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been thrown out upon the top ard at the
bottom. | do not think so. think,
rather, that youth, is like the beginning
of plant life and that every wart, every
excrescuce, is a cause Of its eufaeblemeut.
do not think that any man is better oft
for having had career of drunkenness,
or lust, or morbid life. A young man
that has gone through these things may
still be saved but he certainly has not
the sensibility, and purity, and moral
stamina that he would have had if, he had
net gone through with them. Hc has
left much behind him that would nave
made his manhood stronger and nobler.
And thoroughly disbelieve the doctrine
that a young man is better off for having
had an experience which miugles bis ami
NAL nature with the lust of the animal
tribe about himself, !.
Excess ia regard to animal indulgence
is bankruptcy in old age. 1t is on this
ground that late houre, irregular hours,
and irregular sleep are iutemperance.
People ask, frequently, "Do you think
there is any harm in daAcing?" No, |
do not. | think there is much good in
it. do you object, then, to daDring
parties? 2" No, not of themselves do
not, But where unknit youth, where un-
ripe muscle, where unhardened nerves are
put through excess of excitement, with
stimUlants, with irregular food, and food
that ls unwholesome; where gayety
that is excessive, is INDUCED in by the
young through all the nights when they
should be sleeping, object to it "Why =?
BECAUSE it is dancing?" No, but because
it is dissipation. 1t is taking the time
that G ID uuqucstionably meant for s'cep,
and putting it to the highest state of ex-
hiuration and excitement. The fault
does not lie in the fact that they dance.
Why, if it were as the peasants dance
if it were in the open air, and under a
tree. aud upon the grass, and in the come
Iy hours of sunshiny day, it might i;
praised, even. 1t would not be virtue
but it would belong to those negative
things that are beautiful. But the was
sail of the night, and the wastcfulncss,
will not say of precious hours, but o.
precious rcrvcs-for hours are not sc
precious as nerves are; the eating out o.
life by indulgence is dreadful And tc
see it pursued night after right, and wccl
after week, is painful ia the extreme
Blessed be God for Lent. ] am not su
pcrstitious in regard 10 eligions obsetv
ances but am glad when there art
forty days in which men are restrained
from dobauchery in which no unlawful
pleasure is permitted, aud no pleasure is
permitted at unseagoaable hours il
which right habits are ehjoincd and ad.
heged to.
lrrcgularity of diet is matter of nc
small Importance. 1t is not merely 4
question of digestion or digestion, Ha
bits of eating and drinking reaeh forward
and take hold of old ago. Children oughI
to be taught, and parents ought to know
enough to teach them these things. lg
nolaucc of the laws Of the physical tody
and of health, might not, fifty years ago
have been criminal but hold that nov
no person can be ignorant of those laws
and not be guilty of crime, When an
king no mao and woman shall be marriso u
till they understand the catechism of ma
tural health, and till they understand th'
fundamental principles of it.
The appetites, either social or solitary
which draw down the vitality aud impair
the conditions Of men, are so many insidi
GUS assaults upon old age. ! would tha
men knew enough 10 know how clearly
these things are written. Gods hand
writing is very plain to those who have
eyes 10 see. There is not a physician
who has his eyes open to observe, thal
does not walk through the streets and
know mems secret sins as well as thougf
he followed them to their haunts and saw
them there | care not to have men come
and tell me their secret courses. | car
read item in the skin and in the eye
There is not one appetite or passion that
has not it's natural language; and there
is no possibility of indulging in an appe
titc or passion unduly without having
it stamped more or less clearly on the
face or revealed in the carriage Of the DO.
dy. There is something that tells The
expert eye what men are doing. Pride
has its natural language; avarice has iti
natural language: ambition has its natu
raj language and vices have their natu.
raj language, as goodness has its natural
language Men think that if they com.
nit wickeducss in secret places they are