Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-06-13

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your leisure. My Gccr is bolted Mt the
time 1 am writing this for am full OF
tears.
Tho East Wind.
What was the matter with tho dean
Of Carlisle? Had lie got to bo worse
man? No The physician said that the
state Of his pulse would not warrant his
living minute. Oh, if the east wind
] affects tho spleen, and affects the lungs,
and affects the liver, it will affect your
immortal soul Appealing to God for
help, brace yourself against these with
ering blasts and destroying influences,
lest that which the psalmist said broke
the ships of Tarshish shipwreck you.
But notice in my text that the Lord
controls the cast wind: 1.-The Lord
brought tho cast Wind He brings it
for especial purpose; it must sometimes
blow from that quarter. The east wind
is just as important as tho north wind,
or the south wind, or the west wind,
but not so pleasant. Trial must come
The text does not say you will escape
the cutting blast Whoever did escape
it? Especially who that accomplished
anything for church or state ever escaped
it? waa In the pulpit of John Wesley,
in London, pulpit where he stood one
day and said, II have boon charged
with all the eri1aes i'll the catalogue ex-
cept one-shat Of drunkenness, " and a
woman arose in the audience and said,
John. you were drunk last night. So
John Wesley passed under the fail.
cav in foreign journal q report of
one OF George Whiteticld's sermons
sermon p9eachod hundred and twenty
or thirty years ago. 1t seemed that tho
reporter stood TO take the sermon, and
his chief idea was to caricature 1t, and
these are somo Of the reportorial inter
Innings Of the sermon of George White
/ field. After calling him by a nickname
! indicative of physical defect in the
eye, it goes on to say: Here the preach
Ter clasps his chin on the pulpit cushion.
/ Here he elevetcs his voice Here he
flowers his voice. Holds his arms ex-
tended. Bawls aloud. Stands trembling.
Makes frightful face. Turns up the
whites of his eyes. Clasps his hands be-
hind him. Clasps his arms around him
and hugs himself. Roars aloud. Halloos,
jumps cries Changes from crying.
/ Halloos and jumps again. Well, my
brother, if that good man went through
all that process. i'll your occupation, i'll
your profession, i'll your store, in your
shop, ut the bar, in the sickroom, in
tho editorial chair, somewhere, you will
have to go through a liar process.
You cannot escape it.
Keats wrote his famous poem, and
the hard criticism of the poem killed
him-literally killed him. Tasso wrote
his poem, entitled Jerusalem Deliv
cred, and ii had such cold reception
it turned him into ruving maniac.
Stillingfcet WINS slain by his literary en-
enies Tho frown of Henry VIII slew
Cardinal Wolsey The Duke of VOL
lington refused to have the fence around
his house, which had been destroyed by
an excited mob, rebuilt, because he
wanted tho fence to remain as it was, a
reminder of the mutability and uncer-
tainty of the popular favor.
In Time of Trial.
And you will have trial Of some sort
You have had it already. Why need l
prophosy? / might better mention an
historical fact III your history You are
Il merchant. What time you had with
| that old business partner! How hard it
was to get rid of him! Before you
bought him out, or he ruined both OF
you, what magnitude of annoyancel
Then after you had paid him down o
certain sum of money to have him go
out and to promise he would not open
& store of the same kind of business in
your street, did he not open the very
same kind Of business as near to you as
possible and take all your customers as
far as he could take them? And then,
knowing all your frailtics and weak
nesscs, after being in your business firm
for so many years, is he not now spend
ing his time in making Il commentary
on what you furnished as text? You
arc physician, and i'll your sickness,
or in your absence, You get a neighbor-
ing doctor to take your place i'll the sick
room, and he ingratiatcs himself into
the favor of that family, so that you
forever lose their patronage. Or, you
take pat1rnt through the serious stages
Of fever, and some day the impatient
father or husband of the sick one rushes
out and gets another medical practl-
toner, who comes in just in time to get
the credit of the cure. Or, you are a
lawyer, and you come in contact with
a trickster In your profession, and IN
your absence, and contrary to agree
ment, he moves nonsuit or the dis
missal Of the case. Or the judge on tho
bench, remembering all old political
grudge, rules against you every time he
gets chance, and says with snarl,
"If you don't like my decision, take an
exception. " Or, you are a farmer and
the curculio stings the fruit, or the wee
vii gets into the wheat, or the drought
stunts the corn, or the long continued
rains give you 10 opportunity for gath
ering the harvest. Your best COW gets
the hollow horn; your best horse gets
foundered. A French proverb said that
trouble comes in OH horseback and goes
away on foot. So trouble dashed i'll on
you suddenly; but, oh, how long it was
in getting awayl Came on horseback,
goes away Oh foot. Rapid in coming,
slow in going. That is the history OF
nearly all your troubles Again and
again and again you have experienced
the power of the east wind 1t may be
blowing from that direction now.
My friends, God intended these trou-
bles and trials for some particular pur-
pose They do not come at random.
Here is the promise: He stayoth his
rough wind in the day of the east
wind" In the tower of London the
swords and the guns of other ages are
Furnished and arranged into huge pas