Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-11-02

| and the bourse The nations Of the earth
cablegrammed together all feel the
same thrill Of delight or shock Of woe.
But wo do not appreciate the influence
Of other worlds upon our world. The
author Of my text rouses us to the con-
sideration. 1t takes all the worlds Of
known and unknown astronomy to
keep our world In its orbit. Every
world dependent on other worlds. The
stellar existence is felt all through the
heavens. Every constellation is SIS
terhood. Our planet feels the benedic-
tlon of Alcyone and all the other stars
Of the Pleiades. Yea. there are two
other worlds that decide the fate Of our
world-its redemption or its demOli-
ton. Those two worlds are the head
quarters of angelology and demonolo-
gy. From the one world came Christ,
come minstering spirits, come all gra-
cious influences. From the other world
rise all satanic and diabolic influences.
From that world of moral night rose
the power that wrecked our poor world
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good work done since then has not been
able to get our world out Of the break
ers. But the signals of distress have
been hosted and the life lines are out,
and our worlds release Is certain. The
good influences Of the cOnsecrated peo-
pie in our world will be centupled by
the help from the heavenly world, and
the divine power will overcome the de-
moniac. o man, o woman, expand
your idea and know the magnitude
Of q contest IN which three worlds
are specially Interested! From all the
seven worlds which my text calls the
Pleiades there come no such powerful
influences as from the two worlds that
/ am now mentioning. My only hope
for this world is In the reinforcement
that Is to come from another world. |
But that is promised, and so l feel as
sure Of the rectifcation Of all evil as
though looking out of my window to-
day | saw the parks and the gardens
Towering into another paradise and
the apocalyptic angel flying through
the midst of heaven with the news
that the kingdoms OF this world have
become the kingdoms of our Lord.
Homes Sweet Influences.
My text called Job and calls US to
consider "the sweet influences" We
put too much emphasis upon the acidi-
ties of life, upon the irrtatlons Of life,
upon the disappointments of life. Am
mianus Marcellinus said that Chaldea
was in olden times overrun with lions,
but many of them lost their power be-
cause the great swamps produced many
gnats that would get into the eyes Of
the lions, and the lions, to free them
selves of the gnats, would claw their
own eyes out and then starve. And in
our time many a lion has been over
come by a gnat. The little, stinging
annoyances of life keep us from appre-
ciating the sweet influences. And how
many of these last there are! Sweet
influences of home, however plain 1t
may be- That is the harbor into which
we sail; that is the goal for which we
run; ;.that is the place where we rest;
there abide all confidence and affec-
tions; there we lay out our plans; there
,rc sextond our sympathies; there we
talk over our successes; there we un-
load our griefs. Its four walls shut
out a prying and inquisitive world.
Thank God for the home In which we
were born, the home in which we now
live, the home in which We expect to
die.
Not sufficiently do we recognize the
sweet influences Of the wife. We men
are Of a rougher mold, and our voice Is
loud, and our manners need to be tam
ed, and gentleness is not as much Of a
characteristic as 1t ought to be, and
we often say things we ought to take
back. 1t is to change this that the
good wife comes In. The interests OF
the twain are identical That which
from outsiders would be considered
criticism and to be resented becomes
kindly suggestion. Sweet influences
that make US better men than we 9th
erwise would have been or could have
been!
The last chapter of Proverbs recog-
nizes the good wife's influence when
It says, Her husband is known In the
gates when be sItteth among the elders
of the land'-that Is, his apparel indi-
Gates that he has some one to look aft
er his wardrobe, and his manners show
that he is under refining influences at
home. But no one fully appreciates the
sweet influences Of the wife until the
dark day comes and the slight symp-
toms become serious and the serious
phases Of the disorder pass into the
fatal and the temperature is lO6 and
medical ingenuity Is exhausted and you
are told for your consolation that
while there Is life there Is hope"
which means that there Is no hope at
all. and the precious life futters and Is
gone. and you must put out Of sight
the one who from the day she took the
VOW amid the orange blossoms under
the marriage bell had been to you more
than all the world besides. Then You
realize as never before what had been
the sweet influences.
Refining Power OF the Gospel.
Sweet influences of friendship! II
we have behaved ourselves tolerably
we'll, we have friends. In our days of
mirth they come with their congratula-
tions. In times of sorrow they come
with expressions Of solace. In times of
they come with their advice.
They are with US at weddings and at
burlals. II there is anything good In
US, they find it out, and our frailties
they overlook or excuse If something
appears against US. they say, "Wait till
| hear the other side" If disaster
shall befall us, we know from whom
would come the first coincidence. Fam
Ily friends; church friends; business ,
eriondc. lifolono friends In our heart ,