Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-02-18

it was great deal easier for her to brood
the whole flock than to brood a part of
them now that the rest have gone You
may tell her that her departed children
are in the bosom of a loving God, but,
motherlike, she will brood both focks,
putting one wing of care over the flock
in the house, putting the other wing OF
care over the flock in the grave. Moth
ing but the old fashioned religion of
Jesus Christ can take woman happily
through home trials. All these modern
religions amount to nothing. They do
not help. They do not comfort when
there is a dead babe in the house. Away
with them and give us the old fashioned
religion of Jesus Christ, that has COM
forted so many in the days of sorrow
and troubled
Romance VIII Not Suffice.
Romance and novelty may for a lit
tie while seem to be substitute. The
marriage day has only gone by, just
gone by, and all household cares are
atoned for by the joy of being together
and by the fact that when it is late at
night it is not necessary to discuss
whether it is time to go. All the mis-
haps Of the newly married couple III
the way of household affairs are not
matters of anxiety or apprehension, but
merriment The loaf of bread turned
into geological specimen, the slushy
custards and jaundiced and measly bis
cults. Oh, it is very bright sunlight
that falls upon the cutlery and mantel
ornaments of new home! Romance
and novelty will do for a little while,
but after awhile the romance is all
gone and there is loaf to be made, a
loaf that. cannot be sweetened by any
earthly condiments and cannot be fla
vorcd with any earthly favors and can
not be baked in any ordinary oven. 1t
is the loaf of domestic happiness. All
the ingredients from heaven. Fruit
from the tree of life and sweetened with
the new wine of the kingdom and baked
in the oven of home trial. God only
can make that loaf. You can cut it,
but it takes God to make it.
Solomon wrote out of his own miser-
able experience-he had wretched
! home; no man can be happy with two
wives, much less with roo, and out of his
wretchcd experience he wrote-"Ret-
fer is dinner of herbs where love is
than a stalled OK and hatred there
with. +" Oh the responsibilities of house
keepers Kings by their indigestion
have lost empires and generals through
indigestion have lost battles. One of
the great statisticians says that out of
1, 600 unmarried men 80 were crini-
nails, and out of 900 married men only
IS were criminals, showing the power
of home. And, oh, the responsibility
resting upon housckeepers BY the food
they provide. by the couch they spread,
by the books they introduce, by the in
! huence they bring around the home,
they are helping to decide the physical,
the intellectual, the moral, the eternal
welfare of the human race. Oh, the re-
sponsibility
That woman sits in the house of God
today perhaps entirely unappreciated.
She is the banker of her home, the pres
ident, the cashier. the teller, the dis
count clerk, and ever and anon there is
n manic. God knows the anxieties and
the cares, and he knows that this is
not a useless sermon, but that there are
multitudes of hearts waiting for the
distillation of the divine mercy and
solace in their hour of trials and their
home duties and their own fatigues. The
world hears nothing about them. They
never speak about them. You could not
with the agonies of an inquisition bring
the truth out of them. They keep it
still. They say nothing. They endure
and will until God and the judgment
right their wrongs Oh, but,says some
sister, ''Are you not trying to show
that all woman's life at home is one
III self sacrifce?" Yes, my sister, and
that is the only kind of life worth liy-
ing. That has been the life OF florence
Nightingale; that was the life OF Ed
ward Payson; that was the life of the
Lord Jesus Christ; that is the life OF
every man or woman that is happy-a
life of self sacrifice. Those people living
for themselves-are they happy Fine
me one. Twill give you all the nation;
of the earth to find me one. Not happy
no, not happy.
Self Sacrifice Brings Happiness.
It is the self sacrificing people thai
are happy, for God pays so largely, SC
gloriously, so magni6cently, in the
deep and eternal satisfactions of the
soul Self sacrifice We all admire i
in others. How little we exercise of 1t
How much would we endured How
much would we risk for others? A very
rough schoolmaster had poor lad thai
had offended the laws of the school,
and he ordered him to come up
'.Now," he said, "you take off you
coat Instantly and receive this whip.
The boy declined, and more vehement
" the teacher said; 81 tell you, now
take off your coat Take it off instant
w." The boy again declined. 1t wa
not because he was afraid of the lash
he was used to that in his cruel home
But it was for shame. He had no under
garments, and when at last he removed
his coat there went up a sob of emotion
all through the school as they saw VIII.
he did not wish to remove his coat ant
as they saw the shoulder blades almos
cutting through the skin. As the schSssi
master lifted his whip to strike a rose
ate, healthy boy leaped up and said
, ssstop, schoolmaster; whip me- lie
only a poor chap; be cant stand it
a win ma !, ooh. /" said the teacher