Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-06-25

saw that horrible thing watching ana
waiting to tear him in pieces, even be-
fore life was extinct, ii so filled him
with horror that he cried: i cannot
endure this. When | am unable 10
drive that fearful thing away, It VIII
be te-ssng my flesh He rose to his
feet vapQ struggled oh III,
ot raf'. ahut and found
so ana c'" oren, ii which menaced
IN length " nrSa deacl lie death which
Tzety." Ia Ia man IS tr><>SIyhen he is
int w' the eastern os uOs' himseirneo,rs' ne Is
torn to p. snfendins 10 have per
ished through the yindictiye paOsIvHS
of their fellows. Some have been cru
cited. as was Christ; some have been
stoned. as was Stephen; some have
been beheaded, as was Paul; some have
been burned at the stake. as were Rid
lev and Latimer. But how different
was their future from that OF the dog!
From out those crushed and mutllated
bodies the martyr spirits have gone
up. redeemed and glorified, to dwell
forever before the throne.
A Legend of King Solomon.
O We mortals, destined to live FOR
ever either In bliss or in misery, does
not the offer that Christ makes you
stir your desire for salvation? Accept
his proffered gift, and then, be your
end what it may, your being rooted
| ttyifh ifG hiffQr
fruits of sorrow and pain and misery,
will mean nothing more than your be-
ing transplanted into that supernal
garden in which you will grow ana
flourish and bear fruit to the honor
and glory of Cod There Is an old leg
end that when King Solomon was
boy one day he begged his teacher TO
show him q miracle. Nathan thrust
his finger into the soil and dropped
therein little seed. Immediately that
seed began to sprout. While the iad
looked on the two little green leaves
grew into q round stem. Then the
stem swelled out with the trunk OF
large tree Then the tree, like "the
seven branches, became like the seven
candlesticks of the altars," and ne
birds of the air flew into those branch
es and builded there their nests ana
reared their young While he looked
the blossoms grew upon that tree, ana
then those blossoms were changed into
the deep rich red fruit which blushed
like the glow Of the setting sun. Ihat
Is merely legend, but there is real
miracle which can be worked in your
lives infinitely greater than young SOL
onion is supposed to have seen.
The seed Of eternal life planted by
the Holy Spirit in your heart can
change your whole nature. Instead OF
those qualities which degrade you to
the level of the brutes, instead OF the
sinful propensities which distort and
deform your being, there shall grow
, from that divine seed plant OF beauty
graceful and glorious with heavenly
, Ioveliness and eternal in ever develop
, ing life. I've shall be like a tree plant
! ed by the rivers of water, that bringeth
q forth its fruit in its season, and what
: soever We doeth shall prosper What
, is your choice? Will you live a life OF
? beauty and usefulness, life patterned
e on that divine life which Christ lived
e ON earth, ending in triumphant resur'
e rection. or will you choose the wick
. edness. the vice, the corruption, or the
world. feeding like the eastern dog on
e the carrion of life and becoming II
[ nature like him? Remember, If We live
4 after the flesh We shall die, and from
| that abode of bliss, where there are
n joys forever more, you will be excluded
!. with all whose natures have grown
I fierce and cruel and debased. with
e out are dogs"