Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-06
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there anything else we can't do
without? Is it true that we work
all the week and have no recreation?
We admit it if the reader wishes.
Say that we do. We work all the
week TO get food and raiment and
make money. On Sunday we pass
the time at baseball or fishing or
other recreation. We all do this.
The whole world is thus engaged.
Suppose this is true universally, now
tell us in the course Of two, three or
FIVE generations what will the world
come to? If you have worked all
the week and recreated on Sunday,
what has been done to improve the
mind? viii it grow without oulti-
walton? VIII it till itself with good
or great thoughts while men are
working for the belly and the back
six days, and hunting pleasures that
will drive thought away on the
seventh? 1t is dreadful to think of,
perhaps, the disasters that will come
to young men if they do not have
diversions on Sunday, but what will
they and the human family come to
if they act upon their theory? Are
those who seek such diversions will
ing to let the world move on in en-
lightened progress without their
having a hand in il? If they have
their way how will they know
enough after awhile to know when
Sunday comes, so that they can so
out and play baseball?
Is not something else as necessary
as diversion? Which would be best
for those who practice it, to spend
the Sunday in filing and strength
ening the mind with great thoughts
and useful knowledge, or to pass the
time in diversions? And which
would be better for mankind III A.
end? Which would be most en-
lightened in future generations? 1t
is a common impression now that
mankind came from the monkey. 1t
is n wonderful animal for diversion.
Its whole life is devoted to diversion
and catching flcas. If all mankind
would follow the inborn inclination
to diversion, with as little self-re-
straint, there is a chance that 1T
might, in not many generations
hence, get back to the parent sock
lin other words, go 20 its father.
Young mani we are not preach
ing bible sermon. There is no
religious standpoint in this article,
There is u little philosophy in it.
There might also be a little lesson
on manners put into il. You have
a country and great institutions to
be enjoyed that were given you by
a people who religiously observed
the Tord's day." We do not ad-
vocate It's observance on religious
grounds. But there are many people
who do, and to observe it and allow
it TO be observed out Of respect to
them, and TO honor the memory OF
them Just above mentioned, who
gave us so much, would be manners.
And if you wonld study history and
biography a little you will find that
the men who figure meritoriously,
are men who used such spare mo.
ments as our Sundays offer to us, in
themselves for great and
noble works. No man ever came to
great who let himself loose
at every opportunity for diversion.
If you can't curb yourself to do
what you know is best for you, what
is your mind worth? As for recrea-
tions and diversions they are offered
any day and every day. Lord
Bacon says, GA mans nature runs
either to herbs or weeds; therefore
let him seasonably water the one and
destroy the other" The proper
time TO water and weed is before
the plant is matured.
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