The Dickinson press., 1892-05-07

maj woulo be oowncasu at the Tor.
lorn prospect, he is always cheerful
and sanguine and jovial, for he does
not know but that he may be within
a day or two of astounding success.
Again, bad habits are a fruitful
source OF Incidence.
SINFUL lNDULGENCEs.
shut a mans shop and dull his tools
and steal his profits. Dissoluteness
is generally the end of industry.
There are those who have the rare
faculty OF devoting occasionally a day
or a week to looseindulgences, and, at
the expiration OF that time, go back
with bleared eyes and tremulous hands
and bloated cheeks to the faithful and
successful performance OF their duties.
Indeed their employers and neigh
bors expect this amusement
or occasional season of frolic
and wassail. Some OF the best
workmen and most skillful artisans
have this mode OF conducting them
selves, but, as the time rolls on, the
season OF dissipation becomes more
protracted and the season of steadi-
ness and sobriety more limited, until
the employers become disguised and
the man is given up to a continual
and ruinous idleness. When that
point has arrived herushes to destruc-
ton with astonishing velocity.
Now, what are the results of indo-
lence? A. marked consequence of this
vice is physical disease. The healthi-
ness OF the whole natural world de-
ponds upon activity. The winds, toss
ed and driven in endless circuits, scat
terine the mists from the mountains
and scoopins out death damps from
the caves and blasting the miasma of
swamps and hurting back the fetid at
mosphere of great cities. are healthy,
just because OF their swiftness and UNI
controllableness OF sweep. But after
a while, the wind falls and the hot
sun pours through it, and when the
leaves are still! and the grain fields
bend not II c all day long, then
P%EsTILENCE sMlTEs ITS VICTIMS
and digs trenches for the dead.
Furthermore, notice that Incidence
ENDANGERs THE SOUL.
Satan makes his Chief conquests over
men who either have nothing to do,
or, ii they have, refuse to do it. There
is a legend that st. Thomas, years
after Christ S resurrection. began again
to doubt, and he went to the apostles
and told them about his doubts.
Each apostle looked at him with sur
prise and then said he must beexcused
for he had no time to listen amy long
er. Then St. Thomas went to the de-
Won't women OF his time and expressed
his doubts. They saidthey weresorry
but they hadno timeto listen. Then,
st. Thomas concluded, that it was
because they We're 50 busy that the
Apostles and the devout women had
no doubts. Idleness not only leads
a man into associations which harm
his morals, but often thrusts upon
him the worst kind of scepticism.
Loafers are almost always intidels, or
fast getting to be. Consummate oilers
never read the Bible, and, if they ap-
pear in church, a be distinguished
in IN audience of Il thousand by their
listlessness, for they are too lazy to
hear.
never knew a mar given up to
lulelleSS tnal q converted.
Simon and Andrew were converted
while fishing, and LYDIA while selling
purple, and the shepherds OF Bethle-
hem watching their f1ocks heard the
voices of angles, and Gideon was
threshing on the threshing-noor, but
no one was eve converted with his
hands in his pockets. Let me tell the
idler that there is no hope for him
either in this world or in the world
which is to ONE If the Son OF God,
who owned the wholeuniverse, worked
in the carpenter shop OF Joseph, sure
ly we who own SO little, yet want so
much, ought to be busy. The grain is
ready. 1t is tall, it isfull, it is golden.
1t waves in tie sunlight. 1t rustles in
the wind. 1t would fill the barns. 1t
wonld crowd the gamers. After
awhile it will lodge, OF the mildew ana
the rust will smite it. Oh, where are
the reapers to bind the sheaves! The
enemies of God are marslraled. You