The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-05-14
ON TRIAL,
Continued from Paaa 1.

NIuLH RllAh iNNN ~ 'ffN NNlf'hNeNNs~
beyond your means. Money spent In recre-
alton is no. thrown away. 10 is all folly
for us to come from place OF amusement
feeling that we have awasted our money
and timo. You may by ID hove made an
investment worth more than the tTanaao-
ton that yielded you hundred or
thousand dollars. But how many proper
ties have been riddlSd by costly amuse-
mental Tho table has been robbed 10 pay
the club. Tho champagne has cheated the
children's wardrobe, The carousing party
has burned up tho boys primer. The table,
cloth OF tho corner saloon Ia In debt 10 the
wifo'p faded dreps. Excuraions that In q
day make tour around q whole months
wages, ladies whose lifetime business 10
10 Ego shopping" have their counterparls
In unoducated children, bankruptcies that
shock the money market and appall
tho church and that send drunkenness
staggering across the richly. figured carpet
OF the mansion and dashing into the mirror
and drownin ng out tho carol OF music with
the whooplng Of bloated sons como home
10 break their old mothers heart When
men 20 into amusements that they can not
afford they arst borrow what they can not
earn, and then they steal what they can
not borrow. First they 60 Into smbarrass'
ments and then Into lying, and then into
theft, and when man gots as far on 40
that he does not stop short Of the poniton.
tiary. There 10 not prison In the land
whero thore are not Victims OF unsanctihod
amuSements, How often have bad parents
como 10 mo and ask mo 10 90 over TO New
York and beg their boy of from crimes
that he. had committed against his em-
ployer-ths taking OF funds out OF the
employers TIL or tho dlsarrangement OF
tho accounts, Why, he had salary enough
TO pay all lawful expenditure, but not
enough salary TO meet his sinful amuse-
ments,
How brightly the path Of unrcstrained
amusement opens The young man saysi
snow am or for a good time, Never
mind economy. I'll got money somehow.
What fine road What @ beautiful day
for ride Crack tho whip and over the
turnpike Como, boys, nll high your
glasses. Drink Long life, health, plenty
OF rides Just liho thisO Hard working
mon hear tho clatter OF the hoofs and look
up and say; "Why, wonder Y here those
fellows get their money FRONT We have
10 toll and drudge They do nothing" To
these gay mon llfo sa thrill and an excite
mont They stare at other people and In
turn are stared at Tho watch. chain
jingles. The cup foams. The checks
aush. The eyes fash. Tho midnight hears
their gufaw, Thcy swagger They jo0tlo
decent men OF tho sidewalk. They take
tho name OF God In vain. They parody tho
| hymn they learned at their mothers knee
and TO all pictures OF coming disaster they
| cry out; "Who oaros" and 10 tho coun-
sci Of some Christian friends "Who are
youW Passing along the street somo
night you hear u shrek In u grog.nhop,
the rattle Of tho watchman's club, tho
rush Of the police. What 10 tho matter
nowS Oh, this reckless young man has
been killed In grog.shop fight, Garry
him homo 10 his fathor's house. Parents
will como down and wash his wound and
close his eyes In death. They forgive him
all that no ever did, though no can not In
his silence ask II. Tho prodigal has got
homo ut last.
You may Judge OF amuSemonts by tholr
effect upon physical health. Tho great
need OF many good people 10 physical roe
| ouperation. want 10 tell tho Christian
people OF my congregation that God will
hold you rcsponsiblo for your invalidiam
II 10 ia your fault, and whom through right
exerciac and prudence you might bo ath-
lotto and woll. Tho effect OF tho body upon
the soul you acknowledge Put man OF
mild disposition upon tho animal diet OF
which the Indian partakoa and In little
while his blood will change ita chemical
| proportions II will become like unto tho
blood Of tho lion or tho igor, or tho boar,
while his disposition will change and boz
como force, cruel and unrclonting. Tho
body has powerful eiroct upon tho soul.
There arc good people whose ideas OF
Heaven are all shut out with clouds OF to-
bacoo smoke, Thoro are people who dare
10 shattcr tho physical vase In which God
put tho jowol OF eternity. There arc mon
with great hearts and intolocta In bodies
worn out by thor own noglccts; magnia.
cent machinery, capable OF propelling a
Great Eastern across tho Atlantic, yet
fastened In riokoty North River pro-
pollor. Physical development which
merely shows itoclf In fabulous lifting, or
In pcrilous ropo.walking, or In mgiliStlc
encounters, oxcitco only our contempt
But wo confess 10 groat admiration for the
man who has n groat soul In an athletic
body, ovory norvo, muscle aud bone OF
which Ia conae ratod 10 ri,ht uacs, OH II
sooms TO mo outrageous that mon, through
neglect, should allow their physical hoalth
10 10 down beyond repair, spending tho
rest OF their lifo, not IN como X cat cntor-
prise for God aud tho world, but In study
Ing what IL tho best thing 10 tako for dys-
pepsia. When you may, through gome OF
the popular and hoalthful rocroatlons OF
our time, work or your aploon aud your
querulousnoas and onc-half OF your ply
sical and mental ailments, do not turn
your back from such grand modicamont.
Again, Judge Of plaocs Of amusement by
tho companionship Into which they put
you. II you belong 10 an organization
whore you have 70 associate with the in
temperate with tho unoloan, with tho
abandoned, however wcll tbcy may be
dressed, In tho namo OF God quit IL They
will dospoll your nature. They win UNDER
mino your moral character. They will
drop you whom you are destroyed. Thty
will give not ono cont 10 support your
chlldren whom YOU arc dond, Thoy will
~ocp not ono toar AZ your burial. Thoy
will ohuckle over your damnatlon. But
tho day comes whom tho mon who havo OK.
ertcd such influence upon their follows
win DO brought 10 Judgment Bcene, the
last day. Stage, tho rocking oerth. Enter
Dukes, Lords, Kings, bcggars, clowns.
No sword, no tinsel, no crown. For foot