Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-12-17

nrefer 10 write one called "1ne Man
With Frozen Shadows" That hgure
which the great American humorlst'
Samuel L. Clemens, drew of the sailors
in the arctic regions chopping each
others shadows off the ships deck, so
that their friends would not stumble
over them, is not impossible OF cohcep-
tion in the moral and spiritual world.
What gave the late William Chiches-
fer. the most powerful religious leader
the Pacific coast ever produced, Ills
marvellous hold on men? His eloquent
tongue? think not. California, be-
lieye. has had preachers as eloquent as
he was. His organizing ability!
think not. believe others here have
been lust as great organizers. VIII
tell yorl-it was his simple, true, pure,
Christian private life. 1t was his ten
der Christian heart which made him
stop on the street corner and buy a
bag of fruit and give it to a common
painter and say: Take this fruit home
TO your good old mother, with my love.
Tell her that with such prayers as she
offers and with such life as she leads
she ought to have good son." 1t was
the gentle ways he had with little chill
dren i'm their romps and plays; II was
the way he would throw his arm about
friend in trouble and say: Harry
how can help you? What can do"
Mighty AvnIanches For Good.
Oh the unconscious influences OF
every Christians private like! Like
the snowGakes, they bank them
selves I'D into great drifts. Like the
grains Of sand, they lift themselves
into the mighty mountains. Like the
little drops of water, they slake the
thirst of many valleys and meadow
lands. These little influences of prl-
vate life are despised by some so called
| Christian workers, but in the end they
result in mighty avalanches for good,
in mighty tidal waves Of blessings, IN
mighty east winds that dam back the
Red seas which, as impossible bar
riers. keen ne children of Israel from
fleeing the Pharaoh hosts and march
ing on to the brightness Of Gods prom
| ised land.
| Rut I find the Christians shadows
or unconscious influences not only III a
mans own gospel seed planting, Dut
also in the Christian example he sets
for those who are trying to raise the
same kind of gospel harvest. | fnd a
minister's influence, like Peters shad-
ow. within the four walls of his church
T also find q minister's unconscious In
Auence over ministers who are work
ing in adjacent churches. | not only
find physicians unconscious influence
over his patients, but also a doctor
Influence over doctors, and lawyer
over lawyers, and a mothers over
mothers as well as her unconscious
influence over her children. 1nd
here that public school teacher mas
her unconscious influence over her lei
low teachers as well as over the
scholars in her own class room.
Christian man always, to more oI
less extent, makes or mars the success
of men of his own iik. When | wan
der among the Railways OF history az
not find there the picture of a grea
soldier which differs in every wa!
from all other soldiers Of his day an(
generation. do not find in a country
history a great lawyer or poet as
mountain peak lifting itself solitar!
and alone from the center OF a vas
level prairie. But, like the stars in th'
heavens. find that one great laWye
. is always in juXtaposition with othe
, great lawyers. One great physician
, means other great physicians. Grea
poets. authors, statesmen, reformers
r scientists. move through the firmamen
5 of the historical heaven in galaxies, Il
D consultations. like the stars in clus
:, ters When | mention the names o
scientists | find that there Is sclen
+ fife Pleiades. with a Darwin, Tyn
s dali a Huxley and Herbert Spencer
s all existing at the same time. When
b mention the name or William Shake
+ speare find that a Bacon, a Raleigh
r Ben Jonson, a Sydney, a Spenser,
J. Beaumont. a Fletcher, a Longuevlll'
t all belong to the Elizabethan erf
e When | mention the greatest warrio
= Of the ages. Napoleon, find that III
g French emperor was maker of grea
marshals as we'll as great armies.
find fanksng the Little Corporar
Ney, a Bertrand, a Mcdonald
Lannes, Marmont. Napoleon Bon'
parte also was the mighty obstac
which developed a Wellington and
> Blucher. Great soldiers have an Ill
conscious influence over men OF the
ilk as well as over those who have NJ
/! brains of the same caliber as then
selves.
Henry Ward Beecher's influence.
" So much did Henry Ward Beech'
y influence the pulpit Of his day thi
y there were hundreds Of ministers WI
y used to copy his dress as well as Il
% intonations of his voice. They /
I | tlelr UdlT SIOW lOllS' 40 hS "iN'
as many of the poets Of Lord Byron
q time used to initiate the limp or b
ron's clubfoot. A mans influence
N ways to more or less extent reach
* out to men of his ilk. When mini
1t ter lifts his own church he helps II
every other Christian church in D
le city. When a noble lawyer is true
d. his clients he has an unconscious Chrl
r tian influence over his brother lawye
a. at the bar. The unconscious lnnuen
a of a physician molds other physician
X The influence of wives and mothe
)s spiritually blesses the parents OF 9th
IN homes as well as the lives of their oV
re children.
n The unconscious influence of Chr
er tian man over the people of his day a
in generation is very great no matter DC
| humble the position he occupies. b
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