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

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hounds leap upon him and try to tear
out his heart. Al. have made many
q good man on account Of slander turn
and curse Godl Perhaps l can destroy
this man in this way"
\ How Satan Kills by OverwOrk.
4 But after Satan has tried to destroy
! this good man by both popular ap-
plause and by the hounds of persecu-
tion and slander and has failed Satan
has one way left. Satan says to him
4 self: 81 cannot make that man give up
l his God, but | can kill him with over
work. | can pile the Christian oppOr-
(. tunities of usefulness upon that bril-
liant. consccrated, young gospel min
ister; | will keep him working during
the day and during the night; | will
keep him working during the winter
and during the summer; | will give
him Il bigger church than he can at
tend to; | will have the editors write
him to send articles for their papers;
| will have the summer camp meetings
| steal away his vacation; | will start
revival i'm his church, | will sap every
bit of physical strength he has; | will
I kill him by Overwork, as | killed Kirke
White, by Offering him Il Cambridge
prize; I will kill him as | killed VIII
liam Paloy, at thirty-nine years Of age
the most brilliant Christian intellect Of
his day; l will kill him. as l have
burned out the brain of many gen
ius, by OycrwOrk before that brain
lived long enough to light an intellec
tual torch which would have cast its
rays all round the world"
When Satan sees n wife and mother
cOnsecrating her life to the Masters
service, he says: Il must stop her also.
must kill her by overwork if l can
not do it I'm any other way" SO Satan
tells that wife and mother that she
must do all the sewing. She must do
all the work In the kitchen. She must
look after her husbands interests in
every way. He may be able to smoke
his cigars and have a horse and go to
the club. but she must be a good wife
and keep every expense down. She
must never leave home and take a va
cation herself. although her husband
can go off a-fishing every spring. The
result is that Satan drives that woman
on and Oh and on by oyerwork until he
drives her into the grave. Then Satan
laughs a mighty laugh of triumph. He
now has full swing In that motherless
and wifeless household. The sons and
daughters of that mother are easily led
of into sin. Why? At the critical
time Of their lives the mothers hand is
not there to guide them The husband /
and the father having lost his wife's /
ballast, becomes financially and spirit
ually wrecked. All those catastrOphes |
come upon that dead woman's home |
because she would not let up in her |
work She would not take rest, !
complete rest, away from home, which |
every hardworking Christian woman
needs at least once year
Give the Brain n Rest.
| beg of you, hardworking Christian
men and women, to take summer va
cation because a rested brain can do
twice as much work in the same time
as q tired one. Some two or three
years after | entered the ministry my
father wrote me letter something like
this: Dear Frank, | hear you intend
to stay in the city this summer and
take no vacation. You say that you
cannot afford the time. Great mistake.
If you attempt to work all summer,
you will have to pay big price for
disobeying natures laws. Next winter
the sermons which you write will be
harder to produce and poorer because
you have tired brain. Get out of the
city by all means. You owe this rest
to your family, your church and your
God. A sick or tired minister is of but
little use in his study, in the prayer
meeting or in his pulpit. always find
that when my brain is rested it does
its quickest and best work. That is
the kind of letter which every SEN
sibie father will write to his son when
he finds that the boy does not know the
WCn hIOh II AhhA a ANolNn OAtAAh
and rested body can do twice as
much work as a tired physical organi-
zation.
Every physician will tell you that 1t
is an economy in time for tired men
and women to go off and take a vaca-
tion and rest Yet it is a surprising
fact how many truly good Christian
people feel they cannot leave their
home and church work even for few
weeks in a year. If they were rested,
they could do much more work for
Christ and do it much more easily.
Indeed, the older | grow the more |
believe that most good people need to
take this advice. Most good people
look tired. Go where you WILL in the
store or in the home, and the one great
that you hear every spring
and summer is: Il am so tired, awful
ly tired. | am as tired when get up
in the morning as when lie down to
sleep at night" Why. most people in
the Sprinctimc look as tired as that
poor woman who came TO me one day
and said: Mr. Talmage, don't talk to
me about heaven. | do rot want to
go to heaven for a long time yet 1
am so tired that when | come to die
want God to let me sleep in my grave
for a thousand years. Then. after |
have become thoroughly rested, want
to open my eyes and see heaven My
Dverworked Christian friend, if you
want TO do your best work for Christ
next winter you must treat your body
Just as you would treat tired, run
down, exhausted horse which has been
worked all winter. You would take
)ff his shoes and turn him out to grass.
You must treat your body as a farmer
treats a field which has been over
worked in production. He lets it lie
'allOw for awhile. You should treat
p ur body as nature treats the vegeta-
ion. 1t sends the colds of winter so
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