Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-09-17
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1893.

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sure you will find something in them
fit for q foundation Of friendliness.
You invite ne to come to your coun-
try seat and spend few days. Thank
you! arrive about noon of a beautiful
summer day What do you do? AS soon
as arrive you take me ont under tho
shadow of tho great elms. You take me
down to the artificial lake, the spotted
trout floating i'll and out among the
white pillars Of the pond lilies. You
take me to tho stalls and kennels where
you keep your fine stock, and hero are
the Durham cattle and the Gordon set
tors, and the high stepping steeds, by
paving and neighing, the only language
they can speak, asking for harness or
saddle and short turn down tho road.
Then we 60 back to the house, and you
get me i'll the right light and show me
the Kcnsetts and the Bierstadts on tho
wall and take me into the music room
anu SllOW ulO tlO LIZ
RIGS in the bay window answering the
robins in the tree tops. Thank youl l
never enjoyed myself more in the same
length of time. Now, why do we not
do so with tho characters of Others and
show the bloom and the music and the
bright fountains? No. We say: "Como
along, and let mo show you that mans
character. Here is n green scummed
frog pond and there's filthy cellar,
and 1 guess under that hedge there must
be black snake. Como and let US for
an hour or two regale ourselves with the
nuisanccs. +"
Extol the Virtues.
Oh, my friends, better cover up the
faults and extol the virtues, and this
habit once established of universal
friendliness will become as easy as it is
for syringa to flood the air with
sweetness, as easy as it will be further
on in the season for Il quail to whistle
up from the grass. When we hear some
thing bad about somebody whom we
always supposed to be good, take out
your lead pencil and say: Let me seel
Before accept that baleful story against
that mans character I will take OFF
from it 20 per cent for the habit of ex-
aggeration which belongs to the man
who first told the story. Then will
take off % per cent for the additions
which the spirit of gossip in every COM
munity has put upon the original story.
Then will take off 25 per cent from
the fact that tho man may have been
put into circumstances of overpowering
temptation. So I have taken off Is per
cent But have not heard his side of
the story at all, and for that reason I
take off the remaining 25 per cent. Ex-
cuso me, sir, don't believe a word of
it, i"
But here comes in defective maxim,
so often quoted, "Where there is so
much smoke there must be some fire. ="
Look at all the smoke for years around
,Jenner, the introducer of vaccination,
and the smoke around Columbus, the
discoverer, and the smoke around Mar
tin Luther, and Savonarola, and Cialilei,
and Paul, and John, and tell me where
was the fire. That is one of the satanic
arts to make smoke without fire. Sian
der like the world, may be made out
of nothing. If the Christian, fair mind
ed, commonsensical spirit in regard to
others predominated i'll the world, we
should have the millennium i'll about
six weeks, for would not that be lamb
and lion, COW and leopard, lying down
together? Nothing but the grace of God
can ever put us into such habit OF
mind and heart as that. The tendency
is in the opposite direction. This is the
way tho world talks: put my name OH
the back of Il mans note, and had to
pay it, and I will never again put my
name Oh the back of any man S note. l
gave beggar 10 cents, and five minutes
after I saw him entering Il liquor store
to spend it. will never again give
cent to beggar helped that young
man start III business, and, 10, after
awhile he came and opened store al
most next door to me and stole my Gus
toners. Twill never again help young
man to start in business. | trusted III
what my neighbor promised to do and
he broke his word, and the psalmist
was right before he corrected himself.
for call men arc liars" Somen become
suspicious and saturnine and selfish,
and at every additional wrong done
them they put another layer on the
wall of their exclusiveness and another
bolt to the door that shuts them out
from sympathy with the world They
get cheated out Of $1,000, or misinter-
preted, or disappointed, or betrayed,
and higher goes the wall, and faster
goes another bolt, not realizing that
while they lock others out they lock
themselves in, and some day they wake
ND to find themselves imprisoned in a
dastardly habit No friends to others,
others are no friends to them. There's
an island half way between England,
Scotland and Ireland, called the Isle OF
Man, and the seas dash against all sides
Of it. and an told there is no more
! lovely place than that Isle of Man, but
when Man becomes insular in his dis
position and cuts himself off from the
main land of the worlds sympathies he
is despicable, and all around him is an
Atlantic ocean Of selishness. Behold
that Isle of Man
Sermons In Healthy Hands.
Now, supposing that you have, by o
divine regeneration, got right toward
God and humanity, and you start out
to practice my text. "a man that hath
friends must show himself friendly. y
Fulfill this by all forms of appropriate
salutation. Have you noticed that the
head IS so poised that the easiest thing
on earth is to give nod of recognition?
To swing the head from side to side, as
when it is wagged in derision, is un-
natural and unpleasant; to throw 1t
uaux, invites vertigo, but to drop the
chin in greeting is accompanied with
so little exertion that all day long and