Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-06-05
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rashness throws them into wild enter
prises, or their trepidation makes them
decline great opportunity, or there is
vein of melancholy in their disposition
that defeats them, or they have an en-
dowment of overmirth that causes the
impression of insincerity.
Others have mighty obstacle in
their personal appearance, for which
they are not responsible. They forget
that God fashioned their features, and
their complexion and their stature, the
size of their nose and mouth and hands
and feet, and gave them their gait and
their general appearance, and they for
get that much of the worlds best work
and the church's best work has been
done by homely people, and that Paul
the Apostle is said to have been hump
backed and his eyesight weakened by
ophthalmia, while many of the finest in
appearance have passed their time be-
fore fattering looking glasses or In
studying killing attitudes and in dis
playing the richness Of wardrobes-not
one ribbon or vest or sack or glove or
button or shoestring of which they have
had brains to earn for themselves.
Others had wrong proclivities from
the start. They were born wrong, and
that sticks to one even after he is born
again. They have natural crankiness
that is 275 years old. 1t came over with
their great grandfathers from Scotland,
or Wales, or France. 1t was born on
the banks of the Thames, or the Clyde,
or the Tiber, or the Rhine, and has sur
vived ali the plaques and epidemics OF
many generations, and is living today
on the banks of the Potomac, or the
Hudson, or the Androscoggin, or the
Savannah or the La Plata. And when
man tries to stop this evil ancestral
proclivity he is like man on rock IN
the rapids of Niagara, holding on with
grip from which the swift currents
are trying to sweep him into the abyss
beyond.
Oh, this world is an overburdened
world, an oyerworked world. 1t is an
awfully tired world. 1t is dreadfully
unfortunate world. Scientists are try
ing to find out the cause Of these earth
uuakes in all lands, cisatlantic and
transatlantic. Some say this and some
say that. have taken the diagnosis of
what is the matter with the earth. 1t
has so many burdens on it and SO many
fires within it, it has fit. 1t cannot
stand such circumference and such a
diameter. Some new Cotopaxi or Strom-
boil or Vesuvius will open, and then
all will be at peace for the natural
world. But what about the moral woes
of the world that have racked all ma
tions, and for 5000 years science pro-
poses nothing but knowledge, and many
people who know the most are the most
uncontrolled?
A Way Out For All.
In the way Of practical relief for all
disadvantages and all woes the only
voice that is worth listening to Oh this
subject is the voice of Christianity,
which is the voice of Almighty God.
Whether 7 have mentioned the partic-
ular disadvantage under which you Ia
Dor or not, distinctly declare, in the
name of my God, that here is way
out and way up for all Of you. You
cannot be any worse off than that
Christian young woman who was i'll
the Pemberton mills when they fell
some years ago, and from under the
fallen timbers she was heard singing,
IT am going home to die no more. "
Take good courage from that Bible,
all of whose promises are for those in
bad predicament. There are better days
for you, either OH earth or in heaven.
I put my hand under your chin and
lift your face into the light of the COM
ing dawn. Have God on your side, and
then you have for reserve troops all the
armies of heaven, the smallest compa-
ny Of which is 10000 chariots and the
smallest brigade IA, 1000, the lightnings
of heaven their drawn sword.
An ancient warrior saw an overpow-
ering host come down upon his small
company of armed men, and mounting
his horse he threw handful of sand in
the air, crying, ''Let their faces be COW
cred with confusion. And both armies
heard his voice, and history says it
seemed as though the dust thrown in
the air had become so many angels OF
supernatural deliverance, and the
weak overcame the mighty, and the
immense host fell back, and the small
number marched on. Have faith in
God, and, though all the allied forces Of
discouragement seem to come against
you in battle array and their laugh Of
defiance and contempt resounds through
all the valleys and mountains, you
might by faith in God and importunate
prayer pick up a handful of the very
dust of your humiliation and throw it
into the air, and it shall become angels
of victory over all the armies of earth
and hell. The voices of your adversa-
ries, human and satanic, shall be cover
ed with confusion, while you shall be
not only conqueror, but more than con-
queror through that grace which has
so often made the fallen helmet of an