Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-03-17

and despislng the ministry. "A per-
SON once asked me to lend him So"
said he. ION the ground that he had
long attended my ministry. Possibly
the man richly deserved a sovereign
FOR having done so. At the same time,
If IS n popular mistake to suppose that
tha minister is the party receiving the
favor. He gives his hearers his DesI
thinking. his best powers OF all NnuS'
and II is. therefore, n pity to snow
him thankfulness by borrowing money I
of him." And, my friends, go further
thon that: assert that | never found |
onv men or women practical Dlt OF
rse I'm church work or in any splrltual
line unless they not only honored the
ministry. but respected ministers When
thev stood in the pulpit eXpounolng
the word Of God. zone Of the tuhua-
montal reasons why old Scotland De-
came the spiritual power it was ana
Is" said John Mcneil, "is because oiu
scotland respected the ministry" May
God help us to honor Gods representa-
tlves or messengers or ambassadors OF
clerovmen. as the Zarephath wido"
houored Elijah the Tishblte.
An Hour of Anxiety.
Rut nc I come to the outskirts OF
zoronhath and feel the hot winds
strike nv cheek and look off at the
bleak hills and the grassless Yaneys
and see the bones Of beast ana Diru
hleochlnc on the dry sands l see that
tbis eastern drought" had a FAMINE
within n famine. No sooner did EllJan
onpear and give to the Zarephath
widow her daily supply OF meal anu
al than think can hear her heaVe
a oreat sigh of relief. "Ah,' she says
"now 7 know my boy Is not gong u
diew She felt just as you felt when
. deor friend was put upon the operat-
;no fable The dreaded morning came
Won were down bright and early 10 lne
hospital. She lay in bed little husheu
and her eye bright. Neither you nol
she made any reference to the uansei'
h,+ inst rs the doctors and nurses
came into the room, dressed in whlte
oTrone 70 give the anaesthetic she
annn her arms about your neck ano
wbisnered: "GOodby, dear friend. II
don't wake up, goodby, goodby' On
VOC, Won remember that day! Ihey
carried her out on the stretcher' INT
door Of that awful operating room was
ebut You could not see; you dare no
90 IN You walked up and down tn'
han mn and down. You convulsiVeI
clasped your hands You kept saying
20 God. save her. o Cod give n'
hack nv darlingl o God, save her
cove hcr, Give her back 10 me-
Tben YOU remember the thanKlu
prayer you uttered when the uoctO 10
onened the door and put his head ou
oF tho room and said: "She is all rign'
Everything is all right.
This was the feeling Of reliet AM
,, gratitude Of yonder mother OF zart
Dbotb when she knew that her BOY wa
not going to starve to death. The dai
ger of starvation was past. we ca
see the boy growing fat ana plulni
), The. mothers step has become stron W
: and elastic. AS the lad plays nelcl
hor door we can see her smile as 81
hears his happy laugh. MethinKs' pc
hans she has been growing hlu
: careless and forgetful OF late towal
- Cod as some Of US do when we al
- surrounded by many apparently pc
monent blessings. Suddenly the lor
orro of death reaches through the ope
:, oh window of this woman's hut ii
). arm may be covered with hesh' II
arm may not be a skeleton from starN
- tIon but It Is the arm Of death. VIII
- In n fow hours the child Is dead'
O. once the widow goes to Elijah ana De
n. of him. by the power of God 10
a, store INTO her the life Of her boy. L
SC iah bv Gods power, does so. What
Vi the nractlcal observation! Cannot y
70 grasp itf In every drought OF Ael
IN phath there IS famine within ialnll
40 thoro Is always a death within dea
tomntation within q temptation.
Won and I are ever going to be spirltu
80 " safe we must always keep living 1t
- to God. else the second death VIII DC
~ had as the first death.
~ Whom the first moral or splrlt'
~ dangers of life are past it IS easy
oh Hind our eyes to the second ana
or tblrd and the fourth and the TENN I,
~ the twentieth peril. Let him u
tbinketh he standeth take heed lest
foIln Here. for instance, IS u
~ who for years has been addicted 10
III toviootino drink. He has fought 1t Q
"a fonpht if until at last by the grace
a1 ~ Cod he has triumphed. But though
- vaors he has never tasted q glass
~ Iionor he has become so ABSORBED
81 making money that he has grauuS
~ drifted away from walking witn y
,or One day he has ap awful a"aN
ING He finds that bis faith In Je
christ is gone or that his only boy
VI :. now more to him than bis life'
Gov drunkard, a lbertine or a lhleI'
~. 70 danger be never dreamed al
~, D or guarded against. Famine WI
,O famine: death within death Ana
."i .a NV friends. no matter how many q
, ," GERS God has rescued US from 10
mast that is no reason why we sue
w. w. turn our backs upon God now.
''e the poor widow of Zarephath' we u
live and continue to live close TO |
ana .ha for there are moral and spirituai
,im. gers everywhere we turn and eV
ght' where we look.
now Lasted as Long as Needed
And But did you ever stop to cons
g in how long this supply Of meal aho
may lasted? Just as long as the faI
|, oUcS of lasted. No more, no less. No So
did the rain descend upon the e
oro and the orchards began to give l
,,,n m their fruits and the gardens their '
~ tables and the fields their nary