Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-04-11

that your brother ministers Will speak
well of you? Forty per cent. How
large a percentage represents the de-
sire to be intellectual and to have the
brainy men of Edinburgh praise your
sermons? Ten per cent. How large
percentage represents your desire TO
have your children move in good so
ciety? Fifteen per cent. What per-
centage of your ambition Is left to
serve, for Christie sake, the poor and
the helpless? Orly about 3 per cent
Of your whole life" Dr. Bonar awoke
from the dream horror struck. In that
midnight hour he then and there prom
ised to give himself wholly up to the
higher motive of serving for Chrlsts
sake alone. Like that Edinburgh min
lister, may we be willing to honor Jesus
not SO much for what he may do for
us as for what we may do for him.
The FicISIeness of Humanity.
Palm Sunday emphasizes thereckless
and unreasoning fickleness of the hui
man race. Christ, the popular favor
ktfe. being led to crucifixion within six
days aftershis trumphal entry into Je-
rusalem, has his counterpart all over
the world. Human likes and dislikes.
aduation and denunclation, approba-
ton and prejudice are very apt to tread
upon each others heels. The Oscillat-
/ ing pendulum which swings one way
gathers momentum to swing as far the
other way.
If we make an idol of common hui
man clay. as the French did Of General
Boulanger in 1889, then in very little
while we may become iconOclasts and
smash our idol and also the shrine be-
fore which we once worshiped. Presi-
dent Carnot understood this fickleness
Of the human race. When the MAN on
Horseback" as Boulanger was called,
threatened TO ride down the Champs
Elysees and overthrow the French re-
public. some of the leading statesmen,
like ex-Premier Waldeck Rousseau,
wanted the president to quietly lead
Boulanger to the outskirts of the city
and have him shot for the good of
France. The president only smiled at
his friends anxiety. lie said to them;
"Wait, wait just a few months. The
rabble will turn. Then the most pOpu-
lar man of France will be the most de-
spiscd. Such popular alteration as this
IS always short lived" Carnot spoke
better than he knew. Not only did the
tidal wave of public alteration which
threatened to lift the "Man on Horse
| back" into the Tuileries subslde, but
within few months General Boulan-
ger was friendlcss In despair he COM
mitted suicide by the grave of his mis-
fress. Nine. Bonnemain, while an exile
in Brussels.
The Duke of Wellington well under
| stood tie fckleness of popular ap-
Eplause. Long after the ConquerOr OF Ma
poleon had regained his popularity and
had become the most beloved subject
of the Victorian empire he always kept
I the fence around his city home broken
| down as an object lesson to recall the
time when the London mob battered IL
6iVn 6ie he qSioY, tbeiFs disSG1st at one OF
William f. Gladstone was again ana
again execrated in the streets Oh tne
British capital through which his deau
hodv was afterward carried to sleep lts
Ioct sleen among the honOred dead OF
westminster. the Prince of Wales, now
king. being among the pallbearers'
loan of Arc. who led the French ar
mies TO victory, was deserted by her
followers. who came to believe her a
witch and devil. The same tongue
which once charmed the Roman assem-
hIics was afterward cut out from the
mouth of Cicero by the mobs ana nalieu
nm in the Roman Forum, with the cpl
taph. "Thou fool. wag no more! AL
wa do NOT have to stand among the Vo'
ciferotinc multitudes of Palm SUNDAY
IN hear and see the fickleness OF tne
human race. We can see everywhere
tho human idols being shattered. Inc
same voices that are ready to cry 10 us
"put him upon a throne" are the voices
which tomorrow will call, Lead hin
away to execution.
In Populnr Applause Worth seekihs
Now. my brother as the adoratloh o
the human race is so short hNeu'
does not pay to sacrifice everything 10
ronulor anplause. Cannot and VIII no
we live with the nObler and hlgher pur
nose of irving to have God rather thal
man think well of us? Would that w
might one and all heed the blessed al
vice which "Chinese" Gordon shor
time before his death wrote to a trieno
, then living in distant England:
"Dear Friend-Why will you kee
caring for what the world saysE lr!
oh try to be no longer slave 10 /
You have little idea of the comfort Q
freedom from it. 1t is bliss. All TIL
. caring for what people will say is you
pride Hoist your flag and abide by
= Thank God. | am quite well ana
: hannv now that l resigned the govern
= ment of the province and put all III
foults on my Friend He is able
hear them and will use me as long
no pleases as his mouthpiece, an
: whom he is done with me he will p'
mo one side. Casting all your care G
. him has just come to mind"
: Palm Sunday indicates the city
:, the greatest of all backgrounds whe
r the spiritual conquest of sinful wor
J. is to be decided. 1t is the field OF L
% draelon, where the Satanic and diyll
n powers will make their last stand al
% grin and wrestle in mortal combat.
e is the Sedan where the demonlac !
le vaders will be annihilated as cheml
a. with pestle crushes substance ID
al mortar. 1t is the Waterloo, the or
town, the Agrigentum, the SolfeTll
st the Chalons, the Thermopylae;'. wne
=, y all the powers and principalittHIes
y darkness shall be forever overthrow
+ + by the principalities and powers
le light, and Christ shall be proclaim
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