Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-08-04
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Again, there may be some OF you
WHO, In the attempt after Christian
life, will have to run against powerful
passions and appetites. Perhaps 1t IS
disposition TO anger that you have to
contend against, and perhaps, while in
very serious mood, you hear OF some
thing that makes you feel that you must
swear or die. l know of Christian
man who was once SO exasperated that
he said to mean customer, II cannot
swear at you myself, for l an mem
Der of the church, but If you will go
down stairs my partner in business will
swear at you. - AL your good resolu-
tons heretofore have been torn to tat.
tors by explosions of temper. Now, there
is no harm in getting mad If you only
get mad at SIN. You need to bride and
saddle these hot broathed passions, and
with them ride down injustice and
wrong. There are thousand things III
the world that we ought to be mad at
There is no harm in getting redhot If
you only bring TO the forge that which
needs hammering. A man who has no
power OF righteous indignation Is M i'm
beetle. But be sure 1t is righteous In
diRnation and not o petu]ancy that
blurs and unrsyels and depietes the soul.
There is large class Of persons IN
midlife who have still in them apo
tites that were aroused in early man
hood, at time when they prided them
selves on being little fast, high
livers," free and easy, hail follows
well met. They are now paying in
compound interest for troubles they col
lected 30 years ago. Some OF you are
trying to escape, and you will, yet very
narrowly, las with The skin Of your
teeth. " God and your own soul only
know what the struggle Is. Omnipotent
grace has pulled out many soul that
was deeper III the mire than you are.
They line the beach OF heaven, the null
titude whom God has rescued from the
thrall OF suicidal habits. If you this day
turn your back OH the wrong and start
anew, God will help you On, the weak
meas of human help! Men will sympa-
thiso for awhile and then turn you OF.
If you ask for their pardon. they will
give it and say they will try you again;
but, falling away again under the power
of temptation, they cast you off forever.
But God forgives seventy times seven
= yea, seven hundred times - yea,
though this be the ten thousandth time
be Is more earnest, moro sympathetic,
more helpful this last time than when
you tooh your frat misstep.
If, With all the influences favorable
for right life, men make 50 many mis-
takes, how much haYdez n is when for
instance, SONG appetite thrusts its iron
erapple into the roots OF the tongue and
pulls o man down with banda Of de-
structionl II under such circumstances
he break away, there will be no sport
in tho undertaking, no holiday enjoy
ment, but struggle In which the wres-
tiers move from side to aide and bend
and twist and watch for On opportunity
to get In a heavier stroke until with
one final effort, In which the muscles
are distended, and the veins stand out,
and the blood starts, she swsrthy habit
falls under the knee Of the victories
capped at lost as with the skin OF his
teeth.
In the last day it will be found that
Hugh Latimer and John Knox and
Huss and Ridley were not the greatest
martyrs, bat Christian men who went
up incorrupt from the COMMUNICATIONS
and perple1ities Of Wall street, Water
street, Pearl street, Broad street, State
street Third street, Lombard street and
the bourse. On earth they were called
brokers OF stockholders or retailers or