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

ment he must meet Immediately.
These words also recognize farreach-
ing influences. Job probably had no
adequate idea of the distance of the
worlds mentioned from our world, but
he knew them to be far Off, and we,
who have had the advantage of mod
ern sldereal investigation, ought to be
still more impressed than was Job with
the question Of the text. as it puts be-
fore us the fact that worlds hundreds Of
thousands Of miles distant have grip
on our world There are sweet infu-
ences which hold us from afar. There
may have been In our ancestral line
perhaps 200 years ago some conse-
Grated man or woman who has held
over all the generations since an influ-
ence for good which we have no power
to realize, and we In turn by our virtue
or vice may influence those who shall
live 200 years from now. Moral grav-
itation Is as powerful as material grav-
itation, and II, as my text teaches and
science confirms, the Pleiades, which
are millions Of miles from our earth, In
fluence the earth we ought to be i'm
pressed with how we may be infu-
enced by others far away back and
how we may influence others far down
the future. That rill away up among
the Alleghanies, so thin you think 1t
will hardly find its way down the
rocks, becomes the mighty Ohio, roll
ing into the Mississippi and rolling
into the sea. That word you utter,
that deed you do, may augment itself
as the years go by until rivers cease
to roll and the ocean itself shall be
dried up In the burning of the world.
Paul, who was all the time saying I'M
portant things. said nothing more star
tlingly suggestive than when he de-
clared, "None Of US liyeth or dleth to
himself" Words. thoughts, actions,
have an eternity Of flight AS Job
could not bind the sweet influences Of
the Seven Stars. as they were called,
so we cannot arrest or turn aside the
good projected lorg ago. Those infu-
ences were started centuries before
cur cradle was rocked and will reign
centuries after our graves are dug.
Oh, 1t is a tremendous thing to live!
God help us to live Alright.
Importance of Good Actions.
Astronomers can easily locate the
Pleiades. They will take you into their
on n clear night and aim
their revealing instrument toward the
part In the heavens where those seven
stars have their habitude. and they
will point to the constellation Taurus,
and you can see for yourself. But 1t Is
to point to influences far
back that have affected our character
and will affect our destiny. We know
the influences near by-paternal. ma
ternal, conjugal-but by the time we
have gone back two generations, or, at
most, three. our Investigations falter
and fail. Through the modern inter-
esting habit of searching back to find
the ancestral tree we may find long
list of names. but they are only names.
The conservation or abandonment OF
some one 200 years ago was not record
ed. 1t would not be so important II
you and /. by our good or bad behavior,
blessed or blasted only those immedi-
drSit it,aroup5 ns hut our goodpe7s or
our badness will reach as far as the
strongest ray of Alcyone-yea. across
the eternities. Under this considera-
ton, what do you think Of those who
give themselves up to frivolity or idle
ness and throw away fifty years Of
their existence as though they were
shells or pebbles or pods instead Of en-
bryo eternities?
| suppose one Of the greatest sur
prises of the next world will be to see
what wide. farreaching influence for
good or evil we have all exerted. / am
speaking of ourselves, who are only
ordinary people. But who can fully
appreciate the farreaching good done
by men of wealth In Great Britain for
the working classes - Mr.. Lister OF
Bradford, Edward Akroyd Of Halifax,
Thomas Skies Of Huddersfield, Joseph
and Josiah Mason and Sir
Titus Salt? This last great soul, with
bis vast wealth. provided 756 houses
at cheap rent for 5000 working people
and chapel and cricket ground and cro-
1uet lawn and concert hall and saw
Ings bank. where they might deposit
some Of their earnings, and life insur-
ance for those who looked further
ahead and lighthouses and parks and
museums and lecture balls with philo-
sophical apparatus. the generous ex-
ample Of those men Of q previous gen.
Grafton being copied in many places In
Canada and the United States. making
life. which would otherwise be pro-
onged drudgery, an inspiration and a
Joy.
Two Mighty Worlds.
At Dunfermllne. Scotland, Is a stone
house. the room on the second floor
twelve feet by fourteen in size. The
annual rent Of that room years ago was
$3.50. That was the one room In which
The father and mother Of Andrew Car
1egie lived with the whole family. In
luences were started there which made
andrew Carnegie the most distinguish
ID philanthropist Of all time, and what
lis gifts Of great libraries on both sides
he sea will do for the coming genera
ions do not think any angel Of God
would have enough capacity to calcu-
ate. Who could bind the sweet infu-
.nces Of that Pleiades?
After awhile there will be man who
will do for churches and missionary So
'ietles and Bible distribution what An
lrew Carnegie has done for Libraries,
md then the millennium will be here.
rhe millennium Is here. The shower OF |
mounted millions of dollars for all |
.ood purposes 1 think Is the first step |
f that golden thousand years of peace |
nd holiness which have been predict
d and for which the world has so long |
roitad As fha snowdrops belong to |