Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-05-22

forfhe implantation of a righteous crop.
You see aged men about US at 80 erect,
agile, splendid, grand old men. How
much wild oats did they sow between
IS years and 30? None, absolutely none.
God does not very often honor with old
age those who have in early life sacri-
feed swine on the altar of the bodily
temple. Remember, o young man, that,
while in after life and after years of
dissipation you may perhaps have your
heart changed, religion does not change
the liver Trembling and staggering
along these streets today are men, all
bent and decayed and prematurely old
for the reason that they are paying for
liens they put upon their physical estate
before they were 80. By early dissipa-
ton they put on their body first mort
gage and second mortgage and third
mortgage to the devil, and these mort
cages are now being foreclosed, and all
that remains of their earthly estate the
undertaken will soon put out of sight.
Many years ago, i'll fulfllment of my
text, dart struck through their liver,
and it is there yet. God forgives, but
outraged physical law never, never,
never. That has Sinai, but no Cal
vary. Solomon in my text knew what
he was talking about, and he rises up
on his throne Of worldly splendor to
shrek out a warning to all the cen
turies.
Stephen A. Douglas gave the name
of "squatter sovereignty to those who
went out west and took possession Of
lands and held them by right of preoc-
cupation. Let flock of sins settle on
your liver before you get to 20 years of
age, and they will in all probability
keep possession of it by an Internal
squatter sovereignty. II promise to pay
at the bank $500 six months from
date says the promissory note. II
promise to pay my life 80 years from
date at the bank of the grave, f." says
every infraction of the laws of your
physical being.
Liver Complaints.
What? Will a mans body never COM
pletely recover from early dissipation
in this world? Never How about the
world to come? Perhaps God will nix it
up in the resurrection body so that it
will not have to go limping through all
eternity. But get the liver thoroughly
damaged, and it will stay damaged as
long as you are here. Physicians call it
cirrhosis of the liver or inflammation
Of the liver or fatty degeneration Of the
liver, but Solomon puts all these pangs
into one figure and says, "Till a dart
strike through his liver. u
Hesiod seemed to have some hint of
this when he represented Prometheus
for his crimes fastened to a pillar and
an eagle feeding on his liver, which
was renewed again each night, so that
the deyouring went on until finally
Hercules slew the eagle and rescued
Prometheus. And dissipated early life
assures Il ferocity pecking away and
clawing away at the liver year i'll and
year out, and death is the only Hercules
who can break the power of its beak Or
unclench It's claw. So, also, others
wrote fables about vultures preying
upon the liver, but there are those here
with whom it is no fable, but terrific
reality.
That young man smoking cigarettes
and smoking cigars has no idea that he
is getting for himself smoked liver.
That young man has no idea that he
has by early dissipation so depleted his
energies that he will go into the battle
only half armed Here is another young
man who, if he put all his forces
against the regiment of youthful temp
tations in the strength of God, might
drive them back, but he is allowing
them to be REINFORCED by the whole
army of midlife temptations, and what
but immortal defeat can await him?
Oh, my young brother, do not make
the mistake that thousands are making
in opening the battle against sin too
late, for this world too late, and for the
world to come too late! What brings
that express train from st. Louis into
Jersey City three hours late? They lost
Is minutes early OH the route, and that
affected them all the way, and they had
to be switched off here and switched OF
there and detained here aud detained
there, and the man who loses time and
strength in the earlier part of the jour-
ney of life will suffer for it all the way
through, the first 20 years of life dam
aging the following 90 years.
Some years ago scientific lecturer
went through the country exhibiting on
great canvas different parts of the hui
man body when healthy and the same
parts when diseased. And what the
world wants now is some eloquent sci
enlist to go through the country, show
ing to our young people on blazing can
vas the drunkard's liver, the idler's Ilv-
er, the libertine's liver, the gamblers
!