Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-01-06

ness partner broke down at that time
with nervous prostration. He died In
an insane asylum. Your own brain
was almost crazed. Your hair is white
today from those trials. Would you
like to live them over again? How
do you know you would come through
them next time as successfully as you
have done? You know that it seemed
a mere chance that your fathers old
friend came to your rescue at that
time or that oil was discovered upon
your farm land, which land you could
never give away before and which
land you were almost tempted to let
90 to liauidate the taxes. Would you
like to be caught again in that rail-
road accident? Perhaps you were on
q train that was wrecked, in which
many passengers were crushed or mu-
tilated. You do not know how it hap
pened. You were sitting in the car
reading. Suddenly the engine gave a
shrek; the brakes were jammed hard
down. Then you awoke in dazed
condition. You heard groanings and
PRAYERS being uttered all about you.
You escaped, like Job, by the skin Of
your teeth. The man who sat within
three feet Of you was dead or, what
is worse, physically mangled for life
If YOU had TO go through that accident
again. would you be physically well
and whole as you are today? Oh, no!
Most of us do not wish to run again
the risks we ran during our past lives.
Financial risks domestic risks, phys
lcal risksl They nearly destroyed us.
We could not be sure that we should
have the same chances for success
over again If we had to meet the
same dangers. Most Of our friends
who have been destroyed were wreck
ed by d chance trivial as a hair. Most
of us. if not all of us, on the other
hand. have been saved by that turning
of hair. Almost were we destroyed,
but almost was not quite enough to
annihilate us.
We fear to meet our past financial
and physical and domestic dangers
again. We should also tremble when
we look back upon our past spiritual
temptations. 1t is absurd for some or
lis TO say If we had cur lives to live
over again we would do any different
spiritually from what we did In days
that are gone. In all probability we
would do just the same as we did ID
the past if not worse. Why? Because
today. with all our experiences and
shortcomings, we are going ahead sim
ming all the time. Edward Young,
the author Of the famous might
Thoughts" we'll expresses the idea
when lie wrote:
AT thirty map,suspects himself fool;
Knows IL at forty: then resolves
And re-resc1v4, . nd dies the same.
Doe knowiedge abouttt,.-.he dietary
and sastronopac laws make the phys
ia careful about what h eats and
low he eatsY oh, no. Doctors can
prescribe alI right for their patients.
IAut they are proverbial iconoclasts at
u the shrme Of health when they ap-
- a.-s. iuss & their. own tables
Their doctrine IS, do not eat as DO,
but eat as say" Let a convention OF
nhvsicians assemble, and they Will
have the most intellectual papers read
before them upon the proper treatment
Of dyspepsia. Then they adjourn ana
90 to the table and eat twice as mucn
as they ought to eat and eat that un-
masticated food in half the time they
ought 10 eat it. Then they will return
n their homes and have their meals
ot irregular hours. The physician
would never let his dyspeptic patients
eat as he does. He knows what ne
ought to do, but he does it not. Now
IL we had TO live our lives over again
in all probability we would DO IN reler-
ence to temptation just as the average
nhvsician does in reference to his wen
known gastronomic laws. We would
fall before temptation as he yields to
the temptation Of the palate. And for
one would be very much surprised II
we would turn out again spiritually as
well as we have done.
Fruits of Experience.
force myself to this belief for Sec
ond reason. We had but little expert
ence in the past. But we did nave
some experience and knowledge OF sin
We did not fall into sin as a trap Is
snrung upon the unwary bird. we
walked straight over the preciplce OF
sin with our eyes wide open. Fol
many wears you were addicted tC
drink. You have been in the past
drunkard. You are a reformed one
now. You know all the miseries anC
horrors Of n drunkard's life. But tel
me about your first glass. Did you no
have Just as much horror of hquol
then as YOU do now? Did you not III
awake all night long, feeling that her.
iouor burning it's way down you
throat and into your heart after you
first drink 1el ulu lhdI SAPNA
lead you to forswear drink? Did yo'
! not return to your tempter again ant
again? You have been a desecrater o
the Sabbath day. You can see the aW
full results of what goddess SabDat
is upon your present life. Why do yo
not make Sunday holy day? Did til
sin of a broken Sabbath ever appear I
YOU more heinous than when on ID
first Sabbath you stayed away fror
church and went with some sinful boy
picnicking in the woods? All, CHRIS
was right when in the parable OF Dive
and Lazarus he represented the re
man in hell who had asked him to sen
Lazarus back to earth to warn his nv
brothers "1est they come into this plac
of torment" as receiving the ansWe
from Abraham, "If they hear NJ
Moses and the prophets neither WI
they be persuaded though one roS
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