Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-04-28
ROOT OF MANY EVILS.
DR.. TALMAGE PAYS HIS RE-
SPECTS TO THE LAGGARD.
No Room In this World for Lazy Men
and Women The Slothful Man
Roasteth Not that Which He Took In

BROOKLYN, N. Y.,April ga visitor
to the Brooklyn Tabernacle this morn
ing would have no difficulty in under
standing the secret of the attraction
which fills the vast building Sunday
after Sunday with throngs of eager
listeners. Avoiding abstruse theologi-
cal subjecta, DIR. Talmage preached a
sermon on practical topic giving
shrewd commOn-sense lessons of in
estimable value to his hearers, especially
to the young people. His text was,
Prov. 1927 "The slOthful man rOasteth
not that which he took in hunting
David, and jeremiah, and Ezekiel,
and Micah, and Solomon of the text
showed that some time they had been
out on hunting expedition. Spears,
lances, swords, and nets were en-
ploved in this service. A deep pitfall
would be digged. In the center of it
there was some raised ground with Il
pole on which lamb would be fast
ened. and the wild beast not seeing
the pitfall, but only seeing the lamb
would plunge for its prey and dash
down, itself captured. Birds were
caught in gins or pierced with arrows
The hunters in olden time had two
missions, one to clear the land of fero-
cions beasts and the Other to obtain
meat for themselves, and their fami-
lies. The occupation and habit of
hunters are favorite bible Simile
David said he was hunted by his
enemy like a partridge upon the mount
ain. My text is hunting scene.
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 lying on the door sill,
and the hunter is unshouldering the
game, while the housewife is about TO
take 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
a specimen since Solomon's time OF
those whose lassltudc and inn
providence and absurdity were
depicted in my text The
most Of those who have made
Il dead failure of life can look back and
see a time when u great opportunity
opened but they did not know it. They
were not as wise rs George Stephenson,
1.-THE fatherof railways" who, when at
l6 years of age he received an appoint
ment to work at pumping engine for
twelve shillings a week, cried out:
Now l am a made man for life" God
gives to most men at least one good OPP
pOrtunity. A great Greciau general
was met by a group of beggars, and he
said to them: "lf you want beasts to
pillow your land, will lend you some. If
you want land, l will give you some. If
you want seed to SOW your land, | will
see that you get it. But | will encour-
age none in idleness." So, God gives
to most people an opportunity of extri-
cation from depressed circumstances.
As if to create in us a hatred for indo'
/ lcncc, God has made those animals
which are sluggish to appear loathsome
in our eyes, while those which are fleet
and active, he has clothed with attract
ivcness The tortoise, the sloth, the
snail, the crocodile repel us, while the
deer and the gazelle are as pleas
/ ing as they are fleet, anc
from the swift wings of innumerablt
birds God has spared no purple or gold
or jet or crimson or snowy Wilderness
/ Beside all this the Bible is constantly
assaulting the vice of lazincss. Solomon
seems to order the idlcr out of his sight
/ as being beyond all human instruc
ton when he says: $50 to the ant
thou sluggard; consider her ways ant
i be wise" And Paul seems to drive
| him up from his dining table before h'
] gets through with the first course o
/ food with the assertion: "lf any will
not work, neither shall he eat"
Now, what are the causes of lazines
and what are its evil results? l knew
man who was never up to time.
seemed impossible for him to meet al
engagement. When he was to be mar
ried, he missed the train. His watcl
seemed to take on the habits of it
owner and was always too slow. III
had constitutional lethargy, TO
which he did not seem responsible. 81
Incidence often arises from tn
natural temperament. l do no
know but that there is constitutions
tendency to this vice in every man
However active you may generally be
have you not on some warm spring da,
felt a touch of this feeling on you, al
though you may have shaken it off a
you would reptile? But some are S
powerfully tempted to this by their bod
ily constitution that all the work O
their life has been accomplished wit
this lethargy hanging on their bacI
or treading on their heels. You some
times behold it in childhood
The child moping and loungin
within doors is behind in every rae
and beaten in every game. His nerves
his muscles, his bones are smitten wit
this palsy. He vegetables rather tina
lives, creeps rather than walks, yawn
rather than breathes. The animal i
his nature is stronger than the intellect
ual. He is generally great eater an
active only when he cannot digest tina
which he has eaten. 1t requires 9
much effort for him TO walk as fC
others to run. Languor and drowsine'
are his natural inheritance. He
= built for slow-sailing vessel, heav
hulk and an insufficient GU
water. Place an active man in sue
n bodily structure and the latter wouI
be shaken to pieces in one day. Ever
law of physiology demands that he |
supine. Such one is not responsible
for this powerful tendency of his natur
His great duty is resistance. When
see a man fighting an unfortunate ten
permanent, all my sympathies al
aroused, and / think of VictC
Hugo's account of seer
on war-ship, where, in IL
midst of storm at sea, a great cannc
got loose, and it was crashing this wa