Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-09-27

closer to God. 1t was the attacks ana |
sneers and derislYeremarks burledat the
young statesman that neryed Benjamin |
Disraeli to become the great leader OF
the house OF commons and the favorite
prime minister OF his queen. 1t was
the harsh criticism of an English naval
officer that made Admiral Farragut
firmly set his teeth and lips together
and redouble his energy when he drove
his wooden ship past the supposed I'M
passable batteries OF New Orleans. ana
It is the deserved criticisms OF our enc
mics that ought to make us moro con-
secrated to our LIES work and more
Wiling to make sacrifices to accom-
pllsh our object.
But there is a Christian as well as an
un.Christian way OF meeting the criti'
cisms Of rivals and Of those who are
Jealous Of our successes. One way is
to do as Plato, the great disciple OF
Socrates, did when he was told that
even the boys in the streets were laugh
ing at his singing. He answered,
Then | must learn to sing better, 30
that they will not laugh" The other
way is 10 do as Alexander Pope, the
vain and supersensitive poet OF Eng
land. used to do. Instead OF going
ahead and doing the work that God
gave him to do, and on account OF his
enemies criticisms doing II better ana
better all the time, he wasted most OF
his life in chickering's and backbitng
and In trying to destroy the regulations
of those who were attacking him. The
one way is TO do as d. L. Moody did.
He made II the rule OF his life to never
individually attack a person who nao
attacked him. The more MT. Moody
was personally assailed and misrepre-
sented the more he would go to Coo IN
nraver and ask the Divine Father to
make his life so pure and true that
there might not remain In his heart
any cause for the charge which his en-
emies were making. The other way is
to do as many OF Us are doing. Wnen
a neIghbor or critic makes any derog-
atory statement about us and our
work, we prove that we are not falsely
condemned in all particulars, that at
least we have the fault OF retaliation,
because we go hunting for the faults
in our neighbor's lives instead OF try
inE. with divine help, to correct thc
evils In our own.
Rise By the Grace Of 0ed.
Thus. my brother, want you, by the
grace OF God. to rise higher and higher
in the spiritual life until At last yos are
at an altitude above and out OF earsnOi
of the buEzing sound Of the locusts OF
fault finding enemies. / want you 70
rise 40 high IN the spiritual life thai
Won will not care what people may say
or think about you or yours as long al
you can bring these people to leVe ano
live for Christ. Humsnly speaking. Il
ia avfully hard TO bear the petty an
noyances Of your ReighbOrs. crioelsint
you and saying mean things about you
wife and chiIdreA. II is hard. from
human standpoint, TO refrHih IRON
hinaing a stone at the lOcRp;s 81 evl
ma argings which are buEzins about yo'
and your loved ones. But by the Srac
OF God you can live dswD these pett.
apnoyances. You can 80 on doing you
work even as Christ went on doing hl
work. in spite Of the jeers and IN
SCOTS which the Pharisees uttere
against him and bis disciples
! II you are absorbed IN your OWN
: Masters work. you will receive SUN
3 cient grace to make you Indifferent I
= the little annoyances caused by VIVA
9 people may say against you. iou WI
no ike that gateman whom Major Col
8 some years ago saw In Chicago d'
e not 1t was during bitterly col
e night. Many male passengers wer
t grumhlng and complaining Decaus
E this .ateman made every one OF tines
g men unbutt0n bis coat and SHOW d
8 ticket before he could 20 to his tran
g "My friend" said Major Cole. you q
t not seem very popular with the passel
d GERS OF this road" NO" answered II
o pateman with a smile but that do'
y not concern me. So long as ! obey o
ders am all right. There Is only Oh
v man whose good opinion anects ID
y and that is the president OF the roa
= so long as he is satisfied do not ca
a what these people say" III order
n overcome the locust burden OF wn
" fault finders may say against you' I
s. member my Christian brothers, o.
N dutv ia not to please man, but Coo, al
ID God alone. After you are convinc
Is that in what you do you are pieasll
Is Cod II makes but little difference wh
ID anv enemy-man. woman or chliu
At NAV say against you or your ioV
1e ones.
to walking with Christ.
es The increasing signs Of physical a
" mental decadence can also be class
Id among the burdens Of the buzzlng
be cust The annoyance OF feeling IN
~ vour eyes are becoming nearsight
be and that you have to wear glasses a
nd ait very close to the light when y
nj read the Bible or the evening new
D1D0f. Q6 dunOJ ahNV "a
10 eardxum refuse to clearly throw I
a' echoing sound into the brain, as II on
~ did. The annoyance Of not being al
We to yun for n street ear or to step
10 that car when 1t Is In motion. The
=. noyance Of having some young reII'
u IA the car arise and offer you So
Is. as though you were an cid man.
eu what is worse than all, the annoyar
ne Of feeling that you cannot do as mu
ST work and do It as quickly as you OF
70 did a few years ago. AS your Dr'
20 power seems to lose its grip you p
bi. vishly place your hand upon your 10
ne head and say: ~ do not know what
-ts the matter with my brain. My memo
gh seems to have completely left me-
lid cannot recall the simplest names
ng facts have to make a memeraa 40
ng OF everything. Even my children ns
ITS | +o look fter me now as though wa