Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-06-15

/ years Of plenty he stored 1t nll in the
, public granaries. And when the seven
years Of want came he sold It all buck
to the people. Not one dishonest coin
stuck to his fingers. Thus, because he
was honest and made his deputies hon
est, the dishonest officials hated him
and tried to forget his existence. And
one Of TIE surest signs that you are
pure and true and honest and upright
and good is that dishonest people and
impure people try to forget your name
and push you into oblivion.
Arstides the Just.
You have all heard the story of the
great general and statesman Aristides
the Just Tighter and tighter was
he gripping the hearts Of the Athenian
people. Themistocles, his great rival,
realized that In little while, if Aris-
tides was allowed to move among the
people, his influence would become so
great that no voice would have any
power In Athens but his. SO Themisto-
cles gathered all the rough and bad
elements together and started a move
ment to Danish Aristides from the city.
On the day Of the election peasant
approached Aristides and asked his
help In voting against Arlstides. "Why,
what damage has he donew Arlstides
asked. HAS he done any wrong that
you would drive him from this capt.
talT No" answered the peasp II,
mot that l know of. l do not even
know him, but it irritates me to hear
him everywhere called the Just" And
so the carriOn birds would, II they
could, always drive the clean winged
birds from the heavens. The dishonest
Egyptians would obliterate the name
OF Joseph, the prime minister, from the
list Of their national heroes. And, my !
brother, If the dissOlute do not despise /,
you and the unjust hate you, and the !
evil minded want to forget you, then
you should examine your heart and ,
life, fearing lest you are growing like +
them. The surest sign on earth that |
you are living a good, pure life is that
bad people want you out of their sight.
Now there arose up new king over
Egypt which knew not Joseph"
But lastly, | remark that the Egyp-
tians ceased to revere JOseph's men,
Ory because they did not believe that
the God who sent Joseph to save them
was the same God who sent Moses to
punish them. And yet IS not the Egyp-
tians' error our error? After God for
years has been sending to us our Jo-
sephs. after he has showered innumer-
able. blessings upon us, are we not apt
to say: God is good" "GOd is kind
and fOrgiylng," God is loving, and he
VIII never send the rolling surges Of
his Red sea of judgment tumbling down
upon u.s." Oh, the long suffering mer-
cy Of God! How long, o God, how
long wilt thou stay thine avenging
hand from us? How long shall we
cease to forget that love and trample
upon thy patience? Some time ago
there came into my possession a won
derful picture. It was one OF Dore's
masterpieces.
Scene In the Coliseum.
= The scene was the roman coffseuin.I
1t was night All those immense tiers
of seats, capable of holding 100000
spectators, were deserted. There you
could see them in dim outline. AS you
looked at them you could see in imag-
inatiOn those seats again filed with
the yelling, yociferant multitudes who
during the long, hot day just passed
had watched the gladiatorial contests
and the numbering of the Christians.
But, though those tiers Of seats were
empty, the arena was not That
arena was filed with great piles |
Of human cOrpses. There were moth
ers there, even in death hugglng their
dead babies to their breasts There I
were strong limbed men there and old [
men and old women. But they were
dead-all dead. And among the silent 7
corpses you could see the hungry lions
creeping or crouching. But over all q
this scene of death DOre has let a
light hover, and through this light can I
be seen Gods angels With their out L
stretched wings and outstretched hands
the celestial messengers seem to be e
blessing the dead-aye, blessing the 5
bodies of the dead, whose spirits were c
then with God. But as sat watching V
saying to myself: God may bless his
dead. God may redeem his dead. But
Gods avenging hand will surely strike
those who will persist in striking him.
Bloody Nero, didst thou not think God
would strike thee when thou didst =
strike him? Pharaoh, who knew not
Joseph, didst thou dream that Moses
would yet come to desolate thy king
domT
But, though the Egyptians may have
forgotten Joseph, thank God the chill
dren Of Israel did not forget him.
see that great army of 100000 start q
AWAY from Egypt on that passover
night. They are in haste, but they
wait at burial place. They are bur-
1ened, but they take up a coffin and
carry 1t away with them. Whose body &
Is 1t they takeE IL is the Douy OF Jo- -
seph, who was not known to Pharaoh. Il
They carried those bones through the :.
Rea sea; they carried them through n
the wilderness; they carried them over ft
the Jordan; then they carried them
near to Jacobs well, where they were C,
buried So is 1t with every faithful d
servant of God. Though the world a
'orgets his services though his very u
name sinks into oblivion, his record Is
written in the book of Gods remem-
brance, and at the resurrection he will
stand among the people of God.
copyright, 1907, by Louis Klopsch.]
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