Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-06-16

ooI,c, We think at times that ny
mr. own strength we can overcome oo
80, no we? Alas. we seem 10 Ua'e.
l''"' o,rcla Is not that old taste OIL
inuor coming back? Is not 'iia' o'~
,esire of sin continually ga'leiA
.tranotb and assailing US harder anu
n,ttorer every time? If we nave ho'
the aid of the divine water brooks aie
80 not continually travelling III CIT
a,oa There is only OnNl sure way i"i
uo,, to escape sin, and that is 10 piunse
into the divine water BROOKS. pus
moro than that, there is only one wy
Cor Won to keep free from slh III 'n'
sutura and that is to scent Gods VIC"
tor brooks from afar, for II you uo
not as sure as you live you VIII cirelo
ano,,nd The circle may be large VI
srnoI but it is certain to be ciIole'
and YOU will come back 10 ula' .e'y
sin which nearly destroyed you SUI
,voaks or some months or some Se"''
ago. ros
p,,t ~ If ~ .-ar,ossible for the deer 10
so,,e his own life from the pursuing
hounds if is even less possible Tor MN
- cave the life of his young Dy LIS
own strength. The deer knows ne o'n
NOT do this, and so his chlei duty
word his Young is to conceal them uui-
,no their years Of helplessness' lnen'
os coon as the young are strong enough,
no loads them to the water brooks anu
4ooohos Them how they can there es'
cane the hounds. First uey coio'"'
the Young. Did you ever see tne p'I'"
cbomber of a little fawnf Inc guiueS
ten Won il is very hard to get INTO uie
rovaI nolaces Of Europe TO see the PR
,,o+o rooms where the princes anu
nr,ncesses of the royal houses OF Eng
land and Germany and ltaly ana n"s -,
eia were born. but it is not more anu,
cult than TO find the birth chambers VI
, Tho fowns When the does are ABOUT l"
; hocome mothers they hide themselves
! for far away from the eyes OF BEAST Ok
p man There In the darkest luhgles'
| 4ho I,ttlo ones come into the world. 80
i carefully are the helpless faWis h'uu,H
j away from the merciless eyes OF 'ne
i hunter that Job speaks OF these secret
r birth chambers by asking the dlincu'
question "Canst thou mark wDere tlio
r hinde do calveY But as soon as inc
70 Young fawns are strong enough the
g hind leads her young to the wafer
a brooks. She seems TO say: "Daushtei'
IN 7 cannot protect thee Only the water
r. brooks can protect thee. This Is the
le nav 70 escape the dogs ana ue
is ,,.oivasn Are we like the kinds, leau-
m inc orr little ones to the water Drooks
e Are we saving: Come, child, cannon
he guide thee. l cannot save thee' only
he God can care for thee. Come let ne
ps load tbee 10 him." Oh, the helplessnesS
es of q hind or a hart caring ror nel
"a; young! ..,,o r,as ,r
Ist once heard of q hunter who was II
AMI ambush A doe with two fawns wer'
lat Passing that way and were chased D!
he the dogs. The hunter raised MS TN
We. and shot one Of the fawns. The mou
or had disappeared in the woods Du
oor os soon as she turned and saw ne
ter littIe one on the ground she returne
rY and bent over the dying fawn anu "
he oan 70 lick her baby's wounds uni
And the cruel hearted hunter Hlaue -
ave tumble a corpse over the BODY Oh IN
ing child You say that was sad. &c
the say that was pathetic. But sao al
the nathetic as it was, l do not think
ers, was nearly as sad as the sights we >
DDS avervvhere around us. Here we g
who 600 human hinds and harts not only
for fusing to lead their young 10 tle
e is vine water brooks, but absolutely iea
lark ing them into danger. Then these
sum man kinds and harts after their you
uses are morally and physically ana sp
,olls itually destroyed come out Ike
lger. David and. bending over their
The stroyed young, they wall: on @ Ap,
coat lom, my son, my son! Would GOO
ouse had died for theew Are you, as par'
Ie to tal binds and harts, not only going
llene your own safety to the divine wa
e he brooks. but are you also leading IN
just your Children
her sntritunI Water Brooks
ends Thus. my friends, you find two sN
talk hols in these words of my text IN
this FIRST Won find the poor hunted SIN
Iesus. seeking the spiritual water brooks
such there finding safety; IN the secohu
your can find the sinner, bounded ana
never socuted bv sin. refusing to seek the
mister ,,;no woter brooks and consequently
gospel ,ar, dostroved
rooks ~ frhoro g a beautiful legend that m
? well centuries ago Diana was chased U
unded hunter Diana when she turned
t are saw him said, "Begone, thou hui
uch stag and die the death OF hu'
1e not hoastp, Immediately horns begai
lroil grow from the young mans loren
past' his fair white skin became COW
me to with q reddish hair; his foot chal
saved into the cloven hoOf Of a deer
water tbrouob the woods the doomed
I thee hoard tbe cries of his late compan
who were out hunting. He hearu
rolninq Of his own dogs. Though
which tooon turned and ran for his life, |
. The dogs overlook him and tore MN
t only from limb. Oh, my friends, are
ing the like Actaeon. straying into forpi
making maths pursuing vain pleasures
n in nossible that we, like Actaeon' at
ogs. inc, hunted by trials and temptat
nd out Tbon IN orr danger let US fly to m
he deer 700 Cod has provided Shall v
r in the ,iIo lilo tho nsalmist Of old and say
travel the hart panteth after the
brooks, so panteth my soul after
avn by n Cod9o
rs in a ,c.r,,,, taos bv Louis Klopscl
zen shot r0'''
)se than c,.nsv
Ia, enid. The ahN