Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-02-07
ADJUSTMENTS.
THERE ARE VARIOUS KINDS, SOME
gENEFTTlN6, OTHERS HARMFUL.
All Amusements Are Wrong Which Lead
nj, Dad COmplny-FOlly Of the
Whole 0enuncia,ion Of Pleasure
Tie Physical as Well as the
Spiritual Nature Needs
Recreation.
sEgsOSBY REV 7. DewITT TAIaAGE.


Necessary
,.f.r p.-ptlch % the Register.
NEw NOKI, February 6, 1851.
rb.. morning Brooklyn Tabernacle
va, filled with people anxious to hear
r5e,hiri sermon 10y Mr.. Talmage on the
b-peh. Of amusements. Excellent music
vas rendered. The opening hymn was,
Ny days are gliding swiftly by"
subject What Places TO stand Clear Of"
rrx,. Lukeyi. Ii-"Every Tree Is Known by
H.. own Fruit
The Sermon.
This morning psss on to lay down
certain principles by which you may
r1 !,r 100 regard 10 any amusement or
Ia.rration. finding out for yourself
whether Il is right or whether il is
Urar,. remark, in the first place,
,.s, YOU can Judge of the moral char
s.trr of auy amusement by its health
IN, result. or by its baleiul reaction.
There are people who seem made up OF
hard facts. They are combination of
mUI,p!.catOn table and statistics. IL
you show them an exquisite picture,
,rrv will begin TO discuss the pigments
involved in the cOlOring IL you show
them a rose, they will submit il to bo- |
ariral ANALYSIS, which is only the post |
mcr,rm examination of flower. They |
have no yrbOuRd in their nature. They |
never DO anything more than smile. |
There are no tides OF feeling surging up |
from the depths Of their soul, in billow
after biOw Of reverberating laughter.
Tntv Setm a. ii nature had built them /
Ly a contract and made
Bunglnz Job Out of it.
lu, blessed be God, there are people in
the world who have bright faces, and
whose lie IS a song, an anthem, psean
%! victory Even their troubles are like
tie vines that crawl up the side of
yrpat tower on the top Of which the sun
u.lt sits and the soft airs Of summer
hold perpetual carnival. They are
people YOU like 10 have come TO your
house; they are people like to have
clup 70 my house. II you but touch
isr hem ui their garments, you are
healed. Now, Il is these eXhilarant and
sympathetic AMI warm-hearted people
that are most tempted to pernicious
amuscmeutS. in proportion as horse
: gly, IL wants I stout driver, aud these
people oi eXuberaut nature will do we'll
o. look az the reaction Of all their amuse-
mrUts, II an amusement sends
YOU home at night nervous,
- that YOU cannot sleep, and you rise
up in the morning, not because you
are slept out, but because your
duty drasS yo" tom ynnr
sunbers. YOU have been where
Won ought not to have been. There are
amuSements that send man next day
iD hi, work bl0odShOt, yawnlng, stupid,
uauSeatei; and they are wrong kinds oil
amusement. There are entertainments
iha. give man disgust with the drudg-
pry %! lie, with tools because they are
NOT sSJrlS, with working aprons be-
cause they are not robes, with cattle be-
cause they aIe not iniuriated bulls OF
the arena Ii any Amusement sends you
home longing Tor life OF romance and
thrilling adventure, love that takes pols-
ON aud = oo.s itself, moonlight adyen-
lures and harbryalth escapes, you may
dcpeni upon j, TIA. YOU are the sacri-
i,pd victim Oi unsanctitied pleasure.
cur reCreatiOns arr intended to build US
up, aud II ihcy pull us down as to our
uu)ral or as to our physical strength, you
may come 10 the conclusion that they
are obnoxious.
Still further:
Those Amusements are Wrong
which lead YOU into expenditure be-
youd your means. Money spent in rec
rtstion il not thrown away. IL Is all
folly for uS 10 come from place OF
amusement feeling that We have wasted
our money and time. We may by ii
have made an investment worth more
than the transaction that yielded you a
hundred or q thousand dollars. But /
how any properties hsv" been riddled /
hy c,stly ant 'menls? The table has
been subutd to pay the club. The
champagne has cheated the Children's
Vardr lue The CarOusing party has
burned up the boy primer. The table
cloth Ot The Corner saloon Is in debt TO |
th" Wiie'S ialed dress. Excursions |
that IN a Jay make tOCr around
whole months wages; ladies' whose life
time business Is tC 20 shopping have |
their CgUutcrparis IN uDeduCated chill |
dyeu; bankruptcies that shock the |
money market and appall the church and |
that send drunkenness staggering across |
the richly figured carpet Of the mansion, |
and dashjug into the mirror and drown |
iug out the carol OF music with the whop- |
ing OF hlOated sons who come home 10 |
break their Old mothers heart. heard |
q. beautiful home, where the bell rang
vtoieutiy late at night. The son had
been oA in sinful induIgences. His
comrades were bringing hun home.
They carried him TO the door. They
rang The bell at one O'Clock in the morn
ing Father aud mother came down.
They were waiting for the wandering
spu. and then the comrades, as soon as
the door vSs opened, threw the prodi-
ggl hcad,ong into the doorway, crying,
There he Is,
Drunk as Fool. Ha! uaw
When men 10 INTO amuSements which
they cannot afford, they first borrow
what they cannot earn and then they
steal what they cannot borrow. First
they 20 into embarrassment and then
into lying and then into theft, and when
man gets as tar on as that he does net
stop short Ot the pCnltentlary. There is
not a prison IN tie lands where there
are not victims OF unSanCtifed amuSe-
mentS. How often | have had parents
come 10 me and ask me TO 90 over 10 New
York and beg their LOy Oft ircm crimes
that he had committed against his en-
plOyer-the taking OF funds from his EN-
plOyer's till or the disarranyemeut OF the
accounts. Why, he had salary enough to
pay all lawful expenditure but not
enough salary 10 meet his sinful amuse-
ments. Aud again aud again have
gone and implored for the young man,
sometimes alone. the petition all un-
ayallrS. Merchant OF New York, is
thereadisarrlngemC nt in YOUR accounts?
Is there Il leakage in your money draw
eT? Did the cash account come
out right last night. | will tell Won.
There Is a yOurg man in your store
wandering of into bad amusements.
The salary you give him NAV meet law
mi expenditures but not the sinful in.
dulgences in which he has entered, and
he takes by THEFT that which YOU DO not
give HIM in lawful salary. How brightly
the path Of unrestrained amusement
opens. The young man says. "Now /
am OIL Tor a good time. Never mind
economy | will get money somehow,
w hat a hna ro,li yhoa . .--..k-n :