Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-05-12

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ton. General Funston forbids any one
10 land in the city. Water FAMINE
threatened. All wholesale houses de-
stroyed. Hunger and famine staring |
the people in the face. People dying !
In the streets from exhaustion ana
starvation. Napa Insane asylum de-
stroyed. Stanford university buildings
down. San Jose wreck" Then, as
wailing cry, came the kilograms from
Oakland. from the mayor and the gov
ernor: "Help! Help! Give us help!
San Francisco is starving! Help!
Helpw
Then the revolving wheels OF the
railroad trains come rumbling into our
depots and the passengers algnt'
These are the first refugees from the
citv of death. "Were the stories over
drawn" we ask. NO mol" they an
swer. "Tell us about your expert
ence" 1--WE were asleep. Suddenly
in the morning, we were flung from
the bed. The earth felt like a mouse
that a rat terrier had gripped by the
neck. shaking the life out OF 1t, ana
then dropped for dead. Then the
streets were filed with men and wom-
on and children In their night robes
Some were praying, some shrieklng'
some mutterlng like madmen. Inc
walls began TO totter and TO tali'
Buildings which had not been over
thrown became blazing furnaces. AT
one time the flames leaped out or ey-
orv window of the Palace hotel. The
ton stories Of the different buildings III
many instances seemed to catch hre
first Then men and women starteu
TO run for the ferryboats. 1t was not
struggle to save property, but mau
race for life"
oh. why should we go on ana ue-
scribe this horror? In all the history Oh
the world there never was a more
CHASTITY tragedy. The battlehelds OF
| Gettvsburg and dWaterloowere tragedies
: of men only and had not the pathos OF
/ dying women and children, as hau tnis
, nondemonium of furies. And yet, amid
, the heavy. rocking earth, amid the
kissing. leaping flames, amid the luric
5 skies and the starving and me deau
4 we can today find some gospel lesson
. for practical use for everyday lle
t MAY God help us to say the right "or'
= and say it in the right way!
+ Judge Not.
t Let us beware, in the first place, les
s we ATTEMPT to handle the lightnings o
l. Gods wrath. Let us halt DeIore J"
s mass Judgment upon the past sins o
tbis great city. The Bible says, "Juug
IS not that We be not Judged" But
II snlte of this divine command TO Juug
L not,, there are people who are read
y TO affirm that the reason why this trat
D. edv was permitted to oyertake ID
D. metropolis of the Pacific wss Decaus
D. San Francisco was city fostering an
III reeking with sin. Why, no sooner wa
y tbis awful tragedy reported oyer u
Int wfies tfan one Of fproH.-sthe iS''
8. napers of this city called me up an
s. asked whether l believed hat oa
Ds Francisco was destroyed, like 5000
or and GOmorrah, on account OF lts Sill
I replied then as l reply now: AL
man who would make a statement ln'
es no thought San Francisco was
h. otroved on account of its sins Is unnt
st be q religious teacher and unht 10
rs ouoted in any newspaper article"
RS tba ancient prophet found, as he shu
nd dered at the earthquake in his Ga
nd Cod was not in the earthquake. Al
of after the earthquake a fire, Dut U
N, lord was not in the fire. And ait
or the fire a still small voice. In that
to heard the voice of the LORD.
nix DO you think John Milton Decal
nd blind on account Of his sinsE DO y
les thinl, Abraham Lincoln and James
he Garfield and William Mckinley we
en- ossossinated Oh account Of their SID
he DO you believe Mrs. Mckinley ioSt L
100 two little children and became ~
t. long invalid on account OF ner sln
ng- 10 YOU think Alexander II. Stephe
ice lived for seventy years in pain a
SIS agony ON account Of his sinsF DO y
er. helieve that the gentle and pure Hel
an Keller. from two years of age, mas pe
Ter. hind and deaf and dumb on acco'
ID NJ her sins? Was your little SIS
yn. wicked whose light fluffy dress caui
the fire many years ago, so that she
ok. burned to death before your very ey'
tin Were those missionaries VINO J"
VS.! tortured and killed in the Boxer up
But inq Of China some years ago muruel
In ON account of their sins? Then, II u
the were YOU might have right 10
hat that this tragedy came to san fr
cisco on account of its sins; put' IL
nto Won have not the slightest reason
lift affirming that the earthquake came
her n Judgment of God. If San Francl'
Irty vhv not New York and Chicago
ID" st Louis and London on ACCOUNT
the +bo,r sins? Is there any large city
by this land which would be justlneo
ort. casting q stone at the metropolis OF
be- Pacific coast?
un- No Right to Say 1t.
wa Has any one a right to say that
ting Francisco was destroyed on accoun
ped IFS sins II he listens Alright TO
e to words Of Christ? What saiu ''
ems when his disciples pointed to
hen who was blind from his birth and
do ed, '.Master, did this man become b
lew- ON account of his sins or on accoun
the his parents' sins" That was as 10
rnel as TO say: "All blindness and phys
;tru- ailments are directly due to
nent mans evil deeds. Who sinned-
g man or his parentsT Christ answe
suf- "Neither hath this man sinned, mol
parents, but that the works Oh
should be made manifest IN u
cker Then in another place Christ tod
their the tower of Sloan fell. 1t lei
with quickly and Unexpectedly as the
cry. panile of ST. Marks in Venice Inc
-raiA said: Suppose ye that these CAM
get were sinners above all the Cam
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