Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-02-16

laws are like Gods denials. Hold on!
Hold on! Hold on! Patience is gen.
iusy Aye, patience is more than sim.
pie human genius. Gospel patience Is
the acme Of gospel faith and trust. IL
Is resting our faith on Christ. 1t is the
divine faith which says. Though all
things may seem to go against me for
the time being, yet God is making all
things ultimately work together FOR
good. and therefore we can afford to
wait. Just to wait for his dear sake"
There Is an infinite lot Of Christian
philosophy to be learned In these
quaint words Of the HoOsier poet. The
more study them the more God
speaks and teaches me the lessons OF
patience which he spake to Moses In
his indian exile:
1t amt no use to grumble and complain;
It's Just as cheap and easy to rejoice
sends rain.
wy, rains my choice.
In this existence dry and wet
Will oyertake the best OF men.
Some little skift o. cloud III shet
The sun off now and then.
There amt no sense, as can see,
Immortas sich as you and me
A-faultin' natures wise intents
And lockin' horns with Providence.
Thanks For the Weather.
But have most of US learned the
Christian lessons of patience? Like
James Whitcomb Riley, can we thank
God for the rain as we'll as the sun
shine? When things go all right then
we are right. But when anything goes
wrong we have not learned the lessons
of gospel patience. Then we speak
words which we ought not to speak
and do things which we regret all the
days of our lives. Naturalists tell US
that the mighty winged eagles have
sometimes been slain by the little hum
ming birds. These smallest Of birds,
which you could crush in your hand,
have been known to perch themselves
upon the heads Of the mighty kings OF
.he air. There thev have sat and peck.
ed and pecked until they have pecKeu
info the brains of the eagles and tum'
bled their dead bodies down into the
dust. Thus a quick temper, the inaDill-
ty to govern our anger in little things
have been known to absolutely nullify
n mans influence for good. We are
all right when everything is going all
right. But we are all wrong when any
thing goes wrong. Thus God exileo
Moses in INDIAN to teach him patience
Thus God is holding many Of us In OBJ
scure positions until we learn to gov
ern ourselves.
But again l learn that God sent
Moses into his INDIAN exile to teach
him the practicalities Of life. Moses
by his education was sage, but Moses
was a theorist. For many years he
had been a cloud dweller or vision
ary dreamer. In all probability In the
temple of Karnak he had learned al
! the theories of government. But theo
nv and fact DO not always nest as twir
| sisters I'm the same cradle. He had de
yeloped his head. but not his hands
So God. in order to fit him for practi
cal leadership. made him work witt
his hands and his feet as well as VIII
his brain. When Moses went dowI
into the land of indian. he not onl!
had to 90 to work. but he had to hir'
himself out to do the work of com
mon shepherd. Have you not hear'
how he helped the daughters of Reue
% water their focksf
MethInks can now see him guaro
ing his sheep down in the pastur
lands near Mount Sinai. where CO.
was one day to give him the Ten Com
mandments written on tables OF stone
His clothes are coarse. His hand
are callous. The shepherds stan Is
his hands. "Why," hear him say {
himself, 81 never knew it was SO har
as this to earn your daily bread l
nv foster mothers home we neve
worried about our daily food. In ID
kings banquet we used to waste NOR
than we ate. If I ever am to be
leader of my people, / must teac
them not to be wasteful. God Will O.
WAYS give US enough to eat an
clothes to wear, but waste Is siI
II should be crime in mans eyes, q
! II IS a sin in Gods sight" Thus Nose
struggle for daily bread scattere
, away many of the foolish notions d
, had about Gods providence and car
| He learned that God meant man
, help himself. When Moses led his PEI
J ple through the Red sea, methinks l
, often went through the camps an
kept a watchful eye upon how his pc
ple lived and what they did and ho
they cared for the temporal blessing
:. with which God had surrounded ther
r The Uses Of Labor.
ell Some women grumble because
n much of their time has to be spent
IS bending over the kitchen stove, and
r making the dresses for the childre
II and In sweeping the floors. ana
vi making the beds, but remember th
W by these daily struggles of life Coo
teaching you that, though he Is wi
u ing to help you, yet he also expec
N YOU to help yourselves. Men, II seer
q. 20 you that most Of your lives have
It be spent in the store. The butcher
Ia bills and the bakers bills and the de
IN tors bills must be met. But, remel
,e Der, God Is developing you In Il
lg struggle for daily bread. He Is sayil
Ut to you: "son, have made thee aft
IS my own image, but thou must ca
I'd thy food by the sweat Of thy bro
or By the thorns and the weeds l
vs. making thee more and more to lea
a. that the haryests come from me.
IS. am God that gIveth all. but II is