Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-06-07
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY, JUNE s 1889.

seconds to live, and will count them Off
one-two- three" lie has gonel Wherel
Wherel Carry him out-Out, and bury him
beside his father and mother, who died while
holding fast the Christian religion. They
died sin ging but the young infidel only said
Don't breathe that cold air into my face
1 You crowd me too hard Il is getting dark
in the room"
THE NAN WHO DOES NOTHING IS WORTH
NOTHING.
Again, 1 urgesyou to shun theScompanion-
ship Of oilers. There are men hanging around
every store, and office, and shop, who have
nothing to do, or act as if they had not. They
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 sugrcSt 70 such persons that YOU have
no time 70 give them during business hours.
Nothing would please them so well as to have
you renounce your occupation and associate
with them. Much Of the time they lounge
around the club rooms or the doors of engine
houses, or after the dining hour stand upon
the steps Of a fashionable hotel 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
to do with the idlers, Before you admit
man into your acquaintance ask him po-
litely; what do you do for a livingF If
he says; Nothing; | am gentleman" look
out for him. He may have very soft
hand, and very faultless apparel, and
have a high sounding family name,
but his 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 afterwards your respecta-
bility, and last Of all your soul Idleness is
next door to villainy. Thieves, gamblers,
burglars, shOplifters and Pssassins are made
from the class who have nothing TODD. When
the police 90 TO hunt up and arrest a 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 go
ing on at tho theatre, when suddenly there is
a scufIie in the top gallery. What is it, A
policeman has come in, and, leaning over, has
tapped on the shoulder Of young man, say
ing: 81 want you, sir" He has not worked
during the day, but somehow has raked to-
gether 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.
in others, if you would maintain a right posi-
ton. 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 busyl It is time for you TO rest.n He
answered. Il keep busy to keep out Of mis-
chief" No man is strong enough TO be idle.
Are you fond OF picturesl If l will show
you one of the works of an old master. Here
it is: 81 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. looked
upon it and received instruction. Yet a lit
tie sleep, a little slumber, 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
cannon, and at last bursts like fifty-four
FOUNDER The old proverb was right; "The
devil tempts most men, but idlers tempt the
devil"
BREAD THAT IS CAST UPON THE WATERS
A young man came to a man of ninety years
of age and said to him: Glow 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: Il planted these trees when | was
boy, and do you wonder that now 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 Chris
tian 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 l need
bread, and 60 to my daily exercise with as
conscientious purpose as go to the Lords
Supper; and all persons of sanguine temPera-
ment must have amusement and recreation.
God would not have made us with the capa-
city to 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
roundelay; but he who chooses pleasure seek
ing 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 oxquisitely
purpled, but, with voice that jars the earth,
it declares: II go to water the green fields
The wild flowers under the fence are gay, but
full edge for the wheat field, and to refresh
the husbandmen in their nooning" The
stream sparkles and foaips and frolics, and
says: II go to baptize the moss, lave the
spots ON the trout | slake the thirst of the
bird. turn the wheel of the mill I rock
in my crystal cradle muckshaw and water
lily" And so, while the world plays, it
works Look out for the man who always
rlavs and never works
You will do well to avoid those whose regI-
lar business it is to play ball, skate or go
a-boating. All these sports are grand in their
places | never derived so much advantage
from any ministerial association as from a
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 a weak stOmash
as when he has n 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 tho Hudson or the SchuyllilL There
are men whose business fell through the ice
of the skating pond, and has never since been
heard Of There Is q beauty in the gliding OF
a boat, in the song Of skates, in the soaring of
a well struck ball. and l never see one fly but
involunturily throw up my hands to catch it,;
and so far from laying an injunction upon
ball playing, or any other innocent sport, l
claim them all as belonging of right to those
of us who toll in the grand industries of church
and state
LISTEN NOT TO THE TEMPTER's VOICE.
But the life business Of pleasure seeking
always makes in the end a criminal or n SGT.
George Brummell was smiled upon by all
England and his life was given TO pleasure.
he danced with peeresses, and swung round
of mirth, and wealth, and applause, until ex-
hausted Of purse, and worn out of body, and
bankrupt of reputation, and ruined Of soul,
he begged biscuit from a grocer, and de
clared that he thought dogs life was better
than a mans.