Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-05-27

deprecatory jealousy in the makeup OF
your friend you are ready to turn your
back upon him and let the future part
You as the waves Of the sea separate
the new hemisphere from the old.
Only First Offense.
One offense is often sufficient to
break up a lifetime Of friendship.
"What Is the matter, Mr.. So-and-soT
I ask. HAS any one done you an in
Jury? You look angry enough to make
somebody suffer-" well, / should say
So" you answer "You know my OLD
friend. John Newman. We have been
for years the closest of associates. We
grew up together as boys. We have
had many business dealings In COM
mon. Some months ago he came 10
me and said. Harry, have fine herd
OF cattle out in western Kansas.
want you to help me weather the win
fer through | lent him $500. He has
not onI.' lost every cent OF 1t, but as
far as | can make out he lied to me
about the cattle He never owned a
horn or a hoof. He squandered my
money In Wall street" as that sof
What are you going to do" Moth
ingn YOU answer. What can / do eX-
cept contemptuously leave him alone"
Yes. you can do that il you Will. But
tell me- friend, has John Newman ever
failed you before? 1 grant that he was
not truthful. I grant that he did not
do right. But are you going to let that
one act, that one sin, blot out the five
hundred good deeds he has done you
in the past and the five hundred good
deeds he would do for you in the fu-
ture II you would only forgive him
this once and give him another chancef
Because a gun misses fire once or
twice or thrice shall the hunter throw
II aside as useless? Yet that is the
way some of US deal with those who
have done us wrong. Suppose you
were in the position Of very dear
friend OF mine some years ago. lie
took a young man into his employ and
made him his right hand man In the
business. He confded to him his most
treasured secrets and purposes. One
day that young man, under great
temptation. betrayed my friend. He
tried to start rival business and to
entice away all his clerks and steal his
EMPLOYERS agencies. He failed. What
would you do under such conditions!
For the one error, the one mistake
would you blind your eyes to many
years of faithful service? LET not the
sun 20 down upon your wrath" You
had a right to be angry for a little
while. In one sense, you had a right
TO strike back. But do not bear that
grudge any longer. Forget and for
give" is the meaning Of the Pauline
commandment.
Home Rules Waterloo.
But the danger Of harboring resent
mpnt Is not limited to the breaking or
friendships; we may suffer 1t to preJu-
dice us against good causes. Try as
hard as we will, we must and do asso-
I ciate the success or the failure of the
onward movements of great principles
and causes with the personalities or
our friends and neighbors. When
Charles Stewart Parnell was dethroned
from the respect and affections OF his
colleagues the Irish cause Of home rule
met its Waterloo. Home rule was de-
feated st the time when the palm OF
victory was about to be grasped by the
| outreaching hands Of its advocates.
When Mark Antony loved his sinful
Egyptian enchantress more than he
loved Rome, then the mightiest war
chieftain who ever trod in the foot
steps of julius Caesar saw his follow
eYs fee his standards, even as the bros
of the forests seek the shelter Of their
nests before the tempest blasts OF the
onsweeping tornado. When Mirabeau
breathed his last and was thought to
be untrue by his henchmen, then the
royalists' cause was defeated in
France. and the guillotine had to be
drenched with the blood of a Marie
Antoinette and a Louis XVI. Say
what you may, every man naturally
represents a cause or principle apart
from his personality. When you bear
grudges against men you bear grudges
against causes. When you divorce your
affections from individuals you lose
your fidelity to the causes and move
ments which those men, in more than
one sense, may typify.
Let me illustrate. Why are you pref
udiced against the church Of the LORD
Jesus Christ? You are not bad. You
believe in Jesus as your Saviour. You
were reared in Christian home Some
Of the best and happiest recollections
of your life are Of the Sunday schoo
and of the church of which your moth
er was q member. 81 know II" you
answer. 81 never think Of the church
of nv youth but with moistened eyes
and tremulous lips. I would not be the
woman I am today had not had that
past church training. But about ten
years ago we had an awful church
row. They say the worst rows Oh
earth are church rows, and believe 1t
The people in our church divided them
selves into factions. My husband was
q trustee. They charged him with dis
honesty, and no more honest man ever
lived than he. The minister might
have stopped the difficulty, but he did
not We left the church. We took our
letters. The result2 My husband and
I have never been inside Of a church
since. We are not infdels, however
We pray, we read the Bible, but we
simply have no use for church people,
Oh. my sister your words are tragical
What! You have no use for the church
of Jesus Christ merely because you are
harboring a bitterness against some
church members who did not do as
they ought to do? Do you mean to tel
me that you today have divorced al
your interests from the church OF the