Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-01-11

distributed among the soldiers In
1884. whole forest was killed by the
cold at Ravonna. In 7G3 the Black sea /
was frozen over. As we go further
back the frosts are mightler, but as we
come further down the frosts lessen. |
The worst seventies have been halted. !
and the SHOWS have lost their del this.
and the thermometers announce less
terrific falls Of temperature, and the
time Will come when the year will be
one long summer Of foliage and bloom.
While the worll's moral condition will
be reformed, the worst climates will
be corrected. You could not have Il
millennium with January blast pos
sible.
Behold. also. as II is possible In no
other month Of tho year, the wondrous
anatomy of the trees In January. the
leaves of the last year all gone and
not 50 much as bud OF new botan-
ical wardrobe appearing. the trees
standing wiki arms stretched toward
heaven, one Of the greatest evidences
of the wisdom and the power of the
Creator. The leaves appear only once
and then die. but these great arms are
stretched up toward heaven In silent
prayer for scores Of years. now mailed
with ice, now robcd in snow or bowling
TO tie God Of the tempcsts as he
passes in the midnight hurricane In
a. = trII
earth; in January they stand defying
the winter. Under the same tree the
child plays with his 10Y and. growing
M TO mnnh0ol sits under it in senti-
| mental or plilosophic mood and. hav-
| ing passed Oh To old age, rests himself
under rs shade. In these January days
the trees seem 10 say: "The leaves that
rustled their music In the last summer
are dead and gone, but the leaves that
will adorn this uncovered brow ana
these bare arms sLall have as much
beauty and glory as their predecessors.
Only wait There are beautiful and
lovely things to come In my tree Ire,
as there are beautiful and lovely things
10 come In your life. o human specta-
tor" Oh. the tree Only the Almighty
and the Infinite could have made one.
Gothic architecture was suggested by
II But for the arch Of It's b0ugh ana
the pointing of It's branches the 81
Chapelle of Paris and other specimens
of Gothic arch would never have been
lifted. No wonder tie world has taken
from II many styles Of suggeStlyeness-
the laurel for the victor. the willow
for the sorrowlng. the aspen for the
trembling. the cypress for the burial!
Bn,,-. -nl'ia ourselves, they cannon
change their place all go stand watch
ING all that passes. Some o. them are
solemn monuments of the centuries
Thank God for trees, their beauty
their shelter. their nterlacing branches
not only for the trees n June time
coronation. but in January prlyation ol
everything but graceful structure. Let
the lcouoclastic ak not be lifted against
them. "Woodman. spare that tree.
The IacreasIng Daylight.
Relold also IN this January monti
, the increasing daylight. Last montl
rhe sun went down at 4;30, but in thi
, month the days are getting longer ln'
sunrise and the sunset are farthe
apart. Sunlight instead of artihcla
light. ana there Is for our dear old BAT
tered earth growing light. The day
, snring from on high hath visited US.
We shall have more light for the home
more light for the church, more hgh
, for the nation. more light for the WORT
: LIGHT of intelligence. light Of comfort
. light of rescue, light of evangelizatlor
. light from the face Of God, light Irol
= the throne. But. you say. the light IL
= creases so slowly, each day of this Ja1
p uary only one minute longer than II
PREDECESSOR. the sun setting the lst Ga
= Of January at 4 o'clock and 43 minutes
the sun setting the % day of J4nuar
!, et ! O'clock and A minutes. the 81 Ga
=, Of this month the sun setting M
~, O'Clock and 45 minutes, the 4th DAY
January the sun setting at ocloc
>. and 4G minutes. This evening 1t wi
=, set at O'Clock and II minutes. III
y, day enlarges very little. and the reg
= Of sunlight is not much Increased, Dl
- do not dcspise the minute OF ihcrea
- ing light each day of this January, an
- do not despise the fact that more hgi
49, is coming for the church and the worI
- though il come slowly. AS we are no
. I'm this season gradually going towai
u the longest day Of next summer so Oh
~ world is moving forward toward II
,r long day Of emancipation and Chrlsu
dominion. 1t may now in the sta
and the church and the world be ia
- nary cold. but we are on the wa
a. to July haryests and September o
n. chards.
80 Do not read your almanac backwar
DO not 90 out and ask the trees huf
=, with icicles by January storm wheth
49, tbev will ever again blossom in Ma
~ md leaf In June. We are moving
- word the worlds redemption. II
- frozen tears will melt. the river
" cladness will resume its flow. the CT
=. cus will come up at the edge or u
L
:. snowbank. the morning star will OPT
y. the door for the day. and the armies
- 80 the world will ground arms
~ ~ around the world. The January
=. frost will be abolished, and the bal
~ and radiance Of a divine atmosphe
80 will fill the nations. If you do n
e. e. see it and hear it for yourself, thil
nd nd at the utmost your grandchildren W
- see and hear it. The heavens VIII u
Of part in the conflict between riga:eo'
iso ness and sin, and that Will settle
ne md settle it Alright, and settle 1t f
'ty ever. 90
an In this very month Of January, 10
az two months after a great battle d
he been fought between the army Oh
,ht king and the army OF parilame
II sbenherds and travellers between
pno r1 thn D1f