Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-06-08
AcCOuAC c. H., VA, SATURDAY, JUNE s, IooI


and quail on toast and causes the COM
mon laborers. compelled to idleness, to
put their hands into empty pockets and
eat gristle and gnaw bones. The world
would be nightly improved II 1t could
slough off about 5000 genluses, for
there are more than that on our planet.
Then the man or woman of one talent
would take possession of the world and
rule it in common sense and Chris
tian way. There would be less to
amaze and startle, but more to give
equipolse to church and state and
world. "To another one."
The most brilliant and many sided
man that ever trod this world, In my
opinion, was Napoleon Bonaparte, and
no man that ever lived did the world
more damage l have read a book ad-
vocating him as a great emancipation
and reformer / was not surprised at
the book, for | have heard of a PAM
phlet in defense of Judas Iscariot.
suppose it may set forth the idea that
he was out of money and needed the
80 pieces of silver and the money was
not spent for himself, but to open re-
spectacle graveyard. | would not be
surprised to find book in honor of
satan. the chief miscreant Of the uni
verse. We all admire industry. and
there Is no more industrious being
than satan. But when a man tells me
Napoleon was a reformer and emanci-
pator | would like to take him out and
show him $4,000 corpses in the Russian
snow banks and ask him If he likes
that and / would show him the grave
trenches of those who fell In the year
1709 during the Napoleonlc wars. Only
10000 men butchered In four months.
| would ask him how he likes that.
The country is beautiful. and | would
ask our friend TO cross with me to
Leipsic and examine the grave trenches
opened there. Only 101, 100 fallen on
both sides! That is all. Come on, my
friend, and see the further work OF
the great emancipation and reformer at
Borodino. which | had an opportunity
of looking at last summer. Only l0O,-
900 dead men as result of the battle!
Pass by as hardly worth looking at
Austerlitz, where the work Of our re-
former left $4,000 of the slain. and
come to Waterloo. to find that only
$4,000 dead men were left on the field.
Alas for the work of this great emanci-
pator and reformer! He turned Eu-
rope into a charnel house and filed Eu-
rope with widowhood and orphanage
and childlessness. Though he was the
brilliant man of the ages. would 1t not
have been better for the world If he
had died in his cradle six weeks after
he was born? Compare that with the
man who had one talent and that the
talent of invention. He was born on a
farm in Spencer Mass. in 1919. He
went to the district school in the win
ter and never had any other literary
advantages He became a machinist
In 1876 be came on to a battlefield
where more women have been slain
by the needle than in the wars spoke
of men were slain by the sword. Elias
Howell! He could not make an oration.
He could not marshal host. He could
not write a constitution. But he could
contriye a sewing machine. which said
to millions of beggared. consumptlye.
bent over, half blinded sewing women
"Go freel Take back your health
Recover your eyesight. Come down
out of that garret! Go free!
Make Good Use of Your Talent.
Is your talent that of persuasion?
Make good use of it. We all have 1t to
some extent, yet none of US think of It
as a talent But It is the mightiest of
talents. Dc you know that this one
talent will fetch the world back to
God? Do you know it is the mightiest
talent of the high heavens? Do you
know that it is the one talent chiefly
employed by all the angels OF God
when they descend to our world-the
talent of persuasion? Do you realize
that the rough lumber lifted into a
cross on the hill back of Jerusalem was
in persuasion as we'll as sacrifcef That
is the only, absolutely the only, persua'
sion that will ever induce the human
race to stop its march toward the city
of destruction and wheel around and
start for the city of light Now may
the Lord this moment show each one OF
us that to a greater or less extent we
have that one talent of persuasion and
impel us to the right use Of ii. You say
you cannot preach sermon. but can.
not you persuade some one TO go and
hear a sermont You say you cannot
sing. but cannot you persuade some one
to go and hear the choir chant on
Christmas or Easter morning? Send o
bunch of flowers to that invalid In the
hospital. with message about the land
where the inhabitants never say. Il am
sick" There is a child Of the street
Invite him into the mission school
There Is O man who has lost his for
tune in speculation. Instead Of jeering
at his fall go and tell him of riches that
never take wings and fly away. Buckle
on that one talent Of persuasion. o
man. o woman, and you will do a
work that heaven will celebrate 10000
years.
Among the 114,000 words Of Noah
Webster's vocabulary and the thou
sands of words since then added to our
English vocabulary there Is one out
mastering word the power of which
cannot be estimated and it reaches so
far up and so far down, and that Is the
word come" 1t has drawn more peo-
pie away from the wrong and toward
the right than any word | now think
Of. 1t has at times crowded all the II
gates of heaven with fresh arrivals. 1t
will yet rob the path of death of the
last pedestrians. 1t will yet chime so
loudly and gladly that all the tolling
bells of sorrow will be drowned with
the music 1t IS piled up In the Bibles
climax and peroration. "And the spirit
and tho bride say come and let him