Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-10-20
Caln1aSe
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee. ID. ID.

Los Angeles, Cal, Oct. 14.-In this
sermon the preacher shows that as
storms. stress and elemental confusion
are the forerunners of growth and or
Gerly development in nature, so social
disturbances, upheavals, labor strikes
and the conflict Of 1.-THE classes and the
masses" are the inevitable precursors
of orderly national development. The
text Is Proverbs xiv. 4, "Where no
oxen are. the crib is clean, but much
increase is by the strength of the OK
All true lovers Of the beautiful should
read the messages Of its great hign
priest. John Ruskn. There never lived
n man who welded a pOetlc-prose pen
ike his. His Seven Lamps of Archi-
tectnre" and Ethics OF the Dust" ana
"Stones of Venice" his Sesame and
Lilies" and Grown of Wild olive" MS
"Stndies of Wayslde Flowers" and Oh
THE Cloud Form" and the Relation
of Natural Science to Art offer to the
aesthetic enthusiast visions or thls
world which cannot be found among
the writings OF any other writer, living
or dead.
Well do l remember the powerful
fascination which held me when first
perused one of his books. Though l
| have seen many sages, yet not one OF
these ever impressed me with the awe
| with which | looked upon the trem-
| bling form Of this mighty penman,
| whose face / saw many years ago
| when as a student travelling through
England saw nurse lead John hus
kin along the country road for his art
ernoon walk. What was the more re-
markable about this view was this: Al
that time | was looking only upon the
shell of man. was watching Q
great writer whose body was alive, Du'
whose mind was dead. If you have
read the biography of John RusKiI
you know that in his last days he was
mental wreck. The brain which hac
created thoughts which will charm tn'
English speaking world for all time
had burned itself out. When L saw
John Ruskin he was an old, Wornout
helpless man. His mind was Mel
rose abbey in ruins.
III YOU have read John Ruskin care
fully you may remember how IN on
chapter he makes mighty plea FOR tn
aesthetics of life as against the ruthles
invasion of commercialism. He dc
nounces In vehement language IN
heartless vandalism Of the bushes
world which would paint a horribl
advertisement of some patent med
cine upon the rocks of a majestic pan
sade or frowning Gibraltar. He DC
walls the fact that England's artistl
II lf';fJllIues are So CnIreu unu-a-siiA a
that she wOuIu uIrvu - -
er's wheel TO turn into muddy streai
tho clear beautiful waters tnat lea
ort of the mountains, and he excor
otes the iconoclastic brutality OF III
Irnberman which would bury the a
IN the heart Of the grand old oaks tha
FOR centuries have been lifting up the
Ieafv hands to God In an attltuue
nraver. But. though John Ruskin' OF
u teacher. our Gamaliel, our aesthetic big
nriest. who leads us In worship al u
altar of the beautiful, makes TINS PIE
for the preservation Of the WOODS al
the valleys, though he wouiu sur,
down the hands of the iconoclast WI
would desecrate the high cliff, yet u
whole world knows that II CONNIE
cialism did not shut its eyes at tlm
% the aesthetic our railroads would
unable to tunnel under the mountai
and tho farmers could never cover III.
fields with grain. In order that tne
creasing human race may live we mu
)t cut and fear down and slash. In ma
senses we must have a chaotic cosm
in order to have progression.
Disorder Is Necessary.
TT YOU will turn to my text and re
II carefully, as the inspired PENN
meant it to be read, you will hnd u
the thought which l am enuncia'l
King Solomon taught In his pooK
Proverbs thousands Of years ago.
goes out one morning, when the CO
nlaininq farmer enters his barn.
ervthIng there is filthy and dirty.
IL. straw beds upon which the oxen 81
ore all mussed up and must be raj
out into the barnyard and the st'
cleaned. The chickens have noWn
the haymow and scattered the u
The grain bags have been broken VI
nv the mice. The manger itself Is
n fearful state. The oxen IN nosihs
~ their food have scattered 1t eve
where. ooh, DEAR" exclaims tne Ia
er. "just look at that barn. Diu
over see such q mess? 1t Is work, W.
rC work: clean, clean clean. l never III
- fixing I'D the barn one day, but Ii
~ to 20 to work and fix 1t all up az
of the next" "'Tis true that what
saw is hard" answers the wisest Oh
men. But farmer, remember thaC
les, cannot have tidiness and cleanlines
Tor- Won have oxen, and If you did not
any oxen you could not plow
fields and could not sow your gram
could not receive any financial re
-ltrnm your lands" Thus King SOLO
ca, . to us today: Friend sometim
Is best to have disorder. Sometime
Ia best to have an upheaval. Wner
oxen are, the crib is clean; but the
order you deplore and the increas
- property you rejoice in are INSOFAR
from the presence of the OK ana
cannot have one without the other
A valuable practical lesson Is
thought for almost every depar'l
Of life. In the first place, it VIII
TO the disorders Of the naturai "
Some people, if they could have
way, woSld never have a rains'
They would never have bli2
Tbav would never nave the trees