Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-09-09


sweet potatoes. "Is that all you nave
for dinner" exclaimed the Enghsh
officer. NO" said Marion, mot al
ways. Sometimes we cannot get as
good as sweet potatoes. linen we
tighten our belts and drink lot OF
water and starve awhile
When the English officer found tnat
these rough, sunburned men, thlniy
clad and ununiformed, had for months
been serving their country without pay
and food. lust for the love OF their ma
tive land, he went back to the British
lines and threw up his commission ana
returned home What chance nave
we against such men as tneseT SAID
he "Men who without proper clothes
and without pay, are ready TO i've Ior
months on roots and berries in order
that their country might be free can
never be beaten" All, yes, the strength
and power of our government today are
not in its few millionaires, but IN the
LOYALTY of its common people.
who the First Christians Were
II our government is dependent upon
the loyalty of its one talented patriots
how much more truly can we state that
our church, the beloved church OF Jesus
Christ is dependent also upon the 10y
atty of its one talented members. Wheh
Christ established his church from
whence did he draw his first recruitsE
did they come from the palaceF Dld
tbey come from the merchant princes
mansion? Did they come from the
tents Of the Roman generals? On, no.
They came from the fishermans nut
from the laborers fields, from ue
homes of the one talented folks. Inc
first Christian church had its congrega-
tion not clothed in silks or satins, Dut
in homespun. The aristocracy desplseu
Cbr,st's disciples on account OF their
humble social positions. The common
people heard him gladly" Not the ten
talented men and women were they'
NOT the geniuses IN finance ana state
craft. His people were the ordinary
COMMONPLACE. one talented worshipers
If WAS the one talented Christians
who composed the Christian church'
Has II not always been the one talent
, cd folks who have carried it onE VINO
were the Christians who made the rel
ormation of Martin Luther possible
Who were the Christians who helpeu
John Knox shake old Scotland ana
shake the world? Who were the CHRIS
tions who came over in the May1ower
;, and established the Puritan chureh Oh
, the Plymouth colony? From whence
y did John Wesley and Charles Wesie!
and George Whitefeld draw most ol
D their followers? Who made Flnney
. and Moody the mighty religious rae
> tors they were? For the most part
- the great masses Of church members
" have been and are today taken IRON
= the ranks Of the common people. IL IL
y. the one talented folks who crowd oul
news today. When you take the oh'
- talented folks out the church, lK'
Samson. whose hair was shorn by tn
shears of an evil mistress, Will deca.
. and as a mighty spiritual and tempora
=. mower will lose her entire strengtl
- Man-one talented man-you think yo
do not amount to much In Gods churcn
~ Woman-one talented woman-you q
g not fully reckon your influence in pray
30 " er meeting and in Sunday school an
10 in church pew. The church OF Jesu
Christ Is dependent for most or II
laborers and members upon the Oh
iS talented people You may belong
'e- that class. Never desert the temple 9
Us Cod which he calls his divine churcI
~ But rs am trying to show the III
IL nortance Of the one talented people
wv tho store. the factory. the home an
10 the church. | must not end here.
must show you that, though your Il
eu Auence is worldwide, yet there Is |
ns class Of people on earth VINO are
VI ready to shirk their tasks as the OF
i talented folks. The teaching OF I'd
Wy narable is absolutely true. The u
irt talented men went to work. They a
nu in the treadmills. They cannot st'
-ne and get out. They have to go ahe'
Iu or be ground to pieces. But the o.
os' talented men think their work Is Oh
~, little Importance that they can 81
an anv time and no one cares.
lgn enter a great merchants sto
ia. "Come," say, "let US BILE ourselV
teu off 70 the woods" NAY, nay" sa
ye' he. 81 cannot stop. If l did not ke
oie working and keep my men work.
en. the payroll of my business would 50
'nu land me in the bankruptcy cour
., Come" say to a minister or Jes
olu Christ "come, let us run away III
lhu town" 81 cannot CO." says he. Il
on. congregation will meet Sunday mo
ehl inc I'll am not there there VII! be
III one to lead them in worship
Do though the president feels the imp
Oul lance Of his mission in the Nhlte ho'
uei and the great merchant OF his post
OUT IN the store and the minister or
uns nos,tion in the pulpit, how very FEW
'ms the common people feel the importa
VI of their work and their presence IN
.ne church of God for the salvation OF
world for Christ?
oh ye vne talented folks, never le
day pass without reckoning up 'ne
one portance of your prayers, your ser'
to and your conservation to God for
boys consummation Of Christ's mission
lfes earth! May you here and now, ID J
heir ordinary lives say: 80 Christ, t
ONE %, Take my home, take my chlld
ntle- take my all for thy service! TIE
ould me to make good use Of the one Ia
did which is mine and thine"
the ,con,,r,oht ,sOs bv Louis Klopssh
and
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