Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-11-03

are not happy in q humble home you
would never be happy In palace. II
you are not happy as a clerk you Will
not be happy as an employer II you
are not happy as q young girl you
will not be happy as woman. This
living in the joys Of the future Is all
nonsense. 1t is the will-o'-the-wi
guiding its deluded followers, not into
the gardens of the gods" but into the
quagmires and the swamps, where ev-
cry step you take will make you sink
deeper and deeper into the mud Of the
slough of the despond."
The Warmth of Gratitude.
When a man foolishly allows himself
to brood over his troubles the mists Of
unhapplness will only befog him the
closer and the frosts of misfortune cut
him the deeper. "Supposing some cold
morning." said Henry Ward Beecher,
"you should go into a neighbor's house
and find him busy at work, scratching
away at his window panes, and should
ask what he was doing, and he should
reply, why, am trying to remove the
frost, but as fast as | get 1t off one
square it comes on another what
would you say? Why, you would say.
Man, let your windows alone and kin
die your fires, and the frost will soon
come off," Aye, that was well said by
the Plymouth pulpit sage, for every
where we find the windows covered
with the frosts that keep out the vi
sions Of Gods blessings. Here is one
man scraping at this trouble and an
other scraping at that. "Ah," they keep
saying, "how happy shall be when
this misfortune is goneW My friends,
the future will leave still heavier
frost upon your window panes unless
your heart is changed. What you need
Is to kindle the fires Of gratitude in
your own life. Thank God for what he
has done for you. Then, instead Of
looking only at your misfortunes, your
blinded eyes will be opened, and you
will find q whole horizon abloOm and
fragrant with blessings. Cease to talk
about what God may do for you In the
years to come. Get down on your
knees and thank your Lord and Say
iour for what he has already done and
is doing for you today.
But this gospel motto is also brake.
II would put the conservative hand up
Oh the shoulder Of the optimist and
say: Brother, be little careful about
trusting too much to your future. Do
not rate your assets too high. All your
future days may not be flooded with
sunshine" 1t Is always we'll for q
ship to be ballasted before 1t sets sail
from harbor And yet some men, be-
cause they have made a success In the
past, think success will always be
theirs. Therefore they live up to the
last cent of their income and have their
properties mortgaged up to the full
limit and buy their stocks upon mar
gin. and when the wheel Of fortune
turns a little the superstructure goes
down with crash Now, my brother,
in order to have happy future you
must be like Joseph, the prime minister
of Egypt. In your seven years Of pros
perlty you must prepare for your seven
years of want. Though bright days
will come, dark days Of adversely will
also surely be yours.
Business Risks.
This fact is we'll illustrated by the
life insurance business. Some years
ago was talking with one Of the lead
ing insurance superintendent OF Chi
cago He said: II suppose you think
that my chief object Is to get people
to carry all the insurance possible
That is great mistake some agents
make. I always say to my agents
Men. do not persuade your people tc
take any more insurance than they
can carry. A man should always be
able to make his payments easily. II
you persuade a man to pay too large
premium within few years sickness
and trouble may come to his home
The man may be thrown out of his
work temporarily. Then he drops his
insurance, and he will never take IT W
again. Then that action not only hurts
the man, but also the life insurance
business" And yet In many way
there are thousands Of men making tn
same mistake as does the man VIII
overinsures. These men bank too mucl
upon the properties of the future
Therefore they lose their all whel
these properties fail.
I never think Of mans future bu
as a kaleidoscope. You rememDe
when as little boy your mother bough
YOU one for a Christmas present. fo'
went to the window and lifted the Iii
tie apparatus TO your eye and looke'
, through it. All the brightly colore'
. pieces of glass at the other end forme'
7 themselves into most fantastic shapes
J You studied them long and carefully
Beautiful, beautiful you said. "Why
see rainbows and towers and mead
: ows and farmhouses." Then your sis
! ter said. Charley, turn it," You turr
, ed the kaleidoscope, and all the glasse
r iIngled. Then you looked again an
Q said: "Why, sister, all the pictures ar
different. Look and see. How dl
this all happen?" Then you turned
. again. and there were other combin'
= tIons of colors. Wonderful are II
= changes of a kaleidoscope, yet NJ
= more strange than will be the change
. In your future. The fact that yo
= have a $4,000 income this year do'
not prove you will have even a tho
sand dollars next. Because you are
: good health now do not think that yo'
lungs will be stout next week. III
q fact that you are riding upon the way
Of prosperity today does not prove th'
y the food tide will not ebb away. L
:, not bank too much upon the temper
successes Of the future. Do not coul
. too surely on long earthly life. b
oouco Won are living In q palace