Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-01-15
AcCOMAC C. IT. VA SATURDAY JANUARY 10 1885,

Gradually his health Will TAIL through
late hours and through too much slim
illus. He will be first rate prey for cry
sipelas and rheumatism of the heart.
The doctor coming in will OF glance
see it is not only present disease he
must fight. but years of fast living. TIE
Clergyman, for the sake Of the feelings
of the family. Gil the funeral day will
only talk in religious gencralties. The
men who get his yacht in the eternal
rapids will not be at the obsequies
They will send flowers 10 the coffin lid
and send their wives to utter words Of
sympathy, but they will have engage
mcnts elsewhere. They never come
Bring me nallct and chiscl, and l will
cut on the tombstone that mans epitaph.
blessed are the t.cad who die in the
Lord. I" NO, you say, that would
not be appropriate. - Let mo die the
death OF tlic righteous and let my last
end be like his. y mo, you say
THAT wonld rot lie appropriate. Then
give me the n-allet and tie chisel, and
| will cut I'LL honest cpitaph, Here lies
the victim of Gissipating clubhouse >
thin; that damage is often done by
the scions of some aristocratic family
who belong to one Of these dissipating
clubhouscs People coming up from
humber classes feel it All honor to Ee-
long to the same club, forgetting the
fact that many of tic sons and grandsons
Of the large commercial establishments
of the last generation are Row as to
mind imbecile, as 10 loGy diseased, as
to morals rotten They would have got
through their property long ago if they
had had full possession of it, but the
willy ancestors, who earned the money
by hard knocks, foresa% how it was to
be, and they tied up everything in the
will Now. there is nothing OF that un-
worthy descendant but his grandfather 8
name and roast beef rotundity And yet
how many steamers there are which feel
honored to lash fast that worm eaten
tug. though it drags them straight into
the breakers.
Another test by which you can find
whether your club is legitimate or ille-
eitimate-the effect it has on your Sec
ular occupation. l can understand how
through such an institution man can
reach commercial successes. | know
sone men have formed their best bust
ness relations through such channel.
If the club has advantaged you i'll an
honorable calling, it is legitimate club
But has your credit failed: Are bargain
makers more cautious how they trust
you with bill of goods? Have the men
whose names were down in the COM
mercial agency al before they entered
the club been going down ever since III
commercial standing? Then look cutl
You and every day know of COM
mercial establishments going to ruin
through the social excuses Of one or two
members, their fortunes beaten to death
with ball players bat, or cut amidships
by the front Prov of the regatta, or 60
ing down under the swift hoofs of the
fast horses, or drowned in large pota-
tions Of cognac or monongahela. Their
clubhouse was the Loeb Earn. " Their
business house was the "Ville du
Havre They struck, and the "Ville
du Havre' west under.
A third test by which you may know
whether the club to which you belong
or the club to whose membership you
are invited is legitimate club or an IL
legitimate club is this: What is its eff
feet on your sense of moral and religious
obligation? Now, if / should take the
names of all the people in any audience
and put them on roll and then | should
lay that roll back Of the organ. AID 100
years from row some one should take
that roll and call it f-uln a to Z. there
would not cne of you answer say that
any association that makes me forget
that fact is bad association New, to
many of the cities there arc two routes,
and you can take The Pennsylvania rail
road or the Baltimore and Ohio; but
suppose that | hear that OIL one rnnte
the track is torn up aud the bridges are
torn down and the switches are unlock.
ed? 1t will not take me a great while to
decide which road to take Now, Eere
are two ronds into the future. the Chris
tian and the I'LL Christian, The safe and
the unsafe. An lustit-:::2n or any asso-
citation that confuses MY idea III regard
to that fact is bad institution and a
bad association L had prayers before
Joined the club Did have them after:
attended the house of God before
connected myself with the club Since
that union with the club do absent
myself from religious influences? Which
would you rather have in your hand
when you come to die. pack OF cards
or Bible? Which would you rath-
er have pressed to your lips in the
closing moment, the cup of Bclshazza,
rean wassail or the chalice of Christian
communion? Who would you rather
have for your pallbearers, the elders OF
q Christian church or the companions
whose conversation was full OF slang
and innuendo? Who would you rather
have for your eternal companions, those
men who spend their evenings betting,
gambling, swearing, carousing and tell
ing vile stories or your little child, that
bright girl whom the Lord took: Oh,
you would not have been away so much
nlanSa, wouId you, II you had knoWn
she was going away so soon? Dear me-
your house has never been the same
place since. Your wife has never bright
ened up. She has not got over it; she
never will get over it. How long the
evenings are, with no one to put to bed
and no one to tell the beautiful Bible
story. What pity it is that you cannot
spend more evenings at home in trying
to help her bear that sorrow You car
never drown that grief in the wine cup.
You can never break away from the lit.
tie arms that used to be flung arounc
your neck when she used to say, Papa,
do stay home tonight-do stay home to-
night. !" You will never be able to wipe
away from your lips the dying kiss Of
your little girl.
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