Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-08-18

you are the sour. unresponslvo. censorlous,
saturnne cranky, elder brother, and II
YOU are going to heaven one would MINK
some people would be tempted to go to per-
dition to get away from YOU. The hunters
say that if a deer be shot the other deer
shove him out OF their company, and the
general ruls is, away with the man that has
been wounded with sin. Now, say,
the more bones man has broken,
the more need he has OF a nos
pital and that tho more man has been
bruised and cut with sin the moro need he
has to To carried into human and divine
sympathy But for such men there Is not
much room in this world-the mon who wanC
to come back after wandering. Plenty OF
room for elegant sinners, sinners Ill veiVeh
and satin and lace, for sinners high alarled,
for kid-gloved and patent leather sinners,
for sinners fixed mp by halr-dresSer, poina,
tuned and lavendered and cologned ana
frizzled and crimped and banged sinners
plenty of room! Such we meet elegantly at
the door OF our churches, and we invite them
into the best seats with CheSteriieldian gal
lantrics; we usher them into tho house OF ttou,
, and put soft ottonlans under their ieee,
and put q gilt-edged prayer-book III tiieir
hand, aud pass the contribution before them
with an air OF apology, whllo they, tile
portenonnaie, anu open it, anu WIN
diumon,letl- finger push down beyond
the ten.,lolar gold pieces and deli.
catcly pick out rs an expression OF
gratitude their Offering to the LORD, OF
one cent. For such sinners plenty OF room,
plenty of room. But for the man who has
Iecn drinking until his coat is threadbare
and his face is ervspcased, and his wife's
welding dress is i'll the pawnhrokerS shop,
and his children, instead of being in school,
are out begging broken bread at the base.
nicnt doors OF tho city the man, body, mind
and soul on fire with the flames that have
leupcd from the scathing. Scorchlng, blasting,
consuming cup which the drunkard takes.
trembling and agonized, anu aifrlghted' ana
presses to his parched lip, and his cracked
Tongue. and his shrioking yet immortal spirit
ITO room.
Oh. if this Younger son of the parable had
not Como SO far OF, if lie had not dropped SO
low in w;lSsai. the protest would not have
been so severe; but going clear over The
precipice rs the younger son did, the elder
SON is angry and will not so III.
Oh be not so hard in your criticism OF the
fallen. lest thou thySeif also be tempted A
stranger one Sunday staggered up ana
down the aiSes of my church, disturbing
the service until the service had to stop until
he was taken from the room. lilo
was n minister of the Gospel OF
Jesus Christ of Il sister denomination!
That man had preached the GoSp,l,
that man had broken the bread of the Hcly
Communion for the peop'e. From what
height to what depth! Oh, was glad there
was no smiling i'll the room when that man
was taken out, his poor wife following hun
with his hat in her hand, and his coat on her
arm 1t was rs solemn to me rs two funerals
the funeral of the body and the funeral or
The soul Beware lest thou also be tenptatt.
An Invalid went to South America for his
health, and one day sat summing himself on
the beach, when lie saw something craving
40 the beach wrig cling toward him. aud liz
vas atfrlghted He thought it was wild
beast. or 3; reptile and he took his pistol
from his pocket Then lie saw 1t was
not a wild beast. 1t was Il man, an immortal
man, a man made in Gods own image; aSld
the poor wretch craw!ed up to the feet of the
invalid and asked for strong drink, and the
invalid took his wine flask from his pocket
and gave the poor wretch something to
drink, and then under the stimulus he rose
M and gave his history. He had been a
merchant in Glasgow Scotland. lie had gone
| down unlrr the power OF strong drink until
he was so reduced in poverty that he WIS ".
| ing in 4 boat Just OIL tile beach. Nv ny, SAID
| the invalid II knew a merchant i'll Glasgow
once" merchant 10y such aud sGch name,
and the poor wretch Strengthened himself
and said: IT am that man" .Iet him that
thinketh he Stlndeth take heed lest he fall.
Again, remark that the senior brother OF
nv text stands for the spirit OF envy and
Jealousy The senior brother thought that
| all the honor they did to the returned brother
was wrong to him. He said: u have
ring, and ought to have had the banquet, and
ought to have had tile garlands.' Alas foi
this spirit of envy and jealousy coming
own through the ages! Cain and Abel,
Esau and Jacob, Saul and David, Hannah
and Mordecai, Othello and lago. Orlando
and Angelica, Calgula and Torquatus.
Caesar and Pompey, Columbus and the
brother he slew because no was better
marksmau. Dionysius and Philoxenius.
whom he slew because he was better singer.
Jealousy among painters. Closterman ana
Godfrey, Kneller, Hudson and Reynolds.
Francis, anxious to sc picture of Raphael,
Raphael senGs him Il picture. francis, sec
NJ 1t, falls i'll fit OF Jealousy from which
he die Jealousy among authors, How
seldom contemporaries speak OF each other.
Nenophon and Plato living at the same time,
but from their wrtin IS you never would
suppose they heard OF each other Religious
ieaiousias. The Mahommedans praying for
rain during a drought, no rain coming.
Then the Christians begin to pray
for rain, aud tue rain comes Then
! the Mahommedans met together to ac-
rount for this, and they resolved that God
! He kept the drought on so as to keep them
PRAYING: but that the Christians began to
pray, and the Lord was so Disguised with
! sbeir PRAYERS that He sent rain right away so
| He would not hear any more of their suppll--
| cations. Oh this accused spirit of envy and
| jealousy! Let us stamp it out from oil our
hearts.
A wrestler was so envious Of TheogeneS,
| the prince of wrestlers, that he could not be
| I'll ~, and after lIn0HenoS
| died and a statue was lifted to him IN pun
| lie place, his envious antagonist went out
| every night and wrcsted with the statue
/ until one night he threw it, and it fell on him
and crushed him to death. So jealousy IS II t
| only al surd, but it is killing to the oody
mud it is killing to the SOUL How sel,on IL
| is YOU find one merchant speaking well OIL
| merchant in the same line of business. How
| seldom it is you hear of physician speaking
| we'll of a physician on the same block. Oh.
my fri ends, the world is large enough Tor all
| of us Let us rejoice at the success OF
others. The next best thing to owning a
| garden ourselves is to look over the fence
| and admire the flowers. The next best thing
toriding IN fine equ;p1ge is to stant on the
| street and admire the prancinS span: Inc
next best thing to having q banquet given to
ourselves is having banquet given to our
prodigal brother that has come home to his
| fathers house
Besides that if we do not get as much
honor and as much attention rs others, we
ought to congratulate ourselves on what we
escape in the way of assault. The French
| General, riding on horseback at the head OF
| his troops heard soldier complain ami
! saw: IS it is very easy for the General
to command us forward while he rides
and we walk" Then the General d:smo1nted
| and compelled the complaining soldier to get
on the horse. Coming throu IN ravine, a
bullet from a sharpshooter struck the rider,
and he fell dead Then the General said:
"How much safer it is TO walk than to ride:
| Once more | have 10 tell you that this
| .o,,ior. hrntha. of NV text stands for the