Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-11-30
CalmaSe
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee, ID. ID.

Los Angeles. Cal, Nov. 24.-While
our people at this Thanksgiving season
are gratefully recalling their material
merces, the preacher in this sermon
points to the priceless blessing OF wa
ter as one which contributes most
largely to our national happiness and
prosperity. The text is | Corinthians
Y, 4, "For they drank Of that spiritual
rock that followed them"
Among the wonders of Yellowstone
park there is not one more marvellous
than its Roaring mountain. 1t is a
mountain about 800 feet high and
about 1900 feet at its base. 1t looks
when not in action like big sand
dune in the midst Of a barren desert.
There IS not spear of grass growing
upon it. There is not tree lifting lts
branches upon It's sides to be kissed ny
the rising sun. There Is not bird liv-
Ing near it. nor a rabbit nor a ground
squirrel making its home amid its cav
erns and rocks. Its sides are great,
barren waste. 1t seems to be place
forsaken of God and of man. But sud
denly the guide says, Now look at
Wonder hill" And there before the
tourists eyes is a most wonderful spec
tacle. From out of the sides Of this
barren sand dune, from the bare rocks
and the dark caverns. there come leap
: ing forth innumerable geysers. My
RAIDS of fountains are in full play.
There is hardly bare spot to be seen
II seems as though an infinite power
had driven upward from a great ocean
in the depths of the earth a vast force
of living water and made the barren
mountain a fountain of innumerable
rivulets.
Well. | never think Of the Roaring
mountain in Yellowstone park In ful
nlav. but I think Of the mount of Ilo
reb i'm the center of the bleak, barrer
desert of Sinai. There 1t has stood tol
ages without a tree or spear OF grass
growing upon it. AS the lsraelites
with parched tongues and cracked lips
stood looking at its sandy and rockI
sides they could no more expect TO ge
n drop of water out Of it than yol
could expect to find a fountain spring
ing up at the foot of the pyramids
Rut suddenly Moses smltes those rocks
Then a great stream of water leaps ou
Of those hillsldes as the myriads 0
geysers spring up from the sides 0
Roaring mountain when it is In ful
nlay. These waters rush down III
mountain side and form themselve
into q great river. This, river flows o.
10 the Red sea. And the Israelite
during all their sojorrn in the deser
d eeplp by tho waters of this river. Illu
= Inc. great miracle Of the ages was pei
formed when God gave drink to tn
!, wandering Israelitish tribes durin
their forty years journey in the WI
derness.
God gave water to the Israelites
the wilderness, and Christ has give
water blessed water, to us as peopl
in the new world. AS many Thanks
giving sermons are being preached thl
week about the blessings of wheat an
corn and oats and homes and air an
national prosperity | will make waite
natural and spiritual, the subject
nv THANKSGIVING sermon. l want
show you the innumerable blessing
God has given to America in Its watt
supply. When you go home on Thank
giving day to a banquet rich in me
cies. l want you to thank God for I'll
nure water which he has provided
. such abundance for you.
8 The Spiritual Water.
s In the first place, on this Thanksgi
ing Sunday thank God for drinKiI
= vater-for water which you can put
Y the parched lips to quench the recu
/, ring thirst: for water to fill the art
n ries with blood: for water witho'
a which in a very few days man wou
= die miserable death; for water II
lack of which viii turn a man in
g short tine into raylng maniac; Il
d water. which cOmposes nearly W p
y cent of the human body.
r Thank God for the drinking wat
. which our civil engineers bring TO
u from the lakes and the rivers and Il
- mountain SHOWS. miles upon NIL
away: for the great reservoirs Whlch
II ali times of the year furnish us WI
water enough to drink. In l9O6 the {
fcials of Philadelphia decided TO Ii
huge water pipes through Chesn
street. When they dug down tn
- found lying there great wooden OF
logs. with bore running throui
them ranging from six to twel
inches. which had been placed there
&c 170o to supply the city with wat'
Thu, for years upon years the NUM-
), nal authorities of our cities have be
s. going far away to bring down [
! drinking water to the people as hl
Solomon brought down water from [
5, mountains for the inhabitants OF Jei
salem. Each year these civil enginee
are going farther and farther away l
W W their water supply. Then we see NJ
% %ot York gathering its drinking water frc
the Croton river and the Catskill mot
n tains at the enormous cost of hundre
Of millions of dollars. Then we III
to to such cities as Chicago and Milwi
all kee and Detroit and find them runnl
hg their mains far out into the clear, pt
ou waters of Lake Michigan and La
Erie and pumping their supply
drinking water. And wherever y
90 you find the keenest of engineer
- brains concentrated on the problem
giving the people pure water to dril
Thank God for a glass Of pure, c.
water
We should also thank him for
water with which we are able
cleanse our bodies and our homes
purify our streets and which car
, away the refuse of the cities.
ehonld thank him for the water WI