Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-11-18
NUMBER 20

years ago a young man met her and
laid siege to her heart She gave to
him the warm affections Of her youth.
You think she has a sweet face now.
Ave. she was beautiful then. Her
cheeks were as red as the roses. Her
eyes were as blue as the sky. Her
laugh was as the merry chimes OF the
village bells. The young man wanted
the wedding set at once. Her tather
was taken sick. He could not find en-
ployment. This young girl said: mo, l
cannot marry now. | must stay nome
and help to keep the home for my par
ents and the children" He pleaded,
but she firmly COMPRISED her lips ana
said: "Not now. Wait for me a few
years and | am yours" He would not
wait. Within two years he stood at the
marriage altar, but not with her. Mrs.
Grundy" talked for a few days about
a broken engagement, but she SAID
nothing. No one saw her weep. She
never complaned-that is, as far as
any one else has known. Whether she
wept in her room at night behind the
closed door we know not She broke
her alabaster box Of ointment Of spike
nard very precious upon her IA
TIERS and mothers heads. She sacri-
feed her own life for her parents lives.
Fathers and mothers, have not our
daughters always been willing to sacrl'
fee themselves for you? 'Tis true per-
haps they have not had to sacrifice the
love of some young man, as the heroine
Of this story have told you had to do.
But in every way have not your sweet
faced daughters been willing to sacrl-
fee for you? Why, for years their
lives have been spent in trying to
please you. Let us beware that as we
grow older we do not, as some parents,
become more and more selfish. When
our girls want to go with young folks
do not shut them up as in a nunnery,
! and when the time comes for them TO
mate If that time does come, in Gods
good way let us be willing to let an
other step in and share that love, as
the mothers Of our wives were willing
that their daughters should give us
their love. All, yes, we have had good
mothers good wives, good sisters and,
thank God, good daughters!
But | cannot close without mention
ing one other bearer of the alabaster
box who has come into your life. She
may have been an aunt or grand
mother or, as it was with me, dear,
| affectionate Christian woman about
sixty years of age. In all probability
she came to you in a crisis. You may
have gone to her for sympathy; you
may have gone to her for spiritual or
material help, and she never failed you.
Cannot you see her now? l can /.
can remember just how she looked
when | first met her. She was the
saint of my Chicago church. She was
one who always lived to do good.
When sickness came into our home she
was always there. Our babies were
her babies, our troubles were her trou-
bles, our joys were her joys. 1t was a
dark, stormy day, the Good Friday be,
fcNO d
her. l had been east visiting my SICK
father. She came down to welcome me
home. She was always thinking or
others. never about herself. 1t was
biting. tempestuous day, and she
caught cold. Pneumonia stabbed her
lungs. In one week she was dead, ana
in two weeks my father was dead. 1t
seemed as though the sorrow or our
home was too great to bear. And yet
today. as the memories Of those patient,
loving Christian women arise before
us where do they lead US? Where are
they pleading for US to go? They have
given to us the best they have Have
they not done all this to lead us to that
nlace where we may at last meet and
where we shall never part againF
Son. husband, brother. father, friend,
thy loved ones are breaking their ala
baster boxes of ointment Of spikenard
very precious over you in the presence
of Jesus, their King. Will you not look
I'M and greet their Saviour as your
master? Heaven will never be a per-
feet heaven TO them unless they shall
meet you there. VIII you let their sac
rifices lead you to Christ, that in his
presence you may dwell with them for
ever? Aye, their alabaster boxes OF
ointment Of spikenard very precious
would not be too costly if by that sac
rifice they could win your Immortal
souls for eternal companionship in
heaven. Truly they have done for us
all they could to bring about that glo-
|, rious consummatiOn.
fCopyright 1908, by Louis Klopschl