Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-22
ADJUSTMENTS.
Or. TaImags on What Christian Pso'
pie Should Do.
Music-Coneerts-The Gymuasium-PaHor
Games and Recreations-Art Galleries
and Museums-Croquet-The Rod
and Gun-Skating and Boating
SENSIBLE WORDS ON TIMELY TOPIC
&,,ecinl 10 the Re0ister.

Special TO the Register.
BRoeKLYs, May 21.-Dr. Talmage preach
ed very interesting sermon at the Taoerna-
Gle. this morning, taking for his text,
Corinthians vii:31: "They that use this
world as not abusing it," He said: For
the last hundred years the church has been
denouneing dangerous and hurtful amuse-
ments. q cautionary work most important
and necessary. But it seems tome that we
have stopped short OF the mark. We have
been so long telling the people what they
may no, do, it seems about time that we
tell them something they may do. .My
text implies there is lawful use OF the
world as well as an unlawful abuse OF 1t,
and the difference between the man
Christian and the man un.Christian is,
that in the former case the man masters
the world, while in the latter case the
world masters him. For whom did God
make this grand and beautiful world? For
whom this wonderful expenditure OF color;
this gracefulness of live; this MOSAIC OF the
ground; this fresco of the sky; this glow
ing fruitage of orchard and vineyard; this
full orchestra of the tempest in which the
tree branches flute and the wind trumpet
and the thunders drum and all the
splendors of earth and sky come clashing
their cymbals? For whom did Godspring
the
Arehed Bridge of COIOrs
Of hrnEnn storm
cloud For whom did he gather the up
holstery of fire around the window OF the
setting sun. For all men, but more espe-
cially for his own dear children. If you
build a large mansion and spread great
feast after it to celebrate the completion OF
the structure, do you allow strangers TO
come in and occupy the place, while you
thrust your own children IN the kltchen,
or the barn. or the field? Oh, no. You say
Il am very glad to see strangers in my
mansion, but my sons and daughters shall
have the first right there Now, God has
built this grand mansion of the world, and
he has spread glorious feast; and while
those who are strangers to his grace may
come in, l think that God especially in
tends to give the advantage 10 his own
children, those who are the sons and
daughters of the Lord Almighty, those who
through grace can look up and say, Abba
father" You cannot make me believe
| that God gives more advantages TO the
world than he gives to the church, bought
by his own blood. If, therefore, people OF
the world have looked with dolorOuS SYM
pathv upon those who have recently con-
neCted themselves with the church, and
have said: "Those new converts are going
down into privatiOn and into hardShlps.
Why did not they tarry little longer in
the world and have some OF its enJOymentS
| and
saw to such men of the world, You are
greatly mistaken" And before | get
through will show that those people who
STAY out of the kingdom of God have the
hardShips and self.denials, while those who
come in have the joys and the satisfaction:
This morning, in the name of the King OF
heaven and earth, | serve a writ OF eject
ment upon all the sinful and polluted who
have sGnatted on the domain of earthly
pleasure as though it belonged to them,
while | claim in behalf of the good and the
pure and the true, the eternal inheritance
which God has given them. | feel we have
no right TO stand before men and women in
whose hearts there is desire for recreation
amounting to positive necessity, denounc-
ing this and that and the other thing when
we do not propose to give them something
better. God helping me this morning and
with reference to my last account, shall
enter upon a sphere not usual in sermOni-
zing, a subject which | think ought to be
presented at this time. | propose now to
Law before YOU some of the amusements and
recreations which are not only innocent
but positively
Heatbful and Advantageous.
In the first place | commence among in
door recreations Music, vocal and instru.
mental. Among the first things created
was the bird, so that the earth might have
music at the start. This world, which be-
gan with so sweet serenade is finally to be
demolished amidst the ringing blast OF the
| archangel's trumpet so that as there was
music at the start there shall be music at
| the close. While this heavenly art has
often been dragged into the uses of super
stition and dissipation, We all know it may
be the means OF high moral culture. Oh,
| it is a grand thing to have our children
brought up amidst the sound of cultured
| voices, and amidst the melody of musical
| instruments. There is in this art an indiS-
| cribable fascination.forIthe household. Let
| all those families who have the means to
| afford it, have flute or harp or piano or
| organ. As yoon rs the hand is large enough
| to compass the keys, teach it how to pick
out the melody. Let all our young men
| try this heavenly art upon their natures.
Those who have gone into it fully have
| found in it illimitable recreation and
| amusement. Dark days, stormy nights,
seasons of sickness, business disasters will
| do little toward depressing the soul which
can gallop off over musical keys or soar
In Jubilant Lay.
! Ii will cure pain. 1t will rest fatigue. 1t
will Guell passion. 1t will revive, health.
1t will reclaim dissipation. 1t will
strengthen the immortal soul. In the bat
tie Of Waterloo Wellington saw that the
Highlanders were falling back. He said,
What is the matter there He was told
that the band of music had ceased playing,
and he called up the pipers and ordered
them to strike up an inspirting air. And
no sooner did they strike the air than the
Highlanders were rallied, and helped win
the day. Oh, ye who have been routed in
! the conflicts of life, try by the force of
music to rally your scattered batallions. l
am glad TO known that in our great cities
there is hardly night in which there are
not concerts where, with the best musical
instruments and the sweetest voices, peo-
pie may find entertainment. Patronize
such entertainments when they are afforded
You. Buy season tickets if you can for the
Haydn" societies. Feel that the dollar and
a half or two dollars that you spend for the
purpose of hearing an artist play or sing
is a
Profitable Iuvestment.
Let your Steinway Halls and your Acade-
mics Of Music roar with the acclamation OF
appreciative audiences at the concert or the
oratorio.
Still further, l commend as worthy of
their support the gymnasium. This insti-
tuion is gaining in favor every year. and l
know of nothing more free from disSipa-
ton or more calculated to recuperate the
physical and mental energies. While there
are a good many people who have employed
this institution, there is vast number who
are ignorant of its excellencies. There are
men with cramped chests, and weak sides,
snd respondent spirits, who, through the
gymnasium, might be reused up to the ex'
1berance and exhileration OF life. There