs might Thoughts" until
verbs and conjunctions and participles
and propositions get into a grand riot
worthy of the Fourth ward OH election
day.
How things have marvelously chang
ed! We used to cry because we had to
go to school. Now children cry II they
cannot go. Many Of them can intellI-
gently discuss political topics long be-
fore they have seen ballot box or,
teased by some poetic muse, can conf
pose articles for the newspapers. Phi
losophy and astronomy and chemistry
have been so improved that he must be
q genius at dullness who knows moth
mans library is more practical knowl-
edge than in the 100000 volumes Of
ancient Alexandria, and education IL
possible for the most INDECENT. and no
legislature or congress for the last fifty
years has assembled which has not
had In il rail spl.tters and farmers and
drovers or men who have been accus-
toned to tolling with the hand ans ths
foot.
The pen which Moses dipped in the
light Of the first morning, and Jere-
miah filed with tears, and Ezekiel
thrust in visions of fire, and Matthew
touched with the blood of cross, and
ST. John dipped in the splendors Of
beatific glory-that pen has wrought
marvels for all classes Of our people.
Today our libraries and colleges and
schools and publishing houses and
churches celebrate the ever growing
conquests of the American pen, and
our prospects are all the time brighten
ing.
FuIlnese of the Harvest.
The grainfields have passed their
harvests above the veto Of drought and
deluge. The freight cars are not large
enough to bring down the grain to the
seaboard. The canalboats are crowded
with breadstuffs. Hark to the rushing
Of the wheat through the great Chica-
go corn elevators! Hark to the rolling
Of the hogsheads of the Cincinnati
pork packers! Enough to eat, and at
low prices; enough to wear. and Of
20 ho nd
some have not. then may God help
those who have to hand over to those
who have mott Clear the track for the
rail trains that rush on bringing the
wheat and the cotton and the rice and
the barley and the oats and the hops
and the lumber and the leather and ev-
erything for man and everything for
beastl
Lift up your eyes, o nation of Gods
right hand, at the glorious prospects!
Build larger your barns for the bar
vests; dig deeper the yats for the spoil
Of the vineyards; enlarge the ware
galleries of art for the pictures and
statues. Advance. o nation Of Gods
right hand. but remember that nation
al wealth. If unsanctified. Is sumptu-
Gus waste. is moral ruin. Is magnificent
woe. is splendid rottenness. is gilded
deathl Woe to us for the wine vats II
wallows In them! Woe to
us for the haryests IL greed sickles
theml Woe to us for the merchandise
If ayarice swallows it! Woe to us for
the cities IL misrule walks themI Woe
to the land If God defying crime de-
bauches IT, Our only safety is in more
Bibles, more churches. more free
schools, more good men and more good
women, more cOnsecrated printing
presses, more of the glorious gospel Of
the Son Of God. which will yet extir-
pate all wrongs and introduce all bless
edness.
But the preachers on Thanksgiving
will not detain with long SER
mons their hearers from the home
group. The housekeepers will be an
cry If the guests do not arrive until
the viands are cold. Set the chairs TO
he table-the easy chairs for GRANDPA
her and grandmother. If they be still
alive; the high chair for the youngest.
but not the least Then put out your
land to take the full cup Of thanksgiy-
ng. Lift it and bring 1t toward your
ips. your hands trembling with emo
ion. and If the chalice shall overflow
and trickle a few drops on the white
10th that covers the table do not be
disturbed, but let it suggest to you the
words Of the psalmist and lead you
to say, MY cup runnetn
,verw
GCoDyrizht. 1901. Louis KoDseh. y. RI