The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
Rollsr skating IN ItseIf Is Innocent. bat
May Lead to EVIL.


After expounding appropriate passages OF
Scripture he gave out the opening hymn:
Mid scenes OF confusion and creature complaints
How sweet 10 my soul is communion OF saints
To find al the banquet OF mercy there's room.
And TO feel in the presence OF Jesus al homel
The usual great throngs inside and outside
the Tabernacle were present, including
strangers from all parts of this land and from
other lands.
DR.. Tslmage chose two texts-Ez skiel iii,
ID: The noise of the wheels over against
them" and Nahum iii. 2: THE noise of the
rafting Of the wheels" The following ia
the sermon in full:
In the one verse are the wheels OF help,
and Ezekiel heard them 10 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 eulogzed the lever, and said, il
he could find fulcrum for it to rest on he
could move the world. But he found no
such fulcrum, and Ii is not the lever which
is to lift or sink the world, bat the wheel,
whether solid disc or composed of outer
rim and spokes and hub; wheel of the rail
train, that accelerates travel; wheel of print.
ing press, that mulnplies intelligence; wheel
of ship, wound with tilIer ropes; guiding
navigation; wheel of sewing machine, that
alleviates toll; wheel of chronometer that
measures the flight of the hours; balance
wheels, fly wheels, belt wheels, spur wheels
rachel wheels, driving wheels. The wheel,
invented by whom know not, but 1t is sug-
gested to as by the fact that the plonetary
system is wheel. and consultations and
sa'axies are wheels, and all OF their smaller
wheels working into the great wheel OF the
universe, the axis of which is the periphery
on which rests the throne of God. Show me
which wsy the majority of the world wheels
turn, and l will tell you whether il is
BOILING TOWARD REDEMPTION OR RUIN,
and tell me how many revolutions they
make in an hour and l will tell you how
near the world Is to its disenthrallment or
dissolution. In our day the principle OF the
wheel has come to be applied to smusements
and recreations, aud the velocipsde. and
bicycle, and tricycle., and the roller skate
are the consequence. And the tho usa nd
voiced question to be met is: Are roller
skates wheels of help like those which Ezs.
kial heard. or wheels OF destruction like 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 it right, and have reason for
the answer. Let me premise that have for
twenty five years been waiting for some new
style VI amusement, heslthful for body aud
mind, hoping 1t might come in time to res
cue this generation. Such amusements have
been apalllngly scarce. Plenty of places to
blast and blight and consume, body. mind,
and soul Never any lack of gambling sa-
looms. Within one hour of every home and
hotel in New York and Brooklyn there are
from his money while the old spi
a. 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 sal IONS
where the owner by outlay of twenty dollars
worth of alcohol can mix up stuff that he
sells for $3.50. They Will let a young man
have all be wants as long as his money lasts |
one glass, two glasses, three glasses, four
glasses and then when, having felt in all |
his pockets Tor more money, it is demon
strated that he has not so much as a postage |
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 intoxi- |
Gated; for rum-sellers never help their vic
Tins home lest getting 20 the door they con- |
front the mother or wife to whom God might |
which she could strike the despoiler into |
ashes. Plenty of gates of hell and all of |
them wide open, the temptresses crying: |
Come in Come in" Bot Of good places q |
great deficit.
Seven o'clock D. m. finds tens of thousands |
OF young people home or st hotel or board |
ing-house. what shall l do with myself |
this evening"" he asks. You answer: Go |
10 pray er- meeting" We |, that is good ad |
vice for two nights of the week but there are |
seven nights in most weeks. Subtract Sun |
day night and two other church nights and |
you have four nights left. go and hear |
lecture on astronomy" you say. Well. the |
yG9Dg man brain is tired from running up |
the figures Of the account book or from try |
ing to sell goods to people that don't want 10 /
buy, and be hes no appetite for q lecture on |
sstrono7 y. He does not want to hear about |
other worlds; he has more than he can do to |
get along with this. Now, take up the news. |
Dapers and pick out for him place of health 1
ful recreation. The mcst OF the places sd- |
vertised are unventilsted audience rooms |
where the companionship is deprsving and |
much OF the spectacular 10 indecent. Two |
hours and half in such q place and the man |
goes home, body aspbyxiated, mind weak /
eHed, soul SCARED. Consecutive amusement |
OF that sort makes
THRIVING BUSINESS FOR UNDERTAKES.
affords tragedies of illustration for discours"
on the text, THE End Thereof is Death"
What our young p ople want in their smuse
ment 10 recreation for body and soul; some
thing that will allow them TO be asleep on
their pillow at IL O'Clock every night and
awake, fully rested, at Z 80 in the morning;
something that will put our boys and girls
~ the goal of manhood and womanhood
ready for useful aud practical life, not in
valids at nineteen and twenty and twenty
one. not splinters of humanity. not mascu-
line or feminine apologies. but ready to
ccmmf nd respect. and with their Own
right arm, under God. shove aside ell
obstacles. Will this modern roller skating
amusemtn ut help to do this2
The amusement was invented in 1919 by
Piimpton, O Frenchman. aud be has been
called the father OF the rink. He kept tight