The Penn's Grove record., 1889-06-22
PENIS GROVE. N. j., SATURDAY. JUNE %. 1889.

air Into my face. You crowd me too
hard. 1t is getting dark In the room.
o Godl" "Hush," saws Death: syou
sad There was no Cod" Pray for me-"
exclaims the expiring InHdel. "Too
late to pray" says Death; 'but three
more seconds TO live, and / will count
them 0n-one-two-three." He has
gonel Wherep WhereP Garry him out
out and bury him beside his father
and mother, who died while holding
fast the Christian religion. They died
singing; but the young infidel only said:
Don't breathe that cold air In my face.
You crowd me. 1t Is getting dark In
the ROOM"
IL. Again, l urge you to shun
THE COMPREHENSIVE OF OILERS.
There are mel hanging around every
store and Office and shop who have
nothing to do, or act as If they had not.
Ihey are apt to cOme in when the firm
are away. and wish to engage you in
conversation while you are engaged in
your regular employment. Politely
suggest to such persons that you have
no time TO give them during business
hours. Nothing would please them so
well as to have o renounce your occu-
patton and associate with them. Much
of the time they lounge around the
elub-rooms or the doors OF engine
houses, or after the dining hour stand
upon the steps OF a fashionable lotel or
an elegant restaurant, wishing to give
you the idea that that is the place
where they dine. But they do not dine
there. They are sinking down lower
and lower, day by day. Neither by
day nor by night have anything 10 do
with the idlers. Before you admit a
man into your acquaintance ask him
politely: "What do you do for a livIngp"
If he says, Nothing; / am a gentle
man. look out for him. He may have
a very soft hand and very faultless
apparel, and have a high sounding
family name, but his touch is death. Be-
fore you know it you will IN his pres
ence be ashamed of your work dress.
Business will become to you drudgery,
and after awhile you will lose your
place, and afterwards your respectable
ity. and last of all your soul. Idleness
IS
NEXT DOOR TO yILLAINY.
Thieves, gamblers, burglars, shoplifters,
and assassins are made from the class
who have nothing to do. When the
police go to hunt up and arrest a Gull
pr:t, they seldom go to look in among
the busy clerks or in the busy carriage
factory, but they go among the group
Of idlers. The play is going on at the
theatre, when suddenly there is a scufle
in the top gallery. What is itp A
policeman has come in, and, leaning
over, has tapped on the shoulder a
young man saying: II want you, sir. :"
He had not worked during the day. but
somehow had raked together 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 yOnr-
self and in others if you would main
tain q 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 busyp 1t is time for you to rest. !"
lie answered: II keep busy to keep
out Of mischief" No man is strong
enough 10 be idle.
A NOTABLE PICTURE.
Are you fond of. picturesp II SO
will show you one OF the works Of an
old master. Here it IS: II went by
the field Of the slothful, and by the
vineyard of the man void Of under
standing; and 10! 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. l looked upon 1t and
received instruction. Yet a 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." l don't
know of another sentence in the Bible
more explosive than that. 1t first
Kisses softly, like the fuse of q cannon,
and at last bursts like q fifty-fouI
FOUNDER. The old proverb was right:
1.-THE devil tempts most men, but idlers
tempt the devil"
A young man came to a man OF nine
ty years Of age and said to him: "How
have you made out to live SO long and
be SO wellp" The old man took the
youngster to an orchard, and, pointing
to some large trees full Of apples, said
81 planted these trees when 1 was a boy,
and do you wonder that nov l am per
mitted to gather the fruit Of themp''
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 a Christian character,
and you will eat luscious fruit in old
age, and gather these harvest apples in
eternity.
III. Again: I urge you to avoid
THE PERPETUAL PLEAsURE-sEEKER.
l believe in recreation and amusement.
1 need 1t as much us l need bread, and
and 60 to my daily exercise with as con.
scientious a purpose as l 60 to the
Lords Supper; and all persons OF san
guine Temperament must have amuse.
ment and recreation. God would moi
have made US with the capacity ;,
laugh if He had not intended us some
times to indulge it. God hath hung In
sky, and set in wave, and printed on
grass many a roundelay; but he who
chooses pleasure-seekmg for mis- life
work does not understand for what God
made him. Our amusements are inten-
ded to help us in some earnest mission.
The thunder-cloud hath an edge exquis-
itely purpled, but, with voice that jars
the earth, it declares: 81 go to water
the green fields" The Wild flowers
under the fence are gay, but they say:
1--WE stand here to make a beautiful
edge for the wheat field, and to re-
fresh the husband men in their incoming. y
The stream sparkies and foams and
frollcs, and says: 81 60 to baptize the
moss. / lave the spots on the trout. !
slase the thirst Of the bird. turn the
the wheel Of the mill ! rock in my
crystal cradle muckshaw and water
lily,n And so, while the world plays,
it works. Look out for the mar who
always plays and eve works.
You will do well to avoid those whose
regular business it is to play ball, skate,
or 90 a-boating. All these sports are
- a. tha;r nlaPas never derived