Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-08-11
No PIensnre In sin.

There they go, two brothers. The one
was converted a year ago in church
one Sunday morning during prayer or
sermon or hymn. No one knew it at the
time. The persons on either side OF
him suspected nothing, but IN thai
young mans soul this process went on;
Lord. here am. a young man amid
the temptations Of city life, and ! am
afraid to risk them alone Come and
be my pardon and my hclp. Save me
from making the mistake some Of my
comrades are making. and save me
now And quicker than flash Goo
rolled heaven into his soul. He is just
as Jolly us he used to be. Is just as
brilliant as he used to be. He eau
strike q ball or catch one as easily as
before he was converted. with gun
or fishing rod in this summer vacation
he Is Just as sllillful as before Ihe
world Is brighter to him than ever
He appreciates pictures music, limo
cent hllarity. social life. good jokes
and has plenty of fun. glorious tun
But his brother is going down hill IN
the morning his head aches from the
champagne debauch. Everybody sees
he Is in rapid descent. What cares
he for right or dccency or the honor
OF his family name? Turned out OF
employment. depleted in health, cast
| down In spirits. the typhoid fever
strikes him In the smallest room on
the fourth story of a fifth rate board
ing house, cursing God a1d calling fol
his mother ami fighting back demons
from his dying pillow, which Is De
| swcatcd and torn to rags He pulngeS
/ ont Of this world with the sliIipk of a
DESTROYED spirit Alas for that Kind OF
| fun, Ii Is .rpmorse. 1t Is despair. ~
| Is blacknpss of darkness. IL Is woe
/ unending and long rcvcrbcrating and
J crushing as though all the mountains
! OF all continents .rolled on; him q onf
avalanche. Ny Soutf stand bnck IRON
such fun. Young man. there Is no run
In shipwrccking your character no fur
| In dlsgracing your fathers name
There Is no fun in breaking your moth
er's heart. There is no fun IN. the
physical pangs OF the diss0lute. There
is no fun In the ,prohigates deathDed'
There Is 10 fun in ap -undOne eternl'
ty. Paracelsus, OFT Of the ashes or q
burnt rose, said he could recreate the
rose but he failed In the alchernic un'
dertakfng. and roseate life, once burn
ed down IN sin, can never again DC
made to blossom, ..l..r ua .u .
Measured by God. ,tf Iau
| = Oh, this plumb line of the everlasting
right, God will throw it over all oul
f.l lives to show us our moral defiectlons
4 God will throw it over all churches t
show whether they are doing usefu
work or are instances of idleness ant
pretense. He will throw that pium'
line over all nations to demonstrau
whether their laws are just or cruel
their rulers good or bad, their amOl
tions holy or Infamous. God Is nov
: throwing; that plumb line ever fhis re
. public. and it is a solemn time VIII
this nation. and whether we keep HI
Sabbaths or disheporl them ,wbothe
riehteodsness or infquity' dominate
, whether we are. Christian. or iniide
whether we fulfill our mission orrcfus'
: whether we are for God or against Mn
! will decide whether we shall as a h'
j ton go on In higher and higher caireo
: or 90 down in the same grave wheF
r Babylon and Nineveh and ThepeS ip
J sepulchered. .at .,r.. l,1..
d But" say you. "if there he nothin
:. but a plumb line Wlrnt canfany Of u
do. for there is an old proyerb whlc
l. truthfully declares, If the best man
g faults were written, on his forehead
ri It would make him pull his hat oY'