Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-02-09

them.
Changes Bitter Into Sweet.
How many men do you know worth
$3.50. 900 who are devout and consecrat-
ed and humble and generous ana EN-
ploying their means for the worlds re-
demption? You could count them up
on the fingers Of your two hands even
II by accident or war you had lost one
or two Of the fingers. AS to the realm
of personal attractiveness, how many
women radiant of countenance ana
graceful Of form do you know who are
unaffected and natural Of manner ana
deeply pious before God. using their
beauty for the betterment Of the world
and not for selfish purposesF only
take the risk Of asking the question
and leave to you the risk of answering
II. These things | say to show you
that in order to have the promise or
the text fulfilled in your case II Is not
necessary you have phenomenal world
ly success.
Notice, also, that God gives the right
eous the power to extract good out OF
evil and by a divine chemistry 10
change the bitter into the sweet ana
the harmful into the beneficial Inc
nromise that 1t shall be well with you
does not imply that you are to be Tree
from trouble There Is no escape from
that. We all have family relations
and some of them will be making exit
| from this world, so that bereavement
is the universal Inheritance. SO also
is financial loss. The difference be-
tween the prospered and those not
nrospered is the difference in the
amount they can afford to lose. The
more wealth man has the more ne
can lose, but one man can afford TO
lose a million dollars where another
man cannot afford to lose one dollar.
On larger or smaller scale all suffer
financial loss. Amid the rapldity OF
the revolutions of the wheel Of nation
nj and international finance monetary
perplexity is as common as day or
night.
So also misinterpretatlon and SIAN
der come to all who live active lives.
Our actions, thoroughly honest ana
aboveboard. may come under suspl
cion. Every courtroom at every term
of court hears illustrations Of the delu'
sion of what is called circumstantial
evidence. Innocent men are fined OF
jmprisoned or electrocuted because OF
an unfortunate conjunction OF events
What Is true in courtrooms Is true IL
all circles OF domestic or social or polit
zeal or official life. You have been mis-
understood and misrepresented, or VII
be misunderstood or misrepresented
Then how can my text be truef Ny
exclamation Is this: The man withou
any divine grace In his heart finds II
these troubles irritation and unDelle
and melanchOlia and despair. a chris
tian man finds in them submission ant
enlarged views and divine support AM
reconsecration. Bereavement to tn
worldling brings hard thoughts OF CO.
and a resistance so violent 1t dares no
\ fully express itself. Bereavemen
+ brings TO the Christian the thought o
!, heavenly reunion and more complet
q laying hold of God, and more tende
a appreciation of the divine presence
a and deeper gratitude that we were pei
- mitted to have the departed one
, long. and q more lively sympathy 10
;. the sorrows of others and another eV
:. dence of Gods love. for whom til
. Lord lcveth he chasteneth.'
II Health Better Than Riches.
c Financial loss, which just now sal
- Is sure to come, never breaks up ma
; who has strong faith In God. In mo-
- cases it is a loss of surplus or it Is II
=. hanishment Of luXurles. Most or u
80 wants of the prosperous classes are a
= tificial wants. The late Mr. Armo'
t. Of the S6O.OOO.OO0 estate pointed to oil
70 of his clerks on ordinary salary al
', said "That man has better appetl
than |. sleeps better nights and EMO.
!. life more than do" Oh, the gigant
. miseries of those who have too muc
: A man in Solomon's time expressed
= philosophic and reasonable wish
ony man of those times or OF our time
- His name was Agur, and he offered
80 80 PRAYER that he might never nave
ie norabundapce or a deficit, crying OF
40 "Glye me neither poverty nor riches
~ On the one side he had seen the avn
9' struggle of the poor to get 1000 a.
u" clothes and shelter and to educate th'
children. and on the other side ne
seen the gouty foot, and the inulg'
'e ton, and the insomnia, ana the anAie
&c about large investments, and The thFe'
"e ened paresis often characteristic
ss, those who are loaded up and LOAD
eu down with too many successes. Inc
90 people who are gener"lly calieu
ne mosses-that Is. the most or tolK
ile have the things absolutely necessf
At for their well being. They have no
'at rillos on their wall, nor "Belshazza
ne Feast" in their dining room, nor p
as' Of $4,000 sorrels at their doorway.
Ia thev have something which those
lef nerabundantly supplied seldom hav
ger they have better health because De
Is compelled to walk, they get the nee
'ay sary exercise, and their diet being
lhe tied to plain food, they do not su
at from midnight salads and are not
lth timized by rare caterers They re
ess for wholesome sleep at the very
DID. In which others are leaving their hol
iaii for the dance or the card party
will sleep the last sleep just as wei
can the plain graveyard as those who b
ood over them an arch of sculptured gl
wn tie in costllest metropolis or most
u 1t sorica abbey.
ing Things are more equally divided I
lds is generally supposed That splel
uch home is apt to have a taking OF
this some kind. 1t may be an Invalid '
best or a deformed child, or an inner
res, tending toward insanity, or disSc
and son. or a despoiled reputation
opa- weakened heart that may halt u