Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-08-08

lllUE lily Niisl -iNN bS NAN
mvtholosical times used to suck out the
life's blood OF their human victims
The ShirlS In Religion.
Now. if you despise a shirk in pleas
urc and dcspise shirk in business
how is il that you are willing to be
vourself shirk in religion? You, my
brother. believing in Jesus Christ ana
hopng some day to be etemally saved
bv his blood, ought in common non
esty to fully realize that your actions
toward the church are just as desplca-
bic and contemplate as the Sinking
characteristics which you desplse III
others. You are practically saying 10
vourself. Il want to some day reach
heaven; but in the meantime l want
my wife, my mother, my sister, my
daughter, to do all my praying ana
working in the church. When am IN
my last sickness | want their minister
to come and fix things all up for me
i'm n spiritual sense. And when l am
dead | want their minister TO STATE
over my casket that | have repehleu
Mt the eleventh hour and have been
saved all right. In other words, | want
to win every joy and hope of the re
ligious faith without lifting hand
for Christ without doing one stroke OF
work i'm the Masters service ON, my
brother. such statement as that is so
mean and deSpicable | do not believe
YOU have ever fully realized what your
gospel Sinking has signihed. Come
man, and be true man in the splrltu-
nj as we'll as in the temporal way.
Come and take off your coat i'll holy
enthusiasm. DO not compel the wOm-
on folks of your families to longer
hear the brunt of the gospel struggle.
At If I'm the name of the Lord Jesus.
At if now, At it all the time. Hear
the plea Of the manifest Christian man
who ever lived. This plea he made TO
men: Help those women. Help
those women" Help them now.
4 strong. robust. manly man compels
the admiration of other men. There Is
q popular theory abroad that Il manly
man can never fascinate the mascu'
line world as a beautiful woman can
But l do not think that that theory is
true. | know it is not in my own case
| also know it is not true with many
Of my gentlemen friends. OFTEN, when
walking through the crowded thor
oughfares of Chicago, ! have had
member OF my family say, Did you
ever see Il more beautiful face than
that?7 who? Where" l would ask.
.'Nhv. that beautiful woman who was
walking there with that man" 'Oh, -
I would answer. Il did not see tie
woman. but | did see the man. l was
watching him very closely. My. lie
was a strong man. There was a some
thing in the look of his eye. in the set
of his mouth, in the strength OF MS
shoulders and in his well poised. self
confident walk that proved TO me he
was a leader among men. l did not see
the woman. but what fine specimen
of q man he was. l believe that the
fascination which a strong man mas
uDon me is the same fascination which
he has upon all men except those men
tai weaklngs and masculine nonenu-
ties who think that the chief purpose
for which a man was created was 10
eat and sleep. to dress and undreSs.
If manly man is 10 have such a
| great influence upon other men, VINO
will be able to do your Christian work
unless YOU are willing TO do it! There
are persons and spheres which you, and
only YOU. can reach. The women who
have labored with Paul in the gospel
cannot do it. Your mother, wife, or
sister. or daughter cannot do it. You
know that there are today down in
your store some clerks whom no human
being can touch for Christ as you,
their employer, can touch, if you will.
Would you not be a Christian mer-
chant like William Z. Dodge, or
! Christian statesman like Governor
George y. Briggs. or a Christian soldier
like General Q. 0. Howard or a. W.
Reilly. or a Christian physician like
Charles Jewett. or a Christian lay
! president OF COlleSe lihc MAIN I'P
| kins? These men had great influence
in the financial, or the professional. or
the political realm. Their greatest and
most far reaching influence, however
was when, as earnest, consecrated
Christian leaders. they stood before the
young men of this world as living eX-
amples of faith in Jesus Christ. They
were manly Christians in the busy
marts appealing to men.
True Courage.
Would you not like to be Christian
scientist like Henry DrummOnd? Some
people are foolish enough to suppose
that his greatest work was in the lee
lures on natural history. which he first
delivered before his classes in the Free
Church college of Glasgow. But | tel
YOU that the greatest Of, all the WORK
Henry Drummond did in his life was
done when he stood before the young
university men of Edinburgh, gathered
Sunday after Sunday within large
hall of Edinburgh. and testified tC
them Of Jesus Christ. At that time he