Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-09-18
N UMBER II.

OF ner own, ana III the atternoon-tho
forenoon having been devoted to her
household-she gees forth to hunt up the
sick ard TO encourage the discouraged,
leaving smiles and benediction all along
the way.
But one day there start five kilograms
from the village for these five absent
ones, saying, Come, mother is danger
ously ILL., =" But before they can be ready
to start they receive another telegram,
saying, Come, mother is dead" The
old neighbors gather in the old farm
house to do the last Offices Of respect.
But as that farming son, and the cler-
gynan, and the senator, and the mer-
chant, and the two daughters stand by
the caskct of the dead mother taking
the last look, or lifting their little chill
dren 10 see once more the face of dear
old grandma, 1 want to ask that group
around the casket one question, do
you really think her life was worth liv-
ine"' A life for God, a life for others,
life of unselfishness, useful life,
Christian life, is always worth living.
Right Living.
l would not find it hard to persuade
you that the poor lad, Peter Cooper,
making glue for living, and then
amassing a great fortune until he could
build philanthropy which has had its
echo in 10, 600 philanthropies all over
the country-I would not find it hard
to persuade you that his life was worth
living. Neither would find it hard to
persuade you that the life Of Susannah
Wesley was worth living. She sent out
one son to organize Methodism and the
other son to ring his anthems all
through the ages. would not find it
hard work to persuade you that the life
Of Frances Leere was worth living, as
she established in England school for
the scientific nursing of the sick, and
then when the war broke out between
France and Germany went to the front
and with her own hands scraped the
mud off the bodies of the soldiers dying
in the trenches and with her weak arm
standing one night in the hospital
pushing back a German soldier to his
couch, as, all frenzied with his wounds,
be rushed to the door and said, "Let
me go, let me go to my liebe mutter, :"
major generals standing back to let
pass this angel of mercy.
Neither would l have hard work to
persuade you that Grace Darling lived
a life worth living-the heroine of the
lifeboat. You are not wondering that
the Duchess of Northum berland came
to sec her and that people Of all lands
asked for her lighthouse and that the
proprietor OF the Adelphi theater in
London offered her 500 night just to
sit in the lifeboat while some shipwreck
scene was being enacted.
But I know the thought in the minds
of hundreds of you today. You say,
"While I know all these lived lives
worth living, don't think my life
amounts to much. All, my friends,
whether you live life conspicuous or
inconspicuous, it is worth living, If
you live Alright. And want my next
sentence to go down into the depths Of
all your souls. You are to be rewarded
not according to the greatness of your
work, but according to the holy indus
tries with which you employed the tai
ents you really possessed. The majority
of the crowns Of heaven will not be
given to people with ten talents, for
most of them were tempted only to
serve themselves. The vast majority Of
the crowns of heaven will be given to
people who had one talent, but gave it
all to God And remember that our life
here is Introductory to another. 1t IS
the vestibule to a palace but who de-
spises the door of a Madeleine because
there are erander elcries within? Your
life, if rightly lived, is the first bar Of
an eternal oratorio, and who despises
the first tote Of Haydn's symphonies?
Ard the life you live now is all the
more worth living because it opens into
life that shall never end, and the last
letter of the word time" is the first
letter of the wcrd "eternity!'
To Change Current For Climates Sake.
A Tokyo journ i is responsible for the
following: "Vladivcstok, being the
terminus Of the Siberian railway, is
NEST important Port in Russia. Not
wthstanding this fact over four
months during the cold season the port
is blocked with ice and spring traffic is
entirely impossible, and therefore the
railway loses much Of its advantages
The Russian authorities have endeayor-
ed for many years to conquer nature,
and some years ago ice breaking ships
were introduced to break open the ice,
but it has been found that the operation