Western Kansas world., 1888-01-07

sipation. It win strengthen the immortal
soul. In the battle Of Waterloo, Yelling
ton saw that the Highlanders were falling
back. He said, sWhat is the matter theres.
He was told that the band OF music had
ceased PLAYING, and be called up the pipers
and ordered them to strike up an inspiring
air; and no sooner did they strike the ar
than the Highlanders were rallied, and
helped to win the DAY. Oh, ye who have
been routed in the conflicts of life, try by
the force of music to rally your scattered
battalions.
1 am glad to know that in our great
cities there is hardly q night in which
there are not concerts, where, with the
best musical instruments and the sweet
est voices, people may find entertainment.
Patronize such entertainments when
they are offered you. Buy season tickets
if you can, for the philharmonic, and
the Handel and Haydn" societies. Feel
that the S1.50 or $3.50 that you spend for
the purpose of hearing an artist play or
sing is profitable investment. Let your
Steinway Halls and your Academies of
Music roar with fhe acclamation of appre-
ciative audiences assembled at the concert
CT the oritorio.
Still further: commend as worthy of
their support the gymnasium. This insti-
tuition is gaining in favor every year, and
know of nothing more free from dissipa-
tion, or more calculated to recuperate the
physical and mental energies. While there
are good many people who have en-
ployed this institution, there is vast num-
ber who are ignorant of its excellencies.
There are men with cramped chests and
weak sides, and Respondent spirits who,
through the gymnasium, might be reused
up to exhuberance and exhilaration of life.
There are many Christian people despond-
ent from year to year who might, through
such an institution, be benefited in their
spiritual relations. There are Christian
people who seem to think that it is good
sign to be poorly; and because Richard
Baxter and Robert Hall were invalids they
think that.by the same sickness they may
come to the same grandeur of character. l
want to tell the Christian people of my
congregation that God will hold you re-
sponsible for your invalidism if it is your
fault, and when, through right exercise
and prudence, you might be athletic and
we'll. The effect of the body upon the
soul you acknowledge. Put q man of mild
disposition upon the animal diet of which
the Indian partakes, and in little while
his blood will change its chemical pro-
portions. 1t will become like unto the
blood OF the lion or tiger or the bear,
while his disposition will change, and be-
come fierce, cruel, and unrelenting. The
body has powerful effect upon the soul.
There are good people whose ideas of
Heaven are all shut out with clouds of to.
bacco smoke. There are people who dare
to shatter the physical vase in which God
has put the jewel Of eternity. There are
men with great hearts and intellects in
bodies worn out by their own neglects-
machinery capable of prorell-
ing a Great Eastern across the Atlantic,
yet fastened in rickety North River pro-
peller. Martin Luther was so mighty for
God, first, because he had noble soul,
and secondly, because he had muscular
development which would have enabled
him to thrash any five of his prosecutors,
if it had been Christian so to do. Physical
development, which merely shows itself in
fabulous lifting. or in perilous rope-walk-
ing, or in pugilistic encounter, excites only
our contempt; but we confess to great ad-
miration for the man who has great soul
IN an athletic body, every nerve, muscle,
uses. Oh, it seems to me outrageous that
men, through neglect, should allow their
physical health to 60 down beyond repair.
A ship which ought, with all sail set and
every man at his post, to be carrying a
:ich cargo for eternity, employing all its
men in stopping up leakages! When you
may, through the gymnasium, work off
your spleen and your querulousness and
,ne-half of your physical and mental all
nents, do not turn your back upon such a
grand medicament.
Still further: I commend to you a large
lass of parlor games and recreations. |
There is way of making our homes a |
hundred fold more attractive than they are |
low. Those parents cannot expect to keep !
heir children away from outside dissipa- |
ions unless they make the domestic circle |
brighter than anything they can find out !
ide OF it. Do not, then sit in your home |
urly and unsympathetic, and with a half |
look, because of the sport
ulness of your children. You were young
'nce yourself; let your children be young.
Because your eyes are dim and your ankles /
re stiff, do not denounce sportfulness in
hose. upon whose eyes there is the first |
uster, and in whose foot there is the
joy of robust health. thank
Tod that in our drawing rooms and in our
'arlors there are innumerable games and
ports which have not upon them the
east taint of iniquity. Light up all your
ZONES with innocent hilarities. DO not
it down with the rheumatism, wonder
ng how children can go on so. Rathert
hank God that their hearts are 50 light,
nd their laughter is so free, and that
heir cheeks are SO ruddy, and that their
expectations are so radiant. The night
7ill come soon enough, and the heart
reak, and the pang, and the desolation-
will come soon enough for the dear
hildren. But when the storm actually
louds the sky, it will be time enough for
ou to haul out your reef tackles. Garry,
hen, into your homes not only the inno-
ent sports and games which are the in
entions of our own day, but the games
'hich come down with the sportfulness
f all the past ages, chess, and charades
nd tableaux; and battledore and calls
1enics and lawn tents, and all those
which the young people of our
ONES know so we'll how to contrive.
hen there will be the parlor socialities-
rouna of people assembled in your homes |