Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-10-05

and she answered: "SOmething l know
is changed 1t may be the world. lt
may I've my heart. There Is great
change somewhere, | am sure, ZOE
everything Is different from what IL
once was" Thus was 1t with you Oh |
that Sunday afternoon. You arose
from your knees and gave your hearr
TO God. Oh, Christ was so dinerenI
The love OF your father and mother
md sister was so different. Your own
nurposes of life were so different. You
were like Cowper, filed with holy
ecstasy because you were surrounded
by a divine. revelation. Yet, alas, aias'
how soon we have descended from the
heights Of our mounts of transngura-
ton!
But there was another wonderful
, manifestation in our spiritual hVes.
That was when we left home and
started out in the world to make our
own living. Somehow when we were
IN tbe old homestead we felt good
deal like the bather who Is swimming
inside the life lines down at the great
ocaon The waves rear themselves ana
move on toward the shore. You can
see them begin to gather their gigantic
| strength out at yonder sand bar. They
come rolling on, higher and higher, un-
I'll they cover their heads with foam:
Then they tumble down upon us ana
roll us upon the beach. We laugn ana
shout and make merry. WhyT Be-
cause we feel there is no danger any
whore around. In the first place, II the
waters drag us out, there is the lie
soving man on the beach, with MS
corsets of cork about him and his long
saving line attached to the belt. de
will plunge in after us, and friends Oh
the shore will get hold of the line and
mil both of us out from the angry
surf.
Outside the Life Lines.
How safe one feels when bathing II
. ! the ocean inside Of the life lines! we
feel n great deal like the little chickens
playing around the barnyard, wlthli
cali of the clucklng hen. If anytnint
: goes wrong they can run and hnd snei
, ter and safety under the mother
3 wing So with the old homestead
There we always felt safe. II any
D thing went wrong we could always rul
v to father and mother and find help AM
{ strength. But when the bather goe
4 bevond the life lines then he is takin
e his life in his hands. And when W
Y leove the old homestead then we mus
$ meet our struggles and temptation
e alone.
First Niqht Away From Home.
r Have YOU ever seen your feellne
d better portrayed than. In the great pr
IS ture Hovenden painted, called III
le Breaking of Home Ties?' l have
'e fine CODY Of that picture hanging 9
y nv dining room wall. Some peop
ID declare the mothers face is the mo
a. wonderful part of that picture. Othe
ut draw your attention to the dog, OF
to ers to the youngest sister or to the o
Id grandmother's eyes. But the most su
gestive part Of that picture to me
the chin of the boy, who Is about
az leave home. AS | stand and look
,r that chin can almost see 1t quiy'
20 If seems to say: what am l going
IN doP Away from father and moth
oh and all the dear ones, where snail
Id spend my evenings? Who VIII ia
IF care of me when am sick? Oh,
do wish I did not have to go to that gre
va bir city, with all its temptations
,ut loneliness. why, there is no one amo
.ry those city people whom l can call
all friend" All, leaving home Is no Jo
on Turning your back upon all yc
nv Youthful associations is no pleasl
nv day jaunt. "The Breaking OF Ho
the Ties" when the young man sta
Ino forth In life to battle with the wo
yht alone. is one of the saddest nome
ice in all lifes journey.
zen And yet was not this utter helpie
tbe ness. this awful loneliness, this wild
,all ing isolation, the means Of bringing
oar vou one of the most marvellous OF
,th vine revelations? When the revoly
A. wheels of the railroad train were
tho ing you farther and farther away IT
o,o vour old home your eyes filled "
pu+ tears. You kept looking out OF
ost car window. You were not looking
nor the new country, but you were see
hor the dear faces in your old home. IN
prt among the passengers you kept OF
lins ing this prayer: 30 God, my mot
80 er's and fathers God, be with me
,aat nv new life" Then when you clo
49, your door for the first night in y
little hall bedroom in the big
boarding house you knelt down
said the same prayer And then "
bappened? You remember it as tho
III it were yesterday. Your room seel
e'el TO be filed with singing angels
ua1 knew not whether you were In
no. body or out Of the body, so wonde
i'en was the celestial glory that 81
oui around you. The same God VINO 81
'ayv unto Joshua appeared unto you
'"i, said: "Fear not, my child. AS
81 with thy father and mother, so
'. -. be with thee if thou wilt trust me
a'A follow me-" Was that vision a II
'o ne' cination, You know IT was not.
him know It was q glorious revelation
sis God. Have you trusted Christ aho
fter- lowed him as you promised to do
you a young man on your first night IL
her great city? If you have not, then
, her God today why you have not ana
alone again for a renewal Of his divine
oors, Hesitation.
They But time passed on. You soor
ng to used to your city life. The green
ut to trv ways wore off. The hobn
your shoes were exchanged for the lea
ying. the rough clothes Of the village
bouti Dor the fashionable productions o
As extensive tailor. Then came your
pped rage. And tnat leu Oh " AMI ~,
.d o1o+ion nerhaDs the best or all