The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-04-27

or occasional season of frolic and was
sail. Some of the best worlSmen and
most slxilful artisans have. this mode OF
conducting themselves, but, as the time
rolls on, the season of dissipation becomes
more protracted and the season of steadt
ness and sobriety more limited, until
the employers become disgusted and the
man is given up to a continual and ruin
GUS idleness. When that point has ar
rived he rushes to destruction with as
tonishing velocity. When man with
wrong proclivities of appetite has moth
ing to do, no former self-respect o.
moral restraint or the beseechings O.
kindred can save him. The only safety
for man who feels himself under the
fascination of any form of temptation
is an employment which affords neither
recreation nor holiday Nothing car
be more unfortunate for a man of evi,
inclination than an occupation which
keeps him exceedingly busy during
part'of the year and then leaves him
for weeks and months entirely unem,
ployed. There are many men who
cannot endure protracted leisure. They
are like fractions steeds that must
constantly be kept to the load, for
weeks quiet makes them intractable
and uncomfortable. Bad habits pro.
duce idleness and idleness produces bad
habits. The probability is that you will
either have to give up your loose indul-
gences or else give up your occupation.
Sin will take all enthusiasm out of your
work, and make you sick of life drudg.
cry, and though now and then between
your seasons of dissipation, 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 will sink back into slothful-
ness before you have roasted that which
you took in hunting. Bad habits unfit
man for everything but politics.
Now, what are the results of indo
lenceP A marked consequence of this
vice is physical disease. The healthiness
of the whole natural world depends
upon activity. The winds, tossed and
driven in endless circuits, scattering
the mist from the mountains and scoop
ing out death damps from the caves and
blasting the miasma of swamps and
hurling back the fetid atmosphere. OF
great cities, are healthy, just because
of their swiftness and uncontrollabless
of sweep. But, after awhile, the wind
falls and the hot sun pours through
it, and when the leaves are still and
the grain fields bend once more all
day long, then pestilence smites its
victims and digs trenches for the
dead. The fountain, born far up in
wild wood Of the mountain, comes down
brighter for every obstacle against
which it is riven and singing new
song on every shelf Of rock over which
it bounds, till it rolls over the watei
wheels in the valleys not ashamed to
grind corn, and runs through the long
grass of the meadow, where will
lows reach down to dip their branches
and the unyoked oxen come at eventide
to cool. Healthy waterl Bright water
Happy water! While some stream, tc
lazy any more to run, gathers itself int
q wayside pool, where the swine wallow
tnd'flthy insects hop over the surface
and reptiles crawl among the ooze and
frogs utter their hideous croalS
and by day and night there rises
from the foul mire and green
scam, fever. and plague, and death
There is an endless activity under
foot and overhead Not one 4 o'clock
in the flower bed, not one fly on the
window pane, not one squirrel gather
ing food from the cones of the white
pine, not one rabbit feeding on clover
tops, not one drop falling in a shower,
not one minnow glancing in the sea, not
one quail whistling from the grass, not
one hawk cawing in the sky, but Is
busy now and is busy always, fulfilling
its mission as certainly IS any monarch
on earth or any angelin Heaven. You
hear the shout of the plowboys basy In
the field and the rattle of the whiffle-
trees ON the harrow, but you do not know
that there is more industry in the earth
upturned and in the dumb vegetation
under foot than in all that you see II
you put your ear to lump Of riyen SOD
you may hear nothing In the roots and
spicule Of grass, but there are at work
spades and cleavers and pile drivers and
battering rams and internecine wars.
do not wonder that the lively fancy Of
the ancients saw in the inanimate crea.
tion around Floras and Pomas and
Cruces and Fauns and Fairies and Satyr'
and Nymphs Everything is busy
nothing is inanimate, except the mar
who can not see the life and hear the
music. At the creation the morning
stars sing together, but they were only
the choir which was 10 lead all the star
and all the mountains and all the seas
in Gods worship, All natural object;
seem at one and the same time unit
ing In work and 10y and
worship In Gods creation there
Is no pause in either the worship
or the work or the joy. Amid all nat
ural objects at one and the same time Il
is Halloween and Whit Sunday and Ash
Wednesday and All Saints day. All the
healthy beauty of that which we
see and hear in the natural world Is de
pendent upon activity and unrest Mer
will be healthy-intellectually, morally
and physically-only upon the condition
Of an active industry. i know men die
every day Of overworlr. They drop dowr
in coal pits and among the spindles o.
northern factories and on the cottor
plantations Of the south. In every city
and town and village You find men groaa
ing under burdens, as, In the east, the