Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-11-27
WAS A PRACTICAL LECTURE.
An Interesting Talk On "Bridles
And Spurs"
FORMER PASTOR ENTERTAINS
LARGE AUDIENCE.
Good Advice Given BY Lecturer At
Maryland Avenue Church
Last Night.

a large number of the friends of the
Rev. T. E.' Peters and members of
his former congregation gathered at
Maryland Avenue NJ. Il. Church last
nihgt TO greet its former pastor. The
occasion was a lecture on the subject
Brides and Spurs. from which
Mr.. Peters drew many practical les
sons. The lecture was full of wit and
W wisdom and bristled with terse cpl
grams and common sense.
The lecturer defined bride as some
thing used to guide and restrain,
| figuratively guide to restrain man 5
faculties. He quoted from the Bible
on bridling ones tongue. spurs,
the lecturer defined as something to
arouse and urge one to greater speed,
and he said every lazy person needs
n spur. A large majority need a
bride. he said. and most people need
both bride and spur. The lecturer
classed the bride and spur as the
winged forces of life.
Mr.. Peters said money is not only
the root of all evil, but money is also
the root of all good. Money. he said,
is stored labor, and a dollar is as
powerful for good as for evil man
may do more good with an energetic
nature than an indolent one. He
declared a temper is not TO be despised.
The Bible, he said, tells us TO be
angry, but sin not; be not revengeful ;
use anger as money, for good pur-
poses. \ man should bride his tenn
per--tame it, control it. Great saints
were those who boiled over with sin
less anger.
The lecturer said he had no use FOR
commercial dandy with hands as
soft as his head. When fellow goes
into thing for the work as well as
the salary, there is something in him.
A man must make sacrifices in life.
To be successful he must eat sawdust
without butter. Mr.. Peters spoke of
capital and labor, of their relation
ship one TO the other. He said he
believed in both. Capital should do
its part TO labor, and vice versa.
Unions should give their best service
to the employer and until one worked
withthe other amicably, trouble was
sure to come.
The lecturer deplored an Indifferent
person. He said anything but a
stagnant pool" Anger, he said, is a
spur. Some persons have not stamina
enough to be angry and are simply
too sweet and lovely TO be useful or
helpfEl to mankind. Character is
made up of negatives. It is the weak
est thing in the world. 1t is not
ability, but availability that counts.
lie illustrated by telling the story
of preacher who was about to deliv-
er the funeral Grafton over church
member who had never done much for
himself or anybody else. The preach
er did not know what TO say, and he
said this: MY beloved sisters and
brethen, this corpse has been mem
ber ofthis church for forty years.
The lecturer said colleges had a
hard time to educate some boys and
girls. You can only develop the
stuff that's in a man. Colleges dom
make fools, but they sometimes de-
velop them. If you want people to
think you are brilliant, do something
to be brilliant. If clergyman does
not hold his congregation it is his
fault, not the congregation IS. a man :
| fortune is in himself, not in environ
ment and not in luck, but in himself.
A man or boy cannot keep place il
| there is not success in him. Put
stumbling blocks in his way and he
will make stepping stones of them.
The failure is in you, not in the en-
| vironment.
other things being equal, the degree
| Of enthusiasm in a man is the compen
sating power for conqueriDg things
| Fanaticism, the lecturer said, is some
times confused with enthusiasm. III
differentiated by comparing them to :
steam engine or boiler. An enthu
siast is a locomotive in trousers
| Fanaticism jerks; enthusiasm pulls
steadily. Enthusiasm has judgmen
and common sense; fanaticism neither
The worlds best work, the lecture
said, had always been done by tn
men who were step in advance
the age. Preserve us from man wh'
is afraid of making mistakes. lie
us 90 ahead, make our mistakes a
few as we can, but let us go ahead.
After tthe lecture, which was yer,
interesting and full of practical les
sons, the Rev. Mr.. Peters was heart
lily greeted by many old friends, VIII
shook his hand warmly.