The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-01-16

Sin a. Catching and Ruin Certain.
Special Dispstch to the Courier-Journal-
New YORK, Dee. -, rs.
sMy soul, be on thy guard,
Ten thousand foes arise"
was the opening hymn at Brooklyn
tabernacle to-day, when Rev. r
Talmage preached 10 the usuaI
great throng present ON Sundays
The reading OF the ten command
ments was followed by the regular
exposition of the Scriptures. APP
pended is the full text OF his ser
mon of to-day:
TExT-A companion of fools shall b.
destroyed. -Proverbs xiii, 20.
(Concluded from last Week.
went into a store in New York
and saw five men, all Christians
sitting around, saying they had no
thing to do. 1t is an outrage for d
Christian man to have nothing to
do. Let him go out and visit the
poor, or distribute tracts, or 60 and
read the Bible to the sick, or take
out his new Testament and be max
ing his eternal fortune. Let him go
into the back office and pray.
Shrink back from ldleness in
yourself, and in Others if you would
maintain Il right position. Good,
old Ashbel Green, at more than SO
years OF aye, was found busy writ
ing. AMI some young man said to
him: why do you keep busy? 1t
is time for you to rest" He an
swered: Il keep busy to keep out OF
mischief" No man is strong
enough t. be idle.
Are you fond OF pictures? If so,
l will show you one of the works OF
an old master. Here it is:
Il went by the field of the sloth
full, and By the vineyard of the man
void Of understanding; and 10, il
was all grown over with thorns, and
nettles had covered the face thereof,
and the stone wall was broken
down. Then l saw and considered
well. | looked upon 1T and received
instruction. Yet little sleep, a
little slumber, little folding Of the
hands to sleep, so shall thy poverty
come as one that traveleth, and thy
want as an armed man"
| don't know of another sentence
in the Bible more explosive than
that. 1t fl st Kisses softly, like the
fuse of a cannon, and at last bursts
like fifty-four FOUNDER. The old
proverb was right-'The devil
tempts most men but
'IDLERs TEMPT THE DEVIL"
A young man came to a man
ninety years ofage and said to him /:
"How have you made out to live so
long and be so well?' The OLD man
took the youngster to an orchard,
and, pointing out some large trees
full of apples, said: Il planted these
trees when boy, and do you won
der that now l am permitted to
gather fruit of themr' We gather
in old age what we SOW in our
youth Sow to the wind and reap
the whirlwind. Plant in early life
the right kind of Christian char
acter and you will eat luscious fruit
in old age, and gather these harvest
apples in eternity.
Again, l urge YOU to avoid the
perpetual pleasure seeker. l be-
lieve in recreation and amusement.
| need it as much as l need bread,
and go to my gymnasium with as
conscientious a purpose as go to
the Lords Supper, and all persons
of a sanguine temperament must
have amusement and recreation.
God would not have made US with
the capacity to laugh if He had not
us sometimes TO indulge it.
We will go forth from the festivities
of the coming holidays better pre-
pared to do our work. God has
hung IN sky, and set in wave, and
printed on grass many a roundelay;
but he who chooses pleasure seek
ing for mis- life work does not I'M
derstand for what God made him.
Our amusements are intended to
help us in some earnest mission.
The thunder-cloud has an exquisite
~ purpled edge, but with voice that
ars the earth it declares, 81 go %
water the green fields" The wild
lowers under the fence are gay, but
hey say, eve stand here to make
room for the wheat field, and to re-
fresh the husbandmen on their
looning." The stream sparkles
and foams, and frolics and says, 81
90 to baptize the moss; l lave the
spots on the trout; l slake the
thirst of the bird; l turn the wheel
Of the mill; | rock in my crystal
cradle muckshaw and water lilv."
And so, while the world plays, it
works. Look out for the man who
always plays and never works
You will do well to avoid those
whose regular business it is to play
ball, skate, or 90 a boating. All
.hese sports are grand in their
places. never derived so much
from my ministerial as
,ocIation as from a ministerial club
hat went out to play ball every Sat
lrday afternoon in the outskirts of
These recreations
ire grand to give us muscle and
spirits for our regular toll l be-
ieve in
MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY.
A man is often not so near God
With a weak stomach as when he
has a strong digestion. But shun
hose who make it their life occupa-
Jon 20 sport. There are young
men whose industry and usefulness
nave fallen overheard from the
yacht on the Hudson or the Schuyl- |
kill. Here there is beauty in the
gliding of a boat, in the song OF
skates, in the soaring of a well
struck ball, and / never see one fly
out | involuntarily throw up my
hands to catch it; and so far from
aging an Injunction upon ball play
ng or any other innocent sport,
claim them all as belonging to those
Who toll il the grand industries of
Church and State.
But the life business of pleasure
always makes in the end a |
criminal or a sot. GeorLe Brum