Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-09-28

pessimists, and some are born opti-
mlsts, and that demonstrates itself all
through everything. 1t is a cloudy
morning. You meet q pessimist, and
you say, what weather todayT He
answers. ITS going to Storm" and
umbrella under arm and waterproof
overcoat show that he is honest In that
utterance. On the same block min
ute after you meet an optlmist, and
you say, What weather today"
Good weather; this Is only fog and
will soon scatter" The absence of um-
brella and absence of waterproof over
coat show 1t is an honest utterance.
On your way to noon luncheon you
meet an optimistic merchant, and you
say, What do you think of the COM
mercial prospectsT and he says: "Glo-
riousl Crops not so good as usual. but
foreign demand will make big prices.
We are going to have such an autumn
and winter prosperity as we have never
SEEN" On your way back 10 your store
you meet pessimistic merchant.
What do you think of the commercial
prospectsT you ask. And he answers:
"Well. don't know. Wheat and corn
crop blasted IN Kansas and Missouri,
and the grain gamblers will get their
fist in. and the hay crop is short in
some places. and IN the southern part
OF Wisconsin they had a hailstorm,
and our business Is as dull as 1t ever
was" You will find the same differ
ence iu judgment of character. A man
OF good reputation Is assailed and
charged with some evil deed. At the
first story the pesslmlst will believe In
guilt. THE papers said so. and that's
enough. Down with him" The opti-
mist will say: II don't believe a word
of it. don't think that man that has
been as useful and seemingly honest
for twenty years could have got off
track like that There are two sides
to this story. aud I will wait to hear
the other side before condemn him."
My hearer. II you are by nature pes
simist, make a special effort by the
grace Of God to extirpate the dolorous
and the hypercritical from your dispo-
sition. Believe nothing against any
body until the wrong is established.
Speak a Good Word.
When you can speak q good word
for some one. speak II. IL you can con-
scieDtiously give letter of recommenda.
ton, give it. Watch for opportunities
for doing good fifty years after you
are dead. All my life has been affected
by the letter of introduction that the
Rev. DR.. Van Yranken of New Bruins.
wick Theological seminary wrote for
me, boy under him. when was seek
ing a settlement IN which to preach the
gospel. That letter gave me my first
pulpit. DR.. Van Vranken has been
dead more than thirty years. yet feel
the touch of that magnificent old pro-
fessor. Strange sensation was 1t when
| received a kind message from Rev.
Thomas Guard Of Baltimore. the great
Methodist orator six weeks after his
death. BY way Of the eternal world?
Oh, no; by way Of this world. did
not meet the friend to whom he gave
the message until nearly two months
after Thomas Guard had assembled. SO
you can start p4~4rd about some one
that will be on It's travels and vigorous
long after the funeral psalm has been
sung at your obsequies. Kindness!
Why. II fifty men all aglow with 1t
should walk through the lost world me-
thinks they would almost abolish per-
dit!oul
Furthermore, there Is kindness Of ac-
ton That is what Joseph showed to
his outrageous brothers. That is what
David showed to Mephlbosheth for his
father Jonathan's sake. That is what
Oneslpherus showed to Paul in the Ro-
man penitentiary. That is what Will
liam Cowper recognized when he said
he would not trust man who would
with his foot needlessly crush
worm. That Is what our assasslDat-
ed President Lincoln demonstrated
when his private secretary found
him In the capitol grounds trying to
get bird back to the nest from which
II had fallen and which quality the
illustrious man exhibited years before
when, having. with some lawyers, in
the carriage on the way to court passed
on the road a swine fast In the mire,
after awhile cried to his horses, "Ho"
and said to the gentlemen, II must go
back and help that hog out Of the
mire." And he did go back and put on
solid ground that most unlnteresting
quadruped.
Victory Through Good VIII.
Suppose all this assemblage and all
to whom these words shall come by
printers ink should resolve to make
kindness an overarching, undergirdlng
and all pervading principle of their
life and then carry out the resolution,
why, in six months the whole earth
would feel 1t. People would say: What
Is the matter? 1t seems to me that the
world Is getting to be better place to
live in. Why, life, after all, Is worth
living. Why. there is Shylock, my
neighbor, has withdrawn his lawsuit
of foreclosure against that man, and
because he has had so much sickness
IN his family he is going TO have the
house for one year rent free. There IL
an old lawyer In that young lawyers
office. and do you know what ne has
gone In there for? Why, he is helping
10 fix up a case which Is too big for the
young man to handle. and the white
haired attorney is hunting up previous
decisions and making out a brief for
the boy Do you know that a strange
thing has taken place in the pulpit, and
all the old ministers are helping the
young ministers, and all the old doctors
are helping the young doctors, and the
farmers are assisting each other in