Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-03-20
THE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS FRIDAY. MARCH 20 1891

day; and after tho sea has sung its last
chant and the mountain shall have come
down in an avalanche of rock, you will
live and think and act, high on a throne
where scraphs sing, or deep in dungeon
where demons howl In a world where
there is so much to do for yourselves, and
so much to do for others, God pity that
man who has nothing to do.
Your sports are merely means to an end.
They are alterations and helps The arm
| Of toll is the only arm strong enough to
bring up the bucket out of the deep well of
pleasure Amusement is only the bower
where business and philanthropy rest while
on their way to stirring achievements
Amussmentsa are mere yt'ie vines that grow
about the anvil of toll and the blossoming of
the hammers. Alas for The man who spends
his life in laboriously doing nothing, his
days in hunting up lounging places and
| iounVcrs, his nights in seeking out some
gas lighted foolery! The man who always
has on his sporting jacket, ready to hunt
for game in the mountain or fish in the
brook, with no time to pray or work or
read, is not 50 well oil as the greyhound
that runs by his side, or the fly bait with
which he whips the stream.
A man who does not work does not know
how to play. If God had intended US to
do nothing but laugh he would not have
given u shoulders with which to lift, and
hands with which to work, and brains with
which TO think. The amusemcnts of life
are merely the orchestra playing while the
great tragedy of life plungcS through its
five acts infancy, childhood, manhood, old
HHe and death. Then exit the last earthly
opportunity Enter the overwhelming real
ties of an eternal worll,
fuT her and ouV thnt all those
Gnu-emcuts are wrong which lead into
bad company. If Iuu 20 to any place
where you have 10 a,auc.ltc with the in
temperate, with the unClean, with the
abandoned. however we'll they may he
dressed. in the name OF God quit il. They
will dc>poil your nature. They will IN
dcrminc Your moral character They will
diop You when YOU are destroyed. They
will give not one cent to support your chill
drcn when YOU are dead. They will weep
not one tear at your burial. They Will
chuclle over your ;amnGtion
! had a friend ut the west--a rare friend.
He was one Of thu first TO welcome me to
my new home. To fine personal appear
auce he added generosity franl,ne,s and
ardor Of nature that N ide me love him
like a brother. But ! saw evil people gath
crng around him. They cine up from
the saIoon-, from the gambling hei!s.
They piled him with "A thousand arts.
They seized upon hi, social nature, and he
could not stand the charm They drove
him on he rocks. like a ship fall winged,
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