Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-04-08

backed, crooked llmDed Gamer 10 10
the eye of sewing glrls
needle" Others assert that the Greek
word for camel translated in a broad
sense means "cable rope" even as
the three English letters row on the
one hand might mean a row OF CAD
bage heads in a vegetable garden and,
on the other hand, barroom night.
These latter two substaptives are speit
In the same way as the Greek word for
camel. which sometimes signifies "ca-
BILE rope But | take the third inter-
probation Of the commentators. / take
the third because to my mind as a
traveller In the east think the door or |
the needles eye cut into one OF the |
great gates Of Jerusalem and into the |
great kafes Of other eastern cities Is the
only rational smile With my own eyes
I have seen the needles eye, that very
door ,, ut which Mark says Christ
spcAe. MA "a Imagination l say a
great, guntins, grooming camel being
pulled through on his bended knees.
All. see him tug at the rope and jerk
back his head See him fight and bite.
See in that symbol of the camel the
rich man struggling to hold on to and
to grip his gold. refusing to bend the
knee TO Christ.
Merchant. is it not harder for you to
feel your dependence upon God now
since you have made financial sue
cess I'm life than when you were imam
cially poor? When as a poor farmers
boy YOU started for the great city to
make a living you then felt your de-
pendence upon God. There was no
doubt about 1t. You prayed hard the
night before you left home that God
would care for you. In the railroad
train lust entering the depot you put
your head upon your hand in the car
seat and said: Lord, lead me. l am
absolutely weak and helpless Lead
me-" DO you make that prayer now!
With big bank account and home
upon a fine boulevard and multitudes
of friends, do you get down on your
knees every day, like a camel going
| through the eye of the needle, and say:
"I ord. thou who dOst feed the birds OF
the air and clothe the lilies Of the field,
| clothe and feed me, guide me, pro-
tect me- | am helpless without theeT
Do you make that prayer daily? Oh,
rich man. rich in money, but poor in
grace. down on your knees. Down on
your knees in supplicatiOn. Lift high
er today the throne of God by bending
| low over the lowest throne step. Down,
| rich man! In the name Of Jesus, down!
| How to Get Through.
The needles eye of the Jerusalem
| gate is very low. l also find that it Is
very narrow. Not only does the camel
have to bend his knee to get through
| il. but he also has to have his packs
taken off his back. If this Is not done
the camel. with its distending loads
hanging upon its sides like our grand
| fathers saddlebags on a horse, cOuld
not get through the narrow door. Ihe
rich man cannot get through the nee
dies eve of the kingdom Of God unless
he stops carrying around with hlm hl'
great packs Of meannesses and con
lt~nptibilities and selfish actions, VIII
which often he Is accustomed to dea
with his fellow men. And yet how
hard 1t must be for rich man to D'
absolutely just and kind and truthfu
and forgiving to those whom he meets
in the ordinary walks of life. Indeed
the more | see Of rich men the more
feel that. as far as their dispositions
are concerned, they are in the unenvi
able position of those who wer'
brought up as an only child in ram
ily and have every temptation unde
the sun to make them spoiled children
and spoiled men.
There was not very much chance o
you and your brothers and sisters De
coming mean and selfish when yo'
were young. You were only one o
nine children. Your father was
farmer. All the boys and all the girl
had TO do their full share of worE
You not only had to divide the hom
= labors. but you also had to share you
TOYS and your pleasures with each OIL
or If q box Of candy came into I'll
, house YOU were not allowed to grab
J | handful. If there were three cruller
unon the table and six children you dl
! NOT have three or two or even one. Yo
: only had a half. Each child had q
r much as YOU had, and you had as muc
E as the rest; no more, no less. VINE
= vou went off to the city school 70
e took turns and went off in batche
: You did not all go together. You wal
D cd vour turn and helped each other
3 an education. You shared each other
: he'd. You halyed each others sorrow
0 You doubled each others joys. On,
/ feel sorry for the man or the woma
: who did not have the blessed trainlI
1 Of growing up amid a big family
e brothers and sisters!
e First Idea of Se1fishness.
:, Selfishness? In those days you q
!, not know what selfshness was. fo
Il did not have a wife to wait on 70
o as some of us have now. And 70
+ grown woman, you remember the hr
S time you awoke to what truly selh'
e life meant. A little cousin visited yo'
:. fathers home. She was an only chill
Fl Instead Of letting you play with n
n doll she kept it all to herself. Wh'
II she had box Of candy she would
piece and then put the rest away
Is her bureau drawer. If she went tor
% carriage ride she always wanted
s drive or else she would cry. II the
II was a game she always wanted to
- the leader or else she would not pla
b She was selfish; she was just mean al
~ contemptibly selfish. You could II
80 understand her actions until your mo-
10 er took you in a side room and sal
~ MAY, am sorry that you and Hel
st cannot play happily together. But y
nust he very Datient with your cOuS