Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-04-30


open aud cat was in the room. Better
smut the door of tbs cage said the mother.
wait a minute, said the boy While be
was waiting the feline creature with one
spring took the canary. The way that
many lose the opportunity of lifetime is
by the same principle. They say, wait
minute Ny advice is not TO wait at all.
Again, bad habits ara fruitful source of
indolencs. Sinful indulgencas shuta mans
shop and dull his tools ami steal his profits.
Dissoiuteness is generally ths cad OF in
dustry. There are thoss who have the rara
faculty OF devoting occasionally day or
week to loose indulgences, and at the ex-
piration of that tine go back with bleared
eyes AMI tremulous hands and bEoatei
cheeks to the faithful and successful per-
Torrance of their dusies In Iced their en-.
ployerS and neighbors expect this anuss-
ment OR occasional season of frolic AMI
wassaii
Some of the best workmen aud most skill.
full artisans have this mo ie of conducting
themselves, but as tae time rolls on the sea-
son of dissipation becomes mora p-otracte
and the season of steadiness and sobriesy
moro limited, until the employers become
disguised and the man is given up to con-
tinual and ruinous lllenass. When that
point has arrived he rushes to destruction
with astonishing velocity. When a man
with strong proclivities of appetite has moth
ing to do, no former self respect or moral
restraint or the bassechinys OF kindral can
save him. Thu only safety for man who
feels himse If under the fascination of any
form offemptation is an employment which
affords nei. her recreation nor holiday,
Nothing can be more unfortunate for
man OF evil inclination than an occupation
which keep. him exceedingly busy during
part OF the rear AMI then leaves him for
weeks and months entirely unemployed.
phapa ara any x-l,o -
protraeted leisure. They are like fractions
steeds that must constantly be kept to tho
load, for a weeks quiet makes them intrac,
able and uncomfortable Bad habits pro-
duc9 idleness and idleness proincas bad
habits. The probability is that you will
either have to give up your loose indulgencas
or elss give up your occupation. Sin will
take all enthusiasm out OF your work and
make you sick of life's dru1gery, aud though
now and then between your seasons OF dissi-
patlons you may rouse up to sudden
activity and start again in the chase of some
high and noble end, even though you catch
the game you viii sink back into slothfulness
before you have oasted that which you took
Ia hunting Bad habits unfit a man for any.
thing but politics.
Now, what are he results of Incidence? A
marked consequen 20 of this vice is physical
disease. The u2althiness of the whole natu-
raj world depends upon activity. The
winds, tossed and driven in endless circuits,
scattering the mists from the mountains and
scooping out death damps from the caves,
and blasting the miasma of swamps and
hurting back the fetid atmosphere of great
cities, are healthy Just because of their
swiftness and uncontrollabieness of sweep.
But. after awhile the wind falls and the
hot sun pours through it, and when toe
leaves are still aud the grain fields ben1 not
once all day long, then pestilence smites its
victims and digs trenches for the dead.
All the healthy beauty of that which we
see and hear in the natural world is depend
ent upon activity and unrest Men will be
healthy enthusiastically, morally aud physi-
calIy-only upon the condition of an active
industry. 1 know ms1 die every day of over
work. They drop down in coal pits, and
among the spiadles of Northern factories
and on the cotton plantations of the South.
In every city and town and village you fluid
men groaning under burdens as, in the East,
the camels stagger sn1er their loads between
Aleppo and Damascus. Life is crushed out
every day at counters AMI workbencaes AMI
anvils. But there are other multtuieS who
die from mere inertia. Indutgences every
day are contracting disease beyond the
cathoicon of allopathy and homeopathy aud
hydropathy aud eclecticIsm Rather than
work they rush upon lancets AMI scapels:
Nature has provided for thuse wlo violate
her laws by inacSvity-what rhsum for the
ewes, and what govt for the feet. AMI what
curvature for the spine, AMI what structures
for the chest, and what tubercies for the
lungs and what rhe umatiSm for the muscles
and what neuralgias for the nerves. Nature
in time arrai gns every suca culprit at her
bar, and presents against him an Indictment
OF one hundred counts, and convicts him on
each one of them The laws Of nature will
not stop their action because men may bo
ignorant of them. Disease, when it comes
to do its work, does not ask whether you I'M
derstand hygiene or pathology or materla
medica.
