The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-14

. very soft hand and very fanltless spra-
rel, and have . high-sounding family
name bat b touch is death. Before you
know it you will in his presence be
ashamed Of your work dress. Business
will become to you drudgery, and after
awhile you will lose your place, and after
ward your respectability, and last of ail
your soul. Idleness is next door to viii
lsiny Thieves gamblers, burglars.
shop filters and assassius are
made. from the class who have nothing
to do. When the police go to hunt up and
arrest culprit they seldom go to look in
| among busy clerks or in the busy carria e
factory, but they go among the idlers.
The play is going on at the theater, when
suddenly there is q scuffie in the top
gallery. What is III! A policeman has
come in. and, leaning over, has tapped or
the shoulder Of young. man, saying: 81
| want you, SIR" He has not worked dur.
ing the day. but somehow has raked to-
gether a shilling or two to get into the top
gallery. He is an idlsr. The man on his
right hand is an idler and the man on his
left hand is an idler.
Shrink back from idlensss in yourself
and in others if you would maintain .
right position. Good old Ashbel Green at
more than eighty years Of age was found
busy writing and some young man said to
him: "Why do you keep busyf 1t is time
for you to rest" 81 keep busy to keep
out of mischief" No man is stroug enough
10 be idle.
Are you fond of picturest r so will
show you the works of an old master.
Here it is: 81 went BY the field of tho
slothful and by the vineyard of the man
void Of understandings; and loi it was all
grown over with thorns, and nettles had
covered the face thereof and the stone
wall was broken down. Then saw and
considered we'll. Hooked upon 1t and re-
ceived instruction. Yet q little sleep, q
little slumber, little folding Of the hands
to sleep. So shall thy poverty come as one
that traveleth and thy want as On armed
man" don't know of another sentence
in the Bible more explosive than that. 1t
flrst Kisses softly like the fuse of can.
non and at last bursts like a ffty.four
FOUNDER. The old prorerb was right:
''Ths devil tempts most men, but idlers
tempt the devils
Ayoung man came to . man OF ninety
years OF age and said to him: "How have
you made out to live SO long and be so
well?" The old man took the youn e ster
to an orchard, and, pointing to some large
trees full Of apples, said: "Iplanted these
trees when / was boy, and do you
wonder that now am permitted to gather
the fruit of them?' We gather in old age
what we planted in our youth. Sow to the
wind and we reap the whirlwind. Plant
in early life the right kind of a Christian
character, and you will eat luscious fruit
in old har has n
in eternity.
Again: 1 urge you to avoid the per-
petual pleasure seeker. believe in rec
reation and amusement l need it as
much as / need bread, and go to my daily
exercise with as conscientious a purpose
as go TO the Lords Supper; and all per-
sons Of sanguine temperament must have
anu sement and recre Al ion. God would
not have made us with the capacity to
laugh if he had not intended us sometimes
to indulge it God hath hung in sky and
set in wave and printed on grass many q
rounde ay; but he who chooses plea ure
seeking for his life work does not UNDER
stand for what God made him. Our
amusement, are intended to help US in
some arrest mission. The thunder cloud
la h al edge exquisitely purpled. but
with vice that jars the earth, it declares:
II go to water the green fields" The
wild flowers under the fence are gay, but
they say: I'VE stand here to make q
BEAUTIFUL edge for the wheat field and re-
fresh the hustandmen in their nooning"
The ream sparkles and foams and froics
a I'd says: a go to haptize the moss 1
lave the spots on the trout. sIake the
Ihirs. of The bird. turn he wheel of
The mill. l rock in my crys al cradle
muckshaw and water lily" And 50,
while the world pays, it works Look
out for the man who always plavs and
never works.
You wi do we'll to avoid those whose
regular business it is to play ball, skate or
60 a-boating. All these sports are grand
in their places. never derived so much
advantage from any ministerial associa-
tion as from a ministerial club that went
out to play hall every Saturday afternoon
in the outskirts OF Philadelphia. These
recreations are grand to give us muscle
and spirits for our regu'a toll. believe
in mu 'cular Christianity. A man is often
not SO near God with a weak stomach as
when he has strong digestion. But
shun those who make it their life occupa-
ton to sport There are young men whoss
industry and usefulness have fallen over
board from the yacht on the Hud ION or
the Schuvikill. There are men whose bu ,i-
ness fell through the ice Of the skating
pond and has never since been heard of.
There Is q beauty in the gliding Of q boat
in the song of skates, in the soaring Of
well. str uck ball, and ne yer see one fly
but I involuntarily throw up my hands |
and catch it; and, so far from laying an |
injunction upon ball Playing, or any other |
innocent sport, / claim them all as belong.
ing Of right to those of US who toll in the |
grand Industries Of church and state.
But the life business of pleasure seeking |
always makes in the end crimi ,al or a |
sot George Brummel was smiled upon |
by all England and his life was ven TO |
pleasure. He danced with pseresses and |
swung q round of mirth and wealth and |
applause until exhausted Of purse and |
worn out of body and bankrupt Of reputa- |
ton and ruined of soul he begged a |
biscuit from grocer and declared that he |
thought q dogs life was better than q |
mans.
Such men will crowd around your desk |
or counter or work bench or seek to decoy |
you OF. They will want you to break out |
in the midst of your busy day to take a
ride with them to Coney Island or to Gen.
trail park. They will tell you of some peo-
pie you must see; Of some excur.i IN that |
= on must take; of some Sabbath day that
= on ought to dishonor. They will tell you
Of exquisite wines that you must take; #
costly operas that you must hear; Of won.
derful dancers that you must see; hut be-
fore you accept their convoy or their COM
remember that while at the end |
Of useful life you NAV be able to look
back to the kindness done. to honoraJl
work accomplished, to poverty helped. to
4 good name earned, to Christian influence |