Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-04-06
Like q Powder Magazine.

Iute ancestor. When we try to govern
ourselves. we find that we are ike
mettlesome, high strung horse, ready
at moments notice to take the bit IN
his teeth and rush madly away. The
cold blooded man Of phlegmatic tenn
nerament cannot understand why the
ouick tempered, high strung, nervous,
passionate nature can so easily KICK
over the traces and do what 1t ought
not to do. The phlegmatic man Is
mound of wet sand slowly being drieo
nv the rising sun. The passionate man
Is a gunpowder magazine, ready 10 De
exploded by a spark. And yet the
mower Of God can come In ana make
Il nossible for weak man to overcome |
the temptations of drink and all the
unspeakable temptations Of the hesn.
Yes the power of God has been apie
TO help thousands Of men nsthe past
TO triumph over the cup and over tne
morphIne habit and over libertinism.
The power of God can help you now
TO triumph over your evil desires OF
the flesh. Your temptation Is not al
extraordinary case. There have Deen
many men of the past even more DIS
solute than you who have been saVeu
from the sins Of the flesh. Have you
forgotten Paups statement? "Ihere
hath no temptation taken you but such
no is common to men, but God Is faitn-
ful who will not suffer you to be
TEMPTED above that ye are able, Dut
will with the temptation, also make
way to escape, that ye may be able 10
| bear It."
Rut there are mental temptations as
we'll as physical. Just the same as
man may have a malformed body ne
can have malformed mind. HIS
thinking apparatus may be all askew.
In Bulgaria a short time ago there died
a Young woman Of thirty years OF age
She had the mind of matured, devei-
oped woman. She could talk as wo-
man hut she had the body OF a little
s,x.months-old baby. She never grew
nhvsically after she was few montns
old She had to sleep In cradle. one
had the mind Of a woman, yet the
body of q little child. In direct antltne-
sis 70 this we often find men OF fully
matured physical bodies who are
worse than children in intellect. Theli
mInds are warped and twisted out OF
form They have such malformed In
tellects that they cannot think arisn'
They cannot tell the difference Dc
tween right and wrong. In their OWL
strength they are intellectually co'o'
blind.
Defective Color Sight.
, Won know what / mean by a maj
having defective color sight. Whei
the applicant for locomotive engl
: noer,s nosition applies to the railroad
: what is the first and the chief RUE 0.
3 which the official tests the applicant
/ He takes him into a room where tner
e are a lot of worsted yarns all Jumoie'
3 ND together. "Now, you go ana pic
e me out the blue skelns," says the e.
$ aminer. "Now pick me out the reu'
e The difference between the coiors
o rod and white may involve the saret
e of hundreds Of passengers when Il
o engineer may have in his charge. som
s of YOU may be surprised to learn tn'
Il hundreds of would be engineers nav
d beon rejected because the optic nerve
b which connect their eyes ana tne
j. brains could not carry their message
" Alright. So there are hundreds III
thousands of men whose brains are q
" formed. They cannot think arign
% Tbev cannot tell right from wrol
d when they see It, These men ma
il malformed intellects, just the same
A. others have malformed bodies. I
II course I am here using the brain IN u
n broad moral sense and not In the nn
ut row.
r. wos never more impressed wi
It. this thought than some time ago WIZ
le 7 was reading the most marvellous 81
a. mon. think. Henry Ward Beech
ever preached. 1t Is called "lne 0o'
al tosv of Conscience" In this dlscour
Of Mr. Beecher shows how each man
es education as well as by hereditary IL
re becomes an entity to himself or
to Individual different from all other
We dividuals. Each man to great
ch tent judges the world by giving vo
Sc TO the predominant characteristics
he his own heart and mind and II
ry "Now." says Mr.. Beecher. take ID
rio 20 1orro henevolence. That is the
lily dominating quality Of his mind'
le- overshadows everything else. AS
lel goes through the Bible everything u
an mognifles the goodness Of God ana
he mercy of God will come after his ID
as net. Whenever he comes 10 nss
w. whore there Is smoke or wrath
ing iumps 1t and will not touch II, wn
he ON the other hand. the man who
81 NOT such benevoence, but has g
nto deal of the sense of justice OF COVE
i ment and of rules and regulate
uld goes through the Bible, and when
do returns he has on his back pack u
the with the texts Of fire."
our A Law Unto Itself.
Mr.. Beecher was showing tnat
oSe erv mans mind is law unto its
Vi If that mind is a uniformed or
III sided mind in its color blindness
ere will cover with false colors every
sc" al object its eyes focus, just the 81
'uS as the locomotive engineer with C
''eN blindness may think the red ligh
use warning is the white light of safet'
ON Now. the power Of the Holy s.
,os mas may come into our lives and teacl
ues to think Alright Through the
ton | Spirit we can get revelation Of v
and the divine sacrifice means. Thrt
II 70 him we can truly get an infinite g
,een of what the words Jesus Christ