Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-11-19
Caln1aSe
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee, ID. ID.

Los Angeles, Cal, Nov. 1910 that
class of nominal Christians who are
hearers, but not doers, and who pin
their faith upon their religious ances-
try or their favorable environment in
stead of getting right with Cod per-
sonally, this sermon will come as an
arousing call. The text Is Matthew
XIV, s, "Give US Of your oil, for our
lamps are gone out"
All men may be broadly divided into
two classes. There are some on the
border line, belonging not altogether
TO the one class or the other, having
characteristics of each, but the great
mass may be separated into two groups
the workers and the idlers. The one
class includes the toilers. the pullers,
the diggers, the grinders, the climbers.
They are striving to succeed in no
BILE, honest way. They do not mean
to be social parasites. They want
share Of the good things of life, but
they do not expect to receive them aS
gift. but to pay for them by honest
work. They hope for promotion, ana
tbsy strive to merit 1t by seeking to
make themselves worthy Of 1t. They
study and toll to develop themselves
40 that when the opportunity comes
they will be ready to take advantage
OF It. Though they may be IN opscure
posittons they do their work well, and
when the call comes to go higher they
are prepared by long years OF hard
work to perform the duties Of the hign-
er position.
"Why do you study so hard?" Yale
classmate asked one day OF John u
Calhoun, the South Carolina student
who was his roommate. "You are now
the leading student in the college. NO
man can successfully compete with
YOU in any study" "Oh," answered
the young man, II am not working for
leadership in a college town. am
working to be a leader in the nation.
What Calhoun-do you expect 10 De
great statesman in Washington
.'If did not expect to go to congress
within six years" answered Calhouh'
81 would pack up my books at once
and leave Yale tomorrow. | feel so
sure of going to congress that l De-
Rrudge every wasted minute. l must
prepare myself by unc0asing labor 10
meet the nations leaders In the arena
Of debate" John G. Calhoun wanted
TO win success. He did more than tnat.
He wanted to prepare himself by hard
| work for the time when that success
should come, as come it did, and as II
nearly always will come to those VINO
are conscientious in preparatory work.
No short Road to Success.
The second class Is comprised or men
who want to win success by a mini
mum of labor. They hate drudgery;
they hope to succeed by some lucky
scheme. These are the men who, go
Ing on a foreign tour, expect to learn
French or German In nye weeks; they
hope to marry a rich wife and have an
easy time living on the savings OF their
wife's father; they prepare to conduct
the business of theix fathers, not by
beginning, as he did, at the lowest rung
Of the ladder, but by taking SIX
months course in a business college OF
by becoming their fathers nominal
private secretaries. During their easy
apprenticeship they would spend three
DAYS out of every week playing golf
and at least five nights out Of every
seven in ballroom. at theater party OF
In clubhouse designations. The little
time they play at business is when
they are not working at play. These
people represent failure. For as an old
writer once said, People who never
do any more work than they are PAID
for, never get paid for any more thar
they do" These people always wan'
to succeed with a minimum Of work.
Yes. the two kinds Of people on earth
mean
Are the people who lift and the people
who lean. go,
wherever you 60 you will find the world
Are always divided in Just these tw'
| classes,
And. oddly enough, you will and. too,
| ween,
There is only one litter to twenty WHIT
lean.
Drones there are in the busy bee
hives of temporal lfe Drones there
are in the busy beehives of spiritua
life. We know them we'll They have
existed in every age-men who hop'
to enter heaven, but are not willing q
deny themselves, nor to resist tempta
ton, nor to strive to enter through tn
straight gate. 1t was to warn peopl
Of the futility of such lives that Chris
spoke the parable Of the ten virgins
Five Of them, he said, were foolish
self indulgent and needless Of the oh
legations of the spiritual life. He l
not here denouncing criminals or VI
cious people. These virgins were nom
inally Christians, not the murderer
and robbers who infested the foner
roads of Palestine, ready to wayla
the traveller; not the openly immora
like the Magdalene or the woman 0
Samaria, but the people who, as an Oh
commentator has said, make a "prc
fession Of the gospel and act in sue
q manner as to give real Christians
favorable impression Of them and
sain admittance into their midst" ID
is alluding to Christians in name oni.
who outwardly appear all right an
yet have not the true inward consecr'
n ton of heart and who expect Thereon
to 20 to heaven upon borrowed spi
itual capital.
The Spiritual Mendicants.
These spiritual mendicants OF m
text are. in the first place, the men ar
women Indifferent to the comman
's ments Of Jesus Christ, who expect
g ultimately reach heaven on account
the conservation OF a Christian anc'
,s try. They are not bad men as I
- world looks upon bad men. They ha
haan rockod in Christian cradles, In