Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-02-01

Ii was returned WITHOUT IL lui thihS ~
nav. If n man had been enslaved, he
was In that year emancipated. "A ruln,
net was sounded loud and clear ana |
long and II was the trumpet or JuDliee'
They shook hands, they laughed, they |
congratulated. What time 1t was,
that fiftieth yearl And If under the OLD
dispensatlon 1t was such glad tlihe'
under our new and more glorious uls-
pensatlon let all who have come 10 the
fftles hear the trumpet of jubilee tnat
| now blow. That was the allusloh
made by Mr.. Toplady, the great hym-
nologist, when he wrote:
Blow We the trumpet blow
The gladly solemn sound;
Let all the nations know,
To earths remotest bound,
The year of jubilee Is come;
Return. We ransomed sinners, nome
Ye who have sold for nought
Your heritage above
Shall have 1t back unbought'
The gift of Jesus love.
The year Of jubilee has come;
Return. ye ransomed sinners, NOME
At ThreescOre.
NV sermon next accosts the sixties.
Tho horinuing of that decade is more
startling than any other. In his enron
ological Journey the man rides rather
smoothly over the figures 2 aud ana +
and 3. but the figure 6 gives him Dig
iolt He says: ut cannot be that am
sivtv Let me examine the old famlly
record | guess they made mistake
Tbev GOT my name down wrong In the
roll of births" But, no, the oluer
brothers or sisters remember the ume
of his advent. and there is some rela-
tive n wear older and another relative
wear Younger. and, sure enough lhe
fact is established beyond all disputa-
ton. Sixty! Now your great danger
is the temptation to fold up your facui-
ties and quit. You will feel a tendency
70 reminlscencc. If you do not look
ouf YOU will begin almost everything
with the words. when was boy"
But you ought to make the sixties more
=, memorable for Cod and the truth imam
tho ffties or the forties or the thirties.
You ought to do more during the next
ten years than you did in any thirty
wears of yorr llfc because OF all the eA-
nerience you have had. You have com
; mitted enough mistakeshn life to make
YOU wise nLcve your Juniors. Now uh,
der the accumulated light OF Your pasl
experimentiug. 20. TO work FOR Coo
l &C nover before. When q man in the
: sixties folds up his energy and feels
no has done enough. it is the devil ol
Incidence to which he Is surrenderihg
. and God generally takes the man at hi'
: word and lets him die right away. Hl'
= brain. that under the tension or marc
work is active, now suddenly shrlyels
Mon whether they retire from secular
!, or religious work, generally retire u
u the grave. No well man has right u
" retire The world was made to work
= There remaineth q rest for the peopl
Of God. but II is in sphere beyond IN
: reach of telescopes. The militar,
u charge that decided one of the creates
- battles of the ages-the' battle OF we
e terloo-was not made until 8 o'clock
. the evening. but some Of you propos
to 90 into camp at 2 o'clock in the al
ernoOn.
Atsthe HnrbOr Mouth.
Is NV. subject next accosts those in tn
IN seventies and beyond. My word
le them is congratuation. You have g
ys nearly if not quite through. You nav
IT, safely crossed the sea Of life ana al
By about to enter the harbOr. You haN
IN tonight at Gettysburg and the war
hit over-here and there a skirmlsh VIII
to the remaining sin Of your own hea
is and the sin Of the world, but | gue'
q. Won are about done. There may |
er some work for you yet on small
ed lorce scale. Bismarck of Germany Vi
he orous in the eighties. The prime ml
Sc lister of England strong at seventy-tw
he Uovdn composing his Oratorio, I'll
IN Creation" at seventy years OF age. lso
lr- rotcs doing some of his best work
re seventv-four. Plato busy thinking 1
ID all succeeding centuries at elghty-ol
If Noah Webster. after making his wor
q renowned dictionary. hard at work u
lg, N eightv-fve years old. Rev. Dam
wv Waldo praying in my pulpit at o
nd hundred years of age. Humboldt pl
'ut ducing the immortal Cosmos" AT sc
I'LL, entv-six years. William Blake at 81
llf tv.seven learning Italian so as to re
nd nonte in the original. Lord CockDu
or Mt eighty-sevcn writing his best tr'
lse rise. John Wesley stirring great au
an ences at eighiy-livc. William Z. 81
-en ant. without spcctacles, reading IN
nd bousp "ThanatopSs" at eighty-thr
ld vears of age. Christian men ana v
ws men i'm all departments serving q
ur after becoming septuagenarians Il
de- octogenarians and nonagenarlahs pro
TIL that there are possibilities of work
Ugh the aged. but think you who are pa
Ugh ed the seventies are near being throui
un- How do you feel about it! You oue
gs m no iubilant. because life is IRENE
the dous struggle. and if you nave
les ,.uu =
in through respectfully and usefully y
INF. ought to feel like people toward
close of a summer day seated on
rocks watching the sunset at Bar ii
ios Dor or Cape May or Lookout mounta
ing 1 am glad to say that most old Chl
two tians are cheerful. Daniel Weps
,oh visited John Adams short time bef
= 90 his death and found him in very
lila firm health. He said to Mr.. Adams:
no am glad to see you. hope you are
or ting along pretty WELL" The re
to was: "Ah, sir, quite the contrary.
lled find l am a poor tenant, occupying
o house much shattered by time.
me sways and trembIes with every wi
II and what is worse, sir, the landlord
c'o' near as l can make out, does not int
-, to make any repairs"
I'D An aged woman sent to her pm
W. clan and told him of her ailments,