Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-12-01
Divine Guidance.

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Divine Guidance.
While seeking divine guidance In
your selection of lifetime sphere ex-
anime your own temperament. The
phrenologist will tell you your mental
proclivities. The psychologist Will tell
you your physical temperament Your
enemies will tell you your weaknesses.
If you are, as we say, nervous, do not
become a surgeon. II you are coward
ly, do not become an engineer III you
are hoping for a large and permanent
income, do not seek governmental
position. II you are naturally quick
tempered. do not become a minister of
the gospel. for while any one Is disad-
vantaged by ungovernable disposition
there is hardly any one who enacts
such an incongruous part as q mad
minister. Can you make fine sketcn
of a ship or rock or house or face? BE
an artist. Do you find yourself hum
ming cadences, and do the treble clei
and the musical bars drop from your
pen easily, and can you make tune
that charms those who hear 1t? BE
musician. Are you born with fond
ness for argument? Be an attorney
Are YOU naturally q good nurse and es
pecially interested in the relief of pain
Be q physician. Are you interested ir
all questions OF traffic and In bargain
making, are you apt to be successful OF
q small or large scale? BE merchant
Do you prefer country life, and do yor
like the plow, and do you hear music
in the rustic of harvest field? be
farmer. Are you fond Of machinery
and are turning wheels to you a tasci
nation, and can you follow with aD
sorhinp interest q new kind of thrash
/ ing machine hour after hour? be
mechanic. If you enjoy analyzing I'M
natural elements and q laborator.
could entertain you all day and al
night. be a chemist If you are lnquis
tive about other worlds and interested
| in all instruments that would brini
| them nearer for inspection, be an as
tronomer. If the grass under your fee
and the foliage over your head and tn
flowers which shake their incense ol
the summer air are to you the belle
lettres of the field. be botanist
If YOU have no one faculty dominan
and nothing In your make up seems I
point to this or that occupation shu
yourself up in your own room. get dow
on your knees and reyerently ask 10
what be made you for and tell him tba
YOU are willing to do anything he wisf
es YOU to do Before you leave tina
room you will find out. For the sax
of your usefulness and happiness an
your temporal and eternal welfare q
not Join that crowd Of people who e
gadding about among businesses an
occupations. now trying this and no'
irving that and never accomplishln
anything.
Weak Religious Theories.
There are many who exhibit IN
frailty in matters Of religion. Ine
are not sure about anything that pc
tains to their soul or their eternal de
tiny. Now they are Unitarians' an
now they are Universalists. ana no
they are Presbyterians. and now the
are nothing at all. They are not qui'
sure that the Bible was Inspired or
Inspired whether the words or the ide'
were Inspired or whether only part
the book was inspired. They think
one time that the story In Genes
about the garden of Eden Is histor
{ and the month after they think 1t is
allccorv At one time they think Il
book of Job describes what really o
Cured, but the next time they spea
of it they call it a drama. Now the
believe all the miracles, but at yo'
next Interview they try to show no
these scenes had nothing In them S
pernatural, but can be accounted L
by natural causes. Gadding ADO
among religious theories and never ST