Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-04-21

cencury 1t Will do You more harm than IL
does any one it leads you to assail. 1t will
delude you with the idea that you can build
yourself up by pulling somebody else down.
You will mako more out of the success OF
others than out of their misfortunes. Speak
well of everybody. Stab no man i'll tho back
Be O honey bee rather than a spider; be
dove rather than a buzzard
Surely this world is large enough for you
and all your rivals. God has given you a
work to do. Go ahead and do it. Mind
your own business. In all circles. i'll all BUSH
nessess, i'll all professions there is room for
straightforward successes. Jealousy enter
tanned will not only betlwarf your soul but
it will ilatten your skull, bemean your eye,
put pinchedncss of look about your nostril,
give bad curl to the lip, and expel froni
your faco the divine image in which you
were created When you hear a man or wo-
man abused, drive in on the defendants side.
Watch for excellenccs in others rather than
than for defects, morning Glories instead Of
nigntsl;ade. If some oue is more beautiful
than you, thank God that you have not so
many perils OF vanity to contend with. II
some one has more wealth than you, thank
God that you have not SO great Stewardship
to answer for. II some ono is higheriupSlI
social position thank God that losesW no
are down need not fear fall. II some tlone
(. I. gets higher Office in church or state than
YOU, thank God there are not so mnny to
wish for the Fastening on OF. your obsequies:
The Duke of Dantzig, in luxurious apart
ments, was visited by plain friend, and to
keep his friend from jealousy the duke said:
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twenty PAGES oil and let me shoot ut you q
hundred times" 'No. no." said his friend.
l"Weu.m SAID the duke ''to gain all my
honors faced OIL the tattle field more than
q thousand gunshots fired not more than ten
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i A minister Of small congregation COM
planned to q minister of large congregation
about the sparseness of his attendants "Ah,"
said the one Of large audience, my son, you
will find in the day OF Judgment that you
hud quite enough people for whom to be held
accountable"
Substitute for jealousy an elevating emula-
ton. Seeing others good, let us try to be
better Seeing others industrious, let us
work more hours. Seeing others benevolent,
let us resolve on giving larger percentage of
our means for charity. May God put con-
eratulations for others into our right hand
and cheers on our lips for those who do brave
and useful things. Life is short at
the longest; let it all be filed up
with helpfulness for others, work
and sympathy for each others misfort.
unes, and our arms be full of white mantles
to cover up the mistakes and failures of
Others. II all evil report about some one
como t US, let us put on it most favorable
construction, as the Rhone enters Lake Lcman
foul and comes out crystalline. Do not build
SO much on the transitory differences of this
world, for soon it will make no difference to
us whether we had S1O,0OO,O00 or ten cents,
and the ashes into which the tongue OF
Demosthencs dissolved arc just like the ashes
into which the tongue of the vericst SIAM
merer went
II you are assailed by Jealousy make no on
swor Take it rs compliment, for people
are never jealous OF failure. Until your
work is done you are invulnerable. Rcmeni-
Der how our Lord behaved under such exas
perations Did they not try to catch him IL
his worda Did they not call him the victim
of intoxicants? Did they not misinterpret
him from tho winter of the year, to the spring
of the year 80; that is, from his first infantilt
cry to the Inst groan of his assassination
Yet no answered not word! But so fal
from domolishing either his mission or hi:
good name, after near nineteen centuries be
outranks everything under the skies, and il
second to none above them and the archang.,
,l-yr5res snlaun -u5 Ills fOototvoI-- Ght.a.5ti
~ 0ody antagonists thought they had finished
him when thoy wrote over the cross his ac
cusation in three languages, Hebrew and
Greek and Latin, not realizing that they were
by that act introducing him to all nations
since Hebrew is the hottest language, and
Greek the wisest of tongues, ana Latin the
widest spoken.
You are not the first man who had his
faults looked at through microscope and
his virtues through the wrong end Of a tel
escope. Pharaoh had the chief butler and
baker endungeoned, and tradition says that
ell the butler had done was to allow a fly in
the kings cup, and all the baker had done
was to leave a gravel III the kings bread.
The world has the habit of making u great
ado about what you do wrong and forgetting
to say anything about what you do right; but
the same God will take care of you who pro
vided for Merlin, the Christian martyr,
when hidden from his pulsuers in hay
NOW in Paris, and hen came and laid an
egg close by him every morning, thus keep
ing him from starvation. Blessed are they
i that arc prosecuted, although persecution is
severe cataplasm. Ointment may smart
the wound before healing it. What a soft
pillow to die on if when we leave the world
we can feel that, though 1000 people mny
have wronged us, we have wronged no one;
or, having made envious and jealous attack
on Others we have repented of the sin and
rs far as possible made reparation. The
GOOD resolution of Timothy Poland in his
quaint but exquisite hymn, entitled "Most
Any Day. we might well unanimously
adopt.
Well keep oil right aud good within,
Our work will then be free fromSin;
Upright well walk through thick and thin
Straight on our way.
Deal just with all: tue prize we'll win
Most any day.
When He who made all things just right
Shall call US hence to realms Of light,
Be it morn or noon or cen ornight,
We will obey;
Well be prepared to take our flight
DIost any day.
Our lamps we'll fiji brin full Of oil
That's good and pure, thatwould not spoil,
And keep them burning all the while
To light our way;
Our work oil t!cne, we'll quit the soil
/ Nest upy day.
Shaving Men in Eed
edo we shave. many people ct. their
roorns!q' said prominent barber, in reply to
an interviewer, who was under the Furnishing
process. .'Why, yes; I suppose each of my
hands has five OF six customers of the kind.
They are mostly whatyou newspaper mon
term young rnen about town. Tho work is
almost confined to Sunday afternoon. a
young fellow goes out Saturday night for a
good time, which he usually prolongs until
| earlx in the morning WHOM he finds himself