News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-05-07
TAIMAeE ON ROLLER SKATING.

AAhMAtE ON hOL1ER SKATING
The Rev. DR.. Talmage said Sunday
that roller skating eclipsed coasting,
croquet, football, lawn tennis, and slid
ing by moonlight on a pond. 1t had an
advantage over the gymnasium in that
it was more exhilarating. It was good
Tor all men to take one hour a day for
roller skating. It would bring back
light to the eye and strength to the
body. 1t drove away neuralgia and
nervousness.
"But let us have" he continued, "no
more of the valgarity and immodesty
OF young girls alone on the streets.
They should be chaperoned by mother,
father, brother, or one who has right
to do it. If young man tips his hat
to a young lady in rink and is not
acquainted with her the proprietor must
lead him to the front door. If those
well-dressed devils we see on the streets
and sometimes at church doors should
more honest amusements and purer
merriment. Let not brilliant lights and
exciting music tempt to prolonged exer-
else. At the door of every place of
amusement stands group of pneumo.
Mas, waiting to escort you to the sepul-
chre. Filtration is damnation. When
in Broadway, New York, or in Fnlton
street, Brooklyn, I see at the evening
hour daughters Of respectable families,
whose conspicuous behavior is intended
to attract masculine observation, hor-
ror goes through my soul. If I had
voice loud enough to reach from the
Penobscot to the Rio Grande would
say Irritation is damnation.
meanwhile let the old people remem-
Der that they were once young. Rheu-
matism is incompetent to give law to
solid ankles. People who have the taste
of the old before they reach thirty
years bore the life out of prayer meet
ings, and disgust the world with the
cant of religion. God made boys and
girls, and gave them tastes to be graft
fed. Their bodies need strengthen
ing"
WHY THEY DON'T GO TO CHURCH.
A. Rev. Charles 81. Eaton took for the
subject of his Sundays sermon "Why
Do Not Young Men Go to Church ?"
He said that, in answer to this question,
many explanations had been given by
young men who did not attend services.
Some of the explanations were frivolous
or given in chaff, as, for instance, one
young man said that he did not go be-
cause his sweetheart did not, and an
other that the church was too cold in
winter. The speaker then reviewed
some of the more serious objections.
Among them were that there was too
much caste in the churches, that Chris
tians were insincere and hypocritical and
that services were too lengthy and SER
mons too dull. Other young men
replied that they remained away from
church because they were skeptics or
disbelievers in Christianity,
while others still claimed Sunday as a
udy lOr I0CEedGIOu dIt6F week uaFu
work, and believed churches to be places
for women only.
The preacher said there was not more
caste in the church than elsewhere; that
Christians, while not claiming perfec-
tion, were, as n rule, sincere; that the
services were not too lengthy; that the
majority of sermons were not dull; that
church attendance did not prevent
young men having rest and recreation
on Sundays, and that if women did go
to church in greater numbers than men
it did not prove that this performance of
ones duty to God was unmanly.
In speaking about those who assail re-
ligion, he referred to Robert Ingersoll
as a wonderful word painter and elo-
quent orator and as shrewd politici8n |
and good lawyer, but denied that he
had received sufficient training in re-
ligious matters to set himself up as an
expert on the merits or dement's of
Christianity.