Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13

. very soft hand and very faultless appa-
rel, and lave a high-sounding family
name. bat touch is death. Before you
know it you will in his presence be
| ashamed of your work dress. Business
Will become 10 you drudgery, and after
awhile You will lose your place, and after
ward your respectability, aud last of all
your soul Idleness is next door to viii
| lainy. Thieves. gamblers, burglars.
snop filters and ASA Ssins are
! made from the class who have nothing
to do. When the police go to hunt up and
arrest cufprit they seldom go to look in
among busy Clerks or in the busy carriage
factory, but they go among the idlers.
The play is going on at the theater, when
| suddenly there is a scuff1e in the top
gallery. What is itr A policeman has
| come in, and, leaning over. has tapped on
the shoulder OF a young man, saying: 81
want you, SIR" He has not worked dur
ing the day. but somehow has raked to-
gether 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 a
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 busy? 1t is time
for you to rest" ~ keep busy to keep
out of mischief" No man is strong enough
TO be idle.
Are you fond of pictlresf If so will
show you the works of an old master.
Here it is: Il went by the field of the
slothful and by the vineyard of the man
void of understanding; and lol it was all
grown over with thorns, and nettles had
covered the face thereof and the stone
wall was broken down. Then l saw and
considered we'll looked upon it and re-
ceived instruction. Yet a little 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" l don't know of another sentence
| in the Bible more explosive than that. 1t
first misses softly like the fuse of a can
non and at last bursts like a fifty-four
FOUNDER. The old proverb was right:
''The devil tempts most men. but id1ers
tempt the devil"
A young man came to a man of ninety
years OF aga and said to him: "How 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: '1planted these
trees when I was a boy, and do you
wonder that now ! am permitted to gather
the fruit of them?n We gather in old age
VIII at we planted in our youth Sow to the
wind and we reap the whirlwind. Plant
in early life the right kind of Christian
oh nd tx-il In frylif
in old age, and gather these harvest apples
in eternity.
Again: 1 urge you to avoid the per-
petual pleasure seeker. / believe in rec
reation aud amusement 1 need it as
much as need bread, and go to my daily
exercise with as conscientious a purpose
as go to the Lords Supper; and all per-
sons Of sanguine temperament must have
amusement and recre alton. God would
not have made US with the capacity to
laugh if he had not intended US sometimes
to indulge it. God hath hung ia sky and
set in wave and printed on grass many a
rounde'ay; but ne who chooses plea ure
seeking for his life work does not UNDER
stand fer what God made him. Our
amusements are intended to help US in
some arrest mission. The thunder cloud
La al edge exquisitely purpled, but
with voice that JAS the earth, it declares:
Il go to water the green fields" The
wild flowers under the fence are gay, but
they say: I'VE stand here to rake a
beautiful edge for the wheat field and re-
fresh the husbaadmen in their incoming.
The ream sparkles and foams and frolics
aid says: II go to baptize the moss.
lave the s3ots on the trout l Stake the
thirst of the bird. l turn The wheel of
he mill. l rock in my crys a! cradle
muckshaw and water lily" And So,
white the world plays, it works. Look
out for the man who always PLAYS and
never works.
You viii do we'll 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 associa-
ton 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 mu 5cular Christianity. A man is often
not so near God with a weak stomach as
when he has a strong digestion. But
shun those who make it their life occupa-
ton to sport There are young men whose
industry and usefulness have fallen over
board from the yacht on the Hud son or
the Schuylkill. There are men whose bu si-
ness fell through the ice of the skating
pond 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 ST. uck ball, and 1 ne yer see one fly
but involuntarily throw up my hands
and catch it; and, so far from laying an
injunction upon ball playing, or any other
innocent sport, claim them all as belong
ing of right to those of US who toll in the
grand industries of church and state.
But the life business of pleasure seeking
always makes in the end criminal or a
sot George Brummel was smiled upon
by all England and his life was gwen TO
pleasure. He danced with peeresses and
swung a round of mirth and wealth and
applause until exhausted of purse and
worn out of body and bankrupt of reputa-
ton and ruined of soul he begged a
biscuit from grocer and declared that he
thought dogs life was better than q
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 Gen.
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 will tell you
of exquisite wines that you must take; Cf
costly operas that you must hear; of won
derful dancers that you must see; but be-
fore you accept their convoy or their COM
partnership remember that while at the end
of useful life you may be able TO look
back to the kindness done, to honorabls