The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-10

TIE IuDOt OF me raDE Wild WniCn De wac
connected. Who is the black angel that you
call religion-HiDgs black, feet black, featb-
ers black? Our religion IS bright angel
feet bright, eyes bright, wings bright. TAX
ing her place in the soul, she pulls a rope
that reaches to the skies aud sets all the bells
of Heaven s-chiming. There are some per-
sons who, when talking to minister, 81
ways feel 1t polite 70 LOOK lugubrious. Go
forth. oh. people, TO your lawful amuse-
ments. God means you 10 be happy. But
when there are 90 many sources of limo
cent pleasure, why tamper with any
thing that is dangerous aud polluting7
Why stop our ears to Heaven
foil OF songsters 10 listen 20 the hiss of q
dragon? Why turn back from the noun
sain side, all sbloom with wild flowers and
dash with the nimble torrents. and with
blistered feet attempt II climb the hot sides
of fre-belching Catopaxi.
AMUsENENTs ARRAIGNED.
Now, all opers-horses theatsrs, bowling
alloys, skating Kinks, and sill styles of em ase
ments good and bad, put on trial to-day,
aud judge OF them by certain cardinal prin
ciples. First, you may judge of any amUse-
ment by its healthiul result, or by its baIeful
reaction. There are people who seem made
up OF hard facts. They are combinations of
multiplication tables aud statistics. II you
show them an exquisite picture they will be
gin to discuss the pigments involved in the
co oriDg. II you show them beautiful rose
they will submit it to botanical analysis,
which is only the post-mortem examination
OF f13wer. They have no fe6ound'in thsir
nature. They never do nythiug more ths1
smile. There are nc great tides OF feeliDg
surglng up from the depths OF their soul, in
billow after bilIo ~ after biIlow of rsverSers-
ting laughter. They seem IS If Nature had
built them by contract. and made a bungling
job out OF il. Bat blessed be God, thers are
people in the world who have bright faces,
d whose life is a son, az anthem, pean OF
victory. Even their troubles are Ike the
vines that crawl up the sides OF great TO yer,
on the top of which the sunlight sits aad the
soft airs of summer hold perpetual c4I-
nlval. They are the people you like to have
come to your house; they are the people 1
ike to have come TO my mouse. II you bat
touch the hem OF their garments yOQ are
healed Now it is these exhilerant aud sym
pathetic and warm hearted people thss are
most tempted to pernic;oug amussments. Ia
proportion as q ship Is SWIFT wants q strong
helmsman; In proportion as horse is gay 1T
wSnts a stout driver; and these people of ex-
ubersnt nature will do well 10 look at the
recreation OF their am1ssments IL an
Amusement sends you home at night nervous
so you can not sleep and you rise IN the
morDi5g, not because you a-s slept out, but
because your duty or4gs you from your
SAUNDERS, you have been where you ought
not to have been. There sre ADJUSTMENTS
that tend man next day TO mis- work blood
are wrong kinds amusement There are en-
tertSinmsnts that give man disgust with
the drudgery OF life, with tools beca asa they
are not swords. with working aprons because
they are not robes. with cattle because they
are not infulisied bulls in the arena II any
amusement sends you home 10 aging fer
lie of romance and thrilling adventure, love
that takes poison aud shoots ITSELF moon
light adventures and hair breadth escapes,
you may deeend upon it that you are the
sacrificed victim OF unsaD Gifted pleasure.
Our recrsatlons are intended to build us up.
and If they pull Us down as to our moral or
as to our physical strength, you may
come to the conclusion that they are obnox-
ious.
Still further: those amusements are wrong
which lead you into expenditure beyond
your means
MONEY SPENT IN RECR EATON
Is not money thrown away. 1t is all folly
for US to come from o place OF amusement
feeling that we wasted our money and time.
You may by 1t have made an Investment
worth more than the transaction that yielded
you hundred or thousand dollars. But
how many properties have been riddled by
costly amusements? The table has been
robbed 10 pay the clue. The champagne
has cheated the childTens wardrobe The ca
rousing party has burRed up the boys prim-
mer. The table cloth OF the corner saloon is
in debt to the wife's faded dress. Excursions
q
months wages ladies' whose lifetime busi-
ness is to $50 shopping have their counter
parts IN upeducated children, bankruptcies
that shock the money market and appal the
church, and that send drum kenness stagger-
ing across the richly figured carpst of the
mansion, and dashing into the mirror and
drowning out the carol of music with tue
whooping of bloated sons come home ID
break their old mothers heart. When men
go into amusements that they can nota lord,
they first borrow what they osn not cara and
then they steal what they can not bc.roE.
First they go into embarrassment and then
INTO lying and then into theft; and WHEN a
man gets as far as that, be does not STOP
short of the penitentur There is not pris-
on in the land where there are not victims OF
unsatisfed amusements. How often have l
had parents come to me and ssE me to go
over 10 New York and BEG their boy of from
crimes that he had committed against hisem-
ployer-the taking OF funds out of the en-
ployer's TILL or the disarrangement OF the &C.
counts Why, he had salary enough to pay
ell lawful expenditures, but not enough sal
airy TO meet his sinful amusements And
again, and again, have gone nd implored
Tor the young man, sometimes, alas! the pc
tition all unayailiDg. Merchant OF New York
is there dissrrangement in your accounts?
is there leakage In your money-drawer?
Did not the cash account come out right last
night? will tell you. There is young
man in your store wandering oil into bad
amUsements. The salary you give him may
meet lawful expenditures, but not the sim
iul indulgences in which he has entered, and
he takes by theft what you do not give him
IN LAWFUL SALARY.
How brightly the path of unrestrained
amusement opens. The young man says:
Now l am Off for q good time. Never mind
economy; I'll get money somehow. What
q fine road What a beautiful day for ride
Crack the whip and over the turnpike Come,
boys. fill high your glasses Drink Long
life. healrk, plenty of rides like this!" Hard
working men hear the CHATTER of the hoofs
and look up and say: why, 1 wonder
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