Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-02-13
ACCoMAC c. H. VA. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY -,

clan; got woefully discouraged in his
work and was about to give up, when
he saw some words on the paper
which had been used to stiffen the
cover of his book, and the words be-
ing indistinct he dampened the cover
until he could take it off and sec
the words plainly, and he found they
were words of advice given by
DAlembert to u student. and the
words were, Go on. sir; go ont
o ye who are convicted. "(4o on"
You must take one more step or all
the steps you have taken will amount
to nothing. Go on
BLINDED ARROGANCE LEADS TO sTUM-
BLING.
Learn also from my subject that
pride is the precursor of overthrow.
Pride is commander well plumed
and caparisoned, but it leads forth a
dark and frowning host. Pride
goeth before destruction, and a
naughty spirit before fall The
arrows from the Almightys culver
are apt to strike a man when on the
wing. Goliath shakes his great spear
in defiance, but the smooth stones
from the brook make him stagger
and fall like an OK under a butchers
bludgeon. He who is down cannot
fall. Vessels scudding under bare
poles do not feel the force of the
storm.
What are those three sleds that
have Just gone into the yard of a
miserable hotel in Warsaw, Poland,
on the cold night of December the
tenth, 1922 Who are they, who
from these sleds have entered, and
the servant is trying to build for
them fire with some green wood2
Napoleon, with six attendants, on re-
treat from Moscow. The fire amid
the green wood has gone out and the
emperor is walking the floor to keep
from freezing.
Then bounding into his sled, the
thermometer twenty-six degrees be-
low zero, he disappears in the dark
ness. He who little before had an
army under his command, together
with troops offered by other nations,
in all 1890 men. now retreating
through that December night with
three sleds, and those of his army
not dead under the snow. reduced
for food to handful of rye dough,
seasoned with gunpowder for lack of
salt, and a mouthful of horsefesh.
From what a height to what depth !
Nebuchadnezzar in the palace; Ne
buchadnezzar forsaken in the fields.
Again learn from the misfortune
of the king of Babylon what ter
rible thing. is the loss of reason.
There is no calamity that can possibly
befall us in this world SO great as the
arrangement of intellect-to have
the body of a man and yet to fall
even below the instinct of brute. In
this world of sad sights the saddest is
the idiots stare. In this world Of
awful sounds the most awful is the
maniac's laugh. A vessel Oh the
rocks, when hundreds go down never
to rise. and other hundreds drag their
mangled and shivering bodies up
the wintry beach, is nothing COM
pared to the laundering of intellects
full of vast hopes and attainments
and capacities. Christ's heart went
out to those who were epileptic, fall
ing into the fire. or maniacs cutting
themselves among the tombs.
We are accustomed to be more
grateful for physical health than for
the proper working of our mind.
We are apt to take it for granted
that the intellect which has served
us SO well will always be faithful.
We forget that an engine with such
tremendous power, when the wheels
have such vastness of circle and such
swiftness Of motion and the least i'm
pediment might put it out of gear,
could only be kept in proper balance
by a divine hand. No human power
could engineer this train of inmor
tai faculties.
How strange it is that our memo
ry. on whose shoulders all tho sue.
cesses and nlisfoltrmes and occur
rences of lifetime are placed, should
not oftener break down, and that the
scales of judgment, which have been
weighing SO much and so long. should
not lose their adjustment, and that
fancy, which holds a dangerous
wand, should not sometimes mali
ciously wave it, bringing into the
heart forebodings and Authorizations
the most appalling. Is it not strange
that the expectations Of this intellect
should not be dashed to pieces on its
disappointments'
Though SO tlelicately attuned, this
instrument of untold harmonies plays
on, though fear shocks it, and vexa-
lions rack it. and sorrow and JOY and
loss and gain in quick succession beat
out of it their dirge or draw from it
their anthem. At morning and at
night, when in your prayer YOU re-
hearse the OBJECTS OF your THANKS
giving, next to your salvation by
Jesus Christ, praise the Lord for the
preservation of your reason.
THE DEGRADATION BY ANoDYNEs.
How many fine intellects are being
destroyed by anodynes and an@sthet-
les, which were given by providence
FOR occasional use in alienation of
pain or insomnia but by being en-
ployed continuously after awhile cap
ture and destroy. Choral, cocaine,
bromide of potassium, opium and