Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-03-21

am not good enough for you to say
your prayers to me-" Another miner
tried it. lie broke down. At last the
little girl knelt by her bunk. When
she commenced to pray the old prayer
Now lay me down to sleep,
pray the Lord my soul TO keep
and ended up that prayer with the
plea that God would bless the good
men who were looking after her, there
was not dry eye in that cabin. Many
of those rough. stalwart men, through
that child's example, were led to give
their hearts TO God. AS result OF
that little girls visit these rough min
ers built church. They brought to
that church minister. The minister
declared that In all his life he never
preached to a more impressionaDle au-
dience than those rough men, VINO had
been brought into touch with that little
child prayer.
You assert that that child's gospel |
influence is the exception? | know IL
is not. know that a man never OH
earth comes as near to heaven as when |
his little baby boy or girl kneels by his
side an1 in trust and love says BABY
evening prayer God pity the man
who never knew that joy. God forgive
the father who has dulled his ear so
as not TO hear such message, who mas
blinded his eyes TO shut out such
sight which in angelic form can come
10 him I'm bare feet, rObed in a httle
white nightgown. Brother, do not tell
me that Naasson's childhood was vast
cd wears. DO not for moment sup
nose that although you may be an ordl-
nary man living an ordinary lie III an
ordinary home your little cradle had
no gospel significance in the lives OF
your Christian parents.
Manson Like Most of Us.
Naasson's matured manhood teaches
that God provides for the humDlest Oh
his children rs well as for the greatest
Who was Naasson? lie had father
named Amnadab and son, Salmon.
That is all we know of his direct con-
nections. They were evidently as hum
ble As himself. There was certainly
nothing extraordinary about TINS man.
History makes no mention of Naasson
leading a great army. Among all the
leaders of the Bible there is no record
cd speech spoken by his lips. whether
be was in physique tall or short, wheth-
or he had light hair or dark, blue eyes
or black. n broad or narrow chest
II ust be all left to conjecture. But this
fact Is certain-whether he was the
humblest individual who ever llved OF
no. God took care of him, God fed him'
God clothed him, God saw him grow up
IN full manhood Then when his Work
however small, was done God took Dill
, 70 himself. In other words Naasson
, was like the most Of us, who are WIN
( out any particular talent or power ol
leadership. Yet God is caring and feed
/ ing and clothing and housing u.s. JUS
/ os he feeds the bird of the air an'
} clothes the lily Of the field
} q obscure man, in the humble walks
2 Of life. do you not realize that III spit
r of yourself you are preaching whereVe
2 Won 90 tie protecting care OF the low
e of God? 1t is not surprising that WIZ
e ard of inventions like Thomas A. Edl
?. son can earn his daily bread; 1t is no
5 surprising that a gigantic intellect hk
5 that of Andrew Carnegie can accumu
y late q fortune when he can crown u
n Monongahela and Allegheny river
= with his works, the long tunnels every
: where at night shooting out thel
It aomes until il makes the surroundln
s regions of Pittsburg look, as Rev. ~
r John Hall once expressed It, "as lle II
fernal regions with the lid on II
II not surprising that u lawyer ike sea
a cont s Prentiss should have a lare
J. income when by his eloquence he coul
to charm not only the masses but as
IS sucb leaders of this country as hul'
lie Choote who turned to Daniel NeDst'
x ot the conclusion of one of his orator
IL and said. Did you ever near spee'
le more eloouent than thatT never
IS answered Webster, except from sea
lr cent s. Prentiss himself" But th
~ man of ordinary intellect and ever
h. dov abilities can at all times earn
Sc livelihood for himself and wife al
IL children is surely to be explained Dy
he revelation of the divine goodness WI
'le some people have not hardly ehou'
he hroins to tell their right hand FRO
'e- their left. yet God caresLfor them' u
to feeds them and clothes them, just
IN no cares for that poor widow VINO
ne left financially stranded with iar
10 number of children strapped 10
ed hack. He feeds and clothes them j
Ter rs he cared for Naasson or as he u
're been caring for us
40 where Plain Lives Lead
a+S Rut | find another very sugSesu
me fact about Naasson's genealosical
~ torv. II led to mightier names.
ot Joseph Parker once graphicaily
ro' tersely expressed it: you should
tho member that IA long. fat road may
leading up to a great mountain III
are some very plain and unlnteresl
miles out of Geneva. yet every one
10 them brings you nearer to Mont b''
vac So YOU do not know to what hlgh
.,a ,.ea your life may be quietly Leading
.ne W Even if you yourself are NOBODY y
IN, son may be man of renown or
inu xon may be a valiant and mighty III
tue Methuselah was the father of Lame
are are and Lamech was the father OF Noa
es e, Yes, yes, that is the thought to WI
'".u | point. Naasson may have peer
10 seeming nobody. His son, Salmon
tne seeming nobody. But Salmon
'nie the father of the mighty Boaz'
nieS was the husband Of beautiful ~
isn, who was the grandmother OF
'inu ~. mighty David, who was the ahce
~ Of Jesus Christ. So. o humble "on