Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-09-30

served Tor the lWo JVuHeN'N
family.
No: there is not one missing. AS you
look about the long table at your sun
day dinner today you will find them all
there. Many a day has passed since
the first day Of last July that you
would have given a good deal to have
the whole family about you, as YOU
bave this Sabbath morning. In the
first place. no sooner did the schools
close last summer than the children
went eyerywhither. One OF your Loys /
went camping, one Of your daughters
went to visit a school friend III the
east or on the ranch, your wife had 10
take the sick child down to the sea-
shore, you as the husband and father
were away for some time on business
trip. and when you returned you nau
to spend most of your time in the city
You snatched your Sundays OH ana
few days here and there to go TO the
country, but for the most part you
were alone. Now the family is reunlt-
ed. Schools have opened. The boys
and girls have to come back TO tneir
books. The many dangers OF traVel
are past. Say what you will, you wor-
ried a great deal about that poy Oh
yours using that gun. Yes; you are all
home again, safe and well. Thank Coo
today for your reunited famiiies'
"Amenl Amenw l can hear from doz-
ems of grateful lips as a great climax
N this domestic thanksgiving.
Thanks For Reunited Families
Then again. l want you to thank
God that you have returned 10 tne
work of the store, or the factory, or the
Office. Let me see; how long were you
ont in the country? Two weeks? Three
weeks? Ten days? oh, it does not
matter much how long. l know one
fact about you, and that Is you were
away long enough to know that the
hardest work a strong, healthy man
over has to do is to learn how to 90
nothing. When you left the city some
months ago you went off in high hopes.
Nothing to do; nothing to DO" was
your congratulatory cry. Inc nrs'
NIGHT YOU went to bed in the country
Won said to yourself: "Now am gong
TO stay in bed just as long as wish.
am not going to get up until ii
| o'clock if do not desire" Dld you
stov IN bed until II o'clock? on, no,
You arose at your regular time. Olo
habits cannot be broken in day.
Then after few fishing trips ana
few mountain climbs you began t(
grow restless. You wanted to get pacH
70 work. Then, If mistake not, II haS
been YOUR good fortune during this va
cation TO be thrown with a few enron
ically unhappy men-unhappy because
they have nothing to do. Perhaps Oh
account of inherited wealth or iron
tbe fact that they have made money
tbev retired from business to nave
GOOD time. What q miserable mistake
they have made. Instead OF peing nap
nv with nothing to do, you have rouh'
that they are the most unhappy 0
men. They spend most Of their time II
playing nursegirl or picking up PIN
or in finding fault with their chlldrel
or in making the lives OF their wlVe
as miserable as their own. The simpl
fact is a full blooded man like you ma
no business loafing around the nous
with nothing to do. If you loiter aDou
the house thus you will degenerate lnt
nothing but a first class "fusser' an
genuine masculine nuisance. 70
know that you never felt happier Una
whom Won boarded the street car tn
other day and started for the store. l
. nv time have met hundreds G
healthy men who had retired 1roi
business because they had amassed
competency. | never envied one
them. have always thanked Go'
; first that he has given me health; Sc
ondiy. that he has compelled me
work. Thank God today that you nav
y, been able to cast off the inactiyitles
vacation and have been compelled
u 90 back to the daily treadmills of ma
nal and mental toll. The fnancl
{ struggles of life not only earn Drea
U for our children, hut also unlimlt(
:, lows for our own healthful physic
and mental existence.
Welcome Back to Church.
= Rut as | welcome you back to q
~ store and to the domestic bresld
+s and TO your reunited families l al
IN welcome you back to your churcn non
70 and to your family pew. l weicon
n YOU home to the household OF taitl
NJ I welcome you home to Gods temp
n. where you can worship God better al
W more simply and devotedly than IN al
g other church in all this round plan
10 welcome you back from this pull
ne and to this altar.
or What do l mean by making sucn
n. statement as this? You may nave
,s in finer churches than your own WI
no YOU have been away; you may ha
ot heard more eloquent preachers I'd
n YOUR own; you may have had yc
he souls lifted by grander music, me
ur eXQuisitely renuereu, lnan !ou n'"
YOUR own church, but has that CIV
you q distaste for the home service
mr. Oh. no. AS the best place for III
,ot TO grow and live in domestic sci
us IS by the fireside of his own nome
70. the best place in which he Is to Du
nd up spiritually is in bis own chur
70 In spite of yourself, when you go
es other churches you go in q CRU
ars spirit, but here in your own Gnu
rs home you come to worship. There
ZEN an atmosphere about your accuston
me- church which ought to be more sac
,es to you than that Of any other buiidl
NOT That is your church home. There
+ial have so often commingled your pray
that they have a different mean
SIX. there than when you pray among SUI
the gers. The pastor is in gospel Sc
.th- part of you and you are part OF D
fY He welcomes you back to your pl
aus of worship, to your 'househoiu
Ca faith"