Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-01-14
CalmaSe
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee. ID. ID.

voyage around the world furnishes the
nreacher I'm this sermon with an Illus
tration by which, as he shows, Gays
are continually being lost In the voy-
age of life; text Ecclesiastes H. ~
whatsoever thy hand findeth 10 no.
do 1t with thy might
What tragic significance there may F
be in that little word "Lost| we near
II in the despairing cry Of the miners
starving In the Death valley OF Tue
Moiaye desert. We hear 1t In the plt-
ter cry Of the travellers bewiidereu ia
midwinter on the Montana prairles. II
ia a shrek Of horror OH the lips OF the
noor children on the General Slocum
burning on the sound OF New 1orA.
It is a cry Of dismay from the crew oi
the Royal Charter wrecked OH 'ne
Irish coast 1t is a cry of agony rrom
the man in the upper story OF tne
Windsor hotel In New York. whose
body with suppliant arms stretcheu gu
entreety TO the fremen falls into INC
oeatb,nq furnace "He is lost! we
CRY as one Of our number sildes over
the edge Of the Alpine glacier. ne 10
lostp' we said in sorrow when oui
fr,end the Rev. Dr. Robert Is. Iaylor
of San Diego made false step from
the deck OF the sailboat and sank u
rise no more. Lost" cries the motner
frantically pacing the streets looklns
for her wandering child. Lost! cries
tho Gambler who has ventured his last
coin on the turn Of the wheel. Horror
and dismay and agony and despair are
heard in that thrilling word
Tbere is another kind of loss OF when
want to speak to you today. AT tne
beginning of a new year 1t Is impressed
mon ia with solemn import Looking
backward over the year that Is sone'
how sad is the thought OF our lost
dovs, DAYS there have been In when
we might have done work for Gou
which we have suffered to pass away
in idleness. days which can never De
recalled which we have frittered away
uselessly ,.,
We all know the old adage that time
ia money" We are all ready 10 grant
that this axiom is true. "If man mas
no regard for the time OF other men,
wrote Horace Greeley. "why should ne
have for their money? What is the dif-
florence between stealing mans hour
and stealing his So? There are many
men TO whom each hour OF the business
day Is worth more than So" But, though
time means money to most OF us, time
should mean more than that. Ii IS a
sacred trust committed to us, for the
right use Of which we shall nave to
give account. Little enough Is tie por'
tion we can devote to our Masters serv
Ice II we waste It we defraud God.
Losing the Minutes.
We waste these days simply by vast
ing here a minute and there minute
This thought was brought home to M
IN nv tour around the world. In lo9'
nv father and | left our homes IN IN
{ east and started on our journey. W.
followed the course Of the setting sun
We Travelled from New York to Pltts
burg. from Pittsburg to Chicago, iron
Chicago to st. Louis, from st. Louis L
Denver. and then to San Francisco. w
ziezagged up and down, but Away
kent pushing toward the west AL Sal
Francisco we set sail for the SanoWlcI
Islands Then we went on to Samoa
Sometimes we would stop two or thre
days In town, sometimes full weef
1t took us seven long months to encii
Gle the globe. Each day, as rule wa
for us not twenty four hours, but twer
tv.four hours and ten or fifteen or eve
thirty minutes long or course 20
grasp my meaning. We were lengtheI
inc our days. because we were trave
ing westward. How were we to straigh
en- out our calendar? This was the wa
we did 1t. One night we went to bed 0
Wednesday. The next morning whe
we awoke It was Friday. There, In IL
middle Of the Pacific ocean, we lost
full day. How did that day disappear
AS sat that Friday morning, att
Thursday was dropped out Of my ca
endar. l said to myself: Eyes, yes. IN
Is the way many days are lost Il
Christ In our great journey of liz
Here II Is q few minutes wasted II
Christ in the morning. There 1t Is
few minutes wasted at noon or
eventide or at night. These few mi
utes do not seem to amount to much
the time, but in the aggregate th'
make up whole days, weeks, monu
and perhaps whole years OF vast
time that might have been spent
service for the Master"
How many days that might ha
been given to Christ have we los
How do we lose them? First, by n
starting the work Of each day proml
y " and energetically as we ought to c
,y oversleeping in the morning or
,awdling through our dressing. by Il
pering too long at the breakfast tab
by yawning and stretching ana 10
building air castles in bed after I
rising bell has rung, by ignoring I
"oet I'D" call, which King Solomon
the sixth chapter Of Proverbs poun
upon every bedroom door when
calls: How long wilt thou sleep,
sluggard? When wilt thou arise
of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep
tie slumber, a little folding or
'et hands to sleep. So shall thy povel
come as one that traveleth and I
want as sn armed man." LORD "
mington once declared that the cal
Of the failure OF the famous Engl
statesman. the Duke Of Newcas
. was that he never started the da
work on time. "He loses half an N
every morning and runs after 1t dur
the whole day without being able
overtake it," Many men and Won
are wasting precious days that mi
&c. be used for Christ by not getting up
time and starting the work of the
'e' Oh time and Systematically and prom
,.o " meeting all demands as they &C