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

pose TO say, Ibis culdSuoPiiS ""S
upon San Francisco on account OF lts
sins" / put my finger upon your Ups
and say: "Stop, brother! Stop, sister!
Silence! Judge not that ye be not
Judged. Let Gods lightnings fash as
they will but leave to him the right or
Judgment. Let us first see that our
own city is cleansed of sin ana not
aalk so much about other cities SINS.
Wouldst thou try to pluck the mote
out of thy brothers eye and perceive
not the beam which is sticking fortn
out of thine own eye?
Can we explain why certain people
I'm San Francisco have to suffer as they
do? Here we can see the flames, IKE
demons, leaping from business block 10
business block. Millions upon millions
of dollars worth of property have peen
DESTROYED. Now the flames are head
ing toward the churches and the resi-
dental districts. The dynamite is ex-
ploded. The guns are trained up the
walls. AS the cowboy upon western
prairie fights fire with fire, SO mere tne
brave men are fighting demolition Win
demolition. Still onward and onward
move the flames. Then Paul Reyeres
ride everywhere, crying: Run for
vour lives! Runl Run! Run" on
but some man says, Il cannot run.
have an aged and sick mother here' 1
must take her along" Who is sheF Is
cba Christian? "Yes," answers the
man. For years and years she mas
been an ardent follower OF Jesus
Christ" Together we help her along
After awhile she completely. gives out
"Water! Waterw she cries. GIVE
mo waterr There Is no water. a
deathly pallor overspreads her FEATURES.
We get her out upon the hillsides, Dut
no sooner is she laid down upon tne
ground than she breathes her lasi'
Whv is all this? Why? Why did 81
Mary's hospital 90, and st. Patricks $
church and the First Methodist church
oo and scores of institutions of mercy
all 90 up in flames? Why are SO many
men who have always tried to follow
Jasus and have always given to COO
their money now left penniless? why
does God here seem to strike the JUST
and the unjust unlike? l cannot say
7 do not know. l can give no rational
reason any more than | can tell you
why God came into your home ano
took your young wife from your sldt
and left you with three motherless Ill
tle children to rear. "WhyT Is pool
word TO ask at this time. All that We
can do is to say: "God is good. Al
things are working together for gooo
TO them that love God" Therefore
Is only the glorious. word Of "faith
, which will bridge over us this awIu
, chosm of despair. Faith, faith, faltn
Lot us have faith in a good God am
, leave the explanations to him Tor h
, uoht Of heaven. Earth can never ex
9 plain this tragedy.
= The whole World Kin.
: But there is still another lesson. LII
0 tragedy. as no other tragedy during u
Q mast century, has proved how muc
4 the American people are akin and no.
8 much they are willing to help eac
g other .God hath made Of one ,Dioo
"a ,llsnatfons.f5 10 dweii uposi the fsce :
d the EARTH But, though we may all
u of one blood yet no power on ear'
n will make us call each other Drotn'
3. so appropriately as when the heaV
Y hord of +rouhle ia laid upon brother
II heart.
e. know many people may not agr'
% with me. They affirm that this Is
,e mean and contemplate world and tn'
IS human heart is not in sympathy WI
/. human heart, but the actions OF u
Y, American people toward suffering 81
ID Francisco give that statement the II
le No sooner did Los Angeles and
er other cities hear what had happen'
le 70 their sister. San Francisco, than u
money began to flow in streams. Do
le TORS and nurses volunteered their ser
)u zoos for help. Schools were closed
A. send the children home for clothing al
re food TO be expressed to San Francis
81 ot once. Churches were turned into
er celving stations for goods. The ra
e. roads said. 1--WE will carry the refuge
81 free" The express companies said, "
rs will carry the breadstuffs free" L
nd great dry goods stores said, You c
Oh come and buy your goods at c'
en- price" And what Los Angeles was
en- ing Boston and New York and Phi
mt delphia and Pittsburg and MilwauI
ter and Denver and New Orleans ana
hit the other American cities are doing
'as Another Lesson.
IS? Rut learn from the awful catast
ere nhe another lesson. 1t Is this: NJ
is and women seem to be blind TO
ed ever present signs of danger. Beca'
ley the tragedies Of the past, like the lig
iay ninqs have struck right and left q
an hit everywhere, except at their o
lot, lives. they seem to feel that they the
for selves are impervious to dangers
as will never be smitten down. II
co, think. because they live In San tr
Ind cisco. an earthquake will never
Of them into ruins, as POmpeii and d
In culaneam were destroyed. They thl
In because they live on Long lsland, Z
the can never be submerged as was .
weston. They think, because they
in st. Louis, cyclone can never
San stroy them, as Louisville, Ky,
Of Gainesville, Ca, were destroyed.
the yes. they can think of earthquakes
sus fornadoes and tidal waves LOW, 2
nan or even 1900 miles away from no
lsk They may even picture one In Char
ind ton. but not one at their own doorst
t Of why. do you know that ltail
uch have built vineyards upon Vesu'
lcal and for years have been living on
ONE very hiIlsides of the burning volca
this So we are all living and dwelling u
red, the very threshold Of death. "Oh,"
his some one. 81 feel so sorry for u
God neople of San Francisco. They |
Im." not only lost hundreds Of millions
how dollars, but this earthquake has a
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