Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-06-28

is placed in the hand Of a little chllu
the easier il Is for that Child to 90
itself an injury. Aaron Burr was an IN
tellectllal giant. but Aaron Burrs
wasted life was caused by heart that
was morally bedwarfed by sin. Thomas
Paine had one of the greatest brains
ever placed within the skull of man;
but Thomas Paine's heart was so dis
eosed by sin that he was a drunkard.
n reprobate and practical outcast.
Lord Byron drank every cup of fame
drank early - deeply drank - drank !
drafts which might have quenched
the throats Of millions and then died |
of wretchedness' because his heart
was morally diseased. 1t is absolutely |
necessary for every young man anu
woman in order to a happy ana sue
cessful life to have truly developed
Christian heart, yoked to a truly de-
veloped intellectual brain.
Now, young people, while the uni
versity teachers have been developing
YOUR brain, in all probability the moral
teachers, like your Christian father
and mother and sisters and loved ones,
have been developing your heart. by
your training and your past religious
life YOU know what is right and what
is wrong. On the day when as young
man James Harper left the home OF
his birth in Newtown, L. l., his mother
placed her hand upon his head ana
said: Jimmy, you are now about to
90 into the great. wide world to make
n success or q failure. Remember, my
boy. YOU 90 from a Christian home
and do not disgrace it. If you dlS-
grace this home. remember that on the
great day Of judgment before God
shall witness against you and tell Goa
that YOU were brought up right ana
dedicated by our prayers to his serY'
ice. and that you went to destruc-
ton of your own accord" You know
lust as much what you morally ought
TO do as James Harper knew what he
morally ought TO do.
So ON this graduation day Of June !
congratulate you young people because
YOU have had such competent teachers
TO develop your intellect. ana ! also
J congratulate you because you nave
had such efficient moral toarhcrS 10
develop your heart. You were ror%'a
in Christian cradle. lou were st"f'
cd forth with Christian prayers. IAer'
has never been Cly in a. the time
YOU have been away to college thar
vour father at the family al::r did not
make morning prayer sone;hing IKE
4 this: God bless and protect AKA gGard
our boy ana girl ut college. God mase
John a good man. Cod make Sarah 2
good woman.'' Your mother. lneeling
by his side. would 81 =: ,s.Anlen' amenl
!, God bless my absent son and my aD-
sent daughter" There Was not a week
! an all yorir college life whoa you did
NOT receive letter from home. Per
Aaps your professor Of bellies lettres
utiaht say they were poorly written
!, bat Christ world say they were beau
: fif,illy written letters u those letters
your mother always wrote anottt hei
Saviour. and She always penned
. sentence something like this: My deal
. how. remember that when you arr
, stndving about the ancient Greeks anC
Romans YOU must not fcrget to rea'
, vour Bible and study about Christ
. would have you know nothing bu
D Jesus only rather than have yon know
o everything that worldly scholars mlgh
o want YOU to learn if thereby you woul'
o neglect TO know about my Christ
= Do No DishonOr.
I To show how much a young ma
/ ought to appreciate the moral trainln
u of his old home, as well as the intelle'
c tual training which he receives at co
h lege. the late ]. Sterling Morton, VIII
a was once a member Of Mr.. Cleveland
& cabinet. placed this epitaph upon I'd
Il tombstone of his dead wife: Her
u lies Caroline French. wife Of j. Ste
1 ling Morton and mother Of JOY. Pau
II Clark and Mark Morton" Then tn
father took his four sons to the gray
of his dead wife and said: Boys, yor
D. mother is buried here. If any one
'e Won does anything dishOnorablc or an,
sc thing Of which she would be ashame
le II she were alive. | will chsel yOl
DR. name from her tombstone Ana S
t. addressing you in the same spirit
u which Secretary Morton spoke to h
is four sons, now say to you, your
e. men and young women. remember Il
~ teaching of your parents, who hr
ne gave the right direction TO your hea
e. and nature. and as you would not III
d. honor them by ignoring their NOR
ID, teaching. so | beg Of you do not int
he lectually dishonOr or disgrace your
UT ma mater. from whose walls you a
a being graduated today
at Again congratulate you. young pc
IT. ple. because hereafter you are aDo
lot TO have the inspiration Of daily
ur wards. It is a hard task for YOU
ZIP man TO work for something that Is
to bappen ten. twenty thirty years hen'
re to work for something that IS TO n
Mace 50 far away that it seems
~ IL though the fact will never happen
4 1NN
,r work for something in the way tha'
~ voung man pays his first life lnsural
~ premium. suppose my personal
,ao , periencc in getting insured is tnat
49, almost every other young man. WI
~ I took out a twenty year tontlne !
- - insurance policy, felt as though "
having for something which Wo'
~ happen at the end Of eternity. p'
o,S my first premium very grudglngly
~ paid the second in the same way.
.no J'o the third year l was almost ready
,-o ~ surrender the whole policy, but as
aving years began to go over my Ut
ace as flock Of migrating birds began
Of see that the twentieth year was not
by far away. Now, the last investmen
ust would be t'lling to sacrifice IS
est twenty year life insurance policy.
eat So the young student who works
ere his studies is sometimes willing
un- slight them because graduation q
Al like death, seems to be far away at
les; edge of the horizon. The more