Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-09-14
AccoMAc C. H.. VA. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER IA, 1901.

treat God not as 1ntner, Dut
stranger, and act suspiciously toward /
him. Ii is high time you began to
thank God for present blessing; thank |
him for your children, happy, buoyant
and bounding; praise him for your
home, with Its fountain OF song ana |
laughter: adore him for morning light
and evening shadow; praise him for
fresh. cool water bubbling from the
rock, leaplng In the cascade, soaring III
the mist, falling In the shower, DASH
ing against the rocks and clapping Its
hands in the tempest; love him for the
grass that cushions the earth and the
clouds that curtain the sky and the
foliage that waves in the forest; thank
him for n Bible to read and Saviour
to deliver
Many Christians think It bad sign
TO be jublant, and their work OF SELF
examination is n hewing down of their
brighter experiences. Like boy with
a new jackknife hacking everything
he comes across, so their self examina-
ton Is a religious cutting to pieces or
the greenest things they can lay their
hands on. They imagine they are DO
ing Gods service when they are going
about borrowing trouble, and borrow
ing it at 80 per cent, which Is always
a sure precursor of bankruptcy.
Sufficient Unto the Day.
Again. the habit Of borrowing trouble
ia wrong because the present is SUM-
cIently taxed with trial. God sees that
we all need q certain amount OF trou-
BILE. and so he apportions It for all the
DAYS and years Of our life. Alas Tor
the policy of gathering 1t all up FOR
one day or year. Cruel thing to put
upon the back of one camel all the car
90 intended for the entire caravan. L
never look at my memorandum BOOK
to see what engagements and duties
are far ahead. Let every week bear us
own burdens. The shadows Of today
are thick enough. Why implore the
nresence Of other shadows? The cup IS
already dlstasteful. Why halloo to dis-
asters far distant to come ana wiring
ont more gall in the bitterness? Are
we such champions that, having won
the belt In former encounters. we eau
20 forth to challenge all the futureF
Here are business men just able 10
manage affairs as they now are. Ihey
can nav their rent and meet their notes
and manage affairs az they now are
but how II panic sl.ould come and my
Investments should fail. Go tomorrow
and write on your Gaybook or on your
ledger or on your money safe sum.
cient unto the day is the evil thereon.
Do not worry about notes that are lai
from due. Do not pile up on your
counting desk the financial anxietieS
of the next 20 years. The God who has
taken care of your worldly occupation
guarding your store from the torch ol
the incendIary and the key of the bur
rlar. will be as faithful In 1910 as IL
J 1901. Gods hand is mghtler than th'
, Vaccinations of stock gamblers or th'
Q plots of political demagogues or thu
red right arm of revolution, and TN
I darkness will fly and the storm fal
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dead at his feet.
: So there are persons in feeble health
I and they are worried about the future
D They make out very, well now, bu
. They are bothering Themselves abou
( future pleurisles and rheumatisms an'
0 neuralgias and fevers. Their eyesigh
Q "a feeble. and they are worried les
Q they entirely lose 1t. Their hearing Il
r indstinct, and they are alarmed les
/ they become entirely deaf. They fel
g chilly today and are expecting an at
= tack Of typhoid. They have been trou
/. bled for weeks with some perpleXini
d malady and dread becoming lifelong IN
= yalids. Take care Of your health nov
i and trust God for the future. BE no
guilty Of the blasphemy of asking Mn
= to take care Of you while you sleel
y with your windows tight down or ca
b chicken salad at IL o'clock at night
8 sit down on q cake Of Ice to cool on
s Re prudent and then be confiden'
8 Some Of the sickest people have pee
IL the most useful 1t was so with Fay
8, son. who died deaths daily. and Rol
s. ert Hail. who used to stop In the mids
It of his sermon and lie down on the pu
d nit sofa to rest and then go on agaiI
i, Theodore Frellnghuysen had a grea
s, horror of dying till the time came an
s, then went peacefully. Take care
'e the present and let the future look OF
+ for itself. Sufficient unto the day
Id the evil thereof"
ID Thorns In Life's Path.
II Again. the habit Of borrowing mi
r, fortune is wrong because it units
rs for /. when it actually does come W
to -. o,,,,ors hove smooth sailin