Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-01-28
,une in those walks OF life.

is no reason why IL a man Is fitted by
nature and mental power to follow in
his fathers footsteps he should not en-
ter the profession his father adorned
and fight In his fathers armor. There
are men who have made greater sue
cess than their fathers in the same
field. Whe 1--WE study history we find
that men who were great ministers,
lawyers, doctors, artists, authors and
merchants have had sons who became
even greater ministers, lawyers, doc
tors. artists, authors and merchants.
Hamilcar was a great Carthaginian
general. He was the parent of Hanni-
bal, who was a greater general than
his noble sire. There were two great
Scipios, father and son. Which was
the greater 1t Is impossible to tell.
Saruel d. Gross and II. L. Pancoast
and lewis A. Sayre were the great
American surgeons of their times. They
all had sons who became just as great
as they were. Lyman Beecher's fame
is no greater than that Of his son, Hen
ry Ward Beecher. Thomas Moran be-
longs to family of artists who are
all masters Of the brush. Charles Wes-
ley, the hymnologist, had a son VINO
for wears was the most eminent organ
fist of all Europe. Walter Damrosch
and Frank Damrosch are treading In
the footsteps of their gifted father, Dr.
Leopold Damrosch. Because rather
is a great musical genius that does not
prove that his son or sons may not be-
come as great musicaI matters as their
sires. Lord Chatham was premier OF
/ England. His son. William Pitt, was
premier also. But, though genius IN
one line of work may pass from father
to son and be inherited, that does not
prove that all sons are fitted by brain
and temperament to fight the battle In
their fathers armor or to achieve with
the same sword victories such as their
| fathers won.
Great In Different Field.
The son of a great genius may be as
great a man as his father, but in a
different sphere. He cannot wear MS
fathers armor, but he can wear armor
of another kind in which he may win
victories in a different field. Oliver
Wendell Holmes was one Of the most
beloved writer's If American history
His son is a great man, but he is not
great writer. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Jr.. is a member of the highest judicia
bench Of the world. He is an honoreo
associate justice Of the supreme cour'
of the United States Judge joseph
Story had one Of the greatest lega
minds this nation ever produced. III
his class room at Harvard many VINO
afterward became great lawyers sat a
his feet to learn of this modern CANA
liel. Judge Story had a son who be
came one of the greatest of America
sculptors-William Wetmore Story
Here we find the laws Of heredltl
changed A great lawyer has poe
and sculptor for son, while In olive
Wendell Holmes case we find poe
who has a great lawyer for son.
,Nl,nf is true in reference to law ant
poetry is also true In reference TO ID
ministry. Great ministers have ha'
sons who became great ministers, Du
that does not imply that all boys Dor
in a parsonage should follow the Pre-
fession of their fathers. John Mitche
Mason was the greatest pulpit orato
of New York city in his day. de dle
Dec. 26, 1929. A contemporary give
this powerful description of this KIN
of pulpiteers who swayed his audience
for Christ: Taken altogether u
/ American preacher has combined NOR
J impressive qualities. His aspect wa
ON n scale Of grandeur correspondln
TO the majesty Of the mind within
Tall. robust, with head modelled a1te
! neither Grecian nor Roman STANDARD
vet symmetrical, combining the dil
nity of the one and the grace OF IL
other with an eye that shot hre, e
3 pecially when under the excitement
earnest preaching, yet tender and tea
r full when the pathetic chord was toucl
ed with a forehead broad and high al
: with q mouth and chin expressive
? firmness and decision, DR.. Mason stoo
s before you, the prince Of American pu
t nit orators" But, though John Mitche
Q Mason was all that, his father, Re
t John Mason, was just as great. JoI
9 Mitchell Mason without doubt innerlt'
l. the pulpit genius Of his father. b
Q az read history where l hnd OF
+ minister's son who became a gre
= minister I also find a dozen minister
f sons who won their fame in oth
v walks of life than in the ministry. b
Is the ministerial talent is not necessari
u transmittable talent Agassiz, H'
n lam, Cowper, Coleridge, Tennyso
I" Lowell, Emerson, Matthew Arnol
It Macaulay, Thackeray, Sir Christoph
10 Wren Sir Joshua Reynolds, Stern
e Hazlitt. Peter Stuyvesant, Samuel
d Morse and hundreds Of others Of less
'e fame were all ministers sons who w
u their success in life outside Of the mi
ei istry.
10 Holmes' Son Not n Poet.
ID In all probability, had Oliver We
,r dell Holmes tried to make his son
ID poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.' wol
have made out Of life just as great
is failure as have some men who enter
al the ministry merely because their
III theirs were ministers. There are ma
,e physicians sons who have signs nall
Or to their front doors whom God neN
Of intended to be physicians. These m
ne entered the medical profession not
20 cause they were adapted to the wo
rs but because their fathers were d
r. tors, and they expected their fathe
's names and influence to push them
success. God meant these doctors Sc
to be merchants or soldiers or mech'
e, les or sailors. Young man, l care