The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-04-22

sanity. One-nalI OF bnOSe WHO arc uoW
building skating Kinks will go into bank
ruptcy.
! Another remark: 1t is very important
that people who have passed forty years OF
age do not forget that once they were boys
and girls. Thatmemory seems from null
titude to have been obliterated. Put your
self back twenty or forty years ago, and
see what you. needed then. Rheumatism
Is incompetent to make laws for sound
ankles. onot demand that people have
the tastes of old age before they get into
the thirties. Don't expect golden-ro and
china-astors to bloom on May morning.
The people who start life aged In prefer
ences are the people who after awhile bore
the life out Of prayer-meetings and make
religion snufiling cant, and disgust the
world with that which ought to be attract
i've. You can't improve upon the Divine
plan, and when God made boys and girls
called to 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 un-
der the ground, will be taxed TO the ut
most. Let the skating-rink directors
and managers join with parents In
grand conspiracy to overthrow the
feeble health and physical stagnation Of
our cities, and the grog-shops and the
places Of bad amusement will be emptied,
and the coming generations will have
vigor rebounding and athletic. In some
way the longevity Of the human race is
to be improved, and the average Of human
life increased from thirty years to one
hundred and fifty. As it is now we hardly
get an education and start In our profess
sion or occupation before we are emeritus.
We die at the opening Of conflicts Of life
at Bull Run instead of Gettysburg.
Another remark: All styles of recrea-
tion among those under consideration are
only intended to fit US for usefulness. Have
any of you fallen under the delusion that
your chief aim ought to be to enjoy your
selfS Hand me q list Of those people whom
you find all hours Of the day and evening
in places Of entertainment, and will give
you a list of people who are being sacrificed
for both worlds. Pepper, salt, sugar and
cinnamon are good and important in their
places, but that would be an unhealthy re-
past In which there was nothing else on
the table. Amusements and recreation are
! the spice and condiments Of the solid feast
Of this life, but some of you r-pleasur-
. ing people are trying to feed your body,
' mind and soul on condiments. Only those
who have useful work to do, and doit well,
are entitled to recreations. The Bible was
not sarcastic, as is generally supposed,
when it says: "Rejoice, young man, in
thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in
the days of thy youth; but know thou that
for all these things God will bring thee
/, unto Judgment" 1t means TO say: "Have
+, a good time; have a real good time; but
4 don't go into any thing that the judgment
. throne will frighten. Don't forget your
> duties; don't forget your Immortality"
1 Solon made law that every man should
! once year show by what trade he got a
l living. II he could not show that he had
any business he was arrested and punished
as q thief. II a man in olden time wanted
: to become a Roman citizen the officer OF
the law would take the map's hand feel II
to see whether it was hard or soft, and
: conclude II hard he was industrious, and Il
1 soft he was idle; while In our time many
Q man with soft hand is diligent, because ht
= does his work with the brain, and conss.
8 quently the palm does not get callous. We
must all have something earnest and use.
: full TO do, and our recreations are only X
reinforce our capacity. Any game or ex.
II ercise from which you can not return al
!, night and say: 20 Lord, bless the amuse.
ment in which l have engaged this even.
, ing to my better qualifications for the du.
ties Of this life," was an entertainment IL
u which you had no right TO indulge. Liv.
Q ing Is a tremendous affair, and alas for th,
: man who makes sport and game deple.
l. tion instead Of an augmentation. One tim'
: when Rome was besieged by Hannibal'i
,, army great shout Of laughter inside the
n city strangely alarmed the surrounding
II army, and 1t fed in wild precipitation
IS But guffaw Of merry making will nevel
g scatter our foes or lift our besiegement Of
: gain our victory. 1t will be face TO face
u foot 10 foot, sword to sword, battale- AK
II against battle-axe, II ever we achieve any
1t thing worthy.
s. Can you imagine worse predicamen
y than what l now sketchg Time has ended
's and we are brought up to judgment Il
10 give account OF what we have been doing
. and the Judgment Angel says: "YoI
II lived for many years in n world wher
It there were millions Of people In poverty
n in sickness. In sin, in wretchedness Of al
% sorts, and there were hundreds Of men ant
% women who put forth every exertion :.
i help them, some Of those philanthropist
v and Christians toiling themselves into tn
% grave, sacrificing all for others. Thos
l women out yonder," says the Angel o
;. Judgment, "consecrated their needle h
10 God, and sewed garments for the desti
Ir tute. Those heroes consecrated thei
swords to patriotism and fought for thei
4. country. Those were the friends Of orphan
l. asylums, and took the motherless to tn,
+ bosom Of divine charity. Those were tn
a angels Of Northern and Southern battle
IS fields. Those were eyes TO the blind an,
j. ears 10 the deaf, and bread to the hungr,
?, and Heaven to the lost" "They werep
| cry thousands Of the rescued. "The!
u woreln reply all the ransomed earth
D ''They werel" shout the congratulatinl
X Heaven. "They werep says the Chris
IS whom for many years they served.
h Then the Angel Of Judgment win turi
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