Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-11-22
wrrI,l{1 = 5nIe,eEp 4 WE'LL.

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things because, it ssbclonscd to the old
patriarch after whom it was named,
and for the wonderful things which
Chrisfsaid, seated on this well curb, to
the Samaritan woman. We dismount
from Our horses ina drizzling rain, and
our diagolran climbing up to the well :
over ShcIslirpely stones, stumblcs and
frightens us alt bYnoarl;T falling into it.
| measured the well ut the top and
found aitz six feet from edge to edge.
Sometgrass nnd weeds and thorny
growths overfang it, In one place the
roof iS.brokcns through Large stones
embalktlc wall on all si,los
Our dragonlan took pebbles and !
dropped them in, and from the time
they leftsl,is.shand TO the instant they
clckeSlEson, the bottom you could hear
it wGNdeop, through not rs deep as
once, for every day travellers are APP
plyingithe same test, and though in the
time Of M;nlntlrcll, thet.aveler, the well
was asiund rcsi and sixty-lvc feet deep,
now Nsunilsssevo Eve. So: great is !;
the eti..,.ra.ls of the world TO know
abousstlat we'll t:lat during the dry
scasol#a Capt. Anderson descended
into fhis we'll, at one place the sidess
closeShe had to put his hands over Ills
headsin order TO get through and then
lie fainted away, and lay at the bottom
of the well as though dead until, hours
afterSilis recovery, he camc to the sur
face.
tits not like other wells Giggcd down
to ;Lsfountain that fills it, but Il rescr-
voirSto CATCH the falling rains and to
that:Clnist refers when speaking to the
Samaritan womln about Il spiritual /.
supply lie said that he would, if asked.
have given her Giving water that is,
water from flowing spring in dis
tinction from the water of that well
which was rain water. But willy did !
jacob make a reservoir there when
there is plenty of water I'LL around and
abundance Of springs and fountains
and;Fseemingly no need of that rcscr-
voiTg Why did Jacob go to the vast
expense of boring and digging Il we'll
perhaps two hundred feet deep as first
completed, when. by going II little way
offaaLe could have water from other
fountains at little or no expense. Ali.
,Jacobiswas wisc! lie wanted lis own
we'll. Qpariels and wars might arise
with other tribes and the supply Of
water might be cut Off. SO the shovcls
and piclSaxcs and boring instruments
were ordered and the well of nearly
four thousand years ago was sunk
through the solid rock.
SEEK YE FOR LIVING WATERS.
when Jacob thus wisely insisted on
having his OVID well he taught US not
toEa unnecessarily dependent on 9th
ers& Independence Of business charac-
.ter.s independence of moral character
independence of religious character
Haze your owl well of grace, your own
well of courage. your own well:of di-
vincsupply. If you are an invalid you ;
have right to be dependent on others
sGS:alts IS 8 cd has given you good health.
common sense and two eyes and two
cars and two hands and two feet, lie
equipped you for independence Of all
the universe except himself. If he had
mcarit you to be dependent OH others
you would have been built with cord
around your waist to tic fast to some
body else. No; you are built with
common sense to fashion your own
opinions, with e:cs TO find your own
way, with cars to select Your own mu-
sic. with hands to fight your own bat
ties. There is only one being in the
universe whose advice you need, and
that is God. Have your own well
and the Lord will i'll it. Dig it if need
be through two hundred feet of solid
rock. Dig it with your pen, or dig it
with your yardsticll, or dig it with
your shovel, or dig it with your Bible.
In my small way I never accom-
plishcd anything for God, or the church,
or the world, or my family, or myself
except in contradiction to human ad-
vice and in obedience TO divine coun-
sci. God knows everything, and what
is the use of going for advice to human {
beings who know so little that no one
but the all seeing God can realize how
little it is? l suppose that when Jacob
began to dig this well on which we are
sitting this noontilnc people gathered
around and said, WHAT useless ex-
pensc you arc going to, when rolling
down from yonder Mount Gcrizim and
down from yonder Mount Ebal and
out yonder in the valley is plenty of
water" "Oh," replied jacob, that
is all true; but suppose my neighbors
should get angcrcd against INC, and cut
off my supply OF mountain beverage,
what would do, and what would my
family do, and what would my flocks
md herds do? Forward, ye brigade
of pickaxes and crowbars and go down
into the depths OF these rocks, and
make NE independence of all except him
who fills the bottles of the clouds |
must have my own we'll"
Young man, drop cigars and cigar
cites and wine cups and the Sunday
excursions, and build your own house
and have your own wardrobe and be
your own capitalist! why, I lave
only five hundred dollars income a
year, says some one. Then spend
four hundred dollars of it in living, and
ten per cent. of it or fifty dollar; in be-
nevo!encc, and the other fifty in begin
ming to dig your own we'll. Or, if you
have thousand dollars Il year, spend
eight hundred dollars of it in living,
trn nor cent. or one hundred dollars in