Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-10-08


which as lava bed burst from the
broken statue and rolled to the feet Of
the western iconoclast. The iconocast
who destroys the beautiful image OF
charity and benevolence may think
that he. too, will be able to grasp the
wealth which 1t pours forth on the
needy and the suffering. but he will
be disappointed. The economy which
refuses TO give help to those who need
proves canker. to prosperity, and
those who withhold their charity come
to poverty. The command Is that he
who loves God loves his brother also,
and the converse Is true that he who
does not love his brother proves that
he does not love his God
The Golden Rule with our ancestors
was a practically and not mere the
ory. where are you going tonight,
mother?" the father often asked. You
look tired. You ought not to be going
out tonight" 81 know it," she would
say, "but must go. Our neighbor is
very sick. am afraid she will not get
we'll. They have sent for me to come
and spend the night with her. | have
nxed everything for breakfast. II l
do not get back In time in the morning,
you can get along somehow"
The daintiest delicacles ever cooked
in the mothers stove were not for the
growing boys. with healthy, vigorous
10 bn
sumptive young girl who used to sit
day after day upon the neighbor's ve-
randa In the noon sun, smiling at US
as we trudged away to school. My,
how we cast longing eyes at those jel
llesl We then at times almost wished
we could be sick. at least for little
while, to get taste OF them. And
how warm and comfortable the nit
tens looked which mother knitted for
the poor children living over the hill!
And when the farmer who lived down
IN the valley was prostrated with ty
phoid fever and lay for month. hover
ing between life and death. don't you
remember how your father and the
ne!ghbors took turns blowing his fields
and sowing his grain and getting in
his harvests' They say that that sick
man was once strong athlete. How
ever that may be. when upon his sick
bed he heard what his neighbors had
done and how they had kept the wolf
Of hunger from his door he cried like
little child He became just such a
sick man as Ralph Connor depleted in
one Of his back woods tales.
Then the funerals of our fathers and
forefatbers. They never allowed a neigh
Dor to be buried like dog or friend
less pauper. as sometimes we do. No.
They literally practiced the gospel rule:
1T is better to 60 to the house Of
mourning than to the house Of feast
ing" When their neighbors wept, they
wept. When their neighbors were
lowered into their open graves, they
Themselves held the ropes that gently
let down the collins Was not their
way better than our way7 We live
and breathe only for self. Was not
the Christian helping band our fore
ssthers extended to the troubled ones
\ IL their midst better than the icy
stare with whi 'SeP'''e regard our neigh
bors1 We grumble In a street car be-
cause we have to wait for two min
utes while O funeral procession. wend-
ing It's way to the cemetery. is holding
US at a crossing. The Golden Rule
which our forefathers practiced should
never be allowed to slip out OF our
lives. The sick man who lives next
door to us should be just as carefully
cared for and nursed by us as II he
was our owD son.
Clubhouse Versus Home.
deplore also the Iconoclasm which
ia robblpe this country Of the sanctity
Of homo life. The iconoclasts profane
bands are ruthlessly laid upon our an
cestors' Sabbath observance and our
forefathers' doctrine Of DO to others
as yon would have them do unto you
They 20 further than this. Those same
profane hands are also snatchng away
our ancestral homo enjoyments as well.
They are saving to modern man: Man
/, do not be a old fashioned granny. DO
not think because your grandfathers
found most Of their enjoyment In the
society OF your grandmothers and your
uncles and aunts that you have to find
most of your enjoyment In the society
Of your wives and children. DO mol
. forever be a stay at home. Come; lei
US build FOR you clubhouses. where you
can Hnd nightly fellowship with strong
and brilliant men. Come out OF thai
, little hencoop OF yours. IL you wan'
to give a reception to your friends, d(
not give II 10 your home. 1t is tot
small. Hire a big hall in the center o'
the town, where you can receive in bet
, ter style. There. instead Of having
few cakes baked by your own hands
= and some ice cream which you made IL
. your own freezers you can have mt
caterer furnish an elaborate supper; In
= stead Of having your own daugnte
sing a simple song or your little DO!
/ reclte a piece you can have the fines
l. OF orchestras furnish the music. l
you want speaking, you can hire pre-
s fesslonal elocutionlst to reclte. Thl
d 10 an age Of progress. The clubhouse
d the public reception halls, the large dir
J. ners given in large downtown restat
J. rants, Just as certainly marx the eve
luton OF the human race In pleasure a
T.. INN on a
Ie over the old prairie schooner or the te
81 egraph communication by electric wir
o. is an improvement over the cowboy
D. express that forty years ago used I
If carry the mail from New York to Sa
q Francisco before the great Union II
v efic railroad was built"
10 Do you. my brother, think for one II
1. slant that the advent of the moder
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