If there were not so many lies written on
tombstones aud in obituaries you would sec
what multitu les of the worlds inhabitants
are slain in their attempts to escape the
necessity of toll Men cross oceans and con-
tinents, and climb the Alps, and sit under
the sky of Italy or the shadow OF Egyptian
Pyramid, and go down into ancient rains,
and battle at Baden Baden. AMI come home
with the same shortDess of breath, an the
same poor digestion, and thu same twitca-
ing of the nerves, when at home with their
own spade they might have dug health out
of the ground or with their own axe hewl
health cut of log or with their own scythe
garnered health from the grain field.
There ara many VINO estimate the re.
spectability OF al occupation by the littld
exertion it demands, aud would not have
their children enter any employment wherl
their hands may be soile1 forgetting that
a laborer's overatls are just as honorable as
a priests rooeS an | an anvil is Just as re-
spectacle as pulpit Health flies from the
bel of Gown and says. Il cannot sleep
here" and from the table spread with
ptarmiga1 and epicurea1 viands saying, Il
cannot eat here;' AMI from the vehicle of
soft cushions and easy Springs, saying, Il
cannot ride here" aud from houses
luxuriously warmel and upholstered. say.
meet health. who decline all these luxuriant
places walking in the plows furrow or
sweltering beside the kissing forge, or spin
ming among the looms, or driving dray; or
thinning roof, or carrying hols of brick up
the ladder OF wal.
Furthermore. notice that in loience en-
dangers the SOU. Satan makes his chief
conquests over men who either have moth
ing 10 do, or, if they have, refuse to do it.
There is legen1 that st. Thomas. years
after Chris5s resurrection, began again to
doubt, and he went to the Apostles and told
them about his doubts. Each Apostle looked
at him with surprise and then said be must
be excused, for he ha no time to listen any
longer. Then st. Thomas went to the de.
vout women of his tina ani expresssl his
doubts. They said they were sorry, but
they had no time to listen. Theu St.
Thomas concluded that it was because they
were so busy that the Apostl es AMI the de-
vout women had no doubts.
ldleness not only leads man into asso-
Citations which harm his morals, but often
thruSts uoon him the worst kind of skep-
ticism. Loafers are almost always nfidels,
or fast getting to be. Consum mate idlers
never read the Bible and il they appear in
church can be distinguished in an audiences
OF thousand by their listlessnsss, for they
are too lazy to hear. 1t is uot SO much
among occupied merchants, industrious me-
chanics and professional men always busy
that you hear the religion of Jesus
malignsd, as in public lounging places given
tip to profanity and dissoluteneSs, They have
no sympathy with the Book that says, Let
him that stole steal no more; but rather let
him labor, working with his hands the thing
which is good that he may have to give to
him that neeiethn
never knew man given upt thorough
ldleness that was converted. Simon and
Andrew were converted while fishing, and
Lydia while selling purple, and the shepherds
of Bethlehem watching their focls heard
the voice Of angels, and Gideon was thrash
ing on the thrashing floor, but no one was
ever converted with his hands in his pockets.
Let me tell the idler that there is no h1pe
for him either in this world or in the world
which is to come. If the Son of God who
owned the whole universe. worked in the
carpenter shop of Joseph, surely we, who
own so little, yet want so much, ought to be
busy. The redeemed in heaven are never
idle. What exciting songs they sing!
On what messages of love they fly through
an taking worlds in one circuit; rushing
with infnits fiercsness against sin aud
cruelty and oppression, aud making the
yates of he'll to uuaka at the overthrow of