Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-01-25

of nolms near the river Jordan, hau
become so popular In the time Oh
Elisha, the prophet, that more accom-
modations were needed for the stu
dents The classrOOms and the uor-
mitories must be enlarged or an ell
,irely new building constructed. What
will they do? VIII they send up 10
Jerusalem and solicit contributions LOT
this undertaking? VIII they sehd out
agents TO raise the money for new
theological seminary? Having raised
the money, will they send for cedars
of Lebanon and marble from the quar-
ries where Ahab got the stone 1or tue
pillars and walls of his palace! NO.
the students propose to build 1t theih-
selves. They were rugged boys, VINO
| had been brought up In the country
and who had never been weakened Dy
the luxuries of city life. All they ask
Is that Elisha, their professor anu
prophet, go along with them TO the
woods and boss the job. They start
for the work, Elisha and his students.
Plenty of lumber in those regions
along the Jordan. The sycamore Is
stout. stron, tree and good for timber
Mr.. Gladstone asked me If had seen
in Palestine any sycamore tree more
beautiful than the one we stood under
at Hawarden. | told him had not
The sycamores near the Jordan are
now attacked by Elisha's students Tor
they must have lumber for the new
theological seminary. | suppose some
of the students made an awkward
stroke. and they were extemporlzeu
axmen. Stand from under! Crash
poes one of the trees and another and
another. But something now happens
so wonderful that the occurrence VIII
tax the credulity Of the ages. SO Won
derful that many still think 1t never
happened at ALL One Of the stuuents,
mot able TO own an aX, had borrowed
one. You must remember that Nn 'e
tho ax of olden time wss much ike our
modern nx. It differed in the iaci I'll /.
instead of the helve or handle Oeih-
thrust into socket in the iron nead
tho head of the AK was fastened On the
handle by leathern thong, ana so u
might slIp the helve. A student OF the
seminary was swinging his AK against
z one of those trees, and whether It was
3 NJ the moment he made his frst stroke
and the chips few or was El-er be had
cut the tree from all sides 50 deep tna'
II was ready TO fan we are not told
hut the ax head and the hand parted
Being near the riverside, the ak head
dropped into the river and sank 10 Tile
muddy bottom. Great was TIE STU
n dents dismay. II it had been his Owl
8 nv II would have been bad enough, bu'
u the AK did not belong to him. lie haC
a no means to buy another FOR the klll'
man who had loaned 1t to him, Du
God helps the helpless, and he geher
: ollv helms through some good ana sym
nothetic soul. and in this case 1t wal
Elisha. who was in the woods ana ol
y the river bank at the time. He did no
500 the ax head fly off, and so he ASKED
the student where it dropped. lie wa
shown the place where it went dow
into tho river. Then Elisha broke oil
q branch of tree and threw Il into IN
water. and the ak head rose from ID
depths of the river and hoated TO III
bank. so that the student had just I
stooo down and take up the restcre
- nroperty. Now you see the meaning o
nv text. "The iron did SWIM
The Iron Did Swim.
Suppose a hundred years ago som
one had told people that the tiln
would come when hundreds or tno'
i sands Of tons Of iron would hoat o
/" the Atlantic and Pacific - iron shlp
from New York to Southampton, iroi
London to Calcutta. from San trahc-
IN TO Canton. The man making sue
Ill q prophecy would have been sent
m ASYLUM or carefully watched as j
comnetent TO go alone. We have q
in our day seen iron swim. Now
man can make hundreds of tons
metal float. am disposed 10 thii
that the Almighty could make an
. head float
"What." says some one, would
the use of such a miracleT Or vai
of infinite. of eternal Importance. Iho
students were preparing for the mi
istry. They had joined the theologic
n seminary to get all its advantage
They needed to have their fai
strengthened; they needed to be p'
suoded that God can do everythiI
fhof God FAX
notice of little things; that there Is
emergency Of life where he is not W
ing TO help Standing on the banks
that Jordan. those students or that q
Of the recalled Ak head had their IA
80 REINFORCED. and nothing that they
co. found out IN the classrooms or Il
fOr learned institution had ever done IN
in the way Of fitting them for tn
coming profession. -,
hear from different sources II
there is q great deal of inidelity
some of the theological seminarles
~ our day. They think that the garC
- of Eden is an allegory, and that Mo
did not write the Pentateuch, and &
the book Of Job Is only drama,
that the book of Jonah Is an unre
. BILE fish story, and that water was
turned into wine. although the [
Us tender now by large dilution tn
wine into water and that most OF
30 called miracles Of the Old and
New Testaments were wrought by
ural causes. When those infdels q
uate from the theological semin
)r. and take the pulpits Of America
expounders Of the Holy Scriptu
what advocates they will be of
sale, cosnel for the truth Of which the I
tyrs died! Hail the Polycarps
acer Hugh Latlmers and John Knoxe'
Iorse the twentieth century, believing
Bible is true in spots! Would to
save that some great revival of reli