The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-03

presence be ashamed OF your Work dress
business will become to you drudgery, and
after awhile you viii lose your place, and
afterward your respectability, and last Of
all your soul Idleness is next door TO vii
/ laIny. Thieves, gamblers. burglars, shop
I lifters and assassins are made from the
class who have nothing TO do. When
/ the police go to hunt up and arrest a
/ culprit they seldom 60 60 look in
/ among busy clerks or in the busy carriage
/ factory. but they go among the groups Of
/ idlsrs. The play is going on at the tteater,
! when suddenly there is a scuffie in the top
| z ,llsry. What is it, A policeman has
come in. and, leaning over, has tapped on
! the shoulder of young man, saying: Il
want you, SIR" He has not worked during
the day, but somehow has raked together a
a shilling or two to get into the top gallery.
He is an idler The man on his right hand
is an idler and the man on his left hand is
an idler.
Shrink back from idleness in yourself
and in others if you would maintain right
position. Good old Ashbel Green, at more
t an So years Of age. was found busy writ
ing, and some young man said to him:
''Fhy do you keep busy! 1t is time for
YOU to rest" He answered.: 81 keep busy
to keep out of mischief" No man is strong
enough to be idle.
are YOU fond of picturesi If so / will
ter. Here it is: Il went by the field of the
slothful, and by the vineyard Of the man
void Of understanding; and lol il was all
grown over with thorns, and nettles had
covered ths face thereof, and the stone wall
was broken down. Then ! saw and con-
siderei we'll l looked upon it
and received instruct N. Yet a little
slee0, a little slumber, little folding Of tho
hands to sleep 50 shall thy poverty come
as one tha5 traveleth and thy want as an
armed man. don't know of another SEN
tence in the Bible more explosive than that
1t first Kisses softly, like the fuse of can
non. and at last bursts like a fifty-four
FOUNDER. The old proverb was right: The
devil temptS most men, but idlers tempt the
devil"
A young man came to a man of 90 years
of age and said to him: "how have you
made out to live so long and be so wellf'
The old man took the youngster to en- or
chard, and, pointing to some large trees
full of apples, said: 81 planted These trees
when was "a boy, and do you wonder that
now am permitted to gather the fruit of
them" We gather in old age what we
plant in our youth. Sow to the wind, and
We reap the whirlwind. Plant in early
life the right kind OF christian character
and you will eat luscious fruit in old
age, and gather these harvest apples in
eternity.
Again: ! urge you to avoid the perpetual
pleasure-seeker. believe in recreation and
amusement. / need it as much as | need
bread, a I'D 60 to my daily exercise with as
1uscientious a purpose as / go to the
Lords Supper; and all persons of sanguine
temperament must have amusement and
recreation. God would hot have made us
with the capacity to laugh If be had not in
tended us sometimes to indulge 1t. God
hath hung in sky, and set in wave, and
printed on grass many roundelay; but he
who chooses pleasure seeking for his life
work does not understand for wGat God made
him. Our amusements are intended to
help us in some earnest mission. The 6hun-
der cloud hath an edge exquisitely purpled,
but, with voice that jars the earth,
it declares: 81 go to water the green fields. y
The wild flowers under the fence are gay,
but they say: I'VE stand here to make
beautiful edge for the wheat field, and to
refresh the husban linen in their nooningn
The stream sparkies and foams, and froics,
and says: II go to baptiZe the moss. | lave
tie spots on the trout. l slake the thirst Of
the bird. / turn the wheel of the mill.
rock in my crystal cradle muckshaw and
water lily" And So while the world plays
it works. Look out for the man who
always plays and never works.
You will sdo well 20 avoid those whose
regular business it is to play ball, skate or
go a-boating. All these sports are grand in
their places. ] never derived so much ad-
vantage from any ministerial association as
from ministerial club that went out to
play ball every Saturday afternoon in the
outskirts Of Philadelphia. These recreations
are grand to give US muscle and spirits for
our regular toll. | believe in muscular
christianity. A man is often not SO near
God with weak stomach as when he has
strong digestion. But shun those
who make it their life occupation to
sport. There are young men whose
industry and usefulness have fallen over
board from thu yacht on the Hudson or the
Schuylkill There are men whose business
fell through the ice of the skating D md.
and has never since been heard of. There
is beauty in the gliding of a boat, in the
song of skates, in the soaring of a we'll
struck ball, aud | never see one fly but l
involuntarily throw up my hands 20 catch
1t; and, so FAR from laying an injunction
upon ball playing, or a " other innocent
sport, | claim them all as belonging of right
to these of us who toll in the grand indus
tries of church and state.
But the life business of pleasure seeking
always makes in the end a criminal or sot.
George Brumplell was smiled upon by all
England, and his life was given to pleasure.
He danced with peeresses, and swung a
round of mirth, and wealth, and applause,
until exhausted of purse, ana worn out of
body, and bankrupt of reputation, aud
ruined Of SOUL he begged biscuit from
grocer, and declared that he thought dogs
life was better than a mans.
Such men will crowd around your desk,
or counter, or work bench, or seek to decoy
you off. 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 Cen
trail park. They will tell you of some peo-
pie you must see; of some excursion that
you must take; of some Sabbath day that
you ought to dishonor. They win tell you
of exquisite wines that you must take: of
costly operas that you must hear; of wonder
full dancers that YOU must see; but before
you accept their convoy or their companion
ship, remember that while at the end or a
useful life you may be able TO look back to
kiudnesses done, to honorable work accom-
plished, TO poverty helped, to good name
earned, to christian influence exerted, t. a
SaViour's cause advanced-these pleasure
seekers on their death bed have nothing
better to review than a torn playhill, a
ticket for the races, an empty tankard and
the cast out rinds of a carousal; and as in
the delirium Of their awful death they
clutch the goblet aud press it to their lips,
the dregs of the cup falling upon their
tongue will begin to hiss and uncoil with
the adderS of an eternal poison.
Cast out these men from your company
Do not be intimate with them. Always be
polite. There is no demand that you ever
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