Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-03-10


to live, and | will count them off-one
: two, three. Cone" Where? Where
Carry him out and lay him down be
side his old father and mother, who
died under the deluslons Of the Chris
tian religion singing the songs of vic.
tory.
Again avoid the idlers-that Is, those
/, people who gather around the store or
the shop or tte factory and try to Sc
duce you away from your regular call
ing and In your business hours try to
seduce you away. There is nothing
that would please them so well as to
have you give up your employment
and consort with them.
These ldlers you will find standing
around the engine houses or standing
at MONDAY or about noon on the steps
lsof some hotel or fashionable restau-
rant. They have not dined there. They
never dined there. They never will
dine there. Before you invite young
.'nan into your association ask him
plainly. "What do you do for liylngY'
I'If he says. "Nothing; am gentle
man." look out for him. care not how
soft his hand or how elegant his ap-
parel or how high sounding his family
name. his touch Is death.
These people who have nothing to do
will come around you In your busy
hours, and they will ask you to ride
with them to Chevy Chase or to Cen
trail park, and they Will tell you Of
some excursion that you must make,
Of some wine that you must drink, Of
some beautiful dancer that you must
see. They will try to take you away
from your regular work. Associate
with these men. and. first OF all. you
will become ashamed of your apparel;
then you will lose your place, then you
will lose your responsibility, then you
will lose your soul.
Door to Villainy.
Idleness is the next door to villainy.
When the police go to find criminals,
where do they go to find them? They
lind them among the idle-those who
thing to do. refuse to engage In their
daily work Some one came to good
old Ashbel Green and asked him why
he worked at so years Of age when 1t
was time for him to rest. "Oh," he re-
piled, II work TO keep out Of mischief!'
And no man can afford to be idle. /
care not how strong his moral charac-
ter, he cannot afford to be idle.
But you say: "a great many people
are suffering from enforced idleness.
During the hard times there were
great many people out Of employ
ment." | know ii. but the times OF
dullness in business are the times
when men ought to be thoroughly en-
gagged in improving their minds and
enlarging their hearts. The fortunes
to be made 20 years from now will be
made by the young men who in the
times when business was dull cultivat-
ed their minds and improved their
hearts. They will get the fortunes aft
er awhile, while those men who hang
around their stores, never engaging in
srz useful occupation. will be as poor
then as they are now. 1t Is absurd for
a Christian man to say he has nothing
to do.
went into a store In New York
where there were five Christian men,
and they said they had nothing to do.
The whole world lying In sin. Poverty
to be comforted sickness to be alleyiat-
ed, Bible In the back office, every
opportunity Of mental culture, splr-
itual culture; every lnducement to-
work. yet Christian man, sworn be-
fore high heaven to consecrate his
whole life to usefulness, has nothing
to do If you have not any business
for this world, my Christian friend,
then you ought to be doing business for
eternity.
People 20 to Florence and to Venice
and to Rome to see one Of the works
Of the great masters. think | can
show you the picture Of one Of the
great masters. II went by the field Of
the slothful and by the vineyard of
the man void of understanding, and 10,
1t was all grown over with thorns, and
nettles had covered the face thereof.
and the stone wall thereof was broken
down. Then saw and considered 1t
well. looked upon 1t and received
instruction. Yet little sleep, little
slumber. a little folding Of the hands to
IL cI,
one that traveleth and thy want as an
armed man." There Is no more ex-
plosive passage In all the Bible than
that 1t first begins to hiss like the
fuse Of a cannon and then bursts like a
"a FOUNDER. The old prOverb was true.
"The devil tempts most men. but idlers
tempt the devilp' Therefore seek
something to do. If no worldly busi-
ness offers. then. In the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ. 20 out on Christian
toll, and the Lord will bless you, and
the Lord will help you.
Avoid Pleasure Seekers.
Again. counsel you. avoid the pleas
ure seeker, the man whose entire busl-
ucSB IL IL W SttN lol ltNithtiOh oh'
amusement. believe in the amuse-
ments of the world so far as they are
innocent. could not live without
them. Any man Of sanguine tempera-
ment must have recreation or die And
yet the amusements and recreations OF
life must administer to hard work.
They are only preparative for the occu-
patton to which God has called us.
God would not have given us the
capacity to laugh II he did not some !
times intend us to indulge 1t. God
hath hung In sky and set in wave and
printed on grass many a roundelay. !
But all the music and the brightness
of the natural world were merely In.
tended to fit us for the earnest work Of
life. The thundercloud has edges ex-
Quisltely purpled, but It jars the noun
tain as it says, II come down to water
the fields" The flowers standing un-
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