Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-03-31
Ca(f1naSe
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee. ID. d.

Los Angeles. Cal, March 25.-ln this
sermon the preacher deals in homeiy'
fashion with the problem that
has confronted every generation since
the world began--the training and de-
velopment of the child-and shows IN
n new light the individual responsible
ity of parents. The text IS ii Kings W.
sG. "Is it well with the childF
Some time ago it was my privilege TO
spend day with dear Trend WHO
for many years was Utah MISSION
airy. In one of his tours he became
lost. lie stopped for the night at Il
farmers home away back in the noun +
talns Next morning this farmer sald, .
"Come. | want to show you WONDER
ful sight" Then he took my irlchd
and they rode off for many miles uhlll
they came to Il great lava bed about ,
two miles wide and four or hye feet
high. This lava must have begun vom-
fling forth from volcano hundreds II
not Thousands of years ago Ihere
upon the top of this lava bed were TO
be seen the footprints of woman ana
lust behind them the footprints OF
little child. My friend told me he De-
leved that those footprints must nave
been made when that lava was III
process of cooling. They must have
been made by a woman of the mouhu
bulldlng period or of one OF the other
Drehistoric ages. And yet those IN
dentations In that lava were just as
clear and distinct as though made but
Yesterday. After my friend had ceased
| talking | said to myself: Yes, that Is
n wonderful record but perhaps we
might see the habits and customs OF
some of those prehistoric ages repro
duced in our own lives if we could only
trace them out. Because we 90 not
know from whence our habits origlnat-
ed. that does not prove they have not
been handed down from father TO son
even unto the tenth generation as the
Bible tells us is the case with the con-
sequences of mans sins.
we often say to ourselves, "How sur
prlsed our grandfathers and grand
mothers would be if they could awake
and get up out Of their graves ana see
the modern inventlons-the automoDiles
and railroad trains and telegraph ana
telenhone wires and skyscraping Office
huIldinrs." But often think how sur
nrised we might be if our great-grand-
narents could come back to earth and
tell us how many OF the customs OF our
nresent lives were practiced many cen
) turies ago. DR.. Schliemann, the grea'
, German archaeologist and the discov
erer of the ancient site Of Troy, was
s such devotee Of the past that he gave
his wife Honeric pane and called ms
ser.- ants.,llss- nomenclature OF mn
J. beroc, and herOineS OF tne Ouyssey
and the "Ilaid." He also called his chii
dron Aramemnon and Andromache
Rut methinks If Hector ana AchlHe
and Ajax and Helen and Paris coul'
come back to the world In the nesl
thev would have been just as much SUI
nrised ot the ways Of DR.. SchllemahI
as DR. Schliemann would have pee
surprised at their ways. For In man
E matters their customs were the same
Tn the ways Of salutatiOn, In their love
- and their hates and in many or thel
. habits I believe that the year lou
Il p q eon be found to be akin to IL
e, year 1906 \. d.
le sneok thus because l want you
reaIize that the human life depicted
the Rible is lust the same KIND OF d
man life that we have in modern time
When we study the life Of Elisha
so5 r. c.. we are studying the lives
the men and the women OF the preSe
dov Now. this Shunammite woman
NV text had a very sick boy, ana
diad What did the mother do? Nh
would Won and | have done under /
same conditions? She said, i VIII
and hunt up the prophet OF Coo
When she came to Elisha, what dld
do? For years this prophet Wheh
was iourneying that way had been
customed to stop at this woman $ hou
and SUP with her, hey husband ana
hov Thus. when the Shunammite v
man drev near Elisha accosted her
the language Of the twentieth cent?
.be nc we'll as in that Of the millenniul
ne which are gone. Elisha says: "How
he YOU? How is your husbandF LOW
BY vour child?" To speak literally he Sd
LIS .Is II well with thee? Is 1t wei "
you tbv husband? Is it well win
teT childY Now, l am going to accost
q" with only one Of the questions "
which Elisha greeted this mother
am going to inquire from you as 10
welfare of your babies, of the boys
the girls. We are both parents anu
in tbis home greeting l say: III
t. is II with the children? Is it well "
the child?" Are you ready here
Ia now to answer this important san
Mr.. ton?
How Is the Childf
How is tne child physicallyT Il
we'll with his lungs and heart
stomach? Is he growing arlghl'
he taking enough eXerciseF Is ne
inc the proper kind of food! LII
10, not n superauous question. This IS
~ saIutation which Elisha gave 10
'Or- Sbunammite woman. This is the q
is tlon which every father and mo
! should be able to answer lh;rhl@el
tnu The picture of every true LOVING
bic ent ought to be that which | saw Il
,o, advertisement some years ago. 1
~ - in n crib lag a beautiful child.
Vlt1 check was aglow. The eyes
the laughing. The lips were parte'
uoIl though he was cooling with JOY.
"eii over him bent the sweet face Of a
ller.- ing mother. while under this pi'