Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-13
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Vitality Sauandered.

How we launch the bolts of reproof
against the foolish youth who wsntonly
squanders his inheritance How we
sermonize upon the subject of improvi-
dence, when gold has been lavished by
a foolish hand With that pitying eyes
we look upon the individual whom the
world terms spendthriftl What wise
saws and sage sayings are uttered upon
the sin of moneyed extravaganza Dis
NAL, indeed, are the wailings over the
man who dissipates his birthright, and
scatters broadcast the wealth which good
fortune has placed within his Golfers.
And with what admiration do we not re-
gard the thrifty and the prudent
gatherer of riches See how carefully
he converts units into hundreds,
hundreds into thousands, and thousands
into millions Every coin he husbands
with praiseworthy economy, and watches
its increase with the Joy of a mother as
she beholds her progeny waxing strong
in health and numbers. Not a penny
leaves his fingers unless to be well re-
turned in a necessary equivalent. As
there is no term at all to the keeping of
the spendthrift's riches, so there is no
limit to the increase of the prudent and
and careful money merchant. He not
only has more than enough to meet all
his wants, and to enable him to perform
few charitable duties, but he acquires
the means of making rich his relatives
and dear friends when he quits this
world for higher sphere. Yes, where
mere dross is concerned our censure or
our admiration can be easily and per-
manently evoked. But did it ever oc-
cur to the reader that there are other
spendthrifts and other prudent and
thrifty people besides those who waste
and save money? Are yOu sure that
you are not spendthrift pa much
more reprehensible spendthrift than the
sqanderer of filthy lucre? Don't you,
by overwork, by neglect of sunshine and
air, by an obstinate and indefensible
clinging to old preiudices in medical
matters, by your late hours, your foolish
habits in general, your constant over
drafts upon your nervous revenue, your
UNEQUAL taxation of the brain, stomach
and organs of circulation, your wretched
waste of vitality in a thousand different,
needless and ruinous ways, spend in the
widest and most senseless extravaganza
Inht WHICH COuStltutto Noui SAiobShNS
Are you not daily-nay, hourly,
squandering the principal constituents,
ingredients-thev very essences OF life !?
Not only life, but of long life? And
knowing that you have done, or are
doing so, do you, like the prudent
business man with reference to his
lessened capital, seek to renovate, build
up and restore what you have lost ?
This is a momentous question. "What
shall it profit a man if he gain the whole
world and lose his own soul ?" is start
ling interrogation. And, without be-
iittling the spiritual Importance OF that
interrogation, let me ask what is the
profit Of fortune if the life-capital is
bankrupted He that is wise-he that
accomplishes the just and true end for
which he was created-will avoid being
a spendthrift with the vital forces. If he
has unwittingly overdrained his stock
of vitality-if he is now doing to, per-
haps unavoidably, let him fly to Nature
(who will not fail him) for new stock,
and restoratives which are life itself.