Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-11-08

religiously devOut in their own homes,
she replied. zone would never have
guessed 1t from the specimens l have
seen travelling In Holland"
SHINING Away From Home.
An average man can commit as a rule
twenty sins away from home, when he
is travelling alone, In railroad train OF
stopping alone in hotel, or living
alone with strangers, far more easily
with less risk of injury to his position
and reputation, than one sin when he
is being watched by his employer
eyes or when he is in daily companions
ship with Christian mother, wife or
child. 1t makes an immense amount
of difference how locomotive will act
when 1t Is on the down grade whether
or no the engineer has perfect control
over its powerful Westinghouse brakes.
1t makes an immense amount of diff
ference with some Of us when we are
heading toward the open drawbridges
OF sin whether or no we have our loved
ones near by, who are ready to reach
out their hands to help us close the
throttles and apply the spiritual brakes,
SO that we can halt before we have
gone too far and it Is too late to try
to stop.
But though the swift moving currents
Of daily influences In n commercial
travellers life are apt to flow in the
wrong direction when he is away from
home, yet that is no valid excuse for
his yielding to temptation. In the first
place, God has distinctly declared that
he will never allow any temptation to
come nigh us which Is greater than we
can bear, II we will only throw our
selves upon his mercy and plead and
continue to plead for divine strength.
Mighty as are the temptations the COM
merclal traveller meets when he is away
from home, the divine power which is
at his disposal is infinitely stronger. 1t
can triumph over every opposing force.
But there Is still another reason why
the commercial traveller should not
yield to the temptations which he
meets away from home. The modern
knight OF the grip is naturally a stron-
ger man, mentally, morally and physic-
ally, than the average man who is
compelled to stay at home and work.
1t takes brains, and lots Of brains, to
be able to sell goods away from home.
The time is past when the great mer-
chants think that any drunken, gam
bling, disappearing employee is good
enough to go upon the road. The en-
ployers today demand that their CON-
mercial travellers be men Of character,
Of brain, men with the moral stamina
to say yes and no. And, young man,
mercial traveller is proof positive that
you have character enough, by the
grace Of God, to be able to resist any
which you may meet in
your travels.
Temptations assail the commercial
traveller alike when he Is buoyed up
with great success and when he is
by great financial de-
preston, when be is thrown of his
guard by exultation or disheart-
ened by a long succession Of BIT
.er dlsappointments. Many CONNER
,ial travellers do not receive a reg
llar guaranteed salary. They work on
| system Of commissions. The more
goods they sell the more money they
receive. The less goods they dispose Of
he less income they have. The aver
lge commercial travellers income IS apt |
o ebb and flow like the tides. In one
own the knight Of the grip may sell
thousands of dollars worth Of goods. |
N every store he enters he finds a
arge purchaser. In another town he |
nay not even meet expenses. Then, |
when the average commercial traveller |
las what he calls a run Of luck, he is !
pt to be unduly elated, and that ella |
ion is often the means Satan uses to |
rip him up. The imminent dangers Of |
and disappointment are the
,harybdis and the Scylla which every
ommercial traveller has to face.
Now, my friend, you who spend most
# your life selling goods upon the
DAD. l want to warn you against the
angers which come from either exul-
alton or Encouragement. Henry Ward
Seecher cured one of his parishioners
( the temptation of entering into Wall
treet speculations by an experiment.
he pastor Of Plymouth church asked
Is friend not to gamble In stocks
or at least three years. During those
hree years Mr.. Beecher wanted him
D make a study Of the stock market.
very time he thought stocks were go
lg up he was to make a memorandum
{ the same and decide how much he
Tanted to buy and every time he
lought he ought to sell stocks to make
memorandum Of the same. Then, at
le end Of three years, Mr.. Beecher
lid, Count up your results and find
ut where you would have stood IL
lese purchases and sales had actually
zen made" This the parishloner did,
; Mr. Beecher desired. At the end Of
lree years he found out that If he had
itered Wall street and speculated as
2 wished to do he would have been
ankrupted ten times over. You, my
friend, may learn the same
.sson. You do not have to expert
ent yourself. but you may see In the
yes of other commercial travellers the
,sults Of allowing either exultation
dependency to overcome you. Re-
I'll the history Of those commercial
ayelers whom you have known for
e last FIVE or ten years. I want you
try to remember all the drinkers and
trousers who started out with you
Jon the road. Almost without excep-
ln. YOU know they have lost their DO
tons and are living In comparative :
Dverty or are lying in drunkards' {
raves. Now, my friend, dare you as I
1 intelligent man have run any such I
SKIS? Dare you In any circumstances I
ink or dissipate, no matter how In {
nse may be your disappointments or