Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-10-03

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Of your glorllied and sainted mother!
II is a path covered with wild flowers
and fragrant with perfume. Those
flowers and that pathway have been
watered with your mothers tears.
But there is another path to which
would call your attention today. 1t Is
that which you once Travelled when go
ING TO Sunday school and to the church
Of your childhood. II that church was
in the country, then there was poetry
I'm YOUR going. When the call of the
village bell rang those notes would
press their way through the atmos-
phere like bubbles of air working their
way up from the bottom OF stream.
| They would come nearer and nearer 10
YOUR ear. as the bubbles come nearer
and nearer to the surface Of the wa
ters. Then with a happy laugh they
would seem to burst You would first
hear those notes when you would be
| riding toward the town. Father and
mother. brothers and sisters would all
be crowded together in the one car
riaQe. My. there was big load OF you
who used to travel that road! No won
der the big springs Of that family We
hicle used to bend and groan and creak
under the heaviness Of the load.
walking with Christ.
If tie path which you first Travelled
to Sunday school was along the side
walk of a city, then In all probability
YOU walked. You walked by the side
Of your father or mother, because you
were the youngest Then your new
! shoes would squeak at every step.
Those shoes kept new for long WHILE
because you were only allowed to wear
them on Sunday. But as you rode or
walked to that Sunday school and to
YOUR first church services great
change came over your family party.
One of your sisters or brothers left
your side and went up to the church al
tar. One by one they there gave their
hearts to Christ and publicly confessed
him at the communion table. After
awhile your turn came. You can see
Yourself now as you came before the
church session. You remember how
the old minister wiped his glasses. He
put his hand upon your shoulder and
said: "My boy. why do you want to
joln the church? Do you love Jesus
VIII you promise to live for him and
give your life to his service| Then
you remember the great big lump that
stuck In your throat. You remember
how between your sobs you said: The
reason l want to be Christian Is be-
cause my father and mother and broth
ers and sisters are all Christians.
want their Saviour to be mine. AS we
have a united family here l want an
unbroken family circle in heaven"
Aged. gray haired man, that was
beautiful path over which you went to
church for the first time. That was
holy drive you took on the morning
YOU went to take your first communion.
You did not speak much that morning,
but your thoughts were very deep ano
very high. They were as deep as your
sins as high and as great as the
forgiveness Of God. Oh, why nave
YOU not always kept walking In that
path? Christ walked with you there
twenty years ago. Jesus as guide is
ready to lead you back to that pain
and walk with you there now. VIII
YOU seek the old path-the path over
which you went for the first time to
the communion table of the Lord?
Highway of Blossoms.
There is still another path which you
once trod. This path Is fragrant with
blossoms. Like the tabled trees OF old
the heavy branches which line 1t are
laden with silver bells. 1t is the path
which once led up to your marriage al
tar. 1t is the path over which the rail-
on rice is strewn and where the merry
laughter of the bridesmaids Is trying
to drown the joyful salutations or the
wedding chimes. The blossoms whlcl
line this pathway are orange blossoms
The silver bells are those whlcl
once played Mendelssohn's WEDDING
March" Where did that path which
ended at the marriage altar first leae
you? "Oh." you answer. 1T ied m'
first among the briers and over th'
stony grounds My cOurtship day
were not all sunshine. For a long time
did not know whether | could VIII
tho hand of my heart love. In the trs
nlace. was not socially her equal
Then was penniless and had nothing
70 offer but my two hands and a Will
ing heart. Then my life was not VIVA
II ought to have been. But she hat
faith in me. promised her to reform
7 went to church with her. gave VI
drinking, and ! promised her | woul'
surrender my heart to Christ. And, q
YOU know. the night she gave hersei
TO me she made me kneel with her an
we both made prayer that God woul
hear and help me keep my vows" Al
yes. my brother know just how yo
feel when you think Of that old pat
which led up to your marriage altar
When you took the trembling hand 0
that young girl in yours yor truly fel
that yon wanted to be good 70
promised God, then and tbsre, for ne
2 sake as we'll as yOur own, to live
good, true, pure, noble, Christian lie
7 Have you kept your vow? Are yo1
: willing to go to church with her nov
e as you did when you were engaged t
her? Are you helping her to set tn
right example before your children
your children and hers2 Remember
= man, you made a promise to her and I
] God on the night Of your wedding
q Will you seek the old path Of const
e Grated love, which wound through tn
2 days Of your courtship and ended o
? the night you took your heart love
= a bride from her fathers home?
o Keep Your Pledges.
q But there is still one more path
i. want you to seek. That is the on
r which led down by the cradle OF you
|. children. When your first child wa
e born,- If you had the least spark
- manhood in vour makeuD YOU WaDte