Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-11-28

spouse is, Nowhere. Z" Rush into the
busy shop or store Of many one, and,
taking the plane out of the mans hand
or laying down the yardstick, say,
"What, man, is all this about-so much
stir and sweat?" The reply will stumble
and break down between teeth and lips.
Every days duty ought only to be the
filling up of the main plan of existence.
Let men be consistent. If they prefer
misdeeds to correct courses of action,
then let them draw out the design of
knavery and cruelty and plumber. Let
every day falsehood and wrongdoing
be added as coloring to the picture. Let
bloody deeds red stripe the picture, and
the clouds of wrathful God hang down
heavily over the canvas ready to break
out III clamorous tempest. Let the wa
tiers be chafed and froth tangled and
green with immeasurnble depths. Then
take torch of burning pitch and scorch
into the frame the right name for it
the SOULS suicide. If one entering upon
sinful directions would only. in his
mind or on paper, draw out i'll awful
reality this dreadful future, he would
recoil from it and say, Gam Dante,
that by my own life should write an
other 'Inferno? But If you are re-
solved to live life such as God and
good men will approve, do not lot it be
Vague dream, an indefinite determine
ton, but in your mind or upon paper
sketch it in all its minute. You cannot
know the changes to which you may be
subject, but you may know what always
will be right and always will be wrong.
Let gentlcness and charity and veracity
and faith stand i'll the heart of the
sketch.
On some still brooks bank make a
lamb and lion lie down together. Draw
two or three of the trees OF life, not
frost stricken, nor ice glazed, nor wind
stripped, but with thick verdure waving
like the palms of heaven. On the dark
est cloud place the rainbow, that pillow
of the dying storm You need not print
the title on the frame. The dullest Will
catch the design at glance and say,
"That is the road to heaven. All, mel
On this sea of life what innumerable
ships, heavily laden and well rugged,
yet seem bound for no port! Swept ev-
ery whittier of wind and wave, they go
up by the mountains, they 90 down by
the valleys and are at their wits end.
They sail by no chart, they watch no
star, they long for no harbor. | beg ev-
cry young man today to draw out a
sketch of what, by the grace of God, he
means to be. Think no excellence so
high that you cannot reach it. He who
starts ont in life with high ideal of
character and faith in its attainment
will find himself incased from thou
sand temptations There are magnifi-
cent possibilities before each OF you
Young men of the stout heart, and the
buoyant step, and the bounding spirit
I would marshal you for grand achieve
ment. God now provides for you the
field, and the armor, and the fortifca-
lions. Who is on the Lord S side? A
captain in ancient times, to encourage
his men against the immense odds on
the side of their enemies, said: " Come,
nv men, look these fellows in the face.
They are 5000; you are 500. Surely
the match is even" That speech gave
them the victory. Be not, my hearers,
dismayed at any time by what seems an
immense odds against you. Is fortune,
is want of education, are men, are dey-
lis, against you, though the multitudes
of earth and hell confront you, stand up
to the charge. With 1000, 900 against
you the match is just even. Nay, you
have decided adyantage If God be for
us, who can be against US? Thus pro.
tected, you need not spend much time
in answering your assailants.
Many years ago word came to rue that
two impostors, as temperance lecturers,
had been speaking in Ohio in various
places and giving their experience, and
they told their audience that they had
long been intimate with me and had
become drunkards by dining at my ia
BILE, where 1 always had liquors of all
sorts. Indignant to the last degree, l
went down to Patrick Campbell, chief
of Brooklyn police, saying that was
going to start that night for Ohio to
have those villains arrested, and l want
ed him to tell me how to make the ar
rest. He smiled and said: do not
waste your time by chasing these men.
Go home and do your work, and they
can do you no harm. I took his coun-
sci, and oil was well. Long ago made
up my mind that if one will put his
trust in God and be faithful to duty he
need not fear any evil. Have God on
your side young man, and all the COM
bined forces of earth and hell can do
you no damage.
Religious Principle.
And this leads me to say that the
mightiest defense for young man is
the possession of religious principle.
Nothing can take the place Of it. He
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