The Red Cloud chief., 1891-03-27

""' StN'h- III "drlteu I'd SNOW
me the sights Of the town. He painted
n path OF sin until it looked like emer-
aid, but was afraid OF him. ! showed
back from the basilisk-I made up my
mind he was a basilisk. remember
how he wheeled his chair round in front
OF me and, with n conccntercd and dia-
boiical effort, attempted 70 destroy my
soul but there were good angels in the
air that night II was no good resolu-
ton on my part, but il was the all en-
comprising grace Of a good God that
delivered me. Beware! beware. O,
young n "There is n way that
scemcth right unto a man, but the end
thereof is death" The table has been
robbed to pay the club. The champagne
has cheated the children's wardrobe.
The c~arousing party has burned up the
boys primer. The table cloth of the
corner saloon is in debt 20 the wife's
faded dress. Excursions that in a day
make a our around a whole months
wages; ladies who's, lifetime business
Is to go shopping" large bets on horses,
have their counterparts in ~uncdHcated
"aiar bBt'f'S thht Si''h It1
money market and appal the church,
and that SEND drunkenness staggering
across the richly figured carpet Of the
mansion, and dashing into the mirror,
n drowning out the carol Of music
with the ~whooping OF bloated sons
come home To break their old mothers
heart.
When men go into amusemcnts that
they can not afford they first borrow
what they can not earn and then they
steal what they can not borrow. First
they go into embarrassment and then
into lying and then into theft, and
when "A man gets as far on as that he
does not stop short of the ~penitcntiary.
Merchants Of brooklyn or New York,
Is there "A Encouragement in your ac-
counts? j. there n leakage in your
counts come out right last night? I
will tell you. There is a young man in
your store wandering off into bad
amuscments. The salary you give him
may meet lawful expenditures, but not
the sinful indulgenccs in which he has
entered, and he takes by theft that
which you do not give him in lawful
salary.
How bright the path Of unrestained
amusement opens. The young man
says: Now | am Off for a good time.
Never mind economy. III get money
somehow. What a fine road, What a
beautiful day for a ride. Crack the
whip, and over h turnpike. Come,
boys, fill high your glasses. Drink,
Long life. health, plenty of rides just
like this" Hard working men hear the
%clattcr Of the hoofs and look up and
say: "Why, wonder where those fell
lows get their money from! We have
To toll and drudge. They do nothing"
To these gay men life is a thrill and an
excitement. They stare ut other people,
and in turn are stared at The watch
chain jinglcs The cup foams. The
checks flush. The eyes flash. The
midnight hears their guffaw. They
swaggcr. They iostle decent men off
the sidewalk. They take the name of
God in vain. They parody the hymn
they learned mt their mothers knee,
and to all pictures of coming disaster
they cry out, who cares" and to the
counsel of some Christian friend, "Who
are you?" Passing along the street some
night you heal a shrek n n grog shop,
the rattle of the watchman's club. the
rush of the police. What is the matter
now? o, this reckless young man has
been killed in a grog shop fight. Carry
him home to his mothers house. Par
cntS will ON down and wash his
wounds and close his eyes in death.
They forgive him all he ever did, al |
though he cannot in his silence ask il.
The prodigal has got home at last.
! 60 further, and say those arc I'M
christian amuscments which become
the chief business of n mans life. Life
is an earnest thing. Whether we were
born in a palace or n howell; whether we
are nfliuent or pinched, we have To
work. IL Won do not sweat with toll,
You will sweat with disease. You have
a soul that Is to Toe TRANSPORTED amidst
the ponp of "A judgment day; and after
the sea has sung its last chant. and the |
mountain shall have come down i'm an
avalanche of rock, You will live and
hiii hii aNNr IT, wa S wi NltEt |
scraphs sing. or deep in a dungeon
howl. In "A world where there is SO
much Ia do for yourself and 50 much Ia
do for others, God pity hat man who
has nothing to do.
Your sports are merely means 10 an
end. They are alterations and helps.
The arm of toll is the only arm strong
enough Ia bring up the bucket from the
deep well of pleasure. Amusement is
only the bower where business and phil
anthropy rest while on their way 10
achievements. Amusemcnts
merely the vines that grow about
the anvil OF toll and the blossoming of
the hammers. Alas for the mar who
his life in laboriously doing
nothing, his days in hunting up loung-
ing places and ~loungers, his nights in
seeking ont some gas-lightcd foolery,
The man who always has ON his sport
ing jacket, ready Ia hunt for game in
the mountain or fish in the brook, with
no time la pray. or work. or read, is not
So well off rs the greyhound that runs
by his side, or the fly bait with which
he whips the stream.
4 man who does not work does not
how Ia play. II God had intend
ri us 10 DO nothing but laugh. He would
not have given us shoulders with which
Ia lift, and hands with which 10 work,
and brains with which to think. The
amuscmcnts Of life are merely the
orchestra playing while the great trag-
"f life rlungcs through its five acts
infancy. childhood. manhood. old age
and death. Then cxi, the last earthly
Enter the overwhelming
rcalitics of an eternal world.
l SO further, and say that all those
are wrong which lead into
had company. II you go To any place
here YOU have Ia associate with the
incorporate, with the unclcan. with the
abandoned, however well they NAV he
in the name Of God quit IL
They will despoil your nature They
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