Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-11-19

w nat opportunities you Will nave III LILO
days to come Put on your hat, oh, wo-
man, this afternoon and 60 and comfort
that young mother who lost her babe
last summer. Put on your hat, oh, man,
and go over and see that merchant who
was compelled yesterday to make an as
f; signment and tell him of the everlast-
ing riches remaining for all those who
serve the Lord. Can you sing! Go and
sing for that man who cannot get well
! and you will help him into heaven. Let
it be your brain, your tongue, your eyes,
your ears, your heart, your lungs, your
hand, your feet, your body. your mind,
your soul, your life, your time, your
eternity for God, feeling In your soul,
ITO this end was born !"
Divine Direction.
It may be helpful if recite my own
experience in this regard started for
the law without asking any divine di-
rection. I consulted my own tastes. l
liked lawyers and courtrooms and
judges and juries, and reveled in hear.
ing the Frelinghuysens and the Brad
legs Of the New Jersey bar, and as as
sistant of the county clerk, at sixteen
years of ago, searched titles, natural
ICED foreigners. recorded deeds, received
the confession Of judgments, swore wit
ness and juries and grand juries But
after awhile l felt call to the gospel
ministry and entered it, and felt some
satisfaction in the work But one sum-
mer, when was resting at Sharon
Springs, and while seated in the park
of that village, I said to myself, IF l
have an especial work to do in the
world 1 ought to find it out now" and
with that determination prayed as /
had never before prayed, and got the
divine direction, and wrote it down in
my memorandum book, and ] saw my
life work then as plainly as see it
now. Oh, do not be satisfied with gen.
eraI directions Get specific directions
Do not shoot at random Take aim and
fire. Concentrate Napoleon's success
in battle came from his theory of break
ing through the enemy's ranks at one
point, not trying to meet the whole line
of the enemy's force by similar force
One reason why he lost Waterloo was
because he did not work his usual the
DRY, and spread his force out over wide
range o Christian man, 0 Christian
woman, break through somewhere Not
a general engagement for God, but a
particular engagement, and made IN an
swer to prayer If there are 1000, 0OO,-
600 people in the world, then there are
l, 600, 600, 900 different missions to full
fill, different styles Of work to do, diff
ferent orbits in which to revolve, and
if you do not get the divine direction
there are at least /, 500, 600, 600 posi-
bilities that you will make mistake.
On your knees before God get the mat
ter settled SO that you can firmly say
ITO this end was born. y
Eternal Life.
And new ! come to the climacteric
consideration As near rs Lean tell,
You were built for a happy eternity, all
the disasters which have happened to
your nature to be overcome by the blood
of the Lamb if you will heartily accept
that Christly arrangement We are all
reioiced at the increase in human Ion
gevity People live, as near as can OBJ
serve, about ten years longer than they
used to. The modern doctors do not
bleed their patients on all occasions as
did the former doctors In those times
if q man had fever they bed him, if he
had consumption, they bled him, If he
had rheumatism, they bled him, and if
they could not make out exactly what
was the matter they bled him. Olden
time phlebotomy was deaths coadjutor.
All this has changed From the way l
see people skipping about at so years
of age l conclude that life insurance
companies will have to change their ia
BILE of risks and charge man no more
premium at 10 than they used to do
when be was 90, and no more premium
at so than when he was 40. BY the adj
yancement of medical science and the
wider acquaintance with the laws OF
health and the fact that the people
know better how to take care of them
selves, human life is prolonged. But
do you realize what, after all, is the
brevity of our earthly state? In the
times when people lived 700 and 800
years, the patriarch Jacob said that his
years were few Looking at the life of
the youngest person in this assembly
and supposing that he will live to be
nonagenarian, how short the time and
soon gone, while banked up in front of
us is an eternity so vast that arithmetic
has not figures enough to express its
length or breadth or depth or height
For q happy eternity you wei, oorn
unless you run yourself against the
divine Intentions If, standing in your
presence, my eye should fall upon the
feeblest soul here az that soul will ap-
pear when the world let's it up and heav
en- entrances it, suppose l would be so
overpowered that should drop down
rs one dead
You have examined the family Bible
and explored the family. records, and
you may have seen daguerreotypes Of
some of the kindred of previous genera
tons, you have had photographs taken
of what you were in boyhood or girl
hood, and what you were ten years later,
and it is very interesting to any one to
be able to look back upon pictures OF
what he WAS 10 or 20 or 30 gears ago.
But have you ever had picture taken
of what you may be ard what you will
be if you seek after Gcd and feel the
spirits regeneratjng power: Where
shall 1 plant the camera to take tn, pic
ture? l plant it OH this platform! dl.
rect it toward you Sit still or stand
still while take the picture. 1t shall
be an insta,.'aneous picture. There!
have it. 1t is done. You can see the
picture in its imperfect state and get
some idea CT what it will be when thor
onobIv develoned There is yOur resur-