News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-04-28

~ Of ferocious
cain meat for
- .tneir families. The &C.
va Va remarks last .ibit of hunters are a ia
SeF61tft9fer que sinile. David said he was
hunted by his enemy like a partridge
upon the mountain. My text is hunt
ing scene.
A sportsman arrayed in garb appro-
pirate to the wild chase let's slip the
bloodthirsty hounds from their kennels,
and mounting his feet horse, with hal
loo and the yell of the greyhound pack
they are Of and away, through brake
and dell, over marsh and moor, across
chasms where a misstep would hurl
horse and rider to death, plunging into
mire up to their launches or into swift
streams up to the bit, till the game is
tracked by dripping foam and blood and
the antlers crack ON the rocks and the
hunter has just time to be in at the
death.
Yet after all the haste and peril of the
chase. my text represents this sportsman
as being too indolent to dress the game
and prepare it for food. He lets it lie in
the doOryard of his home and become a
portion for vermin and beaks of prey.
Thus by one master stroke Solomon
gives a picture of laziness, when he
says, THE slothful man roasteth not
that which he took in hunting" The
most of hunters have the game they
shot or entrapped cooked the same even
ing or the next day, but not SO with this
laggard of the text. Too lazy to rip
off the hide. Too lazy to kindle the fire
and put the gridiron on the Goals.
BEAUTIFUL PICTURE.
The first picture L ever bought was an
engraving of Thorwaldsen's Autumn
The clusters of grapes are ripe on the
vine of the homestead, and the returned
hounds, painting from the chase, are ly-
ing ON the doorsill, and the hunter is
unshouldering the game, while the
housewife is about to take a portion of
it and prepare it for the evening meal
Unlike the person of the text, she was
enough industrious to roast that which
had been taken in hunting. But the
world has had many specimen since
Solomon's time of those whose lassitude
and improvidence and absurdity were
depicted in my text. The most of those
who have made a dead failure of life
can look back and see time when
great opportunity opened, but they did
not know it.
They were not as wise as George
Stephenson, 1.-THE father of railways"
who, when at sixteen years of age he re-
ceived an appointment to work a pump
ing engine for twelve shillings a week,
cried ont, Nov, am a made man for
life" God gives to most men at least
A
general was met by group of beggars,
and he said to them: eff you want
beasts to pillow your land, will lend you
some. If you want land, | will give
you some. If you want seed to SOW
your land, / will see that you get it,
but | will encourage none in idleness.''
So God gives to most people an oppor-
tunity of extrication from depressed cir
cumstances.
AS if to create in us a hatred for in
dolence, God has made those animals
which are sluggish to appear loathsome
in our eyes, while those which are feet
and active he has clothed with attract
iveness. The tortoise, the sloth, the
snail, the crocodile repel us, while the
deer and the gazelle are as pleasing as
they are fleet, and from the swift wings
of innumerable birds God has spared no
purple or gold or jet or crimson or snowy
whiteness. Besides all this the Bible is
constantly assaulting the vice of lazi-
ness. Solomon seems to order the idler
out of his sight as being beyond all hui
man instruction when he says, $50 to
the ant, thou sluggard; consider her
ways and be wise" And Paul seems to
L., L.
fore he gets through with the first course
oJnef cd, with the assertion, IF any will
ard forork, neither shall he eat"
d he retaYhat are the causes of laziness
fron Man+usmeYil results? I knew a
from MohtnLss' never up to time It
-tkins ca impossible for him to meet an
while cement When he was to be mar
anu he missed the train. His watch
Seemed to take on the habits of it's owner
and was always too slow. He had
constitutional lethargy, for which he did
not seem responsible. So incidence often
arises from the natural temperament.
do not know but that there is a consti-
tutional tendency to this vice in every
man. However active you may gener-
ally be, have you not on some warm
spring day felt touch of this feeling on
you, although you may have shaken it
off as you would a reptile? But some
are so powerfully tempted to this bv
their bodily constitution thar all the
work of their life has been accomplished
with this lethargy hanging on their back
or treading on their heels.
You sometimes behold it in childhood.
The child moplng and Iounging within
doors while his brothers and sisters are
at play, or if he join them he is behind
in every race and beaten m every game
His nerves, his muscles, his bones are
slnitten with this palsy. He vegetables
rather than lives, creeps rather than
talks, yawns rather than breathes. The
animal in his nature is stronger than the
intellectual. He is generally a great
eater and active only when he cannot
digest what he has eaten. 1t requires as
much effort for him to walk as for others
to run. Languor and drowsiness are his
natural inheritance. He is built for a
slow sailing vessel-a heavy hulk and
an insufficient cutwater. Place an active
man in such bodily structure and the
latter would be shaken to pieces in one
day. Every law Of physiology demands
that he be supine. Such one is not re-
sponsible for this powerful tendency of
his nature. His great duty is resistance.
When l see man fighting an unfor-
tunate temperament, all my sympathies
are aroused, and think of Victor Hugo's
account Of a scene ON a warship where,
IN the midst of storm at sea, great
cannon got loose, and it was crashing
this way and that and would have de-
stroyed the ship; and the chief gunner,
at the almost certain destruction of his |
own life, rushed at it with handspike |
to thrust between the spokes of the |
wheel of the rolling cannon and by !
fortunate leverage arrested the gun till |
it could be lashed fast. But that strug-
gle did not seem so disheartening as |
that man enters upon who attempts to