Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-10-21
CalnnaSe
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmase. ID. d.


,ratitnde NAV be one Of the meanest
of sins and fruitful of the worst results
is shown In this sermon, the preacher
taking his text from Genesis xl, 20,
"But forgat him."
How soon "the plowman can over
take the reaper" as the ancient prophet
saidr How soon after the harvest held
CLOVIS with It's crop Of ripening grain'
ready for cutting and garnering, does
tho nlow come to tear up the rich soil
with its ruthless share! How soon the
midnight frosts cover the fruits with
their cold. clammy death sweat! The IA
yorites of fortune are sometimes raploiy
lifted TO success, but not so quickly as
the victims of misfortune are dragged
down to ruin. The stone drops from
the highest cliff to the bottom OF the
deep canyon more swiftly than the
: powerfully winged eagle scars up ana
up until he dyes his feathers with the
golden pigments Of the rising sun. The
kings frown and the kings smile may
follow each other even more rapidly
r than the changes Of the fickle weather
e of the spring, which King Solomon de
: scribed when he said, "And the CLOUDS
I return after the rain"
= Could any lark with broken plniol
= fall 70 the ground more suddenly thar
Napoleon III. fell from his throneT III
1SSo he was considered the most pow
erful ruler of all Europe. His grea
uncle's name. his brilliant coup detal
which placed him upon the Frencl
4 throne after he had been elected pres
i ident for ten years; his fostering Oh tn
arts In his kingdom, his past mliitar.
record. circled a halo around his pei
- sonality and made him "the man OF I'll
hour" When the Suez canal was open
N ed Nov. 10, 1860, all Europe came [
participate in the marriage OF the wa
ters Of the Mediterranean with the WI
ters of the Red sea. Many kings an
% oueans. princes and princesses wer
o. @ there. but the royal yacht which ca
q ried ON board the beautiful Empres
ct Eugene. was the center Of all eyes. a
that gathering she was the ruler
at kings and the queen Of queens. NO pia'
cIoud darkened her horizon. Yet III
little over one year the Franco-Pru
sion war broke out. Napoleon LII.
a short time was an sx-emperor, seda
had been fought, the Tuileries was e
changed for Chiselhurst. linen the Oh
crown of Eugene was a crown
z thorns. pressed into her agonized prai
~ With one mighty crash the Napoleon
d-nssty fell into heap Of ruins,
0f s.Foor Empress Eugenie| you 50
why poor Eugene? She had no IL
nopoly of trouble. To be hurled IN
rs. few months from a throne into e1
was a startling fate, but to how nal
have misfortunes come as swiftly a.
as poignantly? They pounce upon
as swiftly as a hawk darts for
prey. They come upon us as quickly
Dy thew came to Joseph and to the ch
baker and the chief butler In the Eg!
t,an prison. But though they ha
me- come to US quickly in the past,
many Of us are Ike the chiei Du''ei
|. Pharaohs court. AS soon as our tr'
bles leave us we forget all about u
and their wounds. We forget that
same kind Of troubles may affiict
again. Thus we go on pracucmg
same sins that flung us into our p
ent difficulties. Let me draw from
lust simple Bible story some plain, pra
for cal gospel lessons. May you ana
Ter Ter be like the forgetful butler, but ike
;ies nc, unforgetful Joseph who in his prosI
also is ity remembered his old father ia
Iver and his brethren and who In his DC
ling tiful. forglvlng nature will always
lass main as one of the Old Testamel
'een pure and noble types Of the lie
| Christ