Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-11-17

pois had better never lose your tenn
per. for at such times apoplexy Is mo-
far off. Get the equipoise Of Job ir
the text, and 1t Will help you IN busi
ness directions. Praying for all Of
tenders. you Will have more nerve fol
large undertakings; you will have
better balanced judgment; you will
waste no valuable time In trying to gel
even with your enemies. Try this
height Of prayer for your antagonist
today. and II you fail try II tomorrow.
Keep on until you accomplish 1t, and
! should not wonder II. In addition to
the moral and religious strength II
gives you, II should add a hundred
per cent to your worldly prosperity.
Job Kill. 10. "The Lord gave Job twice
as much as he had before"
What we all need Is to get out of
ourselves and go to helping others.
whether friends or foes. As beautiful
an Instance Of how this can be done
| found last summer In London In
the person OF Florence Nightingale.
the heroine OF hospitals and OF battle
fields when there were no hospitals.
The lounge on which she Hes pros
trate Is a throne OF power. and. though
she has passed into the eighties, she
trains nurses for sickbeds. and her
influence Is now felt among the wound
ed In South Africa. while her memory
Is full Of the story Of Balaklava, Sc
vastopol and Inkerman. where Eng
land and France and Russia grappled.
She told me that she had not been
happy until she undertook to alleviate
suffering and that since she began
that work she had never seen an un-
happy day. To that work she conse'
Grated her life. her classic attalnmentr
her social position. her brilliant per
sonalty. Her whole life for others.
and her face shows it. | think so
much Of heaven Is to be found In no
other human countenance. Tennyson's
"Charge OF the Light Brigade" Is not
more thrilling to me than the womanly
bravery and sacrifice that took care OF
those who were shot from the saddles
Of the Immortal six hundred"
The Emblem of Immortality.
My text enthrones prayer and gives
ii a scepter to wave over our temporal
and eternal life. Under God 1t cured
Job and fixed up his finances and re-
stored his home and made him so ro-
bust of health that he lived IA decades.
But" some one says. 81 do not believe
In prayer for friends and foes. because
do not think that God Is going to
change the laws Of nature because we
ask him so to do" Neither do think
that God will change the law Of nature
at our request. but am sure that he
answers prayer through natural. law.
Not a physician Of any skill. allopathic,
or homeopathic. or hydropathlc. or
eclectic. bu, has some time been sur
prised that what was thought to be
fatal disease suddenly relaxes Its grasp
of the patient. and he rccovers. Not
one law of nature has been fractured.
Prayer may have given the sudden
turn to that illness. business man
may be In difficulty lnextrlcable-mort-
cages against him foreclosng. goods to
be sold for some reason become unsals-
able, new invention in machinery max
ing the old machinery Of his factory
worthless, all kinds of commercial
troubles pouncing upon him at once.
Most business men have at least once
in their lives been put In such agoniz-
ing crisis, but the harried merchant or
gets out Of 1t. Creditors
become lenient, the wheels that were
made useless for making one kind of
fabric turn out to be good for making
another style Of fabric. the stock of
goods that could not be sold comes into
demand and whereas all
things were against him all things are
now for him. No law Of nature Is
broken and no law Of trade. Prayer
may have given that extrication. God.
by making n law. does not tie bis own
hands with 1t. lf you are free to do
what you are asked to do. is not God
Just as free. or are you mightier than
your Maker?
Prayers Answered.
What a scene II was when that whal
Ing ship. after q cruise OF three years.