Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-11-26
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the Baptist chapel last Sunday evening
Following il an abstract:
TEXT The good way, walk ye thersia
and ye shall find rest for your souis-Jef
vi, Is. s
He who finds that rest attains the high
est bliss. All are seeking II but few seek
it IN the right way.
What is the soul! We cannot tell. but
know some of its faculties. Thsy are
the intellect, the conscience, the anec-
tions and the will. A disturbed condi'
tion of either OF these faculties SstnRs
unrest An impaired intellect produces
insanity An abused and violated cor
scisnce Is like an unquenched fire within.
Perverted affections debass Us. A Will
conquered by some vice is like chain
and bail on the limb. Restlessness and
wretchedness cit by and will not leave the
soul thus disturbed.
The soul with its faculties il our ward.
This we must guard. The right use OF
the intellect, consclencs, affections ana
will ever lead to God and peace. Their
abuse lowers one in the grade OF beng
and sets to gnawlng the 'worm that dteth
not.'
But what have the long winter even
ings to do with the soul! Much in every
way. Al rule our winter EVENING" are
our moments OF duty. Five hours from
six to eleven. There is no routine IN
them but great variety of experiences,
and experiences form character and char
acter fixes destiny. Your winters even
ings, therefore, have to do with your
destiny and they are solemnly important.
How will you spend them! The text u
the summary Of wisdom. "The good
way, walk therein and ye shall find rest
for your souls?
Chester, England, is wonderfully in
terestlng city to the tourist. Leading out
from the main avenue are innumerable
little passes or ways conducting you be-
tween houses, over houses, under houses,
thoroughfsres around houses. now into
an open court, then to back yard or
sore public building, anon into kitchen
or back door or perchance to drinking
hall or q play house. Our American
cities, like Chester. are full of "ways,''
and the young man who follows them
cannot always tell whence he csmeth
or whittier he goeth,'' especially il he
pursues them between seven and eleven
at night. Many of these ways lead into
the saloon and gambling hell. VIII yeur
intellect, conscience and Affections re-
main intact BY spending your winter
evenings there?
Paris has great many places where
the multitudes gather without selection;
where the better and the worse mingle.
These assemblies are the bane Of that
beautiful city. Such gatherings are a.
ways burtful and demoraliziug wherever
held, here Or abroad. In % far @ the
skating rink, the dancing hall, or even
church soclables are thus constituted,
they are attended with evil and are hurt
full to the morals of society.
1t IS difficult to control in this respect
some of our institutions Of learning. Our
public schools are kept under strictest
discipline, which is the conservator OF
their morals. American society u def.
cient in the discipline of it, amusemeuts.
The law of selection IS ignored, and this
is true OF the skating rink and ball room
to such an extent ss to call out the pro-
test Of the moralist Mixed schools ere
liable 10 almost the same abuses, and but
for their strict discipline severely executed
could not escape like criticism.
The better 'way" leads away from the
of the heterogeneous multi
tude. You cannot with safety spend
your long winter nights there.
Where shall We spend them! l would
say word for the library. We ought ts
have room large enough for fifty young
men and under such discipline and man
agement with such presence - TO make
it suitable for young ladies 70 spend
portion of their time there to famllisrize
themselves with the popular magazines
of the day.
would say word commencing read.
ing circles In which ten or Z dozen COM
bine and secure magazines which. on
reading by one is passed to another, With
, meeting once month to review from
memory the ground passed over. would
say word for dramatic clubs or Shakes
pesrean circles, which, properly conduct.
ed, are instructive and refining
would say word for the choral So
ciety about to be organized, where our
young people, under proper discipline,
may enjoy the advantages of voice cul.
ure and the note system, an accomplish
nent much needed by the ris,ng genera
Ion in our city, for they should have a
many of the advantages enjoyed By their
parents as 1t is possible to give them TO
.dd to the cheer Of the home circle and
he worship OF the sanctuary in cultivated
ong. Surely you can't afford to spend
III your evenings in mere amussments
md ''your money for that which il NOT
,read.'
The Yankton Herald says: II Dakota
5 admitted - whole, which n6wseeus
sure, the republicAa politi.
;isns of southern Dakssa viii 10 sp,ely
oponsible for it. Any plaa'th a not
couple with 1t divisioa Of The AiGoFvos
eate offices in sdvance OF s6amtapiaa -
lefided BY these gentleaes, sesvitA.
landing repeated waralnes froa ~ lssr.