The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-07-10

ers and assassins are made from
the class who have nothing tc do
When the police 90 to hunt up and arrest
culprit they seldom go to look in among busy
clerks or in the busy carriage factory, but
they go among the groups of idlers. The
play is going on at the theater, when sud
denly there is {. scufle in the top gallery.
What is it? A policeman has come in, and
leaning over, has tapped on the shoulder OF
young man, saying: 'I want you, SIR
He has notworked during theday, bUtsome'
how has ralzed together shilling or two tc
get into the top gallery. Heis 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 a right po-
sition Good old Ashbel Green, at more than
eighty years Of age, was found busy writing,
and some young man said to him: 'Why dc
you keep busy? 1t is time for you to rest"
He answered: s.I keep busy to keep out OF
mischief" No man is strong enough to be
idle
Are you fond Of pictures: II so Will
show you one of the works Of IAN old master.
Here It is: II went by the field Of the sloth-
full, and by the vineyard of the man void Of
understanding, and lot 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
well. Hooked npon it and received instruc-
ton. Yet little sleep. a little slumber, a
little folding Of the hands to sleep. So
shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth
and thy want as an armed man" don't
know OF another sentence in the Bible more
explosive than that. It first Kisses softly,
like the fuse Of a cannon, and at last bursts
Ikea fifty four FOUNDER. The old proverb
was right: ''The devil tempts most men,
but idlers tempt the devil.'
A young man came to man of ninety
years Of age and said to him; CHOW have
you made out to live so long and be so well."
The old man took the youngster to an
orchard, and. pointing to some large trees
full of apples, said: s'I planted these trees
when was boy. and do YOU wonder that
now am permitted to gather the fruit Of
them?'' We gather in our 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 lucious 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 I need
bread, and go to my daily exercise with as
conscientious a purpose as I go to the Lords
Supper; and all persons Of sanGuine temper
anent must have amusement and recreation.
God would not have made Us with the CO.
pacity 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 a roundelay; but
he who chooses pleasure seeking for his
life work does not understand for what
God made him. Our amusements are in
tended to help Us in some earnest mission.
The thunder cloud hath an edge exquisitely
purpled, but, with voice that jars the earth.
it declares: ~ go to water the green helds."
The wild flowers under the fence are gay.
but they say: 1--WE stand here to make
beautiful edge for the wheat field, and to
refresh the husbandmen in their nooning."
The stream sparklcs and foams, and frolics,
and says: 81 so to baptize the moss lave
the spots on the trout. slake the thirst Of
the bird. turn the wheel Of the mill.
rock in my crystal cradle muckshaw and
water NY" And 50, while the world plays,
itworks Look out for the man who always
plays and never works
---gg5ssszgH - dCSeG sSSth2s9 E1ose.
regular business41aasS'ssco0 pay baTl, Skate, O
go a-boating. All these sports are grand in
their places I 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 recrea-
tons 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 a weak stomach as
when he has strong digestion. But
shun those who make it their life occu-
patton to sport. There are young menswhose
industry and usefulness have fallen over
board from the yacht on the Hudson or the
Schuvlkill There are men whose business
fell through the ice of the skating pond, and
has never since been heard Of. There is
beauty in the gliding of boat, in the song
of skates, in the soaring Of well struck
ball. and never seen one fly but lnvoiun-
tarily throw up my hands to catch it; and,
so far from laying an injunction upon ball
PLAYING, or any other innocent sport, claim
SAiNsS W
toll IN the grand industries OF church and
state.
But the life business Of pleasure seeking
always makes in the end a criminal or sot.
George Brummell was smiled upon by all
England and his life was given to pleasure.
He danced with peeresses, and swung
round of rnirth, and wealth, and applause,
until exhausted of purse, and worn out Of
body, and bankrupt Of reputation, and ru-
ined of soul, he begged biscuit from
grocer, and declared that he thought dogs
life was better than mans.
Such men viii 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 ride
with them to Coney Island or to Central
Park. They will tell you Of some people
YOU must see; Of some excursion that you
must take; of some Sabbath day that
YOU ought to dishonor. They will tell you
of exquisite wines that you must take;
of costly operas that You mnst hear;
of wonderful dancers that you must
see; but before you accept their
convoy or their companionship, remember
that while at the end Of a useful life you
nav be able to look back to the kindness is
done, to honorable work accomplished, to
poverty helped, to good name earned, to
Christian influence exertcd, to Saviour,s
cause a3vanced-these pleasure seekers on
thcir,death bed have nothing better to re,
view than a torn playbill, a ticket for the
races, an empty tankard, and the cast OF
riuds of carousal: and as in the delirium
of their awful death they clutch the goblet
and 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
sacrifice politeness. a young man accosted
a Christian Quaker with: ''Old chap, how
do you make all your moaeyn' The Quaker
replied: 'By dealing IN an article that thou
usayest deal in if thou wilt-civillty. AL
ways be courteous, but at the samo tnne