Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-05-04
ACCOr1AC c. H., VA, SATURDAY, MAY d. IooI


candidates. What we want is privat
soldiers In the common ranks, mason
not ashamed TO WELD trowel, cand
dates for ordinary work to be done /
ordinary ways in ordinary places. Righ
where we are there Is something tha
God would have us do. Let us do 4
though 1t may seem to be as unimpol
tant as the rolling Of grain of cor
into an ant hill.
Furthermore. go to the ant and con
slider its indefatigableness. If by tE
accidental stroke of your foot or tn
removal of n timber the cities of til
insectile world are destroyed. Instant,
they go to rebuilding. They do not 81
around moping. At 1t again in a sec
ond. Their fright Immediately give
way to their industry. And II OIL
schemes of usefulness and our plans O
work fail why sit down In discourage
ment? AS large ant hills as have eve
been constructed will be constructed
again. Put your trust in God and d,
your duty. and your best days are ye
to come. You have never heard sucI
songs rs you will yet hear, nor have
you ever lived in such grand abode as
you will yet occupy. and all the world
ly treasures you have lost are nothing
compared with the opulence that you
will yet own. II you love and trust
the Lord Paul looks you in the face
and then waves his hand toward a
heaven full Of palaces and thrones,
crying "All are yoursw So that what
you fail TO get in this present life you
will get In the coming life. Go to
work right away and rebuild as well
as you can. knowing that what the
trowels Of earthly industry fail to rear
the scepters of heavenly reward will
more than make up. Persistence Is the
lesson of every ant hill. Waste not a
moment In useless regrets or unhealthy
replning Men fret themselves down,
but no man ever yet fretted himself
up. Make The obstacles In your way
your coadjutOrs as all those have who
have accomplished anything worth ac-
complishment
Put Your Trust In God.
John Phllpot. Curran. master Of the
rolls In Ireland. at bis first attempt
In court stamnlered and sat down In
confusion, and for that stammering
was derisively called "Stuttering Jack
Curran" and because of his failure In
speech was sneered Mt as "Orator
Num-" But he went 70 work and con-
quered himself and then conquered
courtrooms and great assemblages.
whom he thrilled with his eloquence.
So. Instead OF running against OBJ
stacles as against a stone wall, he
placed them aslant like steps on which
to mount. Put your trust in God. and
nothing can stand before you. RitteD-
house. the astronomer. at the start was
so poor that he figured out eclipses on
l plow handle.
,ider that If God honors an insect by
making it our Instructor In important
essons we ought not to abuse the low
# orders Of creation. II has been
)eeh alive ana III ~tbrtufe-1 -1rh- trans.
How much the insect and the fowl and
he brute may be rightly called to suf-
er for the advancement of human
and the betterment of the
OF the human race do not
low stop to discuss. but he who use
essly harms any Of Gods living crea-
ion insults the Creator. Alas. for the
orrors of vivisection. | have no con-
dence in the morality Of a man or a
yoman who would harm a horse or a
Og or cat or n pigeon. Such men
nd women. under affront, If they dar-
d, would take the life of human be-
1g. You cannot make me believe that
iod looks down IndifferentIy upon the
allied neck Of the OK. or the cruelty
urbed bit OF the horse. or the unshel-
cred cattle In the snOwstOrm. or the
ockpt. or the bear batting.
Go to the ant. thou mlscreant, and
ee how God honors ii. In the great
olege Of the universe ii has been ap-
onted your professor. All over the
md and all over the world there are
verdriven horses that ought to be un
Gagged birds that ought to be
ut on their wings in the free air Of
eaven. droves of cattle agonized of
lirst on the freight trains where they
ught to be watered. and crustacea be.
lg broiled alive that ought to be lifted
ut of the fire. Christ chose II apOs
es for the human race in the first cen
Try. and you know their names, but in
le nineteenth century he chose bis
lirteenth apostle. who wrought for the
'lef of the brute creation. and his
nme was Henry Bergh In my text
le ant is not impalcd. is not dead. but
live. and ln the warm fields providing
pr meat In the summer and gathering
er food in the harvest.
Learn From the Ant.
Furthermore, 90 to the ant and learn