Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-10-29

for and wide. vet It is almost impossl-
BILE to get any man to give MS money
TO help out the ordinary running ex-
penses of college, which have 10 De
met and must be met right away.
Difficult. is it, to rejoice with man
when he rejoices and to help on MS
success? Yes, but | believe the grace
Of the Lord Jesus Christ is even able
TO accomplish that wonder, and II can
accomplish it, o man, In your heart
SO that you can 90 to your successlui
brother and say: Brother, give me
thy hand. | rejoice with you In your
success. How can l help that success
to become greaterT
why Not RejOicef
And why should you not rejoice In
vour brothers successf Wnen ooes
your brother need your true help ana
friendship more than when he Is scor'
ing success? Is not the time OF sue
cess lust the time when he Is most apt
70 he thrown off his guard and destroy
ed by evil temptations? Is not that
the critical moment when the satanic
tempters are ready to scrape and fawn
ohont him. as the seductive young nat
terers did about Rehoboam when he
went to Shechem to be crowned as
thev did about young King Charles H.
after the English restoration, as they
did about poor Louis XVI. when he
came to the French throne only
lad twenty years Of age? DO you
not feel that your successrul protner
moods vour affectionate and hearty CO
onerotion in this his hour OF success
rather than your sneers and your oppro-
brium? 1t Is almost time Ior you u
coa.e sitting around and sulkins be-
cause OF his victories. DO not Try u
undermine his usefulness by pulling
down the temple OF fame which he mas
reared. even as Samson pushed against
and cracked the pillars which tumpieo
the roof OF the temple Of Dagon down
mon the skulls Of the screaming anu
crouching PhiIistines.
II a brother needs your help IN tiihe
NJ success. does he not also need you
oil the more "to weep with him wheh
he weepsY' Does he not need you 10
come TO his sympathetic aid when all
the world seems black and when II tru-
" .eems on account Of his wrongdo-
,nOs that he can never become no
hls man apain2 Does he not need your
helm when. floundering In the quick
sands Of sin. he seems to be deserted
hv God and man alike and to be only
the sport and plaything OF deviis
And does he not also need your nelp
| when in the awful hours or plach
termination. he is about to yield as vel
os IN the black hours of remorse after
he has done wrong?
If man who has done wrong OF Is
about TO do wrong needs your help
: how much more does a woman III hel
> hours of trial? l always had grea'
| deal of sympathy for the prayer o.
l.. that woman who said, 20 God, keel
| me from going over the precipice o.
: ain for If my feet ever leave the patl
), of virtue even thou canst not Drint
a mo back to the straight path again.
g And vet how many women there ar
e today being torn and lacerateu Dy tn'
II th,c,sets of sin who could be Dr0ugn
! back to live honest, pure, true, respect
{ able lives II only the Christian mel
e and the women in the name OF Chris
would 20 forth to bring them DacK
The beginning Of my text opens aml'
the shouts and gay laughter OF IN
merrymakers. 1t closes with the SOU
and means and the groans Of breaking
. hearts. Brother, sister, Will you toua.
IN the name of Christ weep Wit
those that weep?" VIII you stretc
forth the broad, strong, loving hand o
= rescue and say, Brother, sister, IN IN
= name of Jesus Christ, give me IN
; hand, and | will help thee up to Goc
- nm TO a heavenly and an earthly res
: cue?" VIII you do this for CHRIST
:, VIII you weep with those that weep
10 and help others, no matter no" Ia
y astray their sinful feet may go or ar
n about to go?
- A Practical Test.
/. eyes" answers some one, from tn
a day I promise to help all those IN I'll
,r tress that | can" You do? Well, thel
ID let me put that resolve to a practlci
le test At a large religious gathering
Of the east where a collection was aDo'
s. to be taken up for famine stricke
I Ireland that big hearted philanthr
Or mist William E. Dodge arose ana san
. "Gentlemen. we have been hearlr
I'd some wonderful speeches about I'd
~ famine. Some of us have been cryln
te some praying. Now l want to put yo'
ed gospel sympathy to practical tes
in What Ireland needs is bread, brea
nd bread. bread, bread. In order to D'
ul that bread my sympathy is worth Ju
d. $500 What is your sympathy worth
X AS William e. Dodge put his symp
,t thv TO a practical test l. want to p
w vour sympathy to the same kind OF
&c. fest. You say as a Christian man, i
ur the grace Of God I will always ne
those who need help" Well, here IS
ok convict Just liberated from jail. Wor
ntl He will do any honest Work tna'
Y. vi san get but the trouble Is he cam
" get any work to do All earth and d
=" seem to be arrayed against his livl
~ an honest life. A few months ago, d'
~. ~. ing his confinement, he thought a
W -ue dreamed over the happy days OF
a. past life. While he thought and drea
Os ed the picture of his old home tral
formed his prison cell into the old nu
'.n cry. He was romping and playi
e,n again with his brothers and siste
Wy There he saw again the old folks, n
i'n "i asleep in the family plot. There "
ue' the old haymow In which he used
ms play and wrestle. Yes, there was
lin same old haymow in which the hs