Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-03-26

different regiments, by telegram upon
telegram, sent to the governors ana 10
the officials at Washington, practically |
said, 1--WE are ready to go to the front
AYE. to sacrifice our lives, If need be.
I'm our country's service" SO eager
were those soldiers for dangerous serv-
ice that when some of their colonies
received the kilograms that switched
them from the transports at Tampa 10
Jacksonville, Fla, there were sorrow
and disappointment in many hearts.
Posts of Difficulty.
Posts of danger and difficulty are al
wavs posts of honor in the United
States army. And yet to hear some
Christian soldiers talk you would sup
nose that the posts in Christs army
where there are difficulties are the
posts to be avoided or deserted. Even
some of the ordained ministers OF
Jesus Christ feel that way. ION,
SAYS a visiting clergyman, Il am so
discouraged. Why, there has been
nothing but friction and trouble In my
church ever since l came to 1t. Inc
people have fought and misrepresented
every minister who ever occupied TINS
pulpit, and they have been finding
fault with and misrepresenting me. l
am so discouraged | wish God would
find me another place" We'll, my
brother, l confess you are having
hard time of it. | confess that some
churches have bad record. l know
of one church that for forty years has
made its chief fame in breaking down
its different ministers. One pastor ait
or another has been destroyed in reg
ular order as he came to its parson-
age. One minister was so tantalized
and attacked that under the persecu-
tion of its members he committed sui
eide. But, tell me, you who have been
having a hard time IN that church, do
you not think you are getting along
there as well as any one else could
"Oh. yesv' you answer. Il know l am.
In spite of three baking elders and
two obstinate, fault finding trustees,
we are taking in new members all the
time Never in the church's history
has 1t been doing so much good"
, Then. my brother, instead of complain
ing about your lot you should be con
graduated. Go ahead and do your
, work. God has honored you above all
others. He has put you in a difficult
, position. Post of difficulty always posi-
| Of honor.
, Sunday school teacher, that Is
tough class of boys you have. You
, came to me the other day with tears IL
=. your eyes. Some people may think
. am talking about an imaginary case
but you know l am not. Those boys
I at times poster you so much that yot
: have half made up your mind to give
I'D the class. Do not do it. Those
!. boys may stick pins into each other
o They may come TO class with dirty
9 faces. They may seem to be migrate
full But remember, o Christian sol
!. der If you desert your post now ant
leave those boys they will not obey th'
4 voice of another teacher. They will
n not come to church at all You mus
4 be to those boys what DR.. L. j. Ber
4 nardo is to the London newsboy, an'
: Charles n. Crittenton is to the Flor
| ence Crittenton missions, and wha
4 Livingstone was to Africa, and Care.
% was to India. The gospel heroes of tn
Y past have given up their all to Wi
o their victories. They labored, the
% shaved. they sacrificed themselye
Is among the outcasts. "Go thou and d
n likewise"
- A Fact to Realize.
~ But there is another great fact whic
30 the good soldier of Jesus Christ shoul
~ realize. The duties of the camp righ
- " performed are sometimes just as e'
:, sential for Gods work as duties right
:, performed at the front. The wor
~ which is done by the commissary an
the surgeon has sometimes create
, part to play in winning martial vict'
IN ries than the spectacular color sergeai
20 has in leading the charge before I'll
- enemy's breastworks. What defeatc
~, Napoleon Bonaparte in his tamot
-, Russian invasion? The bayonets
~ the naughty car? No. The conquerC
bn of Germany and Austria and lta
80 could have brushed those guns aside
NJ he had done in former campaigns.
ro was the haversack empty OF breG
:, which made the Little Corsican' RI
to like a frightened hare toward HON
70 1t was Moscow in flames and his me
ho with nothing to eat that made Il
-, French commander tremble before Il
~ stony glance of death. And yet
to read some military biographers "
NJ might suppose the personal worth or
W Grant, Sherman, Meade, Ha
nn cock. was the cause Of all the victori
NO achieved by the northern armies in t
,Id civil war, and the mental powers OF
~, Lee. a Longstreet, Jackson, GC
-, don. n Johnson, were the cause or
-, the victories of the southern armies.
10 The unrecognized heroes of the ci'
ot war have not had their due. The &c
Al erals and the boys who fought at [
- front have been honored as they
nd served. but who has had tribute
ay praise to give to the self sacrificil
Nh, men who made it possible for {
ier fighting soldiers to live and die at &
re- front? l would sing the praises OF t
he muleteers l would sing the praises
hit. the army officers who bought the sho
and the stockings and the trousers al
be the coats and the hats and the bla
ain kets and forwarded them and never
a a dishonest dollar stick to their finge
on, 1 would sing the praises of the amt
SOL lance corps, and Of the soldiers W
IN acted as nurses. Did you ever stop
us. think that in all the United Stat
orc from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the
os. is not one, not even one, monume
or erected to an army surgeon? Ma
ost memorial stones for Mcpherson
ats Sherman, a magnificent remembraI
A.. n.oo+ h,,f NOT ona u4Onumpnt