Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-07-24

woman. / am interested i'll your pre-
sent and your everlasting welfare.
want you to understand that if am
little higher up i'll this store l am be-
side you in Christian sympathy" Go
back 40 or so years to Arthur Tnppen's
store in New York, a man whose worst
enemies never questioned his honesty
Every morning he brought all the
clerks and the accountants and tho
weishers into room for devotion.
They sang, they prayed, they exhorted.
On Monday morning the clerks were
asked whore they had attended church
Oh the previous day and what the ser
mons were about. 1t must have sound
ed strangely, that voice Of praise along;
the streets where the devotees of Nam
mon were counting their golden beads.
You say, Arthur Happen failed. Yes.
he was unfortunate, like a great many
good men, but understand he met all
his obligations before he left this world,
and know that he died in the peace of
the gospel and that he is before the
throne Of God today-forever blessed.
If that be failing, l wish you might all
fail
There are q great many young men
and young women who want word OF
uragement-Christia encourage
ment One smile of good cheer would
be worth more to them tomorrow morn-
ing in their places of business than q
present of $40, 900 ten years hence. Oh,
I remember the apprehension and the
tremor of entering a profession. l re-
member very we'll the man who greeted
me in the ecclesiastical court with the
tip ends of the long fingers of the left
hand, and remember the other man
who took my hand i'll both Of his and
said: "God bless you, my brother. You
have entered glorious profession. Be
faithful to God, and he will see you
through" Why, I feel this minute the
thrill of that handwriting, though tho
man who gave me the Christian grip
has been in heaven go years. There are
old men here today who can look back
to 40 years ago, when some one said
kind word to them. Now, old men. pay
back what you got then. 1t is great
art for old men to be able to encourage
the young. There are many young peo-
pie in our cities who have come from
inland counties, from the granite hills
of the north from the savannas OF the
south, from the prairies of the west.
They are here to get their fortune. They
are in boarding houses where everybody
seems to be thinking of himself. They
want ompanionship. and they want
Christian encouragement. Give 1t to
them.
Balancing the Books.
NY word is to all clerks, Be mightier
than your temptations. a Sandwich Is
lander used to think when he slew al
enemy all the strength of that enemy
came into his own right arm. And
have to tell you that every misfortune
you conquer is 30 much added to your
own moral power. With omnipotenco
for lever and the throne Of God for
fulcrum you can move earth and heav-
en-. While there are other young men
putting the cup of sin to their lips you
stoop down and drink out Of the FOUL
tains of God, and you will rise up
strong to thrash the mountains. The
ancients used to think thaG pearls were
fallen raindrons, which, touching the
surface of the sea, hardened into gems,
then dropped to the bottom. I have to
tell you today that storms of trial have
showered imperishable pearls into many
a young mans lap. Oh, young man.
while you have goods to sell, remember
you have q soul to save In hospital o
Christian captain, wounded few days
before, got delirious, and i'll the mid
night hour he sprang out Oh the floor OF
the hospital, thinking he was i'll the
battle, crying: Come on, boysl For
ward Chargel" All, be was only bat
Ting the specters Of his own brain! But
it is no imaginary conflict into which |
call you, young man, today. There arc
10000 spiritual foes that would cap
ture you. In the name of God, up and
at them!
After the last store has been closed.
after tho last bank has gone down, after
the shuttle of the quick feet Oh the Gus
tom house steps has stopped, after tho
long line of merchantmen on the sea
has taken sail Of fame, after Washing
ton and New York and London and
Vienna have gone down into the grave
where rhebcs and Babylon and Tyre
lie buried. after the great fire bells of
the Judgment day have tolled at the
burning OF world-on that day all
the affairs of banking houses and stores
will come up for inspection. Oh. what
an opening of account books! Side by
side the clerks and the men who en-
ployed them. Every invoice made out
all the labels of goods-all certificates
of stock-all lists Of prices-all private
marks of the firm, now explained so
everybody Can understand them. All
the maps of cities that were never built,
but in which lots were sold-all bar
gains, all gougings, all snap judgments,
all false entries, all adulteration OF
liquors with coppers and strychnine.
All mixing Of teas and sugars and
coffees and sirups, with cheaper mate
rial, all embellishments of trust funds.
All swindles in coal and iron and oil
and silver and stocks. On that day
when the cities of this world are smok-
ing in the last conhagration the trial
will 60 on, and down i'll all avalanche
of destruction will go those who wrong
ed man or woman, insulted God and
deAed the Judgment Oh, that will be
a great day for you, honest Christian
clerk. No getting up early, no retiring
late, no walking around with weary
limbs, but mansion in which to live
and realm of light and love and Joy
over which to hold everlasting domin-
ion. Hoist him up from glory to glory
and from song to song and from throne
to throne, for while others go down
into the sea with their gold like mill
stone hanging to their neck, this one
shall come up the heights of amethyst
and alabaster, holding in his right
hand the pearl of great price in SPAR
king, glittering, flaming caskct
Box Closets.
NIL 1000 &c +I,o common xyoO1pn store