Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-01-14

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ruin We may say to those islands:
"We do not want you, but we have set
you free. Now stay free, while we see
that the Spanish panther never again
puts it's paw OH your neck. Or we
may invite the annexation of Cuba aud
Porto Rico and say to the Philippines,
Get ready by education and good NOR
MS for FREQ government, and at the
right time you shall be one of our terri
tories, on the way to be one of our
states.
And there is no power in Europe.
Asia or Africa, or all combined, that
could harm this nation in it's world
wide endeavor God is on the side of
the right, aud by earnest imploration
for divine idance on the part of this
nation we will be led to do the right.
No are Oil tho brink of nothing. There
is no frightfnl crisis This train of Re-
publican and Democratic institutions is
through train, and all we want is to
have tho engineer and the brakemen
and lie conductor attend to their bust
moss ind the passengers keep their
places. We want men in this nation
with fifth enough for all. We want
bele and there David worth 10000
men.
Confidence Lacking.
A vast majority of men have no sur
plus of confidence for others and hardly
enough confidence for themselves. They
90 through life saying depressing things
and doing IL pressing things. They chill
prayer meetings, discourage charitable
institutions, injure commerce and kill
churches. They blow out lights when
they ought to he kindling them. They
hover around dull fire on their Gwn
hearth and take up so much room that
70 one Gun catch the least caoric, in
stead of stirring the hearth intoa blaze,
the cracklc of whose backlog would in
vte the whole neighborhood to come in
to feel the Astounding warmth and see
the TRANSPORTATION of the faces. AS we
all have to guess great deal about the
future, let US guess something good,
for it will be more encouraging, and
the guess will be just as apt to come
true. What lot of ingrates the Lord
has at his table! People who have had
three meals day for so years and yet
fear that 4 will soon have to rattle
their knife aud fork on an empty dinner
plate. How many have had-winter
and spring and summer and fall-oloth-
ing for 30 years, but expect an empty
wardrobe shortly How many have
lived under free institutions all their
days, but fear that the United States
may be telescoped in some foreign COL
iision! Oh. but tbe taxes have gone up!
Yes, but thank Cod, it is easier with
money to pay the taxes now that they
are up than it was without money to
pay the taxes when they were down.
We want few men who have faith in
God and that mighty future which
holds several things, among them a
millennium. Columbanus said to his
friend, "Deicolus, why are you always
smiling?" The reply was, "Because no
one can take my God from me ~ We
want more men to feel that they have a
mission TO cheer others and to draw up
the corners Of peoples mouths which
have long while been drawn down,
more Dayids who Gun shepherd whole
focks of bright hopes, and can play
harp Of encouragement, and strike down
a Goliath of despair, and of whom we
can say, "Thouart worth 10, 600 Of US. !"
admit that this thought Of my text
fully carried out would change many
of the world statistics Suppose viii
lage is said to have 1000 inhabitants,
aud that one .half of them-namely,
5O0-have for yours been becoming less
in body, and through niggardliness and
grumbling less in soul. Each one of
these is only one-half of what he once
was or one half of what she once was.
That original 500 have been reduced
one half in moral quality and are really
only $50. Suppose that the other 500
have maintained their original status
aud are neither better nor worse. Then
the entire population of that village is
750. But suppose another village Of
1000, aud $50 of them, as the years go
by. through mental and spiritual Gull
ture. augment themselves until they
are really twice the men and women
they originally were, and the other sou
remain unchanged and are neither better
Dor worse, then the population of that
village is 1000. Meanness is subtrao-
ton and mobility is addition. Accord
ing as yon rise in tho scale of holiness
aud generosity and conservation, you
are worth 8. or 10 or so. or 100 or 1000
CT 10, 100 offers
Eumhie Heroes.
Notice, lrr friend, that this David,
warrior, st.,u eist, minstrel, master Of
blank verso aud stone singer at the
giant. WHOM. the soldiers of the text es-
t; :. atet clear up into the thousandfold
of usefulness on this particular occasion,
staid at home or in his place of ten.
porary residence. General Joab, Gen.
eraI Abishai aud General Ittai, who
commanded the boys in the right wing
and left wing and center, did their
work braRely and left %, 600 Of the
Lords enemies dead on the field, and
many of the survivors got entangled in
the woods of Ephraim and mixed up in
the bushes and stumbled over the
stumps of trees and fell into bogs and
we're devoured OF wild beasts which
seized them in ti:i thickets. But David
did his work at home. We all huzza
for heroes WHO have been in battle and
on their return what professions we
form and what triumphal arches we
Ipring and what banquets we spread
and what garlands we wreathe and
what orations we deliver and what bells
we ring and what cannonades we firel
But do we do justice to the stay at
homes? David, who was worth 10, ooo
of those who went out to meet the