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

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sunities For Doing Good-Heroes Mt
Home ns Well as ON the battlefield.
The Greatest Warrior of All.
downright, 1892 by American Press Asso-
ciation.
WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-From text
probably never before discoursed upon
DR.. Talmage in this sermon shows how
some people multiply their resources for
usefulness and in Il novel way urges
the putting forth Of more energy in
right directions; text, II Samuel xviii,
8, "Thou art worth 10, 600 of us. -
One of the most wondrous characters
of his time was David. A red haired boy,
no could shepherd flock or carry ten
loaves and ten slices Of milk cheese to
his brothers in tho regiment, +" or with
lathern thong, stone loaded, bring down
giant whose armor weighed two hum
dredweight Of metal, or cause lion
which reared at him in rage to roar with
pain as he flung it, dying, to the roadside,
or could marshal host, or rule al en-
pire, or thumb harp 80 skillfully that
it oprod Saul's dementia-a harp from
whose strings dripped pastorals, elegies,
lyrics, triumphal marches, benedictions.
Now. this man, combination of music
md heroics, of dithyrambs and battle
fields, of country quietudes and states
manship, is to fit out military e1pedi-
ton. Four thousand troops, according
to Josephus, were sent into the field.
The captains were put in command of
the companies and the colonies in COM
mand of the regiments, which were dis
posed into right wing, left wing and
center. General Jonb, General Abishai
and General Ittai are to lead these three
divisions. But who shall take the field
as commander in chief? David offers
his services and proposes to 60 to the
front. He will lead them in the awful
charge, for ho has net a cowardly nerve
in all his body. He did not propose to
have his troops 20 into perils which he
himself would not brave, and tho bat
tlefield required as much courage then
as now, for the opposing forces must,
in order to do any execution at all
come up to within positive reach of
saber and spear. Eut there came up
from the troops and from civilians n
mighty protect against David S taking
the field. His life was too important n
the nation. II no went down, the en-
pire went down; whereas, if the whole
4, 600 OF, the ranks were slain another
army might be marsbaled and the de-
feat turned into victory. The army and
the nation practically cried out: "Nol
Mol You cannot 60 to the front We
estimate you as 10, 600 men! Thou art
worth 10, 600 Of us!'
That army and that nation then and
there reminded David and now remind
MS of tie fact which we forget or never
appreciate at MI that some people are
morally or spiritually worth far more
than others, and some worth far less
The census and statistics OF neighbor
hoods, of churches, of nations, serve
their purpose, but they can never ao-
ourately express the real state of things.
The practical subject that want to
present today is that those who have
especial opportunity, especial graoes,
especial wealth, especial talent, espe.
cial eloquence, ought to make up by
especial assiduity and conservation for
those who have less opportunities and
less gifts. You ought to do ten times
more for God and human uplifting than
those who have only tenth of your
equipment. The rank and the file of
the 1000 of the text told the truth
when they said, "Thou art worth TO-
900 Of u.s.
In no city of its size are there SO
many mon of talent IS are gathered in
this capital Of the American nation.
Some of the states are at times repre-
sented by men who have neither talents
nor good morals. Their political party
com ensates them for partisan services
by sending them to congress or by &C.
curing for them position in the war or
navy or pension or printing depart
ments. They were nobodiea before they
left home, and they are nobodies here,
but they are exceptional. All the states
of the Union generally send their most
talented men and men Of exemplary
lives and noble purposes. Some of them
have tho gifts and qualifications of ten
men, of hundred men-yea, of thou
sand men-and their constituents could
truthfully employ t1e words of my text
and say, "Thou art worth 10, 600 OF
us.p
Power Fer Good.
With such opportunity, are they aug
menting their usefulness in every pos
sible direction? Many of them are, some
of them are not. 1t is stupendous
thing to have power-political power,
social power, official power. 1t has Of
ten been printed and often quoted as
one of the wise sayings of the ancients,
knowledge is power. Yet it may as
certainly be power fer evil as for good.
The lightning express rail train has
power for good if it is on the track. but
horrible power for disaster if it leaves
the track and plunges down the en-
bankment. The ocean steamer has power
for good, sailing in right direction and
in safe waters and under good helms
man and wide awake Waterman on the
lookout, but Understandable power for
evil II under full Roadway it strikes the
breakers. AS steam power or electricity
or water forces may be stored in boil
ers, in dynamos, in reservoirs, to be
employed all over town or city, so
God sometimes puts in one man enough
faith to supply thousands of men with
courage. If man happens to he thus
endowed, let him realize his opportuni-
~ and improve it. At this time mil
lions of men are a-tremble lest this ma
ton make mistake and enter upon
come policy of government for the ts-
lands nf tina sea that will founder the