Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-07-26

to his disciples when he led them of
into desert place.
Go Into the Desert.
beg of you, hardworking Christian
men and women, to rest awhile be
cause a summer vacation ought not to
cost you financially very much. Christ
did not tell his disciples to spend weeks
and months in order to get up an eX-
pensive wardrobe so they could go to a
fashionable hotel. He did not want
them to go to a great watering place
where they could drink and carOuse
and turn night into day and day into
night. He did not desire that they
should go to place where they would
To some people the idea of taking a
summer vacation is not to find rest, but
dissipation. From the time they arrive
at the fashionable summer resort they
defy every physical law of health.
And if after Il few weeks Of carousal
they return to the city with the fatal
germs of disease or inyalidism planted
in their yitals they have no one to
blame but themselves They will be
Just as much to blame for their on
coming Sickncsses as my dissipated
classmate was blamed by the profess
or. He asked for a sick leave. The
professor looked at him a moment and
said: NO, sir, | will not excuse you.
You are young and strong. You have
been dsObeying the laws of nature,
and you must suffer the consequences.
You have no business to be sick" So
these summer dissipators will find
much to their sorrow, that no man or
woman ever found physical rest in n
fashionable hotel by dancing until /
or . in the morning. No man ever
found health at the summer gaming
table or in the hotel barroOms.
The fashionable watering places are
very expensive places in which to live.
But when Jesus bade his disciples to
go into a desert place and rest awhile
he commanded them to go into the
quietude of the country One can live
very cheaply in the rural districts 1t
does not cost very much to go into the
suburbs of the city and live for a little
while next to natures heart, to dwell
in some quiet farmhouse far away
from the great busy world 1t does
not cost very much to associate for a
little while with the cows and the
{ n N lar he nd ln
chickens, to toss the hay and TO hunt
the eggs. 1t does not cost very much
to study Gods thoughts In the leaves,
to study Gods thoughts in the flowers,
to hear Gods voice in the music of the
winds. No somnambulance can so rest
the tired brain as the quietude Of the
woods. That is where God wants us
to rest. In the desert place means
near to the great throbbing heart of
Mother Nature.
To prove that it will not cost very
much to go out for few days into the
quietude of the country and rest
awhile | would like to ask you n per
tinent question. You have not had
vacation-that is. ihe kind OF vacation
Christ wants you to ta!le-for long
while. How mvch did YOU spend in
doctors bills last year? Well" you
answer, "last winter was hard win
ter for me. | seemed to be taking cold
all the time. Ny throat was very
weak, and each Graft would affect l..
One week | was in bed threatened
with pneumonia; another time had
bronchitis. was away from the store
were very high. have not paid them
all up yet" | would like to ask you
another pertinent question What did J
your druggist bills amount to last win
ter? "Oh," you answer, 81 was buying
medicines all the time-medicines for
my digestion. medicines for my cough,
medicines for headaches, tablets for
this and that and the other thing"
The Economy of O Vacation.
Now, my friends. you are ready, l |
think, to listen 10 rational advice. You |
know that on Of the great medical |
tenets states that it is far better to |
prevent disease rather than cure the
disease after it has come. Old DR.. |
Samuel d. Gross, the greatest surgical |
of his day, used to say to
his students, "Gcntlemen, any stupid |
butcher with Il meat AK can chop off
leg, but it often takes very great sur
geon TO save one" Any man can take
medicine after he is sick, but it takes a
wise man to look far enough ahead to
keep his body in such physical trim
that he will not get sick. And, my
friends, would it not be far better for
you as Christian workers to look ahead
md spend the money which you might
give to the doctors and the druggists
IN taking a summer vacation? Would
It not be far more economical for you
% spend some money in tOning up your
physical system by taking a rest? Then
you can resist the ordinary diseases;
then you will not have to be placed
upon an invalid's bed until God says
hat your work is done; then you will
save money by resting as well as the
precious time which you can i'll afford
o lose from your next winters work.
But the greatest of all advantages In
,oing off into a desert place to rest
while is that we can there come
learer to Christ than we have ever
)een before. In this age Of work but
ew men have time to stop and think.
Daily tasks become so absorbing that
he second duty crowds itself upon you
IS soon as the first duty is done. The
ushing electric cars whirl the hus-
lands and fathers and brothers to the
tore. From morning until night the
customers have to be seen. Then come
he evening tasks. And, though "a
nan works from sun to sun, wOm
ms work is never done"
But when the Christian goes off into
he country to rest he can 90 off to l
ray in the same spirit with which I
,hrist went When he gets away from I
he store the factory, the home, his
actad mind will ha0in tO clear AS no '