Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-11-24


what were his thoughts. Happy the
man In such situation who, looking at
the partner of his life, feels no twinge
of an accusing conscience, has no recoi- |
lection of hours wasted away from
her and from his home. l wonder III
when we come to die some OF US VIII
spend most of our time regrettihg INC
evenings which we have spent away
from our children and from our dear
wives who have done so much for usf
Indeed, my brother, do you not regre.
even now the evenings you have spent
away from homer
"Where were you last nights" l ask.
ooh" you say. "just as was nnish-
ing up my work at the store an ola
college friend called me up and said:
Jones, what are you going to do TO-
night? Come and take dinner with me
at the hotel. Then We Will go out 10
the theater.' AS l had not seen MIN
for a long time, went" "Well, what
did Won do the night beforeT "Oh,'
Won answer, II always spend that
night each week at the lodge" "Well,
what did you do the night beforeF
"Well" YOU say, II had business en-
oaeement that night. l wanted one or
my customers to buy some goods. 80
thought the best way to sell them
was to ask him down to the club.
introduced him to some OF my friends
there and gave him a fine dinner.
got him feeling good, then l clinched
the bargain that night and Melted a
good sum by the deal. Not a bad
nights work for me, was itT mus
YOU 90 on telling me how you spent
This night away from home and that
night and the other night. But, l
ask. did you not spend any night AZ
home last week? Did you not give
your wife and children at least one
EVENING"? "Yes," you answer; Il was
home last Monday evening. 1 came
home sick. had caught bad cold
st the store. l came home feeiins
wretched. I intended to go out tha'
night, but a fearful rainstorm cams
m and my wife emphatically put her
foot down and forbade my going. bu'
did not see the children much tha'
night was too sick and felt toc
miserable. Immediately after supper
my wife put me to bed and gave me
LOT OF hot drinks, and l got up
good sweat, and so was able 10 De
hack at the store next morning.
What. out Of all last week have you
only spent one night at homo, and ina
was because you We're too SICK 10 y
outf You ought to be ashamed o.
Yourself With such a wife and suci
. children can it be that you never re
serve any evenings which you cal
, spend in their company!
Tell Them TO Come Home.
, your children when they grow U
: should be able to look upon you d
2 something different from mere Doaro
D or When Major D. w. Whipple, III
2 evangelist. some years ago was SUI
| denly called upon to preach to a grea
e audience which had assembled in Pitt'
= burg he turned to his wife just Delor
!. he left the hotel and said, MY dea
Y what shall 1 preach upon! MaJ'
2 Wbipple's little daughter spoke up an
said "Papa, tell them to come nome
Rv that she meant, Tell them 10 con
= to a heavenly Father, who mas he''
/. ceased TO love his children, VINO WI
8 never leave them unprovided TOT Ill
K who will never let them wander beyor
o his care" That was what the one Sc
y tence symbolized. Tonight In the ey
). of your children stand as the represen
n alive of a loving heavenly Fathe
X Have you by your actions taught yo
Ic children to feel that there Is no pla
r IN all the wide world where you won
< sooner be than by their slider Ha
10 YOU taught them that they can come
e. YOU in every trouble and that you "
c. be to them a loving, tender, protectlr
le gentle, forgiving friend? AS 1ath
ID and as a breadwinnsr you must wo
v from early morning until the suns
IS hour. But what have you been doi
le with your evenings? Have you CIV
IN them to the club, and to the lodge a
X 10 business, and to outside pleasur
6. and not devoted any Of them to nc
,e associations with your family?
re The evenings also should be he
D. sacred for mental improvement In
10 should be the time when we shot
ID Law out a systematic course of readi
k and study. They should be the III
re when we find out what is happening
n. the great wide world and what PR
III ress the world has been making IN
IS. last fifty or hundred years. 1t Is j
We no eosy to discuss the characters
e, great men and learn about the polic
On Of Governments as 1t Is to gossip aD'
ur YOUR neighbors' affairs. 1t Is far M
ic- beneficial to the mind and restful
tn the tagged out mental and physical
erpies to try to study the origin
I'D China's superstitions than 1t Is 10
en- ter into the quarrels OF some huso'
lis and wife who are living on the op
lid site corner to your own nome.
ad 4,
ov personal observation I know Il
he when a man and woman do not rig
az ly keep their evenings employed
lea their own mental and spiritual deyel
he ment they are apt to get into n
tie chief.
Ike There never was a truer Prov
me written than that which says, "
,ig- devil has to seek the busy man, but
nd indolent man hunts the devil" Maj
est Luther we'll illustrated this fact wi
ind he said: when am assalled W
Ter. heavy tribulations 1 rush out amt
bed my pigs rather than remain alone
cen myself. The human heart Is iKe
the milestone in O mill-when you
lair wheat under II, 1t turns and bruises
. of wheat to flour. If you put no wheat
Lrn- it, it still grlnds on, but then 1t
you Itself 1t grinds and wears ava
art Luther was right. You must set yc