Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-05-04
LAzINESS.
Sometimes Il just Comes 10 10 Kind
Of Natural.


Sometimes It'a the Result Of Ensy cfrcum-
stanccs-somctimes q sudden Great
Misfortunc Breeds It--Scrmon by
Rev. r. DE witt Talmngc.
DIR. Talmage preached sermon last
Sunday from the following text: Prov.
xiii, %. "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 ont on a
hunting expedition. Spears, lanccs,
swords and nets were employed in this
service. A deep pitfall would be digged.
In the centre of 1t there was some rails
ed ground with n pole on which n lamb
would be fastened 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 oldcn time
had two missions, one to clear the land
of fcrocious beasts and the other to OBJ
tcin meat for themselves and their fam
HES. The occupation and habit Of
hunters are favorite Bible simile.
David said he was hunted by his enemy
like partridge upon the mountain. My
text is n hunting scene.
| a sportsman, arraycd in n garb APP
| propriate 10 the wild chase lets slip the
bloodthirsty hounds from their kennels,
md mounting his fleet horse, with n
hnlloo and the yell of the greyhound
pack, they are off and away. through
| brake and dell, over marsh and moor
across chasms where misstep would
| hurl horse and rider TO death, plunging
nto miro up to the launches or into
witt streams up to the bit. till the
| game is tracked by dripping foam and
blood, and the antlcrs crack on the
rocks, and the hunter has just time
| To bc in at the death. Yet. aftcrall the
| haste and peril of the chase my text
represents this sportsman as being
too indolent to dress the game and pre-
pare it for food. He lets it lie in the
dooryard of his home and become por-
ton for vermin and beaks of prey.
Thus by one master-strolse Solomon
gives picture of laziness when he says:
1.-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 evening or
the next day, but not so with this lag
|
hide. Too lazy To- lxindlc the fire and
put the giidiron on the Goals.
| The first picture l ever bought was an
engraving of Thorwaldscn'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 door sill and the hunter is
unshouldering the game, while the
housewife is about TO take n portion of
1t and prepare it for the evening meal.
Unlike the person of the text, she was
enough industrious to roast that which
had been taken i'm hunting. But the
World has had many n specimen since
s, lemons time of those whose
lassitude and improvidence and alb
surdity were depicted in my text.
The most of those who have made n
dead failure of life can look back and
see time when n great opportunity
opened, but they did not know it.
| They were not as wise as George
Stephenson, ''the father of railways"
who, when sixteen years of age he re-
ceivcd an appointment to work Mt a
pumping engine for twelve shillings n
week, cried: Now, / am made man
fer life" God gives to most men Mt
least one good opportunity. great
Grccian general was met by a group of
bcggars, and he said to them: IF you
want beasts TO plow your land 1 will
lend you some.n
| If you want land win give you some
II You want seed to sow your land, /
will sec that you get il. But / will en-
courage none in idlcness." SO, God
gives 90 most people an opportunity of
extraction from depressed circum-
stances. As il to create in MS a hatred
for Incidence, God has made those
pear loathsome in our eyes, while those
which are fleet and active he has
clothed with attractiveness. The
tortoicc, the sloth, the snail, the croci-
die rcpcl us, while the deer and the
gazcllc are as pleasing as they are fleet,
and from the swift wings of innumcr-
able birds God has spared no purple, or
gold. or jet, or crimson, or snowy white
ness. Besides all this the Bible is con-
stantly assaulting the vice of laziness.
Solomon seems to order the idler out os
his sight as being beyond all human in
struction when he says: eco TO the ant.
thou sluSgard; consider her ways and
| be wise And Paul seems to drive him
mp from his dining table before lac gets
thror III with its first course of food
with the assertion: 'If any will not
work, neither shall he eat"
Now, what are the causes OF laziness
and what are its evil results? ] know n
man who was never up TO time. 1t
seemed impossible for him 20 meet an
engagement. When he was TO be mar
ricd, he missed the train. His watch
seemed 60 take the habits of its owner
and was always too slow. He had "a
constitutional lcthargy for which he
did not seem responsible. So Incidence
often arises from the natural temporal
ment / do not know but that
there is constitutional tendency TO
this vice in every man. However act
I've You may generally be. have you
not on some warm spring day felt n
touch Of this feeling on you, although
you may have shaken IL OF as YOU
would q reptile? But some are so pow
erfully tempted 90 this by their bodily
constitution that all the work Of their
life has been accomplished with this
lcthargv hanging ON their back or tread
ing ON their heels. You sometimes be