Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-03-21
The Riaht Line of Work.

start in this prayerful selection OF the
line of work your boy or girl will fol-
low through life want you to thor
oughly consecrate yourselves to the
Master. for If you do not you may
receive a jolt that you will never get
over. What God wants that boy to DO
and what you want him to do may be
as far apart as the North star Is dis
tant from the equator. God may want
that boy to enter the ministry. God
may want that girl to go to foreign
lands as a missionary. God may want
your son to be a reformer with his pen.
What God wants and you. the parent,
wants may bitterly clash unless you
are ready to surrender your will to his
WILL
The story is told that when James
Russell Lowell was class poet friend
sent his father, DR.. Lowell, an ac-
count of the commencement at Har-
ward at which the son had achieved
such Il brilliant success. The old gen.
tleman at the time was staying IN
Rome. When he received the account
instead Of being pleased, he was very
angry and said: "Well, well! Look at
this. | am very sorry and disappolnt-
ed. James promised me when l left
home that he would give up poetry
and stick to his books. | hoped he had
become less fighty." Yet 1t was as
! poet that Lowell was destined to
/ achieve fame. Thus what God wants
your boy to do and what you would
| like to have him do may be entirely
different. And yet my brother, all the
happiness and the usefulness OF your
son are to be decided within the next
few months Better pray, and pray
! earnestly, that God will help him 10
choose Alright in the selection OF his
life vocation. Better not let your VIII
run counter to Gods Will.
But after we have asked God to Sc
lect our children's work in life we
must not stop here in our divine plead
inrs. The school or the college III
which our children prepare for theli
life's work is important. Now you had
better make a prayerful selection OF
the institutions to which you send youl
children during the critical formative
periods of their lives. You need Gods
help here as you need him In Other
vital matters You need to plead tC
him for guidance just as much as the
disciples needed to pray for wisdom t(
make a right selection for the vacancy
In the apostolate.
Going to College.
The older | grow the more an
amazed to see how blindly and in wha
don't care spirit most parents allow
their children to select the school o.
college at which they are to be edu
Gated. Very slight and trivial reason
weigh with the boy. Do you want U
know how | went to certain mllltar.
school? There was a boy who lived o.
our block who went there. He cam
home for his vacations dressed IN
> beautiful uniform. That uniform, VIII
, It's silver buttons and shining chevronS
was the envy Of all the neighborhooo
Like most of the boys on our street,
. wanted to 90 to a school which woul
, LOT hoyo aroes NJ in a uniform Ike ma
, And. though that school at the tim
was not what it ought to be in man
respects, yet the infnitesimal thing q
little silver button took me to tina
school. where | passed four long year
:, of the most important part OF my edt
, cational life. Hundreds and thousand
:, of Young folks go to a school Decaus
!. friend goes there or because that co
y lege has a fine football team or becaus
that Institution is the largest unlyerslt
In the state or because that college
situated in the east. And the great e.
e sentials of the moral and spiritu'
$ characteristics Of that educational Il
X stitution are passed over as thoue
d tbev did not amount to anything.
e. Did YOU ever realize that a uniye
10 sity or a college has an atmosphere
IS soul? Are you not aware that Ju
y. as YOU have certain special characte
Is istIcs that in your life stand for som
II thing so an educational institution nj
t. Its distinct personality and STANDS I
Of something and that something Is v
fe the benefit or injury Of the studen
v. who live within It's walls? | recelv'
to some time ago a letter from an old al
Is very dear classmate. He was wrltil
le ahout some of the weaknesses or [
". college we both love. Then he wro
or this sentence, which | have often pc
b. dered over. because it presented
a. truth I'm way that had never n
Il driven into my mind before: "Eo
ou cational institutions are controlled
ed individuals who are merely humi
ur and human actions are vital there,
&C. elsewhere" Do you grasp tnat [
er- mendous fact? Who are the men
of the head of those institutions to whl
er you intend to send your boys? WI
no IS the moral and spiritual status OF
or members of those faculties? Are II
ed noted for their Christian principe
ct Are they professors who Will ms
M reverent ideas Of God and OF the hi
as or life? These are questions VII
sic you should ponder well before you
cal that boy leave your tireside for sc
Tor lastic halls. Better pray over tnat l
ng earnestly and long. God alone can
to rect you so that you Will make
III mistake.
AZ Al May Mako or Break.
'1 But we cannot always remain
'en school. We cannot always be pref
10 ing for the battle Of life After awl
~ - we must do something besides tax
~, ~. about what we intend to do So II
''' scholastic walls we step forth into
struggle of life. Then we must ei
% %'on into certain business partnerships
'nu ~. professional affiliations. Whom S
we trust? With whom shall we
Who shall we allow to enter the
Du' If holies Of our hearts? These
nH ' weighty questions which am put
n' 4Sn to you today, for a mans success