Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-06-29
NUMBER 81.

talk Of a century as though 1t were a
very long reach OF time. But what Is
one century on earth compared with
centuries that we are to live some
where. somehow-ten centuries. NIL
lion centuries. quintillion OF CEN
tures? We are oil determined to get
ready for the longer life we are to live
after our exit from things sublunary.
We are waiting for more propitious OPP
portunity. We have too much business
to attend 10 now or too much pleasure
to allow anything to interfere with It's
brilliant progress. We are waiting un.
Ill the wind blows in the right direc-
ton. We are going to sow, and sow
the very best grain. and we are going
10 raise an eternal harvest OF happi-
ness We like what you say about
heaven, and we are going there. and
at the right time we will get ready, but
my lungs are sound. my digestion is
good. the examining physician OF the
life insurance company says my heart
beats just the right number Of times n
ting In a draft. and observe all the
laws Of hygiene, and my father and
mother lived to be very old. and come
Of @ long lived family. So we adjourn
and postpone until. like the farmer
suggested by my text. we allow the
seedtime to pass and sudden pneu.
monia or a reckless bicycle or an un-
governed automobile puts us out Of life
with all Its magnificent opportunities
Of deciding Alright the question Of ever.
lasting residence. A Spanish proyerb
says. THE road Of BY and BY leads to
the town of Never"
Decide Today.
Whether In your life 1t is n south
wind or a north wind, a west wind
or an east wind that Is now blowing,
do you not feel like saying: This
whole subject now decide. Lord God,
through thy Son Jesus Christ. my Sa-
viour, am thine forever. throw my
self, reckless of everything else. into
the fathomless ocean OF thy mercy"
But" says some one In frivolous
and rollicking way. II am not Ike the
farmer you find in your text ! do not
watch the wind. What do care about
the weather vane? am sowing now."
What are you sowing. my brother?
Are you sowing evil habits? Are you
sowing infdel and atheistic beliefsf
Are you sowing hatreds. revenges. dis
contents, unclean thoughts or unclean
actions? If so. you will raise a big
crop a very big crop. The farmer
sometimes plants things that do not
come up. and he has to plant them over
again, but those evil things that you
have planted will take root and come
up In harvest of disappointment. In
harvest of pain. In harvest Of despair,
In harvest of fire. Go right through
some Of the unhappy bones Of Wash
ington and New York and all the cities
and through the hospitals and peni-
tentiarles, and you will find stacked
up, piled together, the sheaves OF such
an awful harvest. Hosea. one OF the
first OF all the writing prophets, al
though four OF the other prophets are .
put before him ID' the canon OF Scrip
ture wrote an astounding metaphor
that may be quoted as descriptive of
those who do evil, They have sown
the wind, and they shall reap the whirl-
wind" Some one has said, Children
may be strangled. but deeds never"
There are other persons who truth
fully say: IL am doing the best | can.
The clouds are thick and the wind
blows the wrong way. but am sowing
prayers and sowing kindnesses and
sowing helpfuIness and sowing hopes
of a better world" Good for you, my
brother. my sister! What you plant
will come up; what you sow will rise
into a harvest the wealth of which you
will not know until you go up higher.
I hear the rustling Of your harvest In
the bright fields of heaven. The soft
gales of that land. as they pass, bend
the full headed grain In curves OF beau
ty. 1t Is golden In the light of sun
that never sets. AS you pass In you
will not have to grid on the sickle for
the reaping. and there will be nothing
to remind you Of weary husbandmen
toilIng under hot summer sun on earth
and lying down uDder the shadow Of
the tree at noontide. so tired were they.
so very tired. No. no; your harvest
will be reaped without any toll Of your
hands, without any besweating OF your
brow. Christ In one of bis sermons
told how your harvest will be gathered
when be said. THE reapers are the an
gels"
tCopyrght 1901. Louis Klopsch, N. ~