Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-02-01

in vain, three persons only know-God,
your wife and yourself. In CONNER
cial life you have not had the promo
ton and the increase in salary you an
ticipated, or the place you expected to
occupy in the firm has not been va
Gated. The produce Of the farm with
which you expected TO support your
self and those depending on you ana
to pay the interest on the mortgage
has been far less than you anticipated
or the prices were down, or special ex-
penses for sickness made drafts on
your resources that you could not have
expected. In some respects the hard-
est decade of life Is the thirties, be-
eause the results are generally so far
behind the anticpations. 1t Is very
rare indeed that young man does as
| did the young man one Sunday hlghl
when he came t. me ana sad, / nave
been so maryelcusly prcspered since
came to this country that feel as Il
matter of gratitude that l ought to
dedicate myself to Cod" Nine-tenths
Rof the poetry OF life has been knocked
out Of you since you came into the
sthlrties Men in the different profes-
! sions and occupations saw that you
l,werc rising. and they must put in es-
toppe OH YOU or you might somehow
stand in the way. They think you
must be suppressed. Prom thirty to
forty is an especially hard time Tor
Young doctors. young lawyers, young
merchants. young farmers. young me-
Nchouics. Young ministers. The strug-
ole If the thirtics is FOR honest ana
lhelp and rcmunerative recognition.
But few old people know how to treat
lvoung peop!c without patronizlng them
ON the ones hand or snubbing them on
lithe other. Oh. the thirtes! Joseph
stood before Pharaoh at thirty; DaViu
was thirty years old when he began TO
reign: the height Of SClomon's temple
was thirty cublts; Christ entered upon
his active ministry at thirty years OF
age. Judas sold him for thirty pieces
of silver. Oh, the thiftiesl what a
word suggestive OF triumph or oisas-
ter.
Your decade is the one that viii PROB
ably afford the greatest opportunity
for victory because there is the great
est necessity for struggle. Read the
worlds history and know what are the
thirties for good or bad. Alexander the
} Great closed his career at thirty-two
Frederick the Great made Europe
tremble with his armies at thirty-hve
; Cortes conquered Mexico at thirty
Grant fought Shiloh and Donelsoi
: when thirty-elght; Raphael died a
thIrty-seven: Luther was the hero o
2 the reformation at thirty-five; Sir PM
/: ip Sidney got through by thirty-two
Z THE greatest deeds for God and agains
!. him were done within the thirties, ant
rour greatest battles are now ana be
Z tween the time when you cease eN
r pressing your age by putting nrst
r figure . and the time when you WI
t cease expressing it by putting nrst
figure 3. AS it is the greatest time 0
the struggle. | adjure you, In COD
I name and by Gods grace, make II IN
: greatest achievement. My prayer is 10
r II those in the tremendous crisis Q
d the thirties. The fact is that by I'd
r wav Won decide the present decade
J. your history you decide all the follow
). ing decades.
} The Decade of Discovery.
!, xt I accost the forties. Yours
r the decade of discovery. do not mea
e the discovery OF the outside, but II
IS discovery Of yourself. No man know
l. himself until he is forty. He oyeresl
T. mates or underestimate himself L
D. that time he has learned what he ca
do or what he cannot do. He thoug
ID he had commercial genius enough
Is become n millionaire. but now he
Is satisfied to make Il comfortable livin
~ He thought he had rhetorical pow
y. that would bring him into the Unit'
" States senate: now he is content IL
IN can successfully argue common ca
~ before petit jury. He thought
- | mad meUlcuI Sklll AA4siA NDN'N'
III q Mott or Il Crosse or wizard II
le ker Of n Sims: now he finds his sphe
ge is that of family physician. prescrl
~ INC for the ordinary ailments that
'e- hict orr race. He was sailing on III
IL fog and could not take reckonlr
oil but now it clears up enough to all'
nd him To find out his real latitude a
at longitude. lie has been climbing, o
IL now he has got to the top OF the II
IS. and he takes a long breath. lie IS n'
ne way through the journey at least Il
or he is in Il position to look backward
Sc forward. He has more go0d ser
ne than no ever had. He knows hum
lst noturc. Fer he has been cheated OFT
90 enough TO see the bad side OF 1t, a
he has met 50 many gracious ana XII
81 " and splendid souls he also kno
'es +he Good side Of it. Now, calm 20
N seIf Thank God for the past and
ty liberately set your compass for ano
al or voyace. You have chased enou
Ill thistlcdown: you have blown enou
ed soop bubbles: you have seen the
rs satisfying nature Of all earthly thln
IGs Omen a new chapter with God and
m world. This decade of the fort
en- ought to eclipse all its predecessors
We; worship. in usefulness and In haE
'u ness.
ac- The Renping Age.
en- NV sermon next accosts the MT
yer How queer 1t looks when In writ
me your age you make the first of the
70; figures a 5. This is the decade WI
or shows what the other decades b
'as been. If young man has sown
en- oats and he has lived to this time
the reaps the harvest of It IN the hr.ies
1ty IL by necessity he was compelled
AS overtoil in honest directions he Is ca
oie IN settle ND with exacting nature so