Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-01-16
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room the scent of rotten apples. and
the decay of the fruits of earthly
prosperity may become AN inspira-
ton instead of depression. Robert
Chambers lame feet shut him up
from other work, and he became the
world renowned publisherand helped
fashion the best literature Of the
ages The painful disorder like that
of Hezeiiah called calbuncle, is
spelled exactly the same as the pre-
ciolls stone called the carbunrle. and
the pang of suffering may become
the jewel Of immortal value. Your
setback, like that of Ahaz's sundial.
may be recovery and triumph.
never had q setback but it turned
out to be set forward. You never
would have become Christian if
you had not had a setback. The
highest thrones in heaven are for the
setbacks. In 1861 the shadow of the
srndial of this nation was set back
anu T.. -l-;ngs seemed going to ruin,
and it was set back farther :, L. 1852.
and farther in 1863 and still further
in 1865, but there is not an intelligent
and well balanced man, north OF
south, east or west. but feels it was
set back toward the sunrise.
TURN THE SHADOWS BACK.
But promised to show you how
tho shadows might be turned back.
First, by going much among the
young people. In most family circles
there are grandchildren. By this d.
vine arrangement most of the people
who have passed the meridian of life
can compass themselves by juveril-
ity. 1t is bad thing for an old man
or old woman to sit looking at the
vivacity of their grandchildren shout
ing, Stop that racket Better join
in the fun. Let the eighty year-old
grandfather join the eight-year-
young grandson or granddaughter.
My father and mother lived to see
over eighty children and grandchil-
dren and great-grandchildren, and
more boisterous crew were never
turned out Oh this sublunary sphere,
and they all seemed to cry to the old
folks Keep young and they did
keep young.
Don't walk with a cane unless you
have to, or only as defense in a city
afflicted with too many CANNES.
Don't wear glasses stronger than
necessary. putting on number tens
when eighteens will do as well. Don't
go into the company of those who
are always talking about rheuma-
tisln and lumbago and shortness of
breath and the brevity of human life.
It is too much for my gravity to hear
an octogenarian talking about the
shortness of human life. From all ]
can 6ndo out he has always been here,
and from present prospects he is al
HsSS g R{5 NS e stsE RemaiP
Teach the girls how to dress their
dolls. Better than alnica for your stiff
joints and catnip tea for your sleep
less nights will he large dose Of
youthful companionship.
THE WORLD is GROWING BETTER.
Set back the clock of human Life
Make the shadow of the sundial of
Ahaz retreat ten degrees. People
make themselves old by always talk
ing about being old and wishing for
the good old days which were never
as good as these days From all !
can hear the grandchildren are not
half as bad as the grandparents were.
Matters have been hushed up. But
if YOU have ever been in room adj
Joining room where some very old
people little deaf were talking over
old times you will find that this age
does not monopolize all the young
rascals. It may now be hard to get
young people up early enough in the
morning, but their grandparents al
ways had to be pulled out of bed.
It's wrong now to play mischievous
tricks on the unsuspecting, but eighty
years ago at school that now venera.
BILE man sat down on crooked pin
not accidentally placed there, and
pu1posely drove the sleigh riding par
ty too near the edge of the embank-
ment that he might see how they
would look when tumbled into the
snow. And that man who has so little
patience with childish exuberance
was in olden times up to pranlls one
half of which, if practiced by the
eisht-year-old of today, would set
grandfather and grandmother crazy.
Revive your remembrance of what
YOU were between five and ten years
of age, and with patience capable of
everything join with the young. Put
back the shadow Of the dial not ten
degrees, but fifty and sixty and sew
enty degrees.
Set back your clocks also by enter
ing on new and absorbing Christian
work. In our desire to inspire the
young we have in our essays had
much to say about what has been ac-
complished by the young; of Romu-
lus, who founded Rome when he was
twenty years of age; of Cortes, who
had conquered Mexico at thirty
years; of Pitt, who was prime min
lister of England at twenty-four
years; of Raphael, who died at
thirty-seven years; of Calvin, who
wrote his Institutes at twenty-six; of
Melancthon, who took learned pro-
fessor's chair at twenty-one years of
Luther, who had conquered Germany
for the Reformation by the time be
was thirty-fve years.
And il is all very well for us to