Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-09-15
CalrnaSe
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmade. ID. d.

Los Angeles, Cal, Sept 9.-In this
sermon the preacher makes novel sug-
gestlons showing how we as communi-
ties and as individuals may help to i'm
prove the lot Of the unfortunate. The
text Is Deuteronomy XIV, IL. THE poor
shall never cease out Of the land"
Turning to that valuable and sugges-
tive edition OF the Bible called the Red
Letter Bible, notice that this passage
In Deuteronomy is printed In red, lndi-
eating that it was quoted by our Lord.
1t Is astonishing how many of such
passages there are. showing how close
student of the Scriptures Christ was.
Guided by this reference In the Red
Letter Bible, l find the circumstances
under which Christ quoted the passage.
1t was at that feast when Mary broke
the alabaster box of spikenard over
Christ's feet Judas said 1t was waste
full, as the ointment might have been
sold and the money given to the poor,
but Jesus said there were other oppor-
tunItes Of giving to the poor, for, said
he, THE poor ye have always with
you"
There were poor people during the
Mosaic era. There were poor people
during all the wealth and the splendor
of the Solomonic reign. There were
hovcls and rags covered by the shad-
ows Of the magnificent Grecian tenn
pies. Poverty and gaunt want went
begging for bread during the Roman
triumphs, when Christ hved. There
ore poverty and rags and hunger now,
and there will be poverty and want
upon this old suffering world until the
miIiennlal dawn, when the glory Of the
Lord shall cover the earth as the wa
ters cover the seas. Poverty, haunting
poverty, is everywhere.
We have today our poor In Europe.
Asia. Africa, South America and In
North America. We have them upon
every island OF the seas, In every town,
village and city and farming country.
we have an omnlpresent poor. During
all the centuries from the beginning
this burden of poverty has been upon
the shoulders Of large proportion Of
the race, calling for our sympathy and
our help. How long will It be before
the wisdom of our social philosophers
and the commiseration Of Christ's
church take up the problem and.
searching for the causes OF the af1ic-
tion. nnd out how to remove them and
remedy the misery. know OF no duty
more urgent, and II we and- out In
studying the problem that In some
cases poverty Is the result Of social
evils let us 60 forward In Gods name
to eradicate them. May the Holy
Spirit help US to preach On appropriate
sermon on this Sabbath, following our
annual Labor day.
First among these evils place the
prenatal influences which help crowd
our cities with the ominpresent poor.
| In this matter let us be brave and
truthful. Let us not seal our lips and
be silent on account Of a mock modesty.
It Is better to have an Inflammation
opened and the wound drained, no
matter how repulsive the odor, than to
allow the disease to 60 on fostering and
eating its way into the vitals. There Is
many danger more horrible than the
surgeons knife.
was nightly impressed with this
fact some time ago. l had always
horror OF the surgeons knife. felt
Mat man had better resort to every
tb,N and anything rather than lie
down. upon al operating table. But
some ,xyne ago the wife Of one Of my
dosrset ,Nburch members telephoned me
TO come dC~wn to The hospital at once
as her husbL>pd was about to be oper-
ated ON. 1 Jumped onthe car and went
down and arri, ed iost three minutes
after the work haN been begun They
had carried the patient into the oper-
atIng room and wel'e then giving him
the anaesthetic. paved up and down
the hall, wondering what shoulo 90.
I felt that 1t was q crit cal ana mignt
be fatal operation. sho uld go IN or
should not7 had always snunneo
the sight Of the operating tao'e oe
cause | feared the spectac' OF 'he
flowing blsod. But as l walket up ana
down that hall / said to myself; iu al
probability this operation will be ia'ai'
My friend will die within a few YOURS
after he comes out of the anaesth 't'c.
VIII 1t not comfort him to know tina '
stood by his side during his time th
triali" So said 10 one Of the nurses
'Tell the doctor 1 should like to come
in." He sent out word, Come ln."
have thanked God since that went 10.
When that ulcer was opened, saw
then as l never realized before that
man should not fear a surgeons Snite
which opened up dangerous aoscess
nearly as much as he should feaf the
abscess which Is not opened. Our
friends life was saved by the marrow
est of margins because he fatty re-
fused to be operated upon until death
was literally ciutching him by the
throat.
A Deadly Ulcer.
Now, as there was deadly disease
eating into the vitals Of my friends
body, so there is O deadly disease eat,
ing into the very heart of our sociai
life. Thousands upon thomands OF our
cradles are infected BY prenatal weak.
nesses and the evil results of ancestral
sins. We must remember that the
present generation Is not responsible
for all Its Door Fer. as most OF US
have inherited the physician looks OF
father and l mother. a grandfasnar OK
q grandmother, so there are hoss OF
unfortunate children born Into the
world who from the cradle are doomed
70 q life of physical incompetency De-
cause mentally aud physically tainted
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