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

laws OF nature will not stop their action
because men may be ignorant of them.
Disease, when IL comes to do its work,
does not ask whether you understand
hygiene, or pathology, or materia med
lea. II there were not so many lies
written ON tombstones and in obituaries,
you would see what multitudes of the
worlds Inhabitants are slain in their
attempts to escape the necessity OF toll.
Men cross oceans and continents, and
climb the Alps, and sit under the sky OF
Italy or the shadow of Egyptian Pyra-
mid, and go down into ancient ruins,
and bathe at Baden Baden, and come
home with the same shortness of breath
and the same poor digestion and the
same twitching of the nerves, when at
home with their own spade they might
have dug health out of the ground, or
with their own ak hewn health out OF
log, or with their own scythe garnered
health from the grain field. There are
many who estimate the responsibility OF
an occupation by the little exertion ii
demands, and would not have their
children enter any employment where
their hands may be soiled, forgetting that
alaborers overalls are just as honorable
rs priests robes and an anvil is just az
respectable as pulpit. Health flies
from the bed of down and says: 81 can
not sleep here;' and from the table
spread with ptarmigan and epicurean
viandk, saying: II cannot eat here;" and
from the vehicle of soft cushions and
easy springs, saying cannot ride here;'
and from houses luxuriantly WARMED
and upholstered, saying, 81 cannot live
here" and some day you meet Health
who declined all these luXlTiGGt places,
walking in the plow's furrow OF swell
tering beside the Kissing forge or spin
ming among the looms or driving dray
or timing a roof or carrying hods OF
brick up the ladder of wall.
Furthermore, notice thai incidence
endangers the soul Satan makes his
chief conquests over men who have
nothing to do or, if they have, refuse to
do it. There is legend that st.
Thomas, years after Christ's resurrec-
ton, began again to odoubt, and he went
! to the Apostles and told w m about his
doubts Each Apostle lI,Eed at him
with surprise. and then sad he must be
excused. for he had no time to listen
any longer. Then st. Thomas went to
the devout women of his time and ex-
pressed his doubts Theysaid they were
sorry, but they had no time to listen.
Then st. Thomas concluded that
II was because they were so busy
that the Apostles and tbs devout
women had no doubts. Idlencss not
only leads man into assD stations which
harm his morals, but often thrnStS upon
him the worst kind of shepticism. Loaf,
ers are almost infidels, % are fast get
ting to be. Consummate idlcrs never
read the Bible and, II they appear in
church, can DO distinguished in any
audience of thous md by thSir istles5-
ness, for they are too lazy to hear. II
Is not so much among occupied mer'
chants, industrious mechanics and pro
fessional men always busy that you
hear the religion Of Jesus mingled, as
In public lounging places given up tc
tofanity 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 needeth.
never knew man given up to thor
ouph idleness that was converted. SimoT
and Andrew were converted while fish
ing, and Lydia while selling purple, ant
the shepherds of Bethlehem watching
their fioclss heard the voice Of angels
and Gideon was threshing on th'
threshing floor, but no one was ever con
gerted with HIS hands in his pockets
Let me tell the idler that there is M
hope for him either in this world or II
the world which is TO come II the Sor
or.tiod. who owned the whole universe
worked in the carpenter shop OF 10
ssph, surely we, who own so little, ye
want so much, ought to be busy. Th'
redeemed in heaven are never idle
What exciting songs they sing! Or
what messages Of love they fly through
all the universe, fulfilling Gods higl
behest and taking worlds in one circuit
rushing with infinite ferceness agains
sin and cruelty and oppression, ant
making the gates Of hell to quake a
the overthrow of the priRcipalities o
darkness, and in the same twinkle Of al
eye speeding back to their thrones will
the news OF sinners repentant. TIL,
River OF Life is ever flowing, and tn,
palms ever waving, and the halleluia
ever rising, and the harps ever sound
ing, and the temple always open, ant
the golden streets always arush will
chariots of salvation, and the last plac
which you ought ever to want to go h
Is Heaven unless you want 10 be busy
Alas, my hearers, that in thi
world there should be so many lounger
and 80 few workers. We go into tn
vineyard Of the church, and we hear tn
arbor groan under the hef I Of the vine
aud the clusters hanging down, large
and thick, and ripe, cluster agains
cluster. fairer than the punches @
Eschol and Engedi, and at touch the
win turn into wine, more ruddy tina,
that of Libanus and Helbon. But,wher
are the men TO gather the vintage an
tread the wine press? There comes I
your ear sound of thousand wheat
fields ready for the sickle. The grain
ready. II is tall, it is full, 1t is golden
Il waves in the sunlight. 1t rustles i
the wind. 1t would fill the barns i
would crowd the gacners, After awhil
II win lodge, or the mildew and tn