Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-09-23
Calnnage
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmase. ID. ID.

4te mountains. now assuming the nues
of autumn. and finds in them lesson
OF Gods strength and providence anu
the love and care he has for all us
children. The text is Amos w. l5' he
that formeth the mountains"
Have you ever visited the Schroon
lake of the Alps? Have you ever slept
under the shadows Of the snow cappeu
Rlgi. with its horizon sweep OF 3oo
ra,les I'm circumference? Then you
haye visited Lake Lucerne, one OF tne
most romantic and picturesque lakes
that ever Tapped the foot OF NIL VI
nestled to sleep like smiling DaDe III
lap Of a gigantic mountain. Inc olu
noet sings of the charms of Lake de-
neya. another of SwiHerlands scehic
wonders. with its battle SCARED castle
standing sentinel over II, castie
whose walls are scanned With defying
| the cannonadlng Of the elements as
we'll as resisting the attacks OF man.
| This is his song:
| A thousand feet in depth below
| The massy waters meet and now
i SO far the fathom line was sent
prom Gibbons snow white battlemen''
! put. though others may sing ABOUT
the beauties of Lake Geneva or Lake
Windermere or Lake Samia OF I'm
,and or Lake George of New York or
tbe Lake OF the Woods of Mime
sota all of them beautiful lakes, stlii
haiIeve that Lake Lucerne Is the queen
NJ romantic lakes for many Oh u.s.
There we not only saw some Oh ule
most beautiful of all scenes, but "e
also stood before Thorwaldsen's great
est masterpiece, "The Lion OF Lu-
cernev Most of you know the history
~ that marvellous piece OF statuary
when the French throne was totterlne
amid the upheaval of the awful reVo
Iution which has made the names VI
Robespierre and Marat and barer,
Infamous for all time, Louis XVI. ant
S Marie Antoinette dare not trust then
: lives and those Of their children 10 lh'
Loyalty of their own soldiers. Ihe.
! sent across the northern border an'
= b,red some Swiss soldiers to be thei
g bodyguard. Eight hundred OF ines
o wore ouartered In the Tuileries. fata
y Aug. TO- 1892, came, and the mo
Is broke loose and started for their royo
l. nrev They battered down the gate
a and doors Of the kings residence
They slew the Swiss soldiers wnel
d ever their hated uniforms were seen
,e mercilessly as the Sioux Indians toln'
howked Custer and his little handfui
ie tollowers on the Little Big Horn rive
u s,bev literally apnihilated the VINO
~ hand in order to get at their hate
" rulers. Thorwaldsen, the great Dams
in sculptor, to commemorate the deatn
ly those brave soldiers Of the Swi
'u guard. chiseled into the solid rock
at Iucerne the colossal form OF the dyit
ne Swiss lion struck to the heart py
or smear. vet in his death agony sun u
"a fandino the lilied shield of Franc
What n wonderful statue is that, whi
tn thousands OF tourists every year tra'
ge miles and miles to study!
ne But as / stood before that mar'eio
We n,aca Of stone under the shadow OF
overtowering Rigi said to mysel1 III
..yes many Swiss soldiers have De
struck down by foreign bullets'
more far more, have Drooueu u
lives away because their hearts I'D
mined under homesickness "heii VI
have heen removed from the slghI
o Wonder hills" When NebuchauheI'
tool, his bride. Amytis, to the glorl'
~ capital Of Babylon, she could ho.
% over her longing for the nils OIL
es, chiIdhood Babylon was built III
Id country. 10 satisfy her longing
+s tho mountain scenes Of her you'n
loving husband erected ior MS Wv
the famous hanging gardens
8 to what earthly king could erect 1or
ives loved ones such gigantic hills as III
rist which cradle the youth OF tne oN
noosantrv? We who were born III
'on mountainous countries Oh .ne ~ "
j.. or east can sympathize with u
cali Swiss peasants If we have Oeeh c
in q nailed 70 live on prairie lands anu
Won novor overcome our longing for
mountains. AS the hills the niis
hills. have spoken Of God to Amos
:, berdsman. they have also spoken u
,;,.,no among the mountains Oh
western hemisphere thousn' ~
would try to find God among
- mountains.
dl The strength OF God.
The gigantic bills in the hrst ?
+each us the omnipotent strehgti
VI the God who created them. 1hey
70 sneak to us something ike this
mm man. why wilt thou not look upon
WI" oven as thou wouldst regard the W
of human hands? When thou s'"n
before the huge pyramids Oh l.
with their great blocks OF stone
dost not say they were built Dy
ings, of pygmies, about whom Hohier
ents, uesiod wrote. Thou dost not
giles, the moonlight and dream dreams
elect the Acropolis overlooking OLD al
and see there visions Oh It's an
splendor, with its Parthehoh an
columns and its statuary ana lts
that BILE ofpurest white, and say there
not giants in those days Ihou
not walk through the corridors o
AIhambra, with its mosaic foorS
its magnificent walls, and say tha
a. onciert Moors were not master
- tects and master designers and n 7
Il. workmen. Thou canst not stud
lin footprints of the Aztecs without
there the indentation of a great
.ietor. Is not matchmaker grea'er .sa nova1 SaI