Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-12-08


admirers. will tell you her name /
you would like to know 1t. Paul bap
tized her and gave her the right name
She is not brilliant, but strong. Ther'
is deep quiethood in her manner ant
n firmness In her tread, and In her hant
is a scroll revealing her mission. She
comes from heaven. She was born ir
the throneroom of the king. This Il
Patience. "Ye have need of patience
Pity Faults of Others.
First, patience with the faults Of 9th.
ers. No one keeps the Ten Command
ments equally we'll. Ones tempera
ment decides which commandments he
shall come nearest to keeping. II we
break some Of the commandments our
selves, why be so hard Oh those who
break others Of the ten? If you and
run against one verse Of the twentieth
chapter of Exodus, why should we so
severely excorate those who run
against another verse Of the same
chapter? Until we are perfect our
selves we ought to be lenient with our
neighbor's imperfections. Yet 1t is Of
ten the case that the man most vulner-
able is the most hypercrltlcal. Per-
haps he is profane and yet has no toll
erance for theft, when profanity Is
worse than theft, for, while the latter
| Is robbery Of a man, the former Is rob-
berry of God. Perhaps he is given to
defamation and detractioD and yet
feels himself better than some one who
is guilty Of manslaughter, not realizing
that the assassination Of character is
the worst kind Of assassination. The
laver for washing in the ancient taber-
nacle was at its side FURNISHED like
looking glass, so that those that ap-
preached that laver might see their
need Of washing, and II by the gospel
looking glass we discovered our own
need of moral cleansing we would be
more economic Of denunciation. The
most of those who go wrong are the
victims Of circumstances, and II you
and had been rocked In the same in
iquitous cradle and been all our lives
surrounded by the same baleful influ-
ences we would probably have done
just as badly, perhaps worse.
Here Is a man down In the ditch of
misdoing. A self righteous soul comes
along and looks down at him and says:
''There is a man down In the ditch. He
had no business to fall into it. He Is
suffering the consequences Of his own
wrongdoing. No one but himself Is to
blame" And the hard hearted man
passes on. But here comes a warm
hearted. sympathetic Christian man.
He says: "There is a man down In the
ditch. / must get him out. God help
me to get him out" And, standing
there on the edge of the ditch, the good
man soliloquizes and says to himself, |
'If had had as bad father and moth |
er as he had and all the surroundings |
of my life had been as depraving as |
those that have cursed him, l myself |
would probably have been down in the |
ditch, and If that man had been blessed /
with as good a father and mother as I
have, and he had been surrounded by
the kindly influences which have en-
compassed all my days, he would prob
ably have been standing here looking
down at me in the ditch" Then the
good man puts his knee to the side Of
the ditch and bends over and says to
the fallen one Brother, give me your
hand" and With one stout grip lifts
him up to God and heaven. There are
wounds Of the world that need the
probe and the sharp knife and severe
surgery, but the most Of the wounds
want an application Of ointment or
salve, and we ought to have three or
four boxes of that gospel medlcament
In our pocket as we 60 out into the
world. We all need to carry more Of
the "balm of Gilead" and less caustic,
more benediction and less anathema.
When / find professed Christian man
harsh and merciless in his estimate Of
others, silently wonder If he has not
been misusing trust funds or beating
his wife. There is something awful
the matter with him.
Help Rear the Temple.
We also have need of patience with
slow results Of Christian work. We
want to see our attempts to do good
successful The world is
but improving at so delib-
,rate a rate; why not more rapidity
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10 swiftly; why not the gospel chariot
AXE speed electric? | do not know.
,nly know that 1t Is Gods way. We
whose cradle and grave are so near to-
,ether have to hurry up, but God. who
manages this world and the universe.
s from everlasting to everlasting. He
axes 500 years to do that which he
ould do in five minutes. His clock
trikes once in a thousand years While
Tod took only a week to fit up the
world for human residence, geology re-
'eals that the foundations of the world
we're cons in being laid, and God
watched the glaciers. and the fire, and
he earthquakes, and the volcanoes as
through centuries and millenniums they
we're shaping this world before that
asst week that put on the arborescence.
| few days ago my friend was talking
With a geologist. AS they stood near
pile of rocks my friend said to the
81 suppose these rocks were
undreds Of thousands Of years In con-
tructionw And the geologist replied L
Yes, and you might say millions Of
ears, for no one knows but the Lord, I
nd he won't tell" If 1t took so long
0 make this world at the start. be not !
urprised f 1t takes a long while to !
make 1t over again now that it has been
uined. The Architect has promised y
o reconstruct it, and the plans are all {
made, and at just the right time 1t will :
'e so complete that it will be fit for =
eaven to move in, If, according to the q
aliaf of eoma of my friends this world 3