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


e tbe west. with their wonderful I'M
dement's are able to raise their wheat
or cbeaper than you and by the trans
Continental railroad lines undersell you
II tbe eastern markets. Why do you
,ot get out Of here and go west oUgo
q one of our large cities and make
lame for yourself, as your Uncle lien
" has doneY The young man looks
-, .t mo and saws: "Oh, | don't know.
I do NOT believe / could do 1t. You
know. | was born here, and, though l
cannot make much out of the larnl' al
loast I am assured of one fact-l can /
make n living. Better a bird III lhe
hand than two in the bush. Better
hold on TO an assured little thah u
roach ont after something and perhaps
fail entlrely.p What is the matter
with your nephew? He has just as
much brain as you, just as much
chance to make a great success as you
have made. There is just one trouD!e-
ho lacks faith-faith in himself. A
man without faith in himself has no
moro chance to forge ahead and ac-
complsh anything for good than
steam engine has to draw train VIII
out wafer in the boiler or than fur
mace is able without fuel for the flames
TO feed upon to give forth heat.
Now for the other side Of this ques-
tion: Here is a boy born the son OF
horber. His mother was woman Oh
nngoyernable temper, who passed the
LAST vearg Of her life in an insane asy-
INN. Poverty ushered him into lie.
His boyhood days were passed by an
unhappy frcside. But one day WINE
going along the London streets, ne
looked into the windows Of an art store
and saw some beautiful pictures. Ihey
omen to him new world. He says -
TOO am painter" But his genius was
not like that Of Edwin Landseer, WHO
ot fourteen was able to win prize al
the academy by exhibiting there he
picture of majestic St Bernard uos'
Rut slowly, painfully, amid rldlcuie'
with an empty purse and an empty
stomach. he had to struggle on at nlS
canvas Every outside influence fouSh
him hack Only themward consciousness
that he was "A painter kept him at DDS
toel, Then what Boswell was to sam
mel Johnson John Rushin became L
him Then Ruskin. the matchless III
critic led the English world to his feet
Tbon came success. William Turne
became the most honored colorlst o
all the British empire. 1t was the Ut
umnh Of faith. Would William Iurne
over have accomplished what he dc
with the whole world ignoring him 10
veors had he not been willing to starV
and suffer because he believed in hin
self
Faith In Oneself.
Rut | find that faith has a broade
realm than eyen its jurisdiction owe
orr physical bodies aud orr mental SUI
cesses. 1t is able to come to US an
say. "ALan. thou. canst use thine oW
fingers; thou canst cut the -curtal
which separates the present from Il
fnture but thou canst also make me
work for thee. and without me the
co,ist do nothing as a.social organism
40 faith" | cry, what dost th'
mean? Art thou not simply gosp
messenger? Art thou the queen
, commerce? Dost thou as an empire
swing thy scepter over the busy mar
= of trade?" And faith answers: I'm,
hast we'll said. | am ruler over all u
;. civilized world. Where commercl
i man deals with man. or where man
} mound builder, or where man noa
; national flag, I am faith, ruling CO
- quering faith
, Faith is everywhere pracIicai
mans relation to man. decide to Ia
a trip from New York to California
i onter tbe railroad Office and purchase
ticket pay down my money. pr
y tically say by that act: Here, Mr.. IL
- road President. is hundred doila
have faith in you that you VIII kC
'ii vour contract and take me to my q
IL tinotion.v After I receive my monu
. wages I take my money TO the Da
u u and say: Here. Mr. Cashier IS
W money. Put it out at interest / IL
10 faith in Won. ! will trust You win
X ouv Instead Of living the life OF
IL milf and arming myself with pi'
ne ne and gun and bsrricaling my home
~ niob+ rs the New England settlers
uS dnrioo tho time Of the Indian up
~ ~ ings In 1850, l associate myseI W
III INV noighhors into Il nation. We e
- q president, a governor ana ma.
ne we sov to these officials: You gu
"a us You protect us We have faltl
l"' Won and your government Inc D
no moss world. the domestic world
'ai nolitical world. could not be run
u cessfully a day, an hour, a min
Gu. without faith. glorious and triumph
~ faith.
H. ~ Now my friends, as rational fait
90 sucb an essential for mans phys
and mental and social development
'n r. absurd for us to assert that go
Wv y" faith is an essential for mans spirl
.oe nI existence? We have logically pr,
Ia that when man lives for hlmsel
on+ 'il when n man walks with other mel
4oi G has to walk with the evidence Oh
- things not seen. Shall man not
:. thus with Cod? And. my brothe
40 80 man. in spite Of himself, is comp
~ ~ I 70 trust man. in order to live i
4,o earthly and social sense, is it aD
'N0 for man to rust God in spr
sense?
tbo If you have faith in an earthly
.oro ent. why should you not have lai
ao q heavenly Father Suppose you
en- ~ been a wayward boy. Suppose
oI1 have been drunkard, a gambler
tbp q libertine. Suppose you nave
If. away from home and not had an
col. lations with the Old homestead
Il If months-aye. for years Then SUI