Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-09-18
Ac10AIAC G a VA, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER is 1897

eca says IL Is immortal. Con1uclus says
it is immortal. An old book among the
family relics, book with leathern
cover almost worn out and pages almost
obliterated by oft perusal. joins the 9th
er books in saying am immortal. l
have 80 years for lifetime, 60 years
yet to live / may not live an hour, but
then l must lay out my plans intelli-
gently and for long life Sixty years
added to the 20 have already lived
that will bring me to So I must re-
member that these so years are only
brief preface to the five hundred thou
sand millions of quintillions of years
which will be my chief residence and
existence. Now, understand my oppor-
tunities and my responsibilities. If there
is any being in the universe all wise
and all benefcent who can help q man
in such juncture, want him.
The old book found among the family
relics tells me there is God and that
for the sake of his son, one Jesus, ne
will give help to a man. To him ap-
peal God help mel Here 1 have 60
years yet to do for myself and to do for
others. must develop this body by all
industries, by all gymnastics, by all
sunshine, by all fresh air, by all good
habits. And this soul 1 must have swept
and garnished and illumined and glo-
rified by all that can do for it and all
that 1 can get God to do for it. 1t shall
be Luxembourg of fine pictures. 1t
shall be an orchestra of grand har-
monies. 1t shall BIO palace for God
and Righteousness to reign III. wonder
how many kind words l can utter IN
the next GO years? l will try. l wonder
how many coed deeds can do in the
next GO years? | will try. God help me.
A Life Worth Living.
That young man enters life. He is
butfeted, he is tried, he is perplexed. A
grave opens on this side and a grave
opens on that side. lie falls, but he
rises again. He gets into a hard battle,
but he gets the victory. The main
course of his life is in the right direc-
ton He blcsses everybody he comes in
contact with. God forgives his mis-
takes and makes everlasting record of
his holy endeavors, and at the close of
it God says to him: well done, good
and faithful servant Enter into the Joy
of thy Lord - My brother, my sister,
l do net care whether that man dies at
30, 40, so, 60, 70 or so years of age;
you can chisel right under his name on
the tombstone these words, Ellis life
was worth living.
Amid the hills of New Hampshire, in
olden times, there sits mother. There
are six children in the household-four
boys and two girls Small farm. Very
rough, hard work to coax living out
of it. Mighty tug to make the two ends
of the year meet. The boys go to school
in winter and work the farm in sum-
mer. Mother is the chief presiding
spirit. With her hands she knits all the
stockings fer the little feet, and she is
the mantua maker for the boys, and she
is tic milliner fer the girls. There is
only cue musical instrument i'll the
house, the spinning wheel. The food is
very plain, but it is always we'll pro-
vided. The winters are very cold, but
arc kept cut by the blankets she quilt
ed. OH Sunday, when she appears IN
the village church, her children around
her, the minister looks down and is re-
minded of the Bible description of
good housewife, Her children arise up
and call her blessed; her husband also,
and he praiseth her. +"
Some years go by, and the two Oldest
boys want collegiate education, and
the household economies are seyerer,
and the calculations are closer, and I'M
til those two boys get their education
there is hard battle for bread. One of
these boys enters the university, stands
in pulpit widely influential and
breaches righteousness judgment and
temperance, and thousands during his
ministry are blessed. The other lad
who got the collegiate education goes
into the law, and thence into legisla-
tive halls, and after awhile he COM
mands listening senates as he makes
plea for the downtrodden and the out
cast. One of the younger boys becomes
a merchant, starting at the foot of the
ladder but climbing On up until his
success aud his philanthropies are rec
ognized all over the.land. The other
son stays at home because he prefers
farming life, and then he thinks he
will he able to take care of father and
mother when they get old.
Of the two daughters, when the war
broke out, one went through the hcspi-
tails of Pittsburg Landing and Fortress
Monroe. cheering up the dying and the
homesick and taking the last message
to kindred far away, so that every time
Christ thought of her he said, as Of old,
1.-The same is my sister and mother.
The other daughter has bright home