Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-12-01
One bad habit these gadabouts, mas

One bad habit these gadabouts, mas. |
culine or feminine. are sure to get. ana
flat Is of scandal distribution. They !
hear so many deleterious things about
others md see so much OF wrong Deba'
yior that they are loaded up and loaded
down with the faults Of others, and
they have their eyes full and their ears
full and their hands full and their
mouths full OF defamation. The WON
an who is endowed Of gossip can SO
easily unite her bonnet strings aud sit
down to spend the afternoon. A man
can afford you cigar as retainer II
you will patiently hear all he has TO
say about those who cannot pay their
debts or are about to fail or are guilty
or moral mlshap or have aroused suspf
cion of embezzlement. All gadabouts
are peddlers. who unpack in your pres
ence their large store Of nux vomica
and nlghtshade. Such gadabouts have
little prospect Of heaven. II they got
there, they would try to create Jealousy
among the different ranks OF celestlals
and make trouble among the heavenly
neIghbors aud start quarrels seraphic
and would be on perpetual run, now
down this street and now up that. now
I'm the house Of many mansions ana
now in the choir of the temple and now
on the walls and now in the gates until
they would be chased down and pushed
out into the pandemonium OF backbit-
ers and slanderers after jeremiah had
addressed them in the words, "Why
qaddest thou about so much to change
thy way|
Surrender to God.
Now, what is the practical use or the
present discourse? This: Whereas so
many have ruined themselves and ru-
lned others by becoming gadabouts
among occupations, among religious
theories. among churches, among
neighborhoods, therefore resolved that
we will concentrate upon what Is
right thought and right behavior and
waste no time In vacillations and inde-
cisions and uncertainties, running
about in places where we have no busi'
ness to be. Life Is so short we have no
time to play with 1t the spendthrift.
Find out whether the Bible is true and
whether your nature Is immortal and
whether Christ is the divine and orly
Saviour and whether you must have
him or be discounted and whether
there will probably ever be a more aus
picious moment for your becoming his
adherent and then make this II o'clock
at noon of Nov. % the most illustrious
minute that you will ever have passed
since the day of your birth until the
ten millionth cycle of the coming eter-
nifty, because by complete surrender OF
thought and will and affection and life
TO God through Jesus Christ you be-
came a new man, new woman, new
soul. and God the Father and God the
Son and God the Holy Ghost and all
angeldom, cherubim and seraphim and
archangel became your allies.
Found among the papers OF the learn
ed Samuel Johnson was prayer In
scribed with the words, When my eye
was restored to its use," and 1t Is
great moment when we get over our
moral blindness and gain spiritual eye
sight. That is moment from which
we may we'll date everything. All the
glory of Henry II of France vanished
when In a tournament q lance eXtln
guished his eye, and the worst disaster
that can happen to us is to have the
vision of our soul put out. If you have
gone wrong so far, now go right II
the morning and noon of your life have
been a moral defeat, make the evening
of your life a victory. The battle Of
Marengo. lost at o'clock in the after
noon, was gloriously won at 6, and ir
your life and mine It is Lot too late tC
achieve something worthy Of an I'M
mortal. Start right and keep on. DC
not spend too much time In tackine
ship. David felt the Importance OF TX
edness of purpose when be cried out
"My heart is fixed. o God. my heart II
hxedr' In that state you will feel the
placidity which an old friend of mine
put into rhythm:
God holds the key Of all unknown.
And am glad.
II other hands should hold the key
| Or II he trusted 1t to me,
] might be sad
cannot read his future plan.
But this ] know:
have the smiling Of his face
And all the refuge Of his grace.
Enough; this covers all my want.
And so | rest;
For what cannot he can see,
| And in his care shall be
Forever blest.
downright. 1900. Louis Klopsch. N. VI