Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-06-25
hospitals shall be forever done away.


~ How much this transformation means
10 many sufferers none but they. car
realize. 1t Is very hard for the ode
formed and the crippled to maintain
spiritual and mental sweetness ana
serenity. 1t is easy for man with a
fine constitution and perfect physicai
form to be cheerful and happy, Dut
how difficult for one who has to sui1er
continual pain and is shut out by de-
formity from the sports and exercises
of COMPANIONS to be sweet tempered
and genial to all about him. What Is
the matter with So-and-so" once
asked dear friend of mine about
mutual acquaintance. 'He Is so touchy
md sensitive that the least wind from
the east will twist him all out OF
shane" "Yes," answered my friend,
that Is true, but perhaps you have
forgotten that that man was born
lame. II you ever stop to think you
will also find that nearly all men ana
women born with physical iniirmities
nre cross and grabbed and touchy ana
sensitive" IL never thought OF It, /
answered. 81 belleve-yes, | know you
are right" Physical infirmity Is ac-
companied by and, In fact, Involves
mental pain and anguish. All this VIII
be done away with in the celestial city
There will be no defects or deforIll-
ties there to sadden the soul ana Try
the temper of the redeemed. The with
cred limb. the distorted spine, VIII De
left behind with the mental and spir-
itual defOrmities they have produced
The cripple will rejoice that the gnaw-
ing agony that made his life on earth
a period of humiliation and suffering
Is gone forever. without are dogs.
Let me illustrate my thought in an
other way. the thought that healthy
body is very apt to be the incasement
of healthy mind and soul. Here is a
little child born into your home. as my
first little girl came into my home. You
look in wonderment upon that chlid.
For weeks and months you go among
your friends boasting about that baDy
"Why." you say, that is the most per
feet dispositioned child | ever knew
She never cries. She is always smiling
and cooing She never awakens us al
night She is as happy as a sunbeam
creeping into our bedroom in the early
morning" But after that little chilo
has been in your home eight or ter
months suddenly her nature seems tC
undergo radical change. The ho'
hand of fever touches her forehead
The red marks blotch her fair SKIN
Raked and twisted with pain, she cries
all the day and most OF the night, anc
even in her sleep she continually Ut
ters a low, moaning whine. What Il
the matter? Has the childs dlsposi
ton changed? oh, no. The physica
body has become diseased, and now TN
mind is fretting in sympathy. Ihu
we find that q perfect body is apt L
have perfect mind and an imperfec
body an imperfect mind. SO when 81
John SAYS. without are dogs l be
lieye he means that in heaven we shal
have no physical infrmities, no clul
I foot like Lord Byron. no gnarled an'
3 twisted nervous organization like Alex
+ ander Pope, no blinded eyes like Joh
y Milton. no deaf ears like Beethoven, n
I skin leprous and covered with sores
e 1t shall be physically "dogless heaN
e en-" Oh, my brother thank God 10
e the perfect physical bodies of the resuI
u rection