Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-02-24

. on purpose, ana they produce the right
result. You go down stairs and ex-
anime the carpets we are turning out
In this establishment and you will see."
/ go down on the other floor. and see
: the carpets, and am obliged to con-
: fess that though the wheels in that
factory go In opposite directions they
turn out beautiful result, and while |
am standing there looking at the ex-
quisite fabric an old Scripture passage
comes into my mind-"Ail things work
together for good to them who love
God" Is there not rest In that? Is
there not tonic In that? Is there not
longevity In that?
Suppose man Is all the time worried
about his reputation. One man says he
lies. another says he is stupid another
says he Is dishonest. and half a dozen
printing establishments attack him,
and be Is In a great state of excite
ment and worry and fume and cannot
sleep, but religion comes to him and
says: Man. God is on your side; he
will take care of your reputation. If
| God be for you, who can be against
you" How much should that man
worry about his reputation? Not
much. II that broker who some years
ago in Wall street. after he had lost
money, sat down and wrote a farewell
letter to his wife before he blew his
brains out: If instead Of taking out of |
his pocket pistol he had taken out a |
well read New Testament. there would
have been one less suicide. Oh, nervous
and feversh people of the world, try
this almighty sedative! You will live
% years longer under its soothing
power 1t is not choral that you want
or morphine that you want: 1t is the
gospel of Jesus Christ. with long
life Will satisfy him."
Again. practical religion Is a friend
OF longevity in the fact that 1t re-
moves all cOrroding care about a fu-
ture existence. Every man wants to
know what is to become of him. If
you get on board rail train. you want
to know at what depot 1t is going to
stop. If you get on board a ship. you
want to know into what harbOr it Is
going to run. and If you should tell me
you have no interest In what is to be
your future destiny would in as po-
lite n way as know how tell you
did not believe you. Before had this
matter settled with reference to my
future existence. the question almost
worried me into ruined health. The
anxieties men have upon this subject
put together would make a martyr
dom. This is state Of awful un-
healthiness There are people who fret
themselves to death for fear of dying.
Death the Preface.
| want to take the strain off your
nerves and the depression off your
soul and make two or three expert
ments. Experiment the first: When
you 20 out Of this world, it does not
make any difference whether you have
been good or bad or whether you be-
lleved truth or error. You will 20
straight to glory. impossible" you
say. My common sense as well as my
religion teaches that the bad and the 9
good cannot live together forever. You ,
give me no comfort in that expert
nent." Experiment the second: When
you leave this world. you will go into
IN intermediate state, where you can
get converted and prepared for heaven. :,
you say. "As the tree ~
'alleth so 1t must lie, and | cannot -
postpone to an intermediate state that =,
eformaton which ought to have been :.
Effected in this state" Experiment y
he third: There Is no future world. :,
When a man dies. that is the last Of !,
lin. Do not worry about what you =,
re TO do in another state of being. you ",
vill not do anything. impossible" ~
on say. There is something that ~
ellis me that death is not the appendix, .,
ut the preface. There is something -
hat tells me that on this side of the ~
rave | only get started and that | ~
hall go on forever. My power to e
link says forever my affections say 80
orever.' my capacity to enjoy or suf
ar forever
Well, you defeat me in my three ex- -
eriments. | have only one more to O..
lake and If you defeat me in that 1T
m exhausted. mighty one on 80
nol back Of Jerusalem one day. the x.
les filled with forked lghtnings and ri
le earth filed with volcanic disturb
noes. turned his pale and agOnized TO
Ice toward the heavens and said: 81 in
Ike the sins and sorrows Of the ages "a
Ito my own heart am the expia- tn
on. Witness earth and heaven and 90
I'll. am the eXpiation." And the th
lmmer struck him and the spears on
lnctured him. and heaven thundered. in
rhe wages of sin is DEATH" THE Nj
ul that sinnpth it shall die Il will wi
: no means clear the guilty" Then
ere was silence for half an hour. and
q lightnings were drawn back into
@ scabbar,l of the sky and the earth en-
ased to quiyer and all the colors of mt
@ sky began TO shift themselves ins Get
rainbow woven out Of the falling dit
ars of Jesus. and there was red AS we
the bloodshedding and there was col
ue az of the bruising and there was an
cen as of the heavenly foliage and ing
ere was orange as of the day dawn. thi
I'd along the line of the blue l saw ter
e words. II was bruised for their in bes
uitles." And along the line of the in
| saw the words, "The blood of 'tl
sus Christ cleanseth from all sim" the
I'd along the line Of the green l saw
e words. The leaves of the tree Of
e for the healing of the nations" 4
I'd along the line of the orange / saw nui
g words. THE day spring from on 10
yh hath visited u.s." gol
Quit Worrying. WI
And then saw the storm was over, Dig
d the rainbow rose higher and high the
until it seemed retreating to an sure
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