Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-01-14

uay. l. lie Olu pIONelp S"J''
sleep Is always taken before II O'Clock
at night. Every hour Of sleep before
midnight Is worth two taken In Ded
after that time" Along exactly the
same line Of thought | say, every
hour OF work done before D or ~
o'clock in the morning Is worth at
least two hours of work after II O'CLOCK
noon" There is something about the
ozone of the early atmosphere some
thing about the exhilaration or the
early morning, that arouses us ana
fires us and drives us on ana clarlnes
our brains, so that we can accomplish
at least double the work in one nan
hour then than in any half hour or the
afternoon or evening. Early TO pea
and early to rise makes man heaithy'
wealthy and wise" has just as mucn
truth tackled on to the last injunction /
as OH to the first.
Almost without exception the great
workers of the world have been early |
rise IS. While other men were In Deu
thew were at their desks or In thelr
laboratories or down at their 0lhces OF
ont making their investigations. Har-
ry Lee once said to his great leader the
Father Of His Country, "Sir, we SOL
dIers are amazed at the vast amount Oh
work YOU can accomplish" "Sir," an
svered General George Washington, i
do what I do because / rise every
morning at 4 O'Clock. and a great deal
Of nv work is done while others are
asleen" How did Walter Scott write
his many books? He arose every morn
inc at Z He then cleared away MS
correspondence. He laid out his plans
of work, and "by breakfast time, lie
soid "I have broken the neck or the
davis work" Frederick the Great dld
NOT need any one to describe for MN
the rising sun. During all the long
seven years war which has been the
marvel of European strategists ior
canturv and a half be saw win MS
own eyes the sun rise every morning
Rut though the great work OF nearly
oil orr great workers was due TO the
fact that they were early rlsers' many
NJ us lInger in our beds In the morn
ing lust as long as possible. instead
Of living up to the old proverb we say
az ate to bed and late to rise" and we
fritter away the late hours OF the night
IN doing nothing, just as in the morn
inc we fritter them away In bed.
A Family History.
"What time does your rising bell
r.no9o ask. "Oh." you answer, I'VE
} 40 not have any rising bell; we get up
when we are slept out" What time
does your breakfast bell ring" I'VE 90
not have any breakfast bell, you al.
ewer when we are slept out, we get
J nm and dress and go to breakfast. lnat
Is the history Of our house On' no
, THAT is part of the history; 1t is not all
7 will tell YOU the rest Of 1t. When you
awake. you get up and dress put you
7 do NOT all dress at the same time tlrs'
) the father has his breakfast. Then one
] or two of the children straggle down
e Then the mother comes last, OF tne
1 older sister. Then the breakfast, when
e ought to take just twenty-five minutes
D drocs ont over an hour. The children
: run off to school. The father hurries
: eway TO business. The servant glrls
dishes are not washed for an hour ano
a half later. There has been no time
+ for prayers. Everything In the nome
). goes topsy turvy merely because tn'
@ family did not arise together, eat 10
3 gether, pray together and go 10 "ori
@ o+ tho same time. The wasted minutes
e Of the early morning are directly re
!. anonsible for whole days and week.
J. and months of life wasted for the sery
n loo of the Master 1.-THE Austrians los
o the battles Of Lodi and Arcola' SAT-
e NapoIeon. because they did not appre
g ciate the value Of FIVE minutes IN
n reason many men waste whole days o
II life's service that might have been COL
q secrated for Christ is because they d
,e not appreciate the value of the sacre
K minutes in the early hours Of the morr
r Ing
10 Utilize the Minutes.
=. How do we diminish our service fo
m Christ by lost days? By not improN
NJ ing the fragments of time that lie sea
n. tered about us during the days worl
II. by not utilizing those extra few mil
. utes here and there to fit ourselves II
~ telligently by reading and study fC
m the work God has given us to do' Q
IN supposlng that God will let US inte
no pret the passage. "Ask, and ye sna
. receive: seek. and ye shall find; knoc
r9 and It shall be opened to you,' VINE
or our lips are dumb, when our rect a
u. nalsied and know nothing about Il
ia right paths to tread. when our han'
or are HELPLESS in their stupidities "a
% the blind lead the blind? Can som
or thing come from nothing? Can u
little child run and leap like a ia"
Of unless she has been first taught
In creep and to walk?
NJ We must have intelligence IN the
av rection Of our life or else all our wo
hs will 90 for naught. What would y
cd think If one summer day shou
in walk I'D on the captains bridge or
steamer anu say N"PN"-'
ve like to take charge Of this steam'
~ Would the helmsman obey my CO.
,o+ mapdY where would you take [
nt. ship" ITO Australia" l would
40 swer "Do you know anything aoo
Inv the laws of navigationT mo" IN
in / cannot let you take command. 4 },
10 know not the law Of the compass. L
lly great surface Of the sea Is the sal
The everywhere. You have no guluepos
the ss on the mountain sides Inc u
in thing you would do would be TO
Ids the ship off its course. 1t would ia
he us perhaps days or weeks to reg'
o our course, or perhaps we would me-
out be able to do SO. We might land
lit China, as a dishonest captain made
the pilgrim fathers land on the co!d' DIG
rty New England shores when they