Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-06-22

General Gage sent lllln NOiu 'h"e - ~
nersisted In his trait0rOus work he
should be arrested and tried and SEN
fenced to death. but if he would sur
render the interests of Massachusetts
wealth and position should be his. Ihe
great American patriots answer TO the
kings messenger was: "Sir, nave long
since made my peace with the King or
kings. Go back and tell your master
that no personal consideration shall
induce me to abandon the righteous
cause Of my country" SO may 1t be
with us. May we make our peace
with the King of kings and hew to the
mark. May we let the chips ny as
they will but hew to the mark On
cowardly, recreant, fearful, trembling
pc.,.,cal trimmer, canst thou not see
tlat Paul is pleading with thee today
n, he pleaded with Felix? Do right,
no matter what personal dangers
threaten. Do right always.
But. as watch Felix and Drusllla
trembling under the denunciations or
Paul. sUGdcMly see the tears begin
10 giisten in their eyes. see them
bury their faces in their hands ana
sbaLe with grief. Then instead OF
bitter invectiye | hear paups voice as
soft and ripping as the mountain
brook. At times he seems &c be whls-
per,ng as low as the sighlnS winds.
7 come nearer to hear. Then l ask:
"W'hat Is it, Paul? Way are this
guilty maA and this guilty woman
weeping? Have you been able TO ma
any sympathetic chord OF affection
throbbing in their breasts" ION,
yes" answers Paul. Even Felix ana
Drusilla have listened to the higher
calls of love in their past lives. Even
the most vile Of men and the most
corrupt of women have the germ SEEDS
Of gospel love In their lives If you can
only find them" Is not Paups state
ment true? Can we not find the germ
seeds Of a pure love even among the
most corrupt Of social outcasts?
Aroused to Work.
BECAUSE men and women scorn our
pleas and turn deaf ears to our mes
sa0es Is no reason why they can
not be brought to Christ If we only
appeal to them In the right way. Rev
DIR Justin Evans tells us that some
wears ago some workmen were making
an excavation in Victoria park, London
Suddenly tie walls caved in and the
workmen were imprisoned In the dltct
and threatened with suffocation
Among the crowds Of curiosity seekers
which gathered around there was one
man who stood looking on as listlessly
| as most of the men who were standing
about. Suddenly woman called hin
by name and cried: Man, why don
Won get TO work? DO you not know
your brother is down there IN tina
ditch?" With that the man threw OF
his coat and went frantically to Worl
to save his brother. Family affection
stirred him. Thus every man ant
woman can be drawn to work 10
Christ If we only know upon wha
chord of hove to play, as that ma
4 into an -ifnt5nsee' see'.eEsel .eeEnse hgyEic euElasl1
brothers name.
wonder what appeal of love Pat
made when he was pleading for Jesu
Christ before Felix and Drusllia'
wonder if this beautiful woman eve
had a golden haired little girl or boy b
her first husband? | wonder II she ma
ever pillowed her darling's head upo
her breast and gently lullabied her
sIeep in the evening hour. | wonder l
after she had been wooed into the Ian
of sin by Felix, she had turned 1T
back upon her babies and left them "
l hind when she left her first husband
I wonder If in the midnight hour som
times she heard those babies calling
I her when she awoke with a star
: Then I wonder If off in the distan'
o she saw their white baby hands bee
u oning and she heard the little Voic
/ calling: Mother, mother. Are you II
coming back to me, motherF am yo
J. baby. VIII you not come back to me
L Yes | have sometimes wondered
): when Paul preached Jesus Christ
s. Drusllla he did not turn and Sd
n "Mother. wilt thou not give thy hea
'r 10 Jesus for the babies sakeE
al But | cannot close this sermon WI
70 ont asking myself just one more qu'
re tion I wonder If Pauls martyrdom
m Rome had anything to do with this
e. fusal of Felix to let Paul go freeE
10 wonder If. when Paul was carried
u Rome. Caesar never examined INTO
ne case at all? But when the Caesar W
so asked. shall Paul be beheadedT
or merely said: "Well, if Governor Fe
ne would not let him 20 free he must
guilty. Let him die" And l SOL
a. times wonder, If we refuse Christ
le. day. II there will not be some Cae'
Oh living thousands of miles away fr
~ us who will be led to reject our en-
1T merely because we are rejecting L
az now.
1t. II Is an awful thing to think ab
EN- what is going to happen after we
nd dead. There is a beautiful story
ire ~,
yer by Captain Mcnamara OF the nj
nat Massachusetts infantry that a1ter
not first DAYS battle of Gettysburg the
ing djcrs. with empty hayersacks, hau
his lie down to sleep with nothing TO
wv While the great army was resting
our the next days carnage one OF the
hat of his company, more hungry than
,ay. rest and unable to sleep, rose ana W
not out to seek food among the dead.
you knelt by the side Of one OF his q
Why comrades, opened his hayersacK
,ur. found there four rolls. one by on
put them into his own hayersacK
llar arose to seek his own place among
try living. After he had gone few p
the he suddenly stopped. Then he retr'
over his steps. He put those rolls back
ONE the dead mans haversack. he ge