Dodge City times., 1889-06-20
What is it, A policeman Ia.

= Il want you, Sir" He has not worke
during the day, but somehow has rake
together a shilling or two to get int
the top gallery. He is an idler. Tn
man on his right hand is an idler an
, the man on his left hand is an idler.
Shrink back from idleness in yoursel
and in others if you would maintain
right position. Good old Ashbel Green
at more than eighty years of age, wa
found busy writing, and some youn,
man said to him; Why do You keel
busy? 1t is time for you to rest. HI
answered: Il keep busy to keep out o
mischief" No man is strong enough t.
, be idle.
Are you fond of pictures? Ifso viii
show YOU one of the works of an old
|, of the slethful, and by the vineyard Of
the man void of understanding; and 10
it was all grown over with thorns, ant
nettles mad covered the face thereof
and the stone wall was broken down
Then | saw and considered we'll.
looked upon il and received instruction
Yet a little sleep, little slumber, lit
tie folding of the hands to sleep. Sc
shall thy poverty come as one that
trayeleth and thy want as an armed man.
/ don't know of another sentence III the
Bible more explosive than that. 1t first
Kisses softly. like the fuse of cannon,
and at last bursts like n fifty -fouI
FOUNDER. The old proyerb was right:
The devil tempts most men, but idlers
tempt the devil.
A young man came to q man of 80 years
of age and said to him: How have you
made out to live so long and DO SO well?'
The old man took the youngster to an
orchard, and, pointing to some large
trees full of apples, said: Il planted
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 plant in our youth.
| Sow to the wind, and We reap the whirl-
| wind. 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: L urge you to avoid the per-
petual pleasure seeker. believe in rec
reation and amusement. l need it as
much as l need bread, and go to my
daily exercise with as conscientious a
purpose as / go to the Lords Supper;
and all persons of sanguine tempera-
ment must have amusement and recrea-
tion. God would not have made us with
the capacity to laugh if he had not in
tended 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
intended to help us in some earnest
mission. The thunder cloud hath an
edge exquisitely purpled. but, with voice
that jars the earth, it declares: Il go to
water the green fields" The wild flow
ers under the fence are gay, but they
say: We stand here to make beauti-
full edge for the wheat field. and to re-
fresh the husbandmen in their incoming"
The stream sparkles and foams, and
frolics, and says: Il go to baptize the
moss. lave the spots on the trout. 1
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 ont for the man who always plays
and never works.
You will do well to avoid those whose
regular business it is to play ball, skate
or go a-boating. All these sports are
grand in their places. l never derived
SO much advantage from any ministerial
association as from a ministerial club
that went out to play ball every Satur-
day afternoon in the outskirts of Phila-
delphia. These recreations are grand
to give us muscle and spirits for our
regular toll. l believe in muscular
Christianity. A man is often not so
near God with weak stomach rs 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
overheard from the yacht on the Hudson
or the Schuylkill. 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 glid-
ing of boat, in the song of skates, in
the soaring of a we'll struck ball, and l |
never see one fly but l involuntarily |
throw up my hands to catch it; and, so |
far from laying an injunction upon ball |
playing, or any other innocent sport, / |
claim them all as belonging of right to
those 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 a sot. George Brummell |
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 ap- |
plause, until exhausted of purse, and |
worn out of body, and bankrupt of rep
and ruined of soul, he begged |
a biscuit from grocer, and declared |
that he thought dogs life was bett er
than amans.
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 Central park. They will tell Won
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 must hear; of wonderful dancers
that you must see; but before you accept
their convoy or their companionship re-
member that while at the end of use
ful life you may be able to look back to
done, to honorable work
to poverty helped, to a
good name earned, to Christian influence
to Saviour's cause ADVANCED
.hese pleasure seekers on their death
bed have nothing better to review than
/ torn playbill, ticket for the races, an
empty tankard and the cast out rinds of
| carousal; and as in the delirium of
heir awful death they clutch the goblet
md press it to their lips, the dregs of
he cup falling upon their tongue will
'egin to hiss and uncoiI with the adders
If an eternal poison.
Cast out these men from your COM
,any. Do not be intimate with them.
Always be polite. There is no demand
hat You ever sacrifice politeness. A
Toung man accosted Christian Quaker
With: -Old chap, how did You make all
our money! The Quaker replied: by
lealing in article that thou mayest
leal in if thou wilt-civility." Always
,e courteous, but at the same time firm.
'ay no as if you meant it. Have it un- ]
lerstood in store, and shop, and street,
hat You will not stand in the compan-
onship of the skeptic, the idle, the ]
pleasure seeker.
Rat her fhnn anfar tho |