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

mighty safeguard against a man run
ming into needless physical dangers as
well as spiritual? The other day
sailor rowed you out into the ofhng OF
bay TO take you fishing. There was
strong breeze blowing beyond the point
OF iutting rocks which protected the
hay. but the fish were jumping every
where. and the temptation to go was
very great. But no sooner did you op-
serve the "crankiness" Of the sailDoat
toward which you were rowing ana III
which you were to sail than you turned
IN vour companion and said: Il am
not going out today. That boat Is not
safe. 1t is leaking now" why were
Won not willing to go? Are you any
more of a coward now than you were
fen or fifteen years ago, when you
would have jumped into that boat
without fear? Oh. no. not that. No
one could charge you with Delhg
coward. Personally you woulu JUST
ns lief run the risk nov as you uiu
fifteen years ago, but now you have
wife and children, which was not SO
fifteen years ago. Now you have oth-
ers dependent upon you. Now you
cannot afford for their sakes TO need-
lessly risk ycur life.
Why They Were Reckless.
"What kind OF soldiers are the most
recklessY" was one day asked Lord
Kitchener the British general OF the
Boer war. without any hesitation ne
answered; Bachelor soldiers Not tnat
thev are at heart braver, but when
man has a wife and children depend
ent upon him for daily bread he guarus
his life more carefully on their ac'
count and does not run into any useless
dangers" Now, my friends, when
true father Is careful not to run INTO
physical dangers, fearing he may de-
prlye his wife and children OF ther
daily bread. is not a man by the Same
law Of reasoning the more unwilling 10
run into spiritual dangers and tempta-
tions II he realizes that the joys OF otn-
ers. In a spiritual sense. are wrapped
I'D in his own Joys and that sorrows
IN other lives will be caused by MS
sins? Lord Bacon, in one OF his match
less ESSAYS. once said, After man
marries he surrenders into the hanos
OF success his wife and children as
bostape,." BY that Lord Bacon meant
EVERY man who is married Is hahdl-
canned in the race of life" He meant
that man becomes timid when ne mas
n wife and children. In the crises Vi
life when success is won by the man
who casts everything into the scale
tho married man hesitates because ne
is afraid to risk the future or his "lle
and children. But he overlooked the
fact that his love for his family VIII
keen him from running foolish risKs
So when q man enlarges his circle ano
makes the welfare Of others his con
Germ he has an inspiration to better
truer. nobler life. He shrlnks lron
wrongdoing because he knows tnat ne
will iniure others by his example. Ihe
4 sscetic has -sh1y himself 70 e0nsider
hut the man who has entered into otn
er mems joys and sorrows knows ina
his fall or his good life may AFFECT the
lives of others.
! what the Scripture Means.
Rut how is Christian sympathy u
enter truly into the existence OF an
others life? First, my text says, IKE
| ioice with them that do rejoice" D'
Won know what that means? why I'M
INTERPRETATION is simple enough to un
derstond. 1t means when you see al
3 old school friend getting ahead in life
t when you see a brother succeeding a
D tbe law or in medicine or in the pulpit
3 when YOU see a sister living in hhe
4 bouse than yours or driving in a car
d riage while you walk. or when yo'
: know that your brother-in-law Is aDl
g to take his family and children TO ID
r country to get back the flush OF heait
to their pale cheeks. while you canho
4 afford TO 90, that you must not be Jea
3 ous of their successes. II you are
v minister and you hear of anothe
:. church holding great revival an
s gathering in new converts by III
a scores Won are to go to the minister 9
e that church with warm, loving go'
n nel handshake and say: Brother
s congratulate youl We are praying lc
b YOU and the great good you are doin'
6 Nav God bless your new members an
IS make them mighty agents for Chrlsl
d If means that If you are candlda'
6 far some office and another Is electe
y TO the presidency Of that society
your stead then you are to pitch IN an
's work Just as hard for the successi'
IT outcome Of your successful rivals a.
u ministration as you would have wor
J. ed for your own, and, Furthermore, n
" only work just as hard for the ne
:? man. but be just as happy In his gu
1T cesses as you would have been IN yo'
- own successes.
er "Oh." says some one, with a qui
10 gasp. 81 did not know this text mea
to as much as that. That Is pretty bit'
Is medicine for an average disciple
lie swallow. I cannot understand nc
1 George B. Mcclellan would feel We
ID kindly toward Major General bui
m side, who superseded him after
en- battle of Antietam. Neither Is II nj
at ural for a Seward or a Chase 10
enthusiastic over the election OF
Lincoln. or course there have be
ry some great, big hearted noble mt
,e- like Samuel Adams, who were rea
es to stay in the background and pu
en- other men to the front, as SAM
Ma Adams did Hancock and John Ada
20. and Otis and Joseph Warren and Qu
th cy. But, for the most part men We
of best in any great cause when indy
ch ually they are working for themsslv
,is II is not natural for young lady
~ reception to be particularly pleas
in when most of the young men are d