Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-04-20
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Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee. ID. d.

By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee, d.. ID.
= Los Angeles, Cal, April 14.-ln tnls |
fermon we learn the lesson that II we
tlo our full duty to God and society |
much of our lives must be devoted TO
foundation laying and seed planting
for the benefit of those to come after
us. The text is John iv, 81, zone SOW
eth, and another reapeth."
Il Christ is here describing a group OF
workmen going forth to their laDors'
Each laborer carries upon his arm
bag full of seed. They fill their hands
l.with the seeds and begin to scatter
them far and wide. Finally one OF
4 these laborers turns and says to Christ:
"Why, Jesus, for what am l planning
these seeds? l will never live long
enough to gather the harvests In THIS
world" mo" answers Christ, Il know
Il. But the coming generations VIII
gather the harvests Of your seed plant
| ing. AS your ancestors planted SEEDS
from which you are today gathering
harvests, so you must plant seeds that
your children and children's children
may gather their harvests." In other
words, the great lesson Of this text Is
that tive ourselves may die and be for
gotten, but our works shall live on, ana
other men may get the credit OF the
work" Come, let me read to you the
text In full: And herein is that say
ing true. one man soweth, and another
reapeth."
Every generation builds upon the
tombs and the catacombs or previous
generations. This fact is emphatlcally
true in both the scientific and the IN
dustrial world 1t is true of the houses
in which we live, and the raiiroao
trains and steamboats, In when we
e travel and the food that we eat and the
clothing that we wear, and the electro
lights by which we see, and the Dooks
that we read. II Is true in almost Ill
the industrial developments OF lie. i
is also true that the men VINO mau'
those Industrial developments posslDi'
themselves. as a rule, got very llttl'
reward out of their inventions or im
proyements.
FrankIin's Question.
When BENJAMIN Franklin was max
. ing his electrical Investigations peopi
/; used TO laugh at him. One day he pre-
!. duced the proof that lightning AM
4. electricity are Identical. Then the pc
d nle again began to sneer and say
, "WelI. even IL that is true, what Is th
good of the discovery what is tn
~ use of a chlId?" answered FranKlil
) ut may yet become man. This trut
D is now only in its infancy. You cal
not foresee how it may be applied an
into what power it may yet be deve
oped." Did not the "child of electric
n Nv" grow into amazing strengthE Lon
A after the sage of Philadelphia wa
buried Galvani and Volta and Oerste
10 and Joseph Henry and Faraday an
.e Sir Humphry Davy and Gramme al
." a. Morse and Edison and Cyrus Field g
% to work, and with this far reacnlI
tn truth discovered by Benjamin Frankl
n, as a basis they developed power
,p- run our street railways, and power
ISL turn the wheels of factories, and po'
10 or with which to scatter the darkne
of the night and power with which
nd send our messages under the sea
Il. Could benjamin Franklin awaken no
II: from his grave truly he would not re
'lu ocnize the face Of his ''child OF electrl
nu itv." He planted the seed Of electric
nd development, but others have garner
th the harvests. zone man soweth, a.
est another reapeth."
i. MANY years ago poor Yale stude
who had a tendency to consumpti
of was living in South Carolina in t
no home of the widow Of General Natha
'ei ael Greene. While there he met sol
he M southern planters who were bemoanl
in the fact that the chief profit OF the c
ton industry was lost because no II
chine had yet been invented whl
an could separate the cotton seeds ir'
ow o the cotton. Young Eli Whitney,
that was the Yale students name, WE
old to work and labored on month IN
ust month out He perfected the cot'
gni gin. but before he could get a pat'
ted unon the invention the barn IN WI
M. he had his workshop was broken op
Ioi and the machine was stolen, ana
.ost ideas were patented by other men.
nor Whitney. the man who has maze
r Of lions of dollars for the south, the III
90. who has doubled and quadrupled
.ble infinitely increased the earning
ON pacitv of the southern plantatlons-p
aseT Eli Whitney himself never got 90
u oi from his cotton gins save the poor
y. tance of $4,000 granted him py
'"' legislature of South Carolina. L
Robert Fulton with his steamboat,
Morse with his telegraph wires'
the Watt with his steam engine,
tall George Stephenson with his locomot
IN like r. A. Holden, the agronoinist'
Win Burbank. the wizard of flowers
IL q vegetables, these men have been
s. planters. They have made millions
dollars for other men; but, like AgaS
they have not had time to make nO
for themselves. "One man soweth'
is' another reapeth." One genera
cor nlants the seeds Of the Industrial VIC
Roa- and another gener"'io" ''"p
d re- vest.
| Fl. A Magnificent Heritage.
COM uove Won ever stopped to think
'ause magnificent is the heritage IN tne IN
day triai "oliu you 80 - have Won