The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1879-02-13
BEECHER IN BRIEF.


Pain seems 10 be rather the Spurrine
OF nature, to telta nan that he has
: gone OH the track of happiness To bring
I him back again
( Enjoyment below man is almost un-
; Instructed. In the great under-reIlms
here Is no foresight that breeds care
What dOes the gauZy insect suffer that
Hes out iii the morning. enjoys six
: hiurs of sunshine and is snapped up in
l III, afternoon?
IN this world there is a thousand
= tiIns more pleasure than pain. and
zen Thousand times more happiness
z than trouble.
r Man IS nalc-ticT upon tier-Of fac
. Hlties. the nature of every one of which
points toward happiness.
= 10 iSnUt always raining. and life is
) not always 4 storm. The whole of
. famin-, pestilence and war taken into
account, the result is a tendency TO
= happrrSS.
No nan while unhappy can show
forth true, notable manhood Every
thing short of cheer is medicinal. and
medicine WAS not made for daily
use.
No nan can be thoroughly manly
AAAfl NsLA lAAN DlboolllAls blAhlAll dllll
unless ne h;LS in a large measure what
bclOHgstO a good body and Il well-reg-
ulatcd mind. do not believe that aS-
ccticisn ever made good man.
If yOt're not happy it is somebody's
fault-nost likely yours.
1 | define amuSements to be methods
of seeking necessary happiness, espe-
cially iB eases where Il mans normal
pursuits do not produce the conditions
of happiness.
The Indispensable elements of happi-
ness aIe: Food, warmth. social enjoy
ment md occupation. Where either of
these il wanting happiness does not
ring It's bells.
Every man should reap from his Oc-
cupati'n us much pleasure us he can,
and mm in cOngenial occupations have
little need To seek beyond them for
amusement.
\ man c:m learn tO like things that
he doesn't like, AMI lac can learn To dis
like what he really does like. Ii man
can tram himself To love tobacco lac
can learn to love anything i'll the
| world.
Men can paint pictures without a
palleteOr a brush. They can work out
of their own souls light for every Oc-
cupatim.
\ mm without imagination or wit
is like wagon without springs. EY-
cry rutgiyeS him 4 disagre0able jOstle.
He Who makes Il man laugh twice
wherehe would only laugh once is a
create benefactOr than hc who makes
two hlIdes of grass grow where there
WAS blt one before.
1t wn't do, however, to tell an un-
dertaler that he should find in his
daily duty something to make life
cheerful and happy.
AmI5ementS are reSuScitatiOns-the
polishing of the blade that is to cut.
They IRE moral, and the man who new
cT allows himself to be amused is, so
| far, immoral.
\ min'S amuSelnentS should be the
opposite of his daily occupation. When
the lawyer has drained himself dry of
nervous force it would not DC recrca-
tiOn fer his brain to engage in chess;
nor would it be sensible advice to tell
L letter carrier, after his days work, to
take ive-nile walk for his health.
| am not ashamed to be amused by
little things. Blessed be the MIN who
KNOWS In 20 CsIlItr ana 10 ENJOY nOH-
hOC ~ llAC llll4l lllftA llalA NtAl NiL-
| Is with his bOyhOOd, and blessed he
tn, man that carries his bOyhOOd down
! latest into life.
If the DarwinIan ROAD were the way
in which the human race w;lS 10 90, /
would regard it rs Il mistake that,
wien We got up to the birds, we drop
more than the oar because men are
1ar. Iarrr Nj To-
weuld they decline To ily, but they are
almost forgetting the use of their
limbs.
If dogs don't have another life and 4
better one, woe he to twO-thiTtls of the
mn.
Ii can be as pleasant for power to
exercise power, and for speed to de-
vebp speed, as 1t Is to rest when rests
needed,
\ man sensitive to everything that
is beautiful in nature can have more
enjoyment in looking up into the sky
than witnessing the best of plays on
the mimic stage.
Ind rather teach my child To bG hap
py with the things of nature than to
leave to him the wealth OF an AStOr.
lie who can enjoy nature has an mex
haustible gallery of the best pictures
and theatre for the most agreeable
amusement and ennObling instruction,
Like nature in Sprinetime, everybody
should once in while have a fresheI
that will 90 tearing through him and
clean him out.
think that the Yankee never ap-
pears ut 80 little advantage Us when he
Is at a festival. y New Englandcr
when he has holiday and nothing To
do is Il monument of despair.
Norman has a right tO call that an
amusement which, instead of recreaf-
ing, uses him up more than his Ocupa-
tiUn did. No man that amuseS himself
to-day but that he should be the better
next dav. Whatever sets you forward
tomorrow, no matter what press or
pulpit or all the Test of the world but
yourself may say, that's the true
amusement for you. That which
wOuh be an amusement for a ctthe-
lral organ would not be an amuSe-
ment for a jew's-harp. Let not any
mans conscience be more than Il ruler
for himself. You can't be the mon
arch of all other peoples cOnscienceS.
\ billiard table in a ministers house
never did anybody harm. Should you
stay away from the theatre? IL the
play makes you better. go. Might | not
90? don't know; I've never been
there.
Amusements should bind together
the whole household. | am greatly
opposed to the separation of the sexes.
Woe to that young man who does
what he would he ashamed to do in
sight of his sister or his sweetheart
1t in shame for any community of
Il thousand inhabitants that is without
a free reading room. Provision for the
amusement of the working classes is
an Indispensable means of securing the
public veal.
If you want To raise the standard of
the drama. let the common school
flourish and elevate the plane of intelli-
gence and morality among tho common
people, for the theaters, like the news
papers, dish up what the people de-
mand.
1t is no longer thought necessary
that 4 clergyman shall dress like
clergyman. carry his head like 4 clergy
man and measure his steps like cleT-
gyman, \ clergyman has come 10 De
considered ~ 4 teacher ut liberal ideas,
and he Is worth Just us much as his
manhOOd IS worth, and no more. This
is a glorious relief To cleTgymen.
Next To the gymnasium is the pos
session of horse, for exercise with u
horse is one Of the most health-giving
amusements; but to override SO noble
an animal is cruel. while TO under-ride
him Is stupid.
Nothing Is right in itself; neither is
anything wrong in itself. That which
produces good results i'll an individual
is right TO that one. although il may be
wrong TO millions of other men.
Some men are SO light-hearted that
they had better not 90 to light amuse-
ments, lest they be blown away.
The pulpit and the stage work in
different spheres and by different
means. The duty of the Church is to
raise the moral standard of the peO-
pie, and after that the theatre takes
its proper place in the c.ttcguFy of rec
reatiOn.
Straight from the Academy Mr..
Beecher hurried across the street, and
s0An hal glasses leyeled at him from
the auditorium of the Broad Street
Theatre. He had said that the fame OF
III. NJ. ;. PinafOre" WAS too much for
him 70 resist. As he had said in his
lecture. this WAS the first time that he
ever attended Il theatre. When he
came out he expressed himself delight
ed. and said that he hOpel To see -IIer
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