Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-05-19
Ca(rnaSe
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee, DID,

uurllS Il Ao"i VI '
c,tv of San Francisco after the disaster
and draws some timely lessons from
the experience. The text is Psalm CIV
80. "Ie looketh on the earlh' ana II
trembleth; he toucheth the hiiiS' anu
they smoke
Yes, have been to San Francesca
have felt the earth heaving Dehe"'n
my feet. with my own eyes h"'o
coon the blackened, smoking ruins L
have walked under the totterihg Wills
have heard the exploding dynamito
rozlne the ruins to the ground. Some
ncople said could not get into the CITY |
u went there, and some said might
he able to get into the city, but Il l
d,d would certainly be put to work
cleaning the streets and p!Ilne up
hricks And some people said that IL
qot into the city would be fuaran-
fined and not be allowed to come out
hecause the smallpox was raging there'
And some people said l would get Kill
od nv the falling walls If | entered 'ne
burned district. And some said Wouiu
have to drink water out or the DIoNen
eowers and get typhoid fever II ever
entered the ruined city. what solne
reonle said of course did not happen
King Solomon understood this tacI
thousands of years ago when he wrote
the proverb, "He that obserVeth 'no
lind shall not SOW" The man VINO
s,mplv goes ahead doing his WORK aS
Cod gives It to him to do will accom-
nlsh that work. And the man VINO Is
aI,ravs looking for obstacles and dan
gers ahead will find these obstacies W
the hundreds and thousands IL he VII
only turn his timid ears and listen u
what other people may say
obstacles May De Overcome
Obstacles ahead always nave I'LL
,ressed me like the steady stream q
r,ogons and carriages and automoDlle
OF ond electric cars which 90 ruihDih
down Broadway, in New YORK CIT!
The average countryman VINO goes
the great metropolis for the nrst uni
.tons ot the curbstone and looks
thot steady line of vehicles IN aiha|
,,,or+ Ue stands on the curDstone'
have often seen him stand, waitii
Cor cessation Of those revolVil
wheels: but, like Tennyson's oroo
I1v mon may come and men may go, U
- tho vehicles of Broadway, New hoi
soem TO 90 on forever. Not thus uo
+ho old New Yorker do. He wants
cross broadway. He does not hesit.
half a minute at the curDstone'
Du. stens out into the street at once
dodves this way; he runs tnat VIZ
no grips hold of the bride OF 10
bore and In few seconds he Is o
tho street. That is the way got
San Francisco only a few days III
II was burned. People saiu "
not get In. but went ahead. l uou'
this way: l pushed that way; sho
FOODS = uttle here and begged farther on
.,non tu NOT only crossed the ferry, Dut
, just Monday night following that ca'as
lt'&c' nho had tramped over every Il
and corner of the Durheu U.s. ,
Tro, the encampments in Goi
cate park into the burned OUT uis'
nee 80 o,d chinatown | went. Thus
ohle today to render an account Vi
visit and teach few gospel less
from the "bright side OIL II" &c
Illn : quake"
,ced ,.r,,o pripht Side of an Earthqua
"Oh." YOU say, "there Is no nee
.o,,,,ro about the bright side o.
earthquake unless you arc gu
toll, about the lurid flames WHICH,
their famished tongues, hckeu up
", ton square miles of as fine Duli'
"a any city ever had. Ihree nul M
r,,ll,on dollars worth Of properly
certainly destroyed. A FRIEND ol
ON the morning that san ran
hrrned. was coming from HON
Away off at sea they saw the
oned clouds. They could not MAX
80 80 ,yoe the matter. Nearer
-. +bov came. until suddenly
sort, one cried out, "San trahciSoo 40
,now Then as they came he"le
n. IS 4hor COW the awful flames III
work. Of death no one spoke al
1dition s,lonce except the surglng
o4ors 90 the dow of the BOZ
through them, and the ste"u! !, -
0AI and puff, puff, puff OF the mac
OH-' Oh do not talk to me ABOUT 'ie
s,do Of an earthquake! Is u
bright side to Dante's intern
tbere sright side to streetS
, selling with corpsesF Alniu . InV n"ra hoe
vou saw there must nave oee
drpds Of unknown dead laiN
.G tho agonies and the tears l"
,,-rocl,ad fortunes of this holoc
Won will, but not about us Drlsn
0TIJ voc my friend, l am going
VI W about the bright side Oh 'l'' '
Quake even against your pro'e'
in all my trampings about 'hls
,luding to town. rn, and in my intercourse wi
noble people, l founu Iioie
s. .,ors than sorrow, more Joy a
orotulations than heart Sous a
nlo,nts. This is why | have u
nv subject the sunrise OF the
GS, &c. instead of the dark eclipse, ,..
Not One Complaint.
,rieties of The most natural course 10
nursue. In lie first place, Is 10
! 8, that from the moment put
into San Francisco to the tln
: stepped aboard the ferry to ST 81
- for Oakland 1 did not ma Oh
one complaint from all the
J., &C. of' of people saw and cOnvers
And when / speak thus remen
inds and --