Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-03-07

to do Is to turn the pages Of "Childe
Harold" which is believed to he an
autobiography. and know what Eng
lands handsome poet was able to ac-
complish for the degradation Of the
human race. Oh, men and women, be-
cause sin is masked behind beautiful
countenance, remember 1t does not
cease to be sin. God blasts the sin OF
n handsome Saul, and he will blast the
sins of our modern lecherous and adul-
ferrous Lotharios as well. Pity Samuel
for clinging to the handsome Saul If
YOU will but do not condemn him un-
less YOU condemn all the men and wo-
men who make excuses for the modern
Don Juans because of their charm or
their beauty.
Friends Who Are Wrong.
know it is hard to turn our backs
upon some friends when we know they
are doing wrong know that some OF
those friends WELD a powerful infiu-
ence over our lives. There is a breeZi-
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some of them that holds us to them like
a magnet. We know, furthermore, that
some of those wicked friends love us
with devoted love, but If we do not
break away from them In time their
sins will corrupt u.s. There Is an old
proverb which says, "lf man breaches
what he does not believe, after awhile
he believes what he breaches" That Is
true. but another fact Is also true. II
YOU make bosom friend out Of one
who is living contrary to all that you
believe to be right, after awhile you
will begin to sin as he sins and do as
he does. You cannot Systematically as
soclate with an evil minded person and
not in time become evil minded your
self. And the more fascinating the
friend the quicker your own spiritual
ruin.
What right have you to go with
man or woman who will tell an i'm
moral story? And would warn my
hearers of both sexes on this subject
for there are certain women who are
lust as shameless in listening to sucl
stories as are some men. What righ
have YOU to go with men who are loos'
I'm their morals or with those who make
light Of the purity of the home? Wha
right have you to make bosom com
panions out of those who do not homo
the house of God and all that the hous'
of God stands for? What right hay'
you to yoke yourself in business part
[ nership with a man whom you have t
watch every moment for fear he vii
| bring n scandal and q disgrace on tn
name Of the firm? Did your Christian
father and mother ever go with sue
: associates as you select for your dali
e companions? Would you be willing t
r have your companions make the coars
t remarks before your wife or childre
i which they often laughingly make bt
' fore you? Either you must lift you
? daily companions up to your moral an
o spiritual level or else they will dra
(? you down to theirs, and there Is no e.
3 ceI,tlqu 10. the. rule Lave you rigl
!. Is associate With sinners AID expe'
e to escape becoming in time companfo
!, with them in their sins?
The Bands of Authority.
= But there was another reason wh
Samuel clung to the royal apostat
Saul was a king. He had been anoln
ed by the order of the Lord God A
i mighty. He had been selected fro
G all the tribes to rule over Israel. The
II was n certain sanctity about him. {
Il course he had proved false to b
d trust. but still Saul was king. AS kir
5 the people had been taught to do hi
3 reverence. The hardest bands
J. break are the bands of regal authorit
l. We are ready to send the common thl
e to the penitentiary, but we hate to II
u peach the honesty of those who ha'
+ been placed over us in properly co
IS stituted authority And yet when &
'e king does wrong should he not suffe
I. When the president of the Unit
"a States or a legislator or n governor
d. n mayor does wrong, should he not al
suffer? And when wickedness and c.
O. ruptiOn fasten themselves upon o
g political life should we not by I
O. grace of God cast off those sins a
ID also cast off those politicians who
le responsible for the moral obliQuity!
10 had this truth most wonderfu
Is portrayed before me some time a
IN when | heard Samuel p. Pearson
d. dressing a great popular meeting
re Chicago. Mr.. Pearson had been ele
ne ed n few months before sheriff OF Ia
Of land. Me. Although Maine was a "dr
OF state. there were many speak easl'
of being run on the sly. The people
ne Names capital said those places col
nd not be shut Up but Mr.. Pearson 50
he "Elect me your sheriff and in
to weeks there will not be a speak et
NJ. in all the county" The people tC
an him at his word. He shut up tn
zee speak easles so quickly that the
all loon keepers did not have time to S
ne their beer and whisky out OF town,
ny had to empty the barrels in the gut
I'D and let their poisonous liquors
1t away into the sewers, where they
an longed. Well, Of course Pearsons ma
'ul was heralded from the Atlantic to
he Pacific and praised by all good peo
lat He was invited to address a minlst
be mass meeting in Chicago, and there
If told us how he became a Prohibit
ist and why he was so bitter aga
the other two political parties.
ry. Sheriff Pearson's Story.
Of This was his story. as remembel
yer When Pearson was a young man. IL
I'm was an election going on in Portlf
He stood In line waiting to cast
,or vote for a certain candidate. An
-, of him he saw a disreputable sal
,ns m keeper. He accosted him and S
.ot ~, Hello, So-and-so. For whom are
going to vote" Strange to say,
Pearson found out that this diSrep