Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-07-06
SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1901.

children are. brought home from school;
the wardrobe Will be denied replenish-
ment; the table will have scant supply;
Wild generosity will be turned into
grim want. Forty years from now viii
be felt the disaster Of last months
black Thursday.
But while you are hotly indignant
against the crime. how do you feel
about those who were feeced and
slain? They did not know that their
small boat was so near the maelstfom.
Some Of them were born with q tend
ency 10 recklessness and experiment
nnd hazard. They inherited disposi-
tlon 10 tempt chance. Do not heap on
them additional dlscOuragements. DO
not derlde their losses. Help them to
start again. Show them that there are
more fortunes yet to be gained than
have vet been gathered and that with
God for their friend they VIII be pro-
vided for here, and through the Say
iour's mercy they may reign forever In
the land where there are no losses and
infinite gains. While you may redden
In the face at the fact that gambling
is the disgraceful mother of multi
tudinous crimes. of envies, jealousies,
revenges, quarrels. cruelties, false
hoods. forgeries. suicides, murders and
despair, be careful what you say to the
victim OF the vice and what you do
He needs more sympathy than the man
who came up from inebriety and de
bauch and assassination, for many
such repent and are saved, but confirm
ed gamblers hardly ever reform. Dur
ing the course of prolonged ministry
| have seen thousands redeemed, many
of them who were clear gone in sin, by
Almighty grace rescued. In all parts
of this land and in some parts OF other
lands have seen those who were given
I'D as incOrrigble and lost recovered
for God and heaven, but how many
confirmed gamblers have | seen con-
verted from their evil ways? a thou
sand2 No. Five hunderedi No. Eff
ty? No. Twof No. One? No. !
read In d book of one such rescued. |
have no doubt there have been other
cases, but no evil does its work SO
thoroughly and eternally as gambling.
Such almost hopelessness of reforma-
! ton ought to call forth from you deeper
sympathy than you feel for any other
unfortunate. Pity. by all means. for
those who, shipwrccked and bruised
among the timbers. have nevertheless
climbed up to the fisherman's cabin
and found warmth and shelter, but
more pity for those who never reach
shore but are dashed 20 death In the
breakers. Be angry at the sin. but
eympathize with its victims.
An Evil to Re Avoided.
There is another sin that we are Of
tentlmes called 70 be angry with, and
that is fraud We all like honesty. and
when it Is sacrificed we are vehement
in denunclation. We hope that the de
tectlyes will soon come upon the track
OF the absconding bank otficial.- OF the
burglar who blew up the safe. OF the
clerk who skillfully changed the figures
In the account book, of the falslfier wht
secured the loan on valueless property
of the agent who because of his per
centage wrongfully admits a man tC
the benefit of q life insurance policy
when his heart IS ready to stop anC
who comes from an ancestry character
istically short lived. One act OF frauC
told of in big headlines In the morning
papers rlghtfully arouses the nations
wrath. 1t is the interest Of every gooC
man and good woman who reads OF th'
crime to have It exposed and punished
Let it 90 unscathed. and you put pre-
MUM on fraud. you depress public
morals, you induce those who are OF
the fence between right and wrong Il
get down on the wrong side, and yol
nut the business of the world on !
down grade. The constabuiary an'
nenitentiary must do their work. Bu
whlle the mcrciless and the goddess
cry. Good for him-l am glad he Il
within the prison DOORS. be 1t you
Uorl, N find out II that man Is wort
saving and what were the causes OF III
moral overthrow. Perhaps he starte'
in business life under n tricky urn
who gave him wrong notions OF ousl
mss integrity; perhaps there was
combination of circumstances almos
UNPARALLELED for temptation, perhap
there were alleylatiOns, perhaps he wa
born wrong and never got over IT. per
hans no did not realize what he wa
doing. and if you are merclrui ma
Won will think Of other perhapseS
which. though they Will not excuS,
will extenuate Perhaps he has a
ready repented and is washed In ID
blood Of the Lamb and is as sure o
heaven as you are.
What an opportunity you have nov
for obeying my text. You were ahEr
at the misdemeanor. but you are hop'
ful for the recovery of the recalcitrhn
Blessed all prison reformerS! B'esse
are those governors aud presidents WI
are clad when they have chance t
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who welcomes home the prodiga
Blessed the dying thief whom the Lor
took with him to glory. saying, "Ihl
day shalt thou be with me In para
disc"
, There is another evil that we ougt
, to abhor while we try to help the vi
! tim. and that is nfdellty. 1t sna'cht
: the life preserver from the man ahoi
| and affords not so much as spar or
plank as substitute. 1t would extll
guish the only light that has ever bee
q klndled for the troubled and the los
Let the spirit of intidplity take hold
. a nelghborhood ard in that town IL
S marriage relation is farce, ana goo
e morals give place to all styles OF IN
e morals. Let 1t take possession OF tn
n earth. and there would be no Writ
: left In all the worlds circumference
8 All the sins rebuked in the Ten Cor
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