Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-06-30

best friends tneu lufucu lHc4l D"NN7
upon us. But want to tell you that
that financial trouble was the greatest
blessing which could have come 10 lis.
II did for US, as a family, more than
money could ever have done. 1t has
taught us to love each other as never
before; for love grows on sacrifices,
and God knows we have had TO sacrl-
fee for each other. 1t has taught us
not only TO do for each other but also
10 do for those Of the outside world
who are now In trouble, as we were
when my daughter died and we knew
not which way to turn to get the money
TO pay for her sickness and her burial
All. my friends, even the b!tterest Na.
rah waters Of financial distress may
become sweet waters for thine own
| lips and for the lips Of the dear ones.
Wait, friend, wait. Do not complain
now. Remember that II you Will throw
the cross into Marah waters, they shall
vet become the sweet spring Of love
and of eternal life"
But" you say, my Marah waters
have. nothing TO do with a wrecked
financial fortune. There was time
when used to worry about money
matters and fame; but that time Las
passed forever What / am worrying
about now are my children AMI my
husband | have boy who Is a rep
rebate and degenerate. / have done
everything for that child. And, Oh, he
IA so much 70 me- But the longer he
lives the more deprayed he seems 10
get Oh. God. Why must longer drink
of these bitter waters. made out OF
the tears which have welled up from
mothers broken heart?" We'll, my
friend, I believe that even these bitter
waters can yet become sweet. Would
YOU like me to tell you how this shall
| be?
That WayVvard Son.
In the first place, 1 must picture your
own spiritual condition before talk
about the rescue OF your son You are
| like a tourist who Is circumnavigatng
the globe. No sooner did you tell your
friends that you were going 10 be a
globe trotter" than they said, I'VE
will come down and see you Of" The
docks were crowded Oh the day you
sailed. The band was playing, there
were thousands Of people moving on
and off the ship. After the little tugs
pushed the huge vessel out into the
deep water with your marine glass
you watched the different boats com
| ing into the harbor as you passed out.
You were sailing along day after day
and the voyage was becoming more OF
a pleasure as the weeks went by. Now
you have touched at Gibraltar Now
you are In the Mediterranean sea. You
make lots OF friends on board. The
hours speed quickly past. You have
practically no interest in what Is hap
pening In the boats off In the distance,
which you sight ever and anon. But
one day storm comes up, and the ma
chinery of your boat is broken. Help
less, you are beingtiriyen by the cruel
winds toward the rocks. What do you
now 80? 30 yau run to your friends
for help? Why, they are X the same
danger as yourself. All, no; now you
| anxlously scan the horizon to look for
q ship. And when a steamer heaves IN
sight the danger gun signals for help.
Then with bated breath you watch the
approach OF that vessel The great
| hawsers are run between the two ships,
! then they become taut as the other
boat pulls you into the harbor OF safe
| ty. Then you cry: THANK Cod Thank
God for help! Thank God for rescue"
Now, my friends, that is the picture
| Of your spiritual life, and you know Il.
You have been on a voyage OF life.
You have been singing and dancing
and making merry with q few friends
on board your own ship. But sudden
ly you awake TO the fact that the NOR
al and spiritual lives of your dear ones
as we'll as your own are in danger OF
eternal shlpwreck What are you 20
do? Why, today you ought TO take the
gospel marine glass and sweep the
| horizon and send forth the danger sig
nails. Who ought you to call to your
help? Shall men come who are just
Ike you? Nay What you need is dl-
vine help for the rescue OF yourself
and of that child. II Is not too late.
! Believe me, IL is not too late. And the
way you can bring that divine help 10
the spiritual rescue Of your loved one
IS by first signaling that divine help
to come to your own rescue. on, NY
friends, If the waywardness OF hus-
| band or child or friend be the means or
your own spiritual conservation as we'll
as that OF others, do you not believe
| that these Marah waters shall yet be
come as sweet waters of spiritual lifei
Now comes the practical question: Is
there any one here who is unwilling TO
signal for this divine help and to con
secrate his own life to the Masters
service when that person fully realizes
that where he goes and what he does
J may decide the eternal destiny OF some
one whose salvation ought 70 be dearer
to him than his own lifei
Man. woman, child, dost thou not
know that another's spiritual life is
depending upon the stand you take for
Christ? viii you not here and now
say "By Gods help and mercy l viii
let the Holy Spirit enter into my own
heart and then | shall lead my hus-
band, my wife, my father, my brother,
my sister, my child, my friend, 10 the
mercy seati7 viii you do itf VIII
you let Christ lift his atoning cross
and push 1t into the great depths OF
your own sins and make the blttar
waters of your evil past sweet as the
| River of Life?
Copyright. 1900. by Louis Klopsch.l
Modest Wealth.
No better illustration Of the modest
dignity of wealth can be found than IN
the action Of the residents OF suburb
! ,f HIavaIand nunod almost wholly bV