Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-01-07


which soon would be growing ana
snarling about their doors during the
coming winter. Alb, yes, 1t makes
great deal of difference how one looks
at d coming years labor before ana
after a destroying tempest! Most OF
YOU. like Job. have had your "torna-
does of trouble" which have wrecked
the home and destroyed your business
andskiled your cattle and sheep and
left you stripped and forlorn.
Not Every Dark Cloud n Tempest.
But though bitter trouble may have
assailed you In the past that is no rea'
son why you should think every dark
cloud presages for you a destroying
tempest. Indeed, I go further than
that: I do not believe your past storms
of troubles have all been destroying
tempests. You are still living, you
have survived your worst troubles, and
now. .chastened and strengthened, you
are going forward armed by past ex-
perience and wiser by your trials,
strong In faith, to meet what the new
year may bring.
II. can bring with II nothing
But he will bear US through;
Who gives the lilies clothing
WHl clothe his people too.
When. the great philosopher wrote the
words of my text he was expressing d
negative truth. "He that oDserVeth
the winds shall not SOW" and the con-
verse OF that fact is that If man VIII
only 20 forth with brave heart, II
he will only plant and SOW his SEED
faithfully and consclentiously, God VIII
give him large harvest. ITO him
that soweth righteousness shall be d
sure reward" VIII you not believe
thIs7 o man, will you not go forth
TO your coming years work with q
brave and hopeful spirit for coming
conquest?
But there are some whose apprehen-
sions of coming trial are based on facts
of a different kind. "My trouble says
one "is not due to lack OF faith In
God or In my own ability, but In the
LOYALTY of others. The apostolic adj
vice not to be unequally yoked with
unbelieyers extends further than the
marriage relation. l am finding that
ont In the broader sense Of business.
II also means that those who are un-
equally yoked together can never pull
well as a team. My business associ'
ates and are fretting and worrying
and Irritating and retarding one an
others iabors."
YEN brother, at once catch the
meanlng Of your Bible simile. al
though Born in the city, have spent
great deal of my spare time in the
county. < and have witnessed again
aid ,t.r.,: efe.rts oi>horse team pulling
The farmers have great deal of pride
in their horses. If one farmer can have
a perfectly matched team of heavy
farm horses he always think they car
outdraw and outpull all other teams II
the country. 1t is not uncommon al
the county fairs to have these trials ol
strength tested. a great load will bf
piled upon sled at the bottom OF
| hill. Then the team will be hitched up
The farmer will take the reins firmly
in his hands and cry, Get up" If thu
horses pull together evenly and steadl
| ly in all probability the sled VII
| move over the hard, bare ground as L
the runners were slipping over th'
winters snow. But if one horse jerks
| at his traces one moment ana thei
balks when his mate Is pulling it Is I'm
possible to move the heavy load. Tit
| great difficulty with your business anC
professional life may be that you arr
not equally yoked" with your associ
ates. You may have pulled while thel
were baking, and they may be pulling
while you are baking. But did yol
ever stop to think that perhaps you
lack of faith in yourself may be th'
chief reason why they have no faltl
in you and why they do not work IL
harmony with you?
Faith Is Needed.
Lack of faith In our own work VIII
kill absolutely any faith others ma!
have in our ultimate success. The OLE
proverb says, RATS will leave SINK
ing ship" All our friends and assocl
ates will leave us as quickly as the.
can If they once get into their minds
the thought that we ourselves feel ina
we are certainly doomed to failure.
man who is always anticipating fall
ure and taking a gloomy view or tn
future not only works half heartedl.
himself. but depresses his associates
What church would wish to listen to
minister who had no hope Of the ultl
mate triumph Of the gospel? III n
were to preach week after week ser
mons the keynote Of which was tina
man is failure, the church a failure
Christ for the most of us a failure ant
the world is going to the dogs, woul'
any one want to listen to such ser
mons? Would any one continue L
work for the upbuilding Of the gran'
old church of Christ, which has ha'
such a mighty influence for good in tn
past and is having such a mighty innu
ence for good in the present and VII
have such mighty influence for goo
in the future? No, of course you woul
not. You would say to yourself: "Wel
the church is going to smash and tn
people are going TO smash. guess
will get off the train and let the 'Limi
ed Express Of Destruction go over tn
open drawbridge as 1t may"
Supposing your daughter is sick an
you call in a physician and beg him
cure her. That physician, having c1
amined her, declares there is no hop'
He leaves some medicine for her, bu
doubts If it can do her any good; b
advises this course and that, but say
there is really no hope for saving he
What would you do with such do'
tor? You would turn him out OF door
in the twinkling Of an eye. You woul
say, "If a physician has no faith in hi
own medicine, l will have no faith
? him." And yet the strange fact Of lif