The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19

| competent 10 make laws Tor sound ankles
Do not demand that people have the tastes
of old age before they get into the thirties
Don't expect golden-rod and China ast0rs 10
bloom on q May morning. The people who
start life aged in preferences are the people
who after a while bore the life out of PRAYER
meetings and make religion a snuffling cant,
and disgust the world with that which ought
to be attractive. Yoa can't improve upon
the Divine plan, and when God made boys
and girls He intended them to be boys and
| girls until called 10 other conditions They
will come to the hard tug OF life soon enough.
! Let them now prepare the broad shoulders
and the robust frame which after you are I'M
der the ground will be taxed 10 the utmost.
Let the skating rink directors and manag-
ers Join with the parents IN
GRAND CONSPIRACY TO OVERTHROW THE PEE.
BILE HEALTH
and physical stagnutien of our cities, and
the grog shops and the places of bad amuse-
ment will be emptied and the coming gensr-
alton will have vigor rebounding and ath-
letic. In some way the longevity of the hu-
man race is 10 be improved and the average
OF human life increased from thirty years to
LOO. AS Il Is now we hardly get an education
and start in our profession or occupation be-
| fore we are amerltus We die at the OPEN
! ing of the conflicts of life, at Bull Run in
ste, of Gettysburg.
Another remsrl A styles of racr "a on
]
/ INTENDED to ft Us for usefulness. Have any
1 OF you fallen under the delusion that yeur
! chief aim ought to be 10 enjoy yo1rself2Ha
NE list of those people whom you find all
| hours OF the day and evening In places of
| Ell ter tainmeDt and will give you list OF
! people who are being sacrificed for both
! ", rios.
j Pepper, salt, sugar, cinnamon, are good
and I'm portsut in their places, but thAt
| would be an unhealthy repest in which there
was nothing else on the table. Amusenents
and recreation are the spice and condiments
! OF the solid feast OF this life but some of
| you oyer-p. easuring people are trying to feed
your body, mind and soul on condiments.
| Only those who have useful work to do, aud
do it well, are entitled to recreations. The
! Bible was not sarcastic, as Is generally sup
posed, when it says: Rejoice, 0 young man,
+ in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee
+ in the days Of thy youth, but know thou
that Tor all these things God will bring thes
/ unto Judgment" 1t means to say: Have
good time, have a real good time, bat don't
| go into anything that the judgment throne
/ will frighien. Don't forget your duties;
/ don't forget your immortality"
/ Scion made lRT that every msn should
! once year show by what trade be got liv-
| ing. IL he could not show that he mad aay
/ business, he was arrested and punished as a
/ thief. II man in olden lime wanted to be-
| come Roman citizen, the officer OF the Ia Y
would take the mans baud and feel 1t TO see
whether il was hard or soft, and concluded
If hard he was industrious, aud If soft he
was idle, while In our time many a man
with soft hands is diligent because be does
his work with the brain, and consequently
the palm does not get csllous. We must all
have something earnest and useful to do,
and our recreauons are only to reinforcs our
capacity. Any game or exercise from which
you cannot return at night and say: 80
Lord, bless the amusement in which l have
an adj IN IN u1u haft Il
ton for the duties OF this life" was an en-
teriainment in which you had no right to
indulge.
LIVING IS A TREMENDOUS AFFAIR,
and alas for the man who makes sport and
game depletion instead of an augments.
ton. One time when Rome was besieged by
Hannibal's army great shout OF laughter
inside the city strangely alarmed the sur
rounding army and il He'd in wild Drecipita
tion. But guffaw OF merry making will never
scatter our foes or lift our besiegement or
gain our victory. 1t will be face to face, foot
TO foot, sword to sword, bsttle-ax against bat
tle-ax, IL ever we achieve anything worthy.
Can you imagine worse predicament than
what now sketch? Time has ended, and
we are brought up to Judgment to give &C
count OF what we have been doing. And the
judgment angel says: You lived for many
years in world where there were millions
OF people In poverty, in sickness, In sin, in
wTetchedness OF all sorts, and then there
were hundreds cf men and women who put
forth every exertion to help them, some of
those philanthropists and Christians toiling
Themselves into the grave, sacrificing all for
Others" "rnose women out yonder," says
the Angel OF Judgment, "consecrated their
needle to God and sewed garments for the
destitute Those heroes c0nsecrated their
swords to patriotism and fought for their
country. Those were the friends of orphan
ssy lums and took the motherless TO the bos-
ON OF divine charity. Those were the an
gels OF Northern and Southern cattle fields.
Those were eyes to the blind and ears TO the
deaf and bread to the hungry ard heaven 10
the lost" They were!n cry thousands of
the rescued. They werel" reply all the ran
somed earth. They were" shout the con.
graduating heaven. They were" says the
Christ whom for many years they served.
Then the Angel OF Judgment will turn to.
ward those who
GAVE THEIR LTFE TO PLEASURE,
and say, What did you doP' "We,l. en-
Joyed myself, Gays one. WELL" says an
other, Il was very fond of the drama and /
sLeut my leisure time in locking at it,"
Well, says another, 81 could beat any oae
in the city playing lawn tennis" WELL
says another, Il was the champion of ball
p ayers" Well" says another, Il could
skate for hours without stopping, and in
brill ancy of gyration won the londest ae-
pause" us that ali? Gays the Judgment
Angel. THAT was all" says The pleasurist
= II at was all" responded the keeper of the
rec rds. THAT was all cried the wounded
who have been healed and the lost
who have been found and the
SINFUL who have been rescued
THAT was all" echo the csverns of this
world as they get hot in the last conhsgra-
ton. That was all, reverberate the hills
OF heaven. THAT was al" says the Judge OF
the quick aud the dead IS he seals their des.
TIMES. Nay Almighty G ID forbid that any
of Us should make the disastrous mistake OF
substituting nerriment for datyl Nav we
all 81 last De found among those who u.ed
the world wi hout abusing i'll