Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-01-11

preparation for the Olner eleFen
months. What you are In January
you will probably be in all the other
months Of the year. Prepare for them
neither by apprehension nor too san
guine anticipation. Apprehension OF
misfortune will only deplete your body
and gloom your soul and unfit you for
any trouble that may come. On the
other hand, If you expect too much, dis
Appointment will be yours. Cultivate
faith in God and the feeling that he
will do for you that which Is best, and
Won will be ready for either sunshine
or shadow. The other eleven months
of the year 1902 will not al be made up
of gladness or Of grief. The cup that
is all made up of sweetness is insipid.
Between these just opened gates or
the year and the closing of those gates
there will be many times when you VIII
want God. You will have questions 10
decide which will need supernatural
impulse There may be illnesses of the
body or perplexities Of mind or splr-
itual exhaustions to be healed ana
comforted and strengthened. During
the remaining twenty-six days OF TINS
month lay in a supply Of faith and
hone and courage for all the days OF
tho eleven months. Start right, ana
YOU will be apt to keep right. Before
the ship captain gets out of the New
York Narrows he makes up his mlnd
what sea route he will take. While
vou are in the Narrows Of this mont.
make up your mind which way you
will sail and unroll your chart ana SET
vour compass and have the lifeboats
well placed on the dayits and be ready
for smooth voyage all the way across
or the swoop of a Caribbean whiri-
wind.
The Monster AbOmination.
Rev. Solomon Spaulding was fol-
some time in poor health. and to whlle
away the time he wrote q preposterouS
religious romance. One Joseph Smith
somehow got hold Of that book before
It was printed and published 1t as
revelation Of heaven, calling IT the
"Book of Mormon" and from that pub
lication came Mormonism, the monster
ebomination of the earth. Rev. SOLO
mon Spahlding might have been Dettel
engaged than writing that book o
falsehoods. However much time W.
have. we never have time to do wrong
Harness January for usefulness, and l
will take the following months In IL
train. Oh, how much you may do 10
God between now and the 3lst OF mex
Decembegl The beautiful "weepin
willow" tree was introduced by Alex
ander Pope into England from twi
, which the poet found lu q Turks
basket of frs. He planted tbat twie
. and from It came all the weeping WI
lows of England and America; an
your smallest planting Of good may III
, der God become an influence continer
tai and international.
Now that the train Of months ha
, started. let it pass, January followe
bv February. with longer days. an
j., March. with it's fierce winds; and Aprl
with its sudden showers; and Ma!
with its blossoming orchards; an
, June> with its carnival of flowers; an
, Julv. with its harvests; and Angus
. with its swelteTing heats;-and Septen
ber. with its drifting leaves; and o.
: tober, with its frosts; and Noyembe
: with its Thanksgiving scenes; and d.
! cember. with its Christian hilaritle
, March on, o battalion Of the months
2 I'm the regiments Of the years and th
brigades of the centuries! March o
p and ioin the months and years an
l.. centuries already passed until all I'll
? rivers of time have emptied into I'll
n ocean of eternity. but none Of all I'll
2 host ought to render higher thanks
Z God or take larger comfort or max
2 more magnificent resolve than this Il
first month Of the new year.
o But what feet foot hath the montf
@ and years. People lightly talk aDo'
n how they kill time Alas, 1t dies SOC
q enough without killing. And the lo
h ger we live the swifter 1t goes. w!
Il liam C. Bryant said an old friend OF b
% declared that the going of time Is III
>. the drumming of the partridge or mu
,r fed grouse in the woods. falling slo
" and distinct at first and then follo'
n ing each other more and more rapid
% till they end at last in whirrlI
v sound But DR.. Young, speaking
. the value Of time, startingly exclaime
a "Ask deathbeds"
10 copyright. 1901 Louis Klopsch. n T.