The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-04-22
PULPIT UTTERANCES.
DR.. Talmage on the Noisy Rollers
Of the Rink. M t
Under Bevere Restrictions n Healthy Exer-
else, But Deplorable and Destructive rs
40 Craze"--Fearful Destiny OF the
Devotees of Pleasure.

Roller Skating Craze" He chose two
texts-Ezekiel, ILL.,, 40: 1.-THE noise Of the
wheels over against them" and Nahum,
ILL.,, Q: "The noise Of the rattling Of the
wheels" Following Is the sermon:
In the one verse are the wheels Of help
and Ezekial heard them. In the other
verse are the wheels of destruction and
Nahum heard them. The good wheels and
the bad wheels will decide the destiny of
this planet. Archimedes eulogized the
lever, and said II he could find a fulcrum
for tito rest on he could move the world.
But he found no such fulcrum, and IL Is not
the lever which is to lift or sink the world,
butthe wheel, whether solid disk or COM
posed Of outer rim and spokes and hub
Wheel Of the rail- train that accelerates
travel. Wheel of printing press that
multiplies intelligence. Wheel of ship,
wound with tiller ropes, guiding navi-
gation. Wheel Of sewing machine
that alleviates toll. Wheel of chro-
nometer that measures the fight OF
the hours. Balance wheels, fy-wheels,
belt-wheels, spur-wheels, racket-wheels,
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whom | know not, but it is suggested to us
by the fact that the planetary system is a
wheel, and consultations and galaxies are
wheels, and all of them smaller wheels
working into the great wheel of the uni
verse, the axis Of which is the periphery
on which rests the throne of God. Show
me which way the majority Of the worlds
wheels turn and will tell you whether 1t
is rolling toward redemption or ruin, and
tell me how many revolutions they make
an an hour and will tell you how near the
world is TO Its disenthrallment or demoli-
fion. In our day the principle Of the wheel
has come to be applied to amusements and
recreations, and the yelocipede and bicycle
and tricycle. and the roller-skate are the
consequence. And the thousand voiced
question to be met Isl: Are the roller
skates wheels Of help like those which
Ezekiel heard, or wheels Of destruction
aike those that racketed In the ears Of
Nahum
Never within my memory or yours has
there been In this country such wide, deep,
high popular agitation on the subject Of
amusements, and all ministers OF religion
and all parents and all young people and
all old people must answer the question,
and answer 1t right and have reason for
the answer. Let me promise that have
for twenty-five years been waiting for
some new style of amusement, healthful
for body and mind, hoping 1t might come
In time TO rescue this generation. Such
amusements have been apallingly scarce.
Plenty Of places to blast and blight and
consume body, mind and soul. Never any
lack Of gambling saloons. Within one
hour OF every home and hotel In New York
and Brooklyn there are places where a
young man can get divorced from
his money while the old spider Of
the. gaming-table officiates at the
funeral OF innocent flies Plenty OF
places where you can lose ten cents
or house and lot or all you have In one
night. Plenty Of drinking saloons where
the owner by an outlay of twenty dollars
worth Of alcohol can mix up stuff that he
sells for two hundred and fifty dollars.
They will let O young man have all he
wants as long as his money lasts-one
glass, two glasses, three glasses, four
glasses-and then when, having felt In all
his pockets for more money, II Is demon
strated that he has not so much as post
age-stamp left, they will help him into the
street TO look after himself or be taken
home by some other young man not quite
as intoxicated; for um-sellers never help
their victims home lest getting TO the door
they confront the mother or wife TO whom
God might lend one Of his smaller thunder
bolts with which she could strike the de-
spoiler into ashes. Plenty Of gates OF hell,
and all Of them wide open, the temptresses
crying: "Come inl Come imp But OF
good places a great deficit.
b Seven O'Clock p. IN. finds tens OF thou
sands Of young people home or at hotel or
boarding house. "What shall / do with
myself this EVENING"" he asks. You
answer: Go TO prayer meeting" Well
that is good advice for two nights In the
week, but there are seven nights In most
weeks. Subtract Sunday night and two
other church nights and you have -four
nights left. SEQ and hear lecture or
astronomy" you say. Well, the young
mans brain is tired from running up the
figures Of the account-book, or from try.
ing 10 sell goods TO people who don't want
to buy, and he has no appetite for alectur'
on astronomy. He docs not want TO heai
about other worlds; he has more than he
can do to get along with this. Now
take up the newspaper and pick out foi
him place Of healthful recreation. The
most Of tho places advertised are un'
ventilated audience rooms, where the com
panionship Is depraving and much o.
: the spectacular Is indecent. Two hour
and half In such place, and the mar
goes home, body -asphy xiated, mind.weak'
ened, soul-scarred. Consecutive amuse.
ment OF that sort makes thriving business
for undertakers, and affords tragedies o.
illustration for discourse on the text: "Ths
end thereof Is death" What our yount
people want In their amusement Is recrea.
ton for body and soul, something that vii
allow them TO be asleep on their pillow q
eleven O'Clock every night, and awak,
fully rested at half past seven In the morn.
ing; something that will put our boys and
girls at the goal Of manhood and woman.
hood ready for useful and practical life
not invalids at nineteen, and twenty, anc
twenty-one; not splinters Of humanity
not masculine or feminine apologies, bu
ready 10 command respect, and with theil
own right arm under God shove aside al
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