Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-04-29
REV. DIR. 9ALMAGH.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun
day Sermon.
Subject; Evils of IdIeness.


were employed in this service. A deep pit
fall would be digyed. In the center OF it
there was some raised ground with pole on
which 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 wers
caught in gins or pierced with arrows The
hunters in olden time bad two missions-one
to clear the land of ferocious beasts, and the
other to obtain meat for themselves and
their families The occupation and habit OF
hunters are favorite Bible smile. David
said he was hunted by his enemy like par.
fridge upon the mountain. Ny text is
hunting scene.
A sportsman arrayed in n garb appropri-
ate to the wild chase lets slip the bloc !
thirsty hounds from their kennels. and
mounting his feet horse, with a halloo and
the yell of the grey hound 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 into mire up TO the launches or in
10 swift streams up to the bit, till the game
Is tracked by dripping foam and blood, aud
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 tho
chase. my text represents this sportsman as
UflHR lou illuNltUI " vi oo luD kouip ohA
prepare il for food. He lets il lie in the
dooryard of his home and become portion
Tor vermin and beaks of prey. Thus by one
master stroke Solomon gives 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 cooSed the same evening
Or the next day, but not so with this laggard
Of the text. Too lazy to rip off the hide.
FOO lazy to kndle the fire and put the grid
don on the Goals.
The first picture ever bought was an en-
craving of Thorwaldsen's Autumn" The
busters OF grapes are ripe on the vine OF the
homestead, and the returned hounds, pant
ing from the chase, are lying on the doorsill
and the hunter is unslouldering the game,
while the housewife is about to take
oortion of it and prepare it for the evening
neal. Unlike the person of the text she
Eas enough industrious to roast that which
aad been taken in hunting. But the world
cas- had many specimen since Solomons
lime CT those whose laSsitude aud improvl'
ience and absurdity were depicted In my
ext. TIE most of those who have
made dead failure Of life can look back
and see a time when a great opportunity
opened but they did not know it.
They wero not as wise as George Stephen
ION. tho father OF railways who, when at
ixteen years Of age he received an appoint
Dent to work at a pumping engine for
Twelve shilings q week. cried out Now, L
I'm made man for life" God gives TO most
nen at least one good opportunity. A great
Srecian general was met by group OF beg
cars. and he sA'd 10 them: If you want
5casts to plow your land | will lend you
ZONE. If YOU want laud | will give you
Some. IL YOU want seed t. sow your land,
will see that you GET it, But will encour'
,ac none in idleness.n SO God gives to most
oeople an opportunity OF eXtrication from
iepressed circumstances. As if 10 create
VI rs a hatred for incidence Col has
made those animals which are slug
.ish to appear loathsone in our eyes,
while those which are feet and active he
sas clothed with attractiveness.
The tortoise, the sloth, the snail, the croco-
file repel us. while the deer and the gazelle
are as pleasing as they are fiset, and from
the swift wings OF innumera6le BIRDS Go1
sas spared no purple or gold or jet or I'm
son or snowy wilderness. Besides all this the
Bible is constantly assaulting the vice OF
;aziuess. Solomon seems 10 order the idler
ant of his sight as beyond all human instruc-
lion when he saws. $50 TO the ant. thou Stag
gard: consider her ways and be wise And
Paul seems to drive him up from his dining
able before he gets through with the frst
course of food with the assertion, ut any
will not work. neither shall he eat"
Now. what are the causes OF laziness and
what are its evil results knew man who
vas never up 10 time. Ii seemed impossible
.or him to meet an engagement When ne
,vas 10 be married he missed the tram. Ills
tatch seemed TO take on the haoltS OF us
,wner and was always too slow. He had
Il 1 vrhiCh hn did not
tenn RESPONSIBLE. So indolencs often arises
srom The natural temperament do not
xnow but there is constitutional tendency
tn This vice in every man. However active
rou may generally be, have you not on some
warm snring day felt touch OF this feeling
IN Won. although you may have shaken ton
az Won would reptiley But some are so
,owerfully tempted to this by their bodily
constitution that all the work OF their lie
has been accomplished with this lethargy
bapping on their back or treadng on their
heels. ,,r,
You sometimes behold it in childhood.
The child moping and longing within doors
zhiIe his brothers and sisters are at play or
y me ioin them no is behind in every race
md beaten ia every game. His nerves, his
muscles his bones are smitten with this
ralsv. He vegetables rather than lives,
'raens rather than walks, yawns rather
tho1 breatbes The animal in his nature is
stronger than the intellectual. He Is gem
erally a great eater and active only wneh
he cannot digest what he has eaten. tire
CURES as much effort for him to walk as lot
Gthers IN RIM. Languor and drowsinesS are
his natural inheritance He is built for
slow sailing vessel heavy hulk AMI an IN
sufficient cutwatsr. Place an active man
in such a bodily structure and the latter
would be shacken to pieces IN one uay.
Every law of physiology demands tnat ne
be supne Such one IS not respohsloie 70 IUl
this powerful tendency OF his nature MS
great duty is resistance.
Wien see a man fighting an unfortunate
te,nperament all my sympathies are arouse1,
and think OF Victor Hugo's account OF
scene on q warship. where, in the midst Oh
storm at seq. n great cannon got loose, ana
n was crashing this way and that an woulh
have destroyed the ship; and the chiet gum
ner at the almost certain destruction OF MS
own life rushed at it with nan1splSe 10
thrust betgeen the spOkes of the wheel oil ths
rolling cannon. and by fortunate leverage
aIreste the gun till IL could BE- lasaed iast'
Rut that struggle did not seem so dishearten-
inc as that man enters upon who attempts
TO fiqht his natural temperament wnetneI II
be too fast of too slow, TOO nervous OF 700
/ lvmphatic. tOd ne.p nun. loi w. sN''J A..
Furthermore Incidence Is often the result
os easy circumstances. Rough experience
in earlier life seems TO be necessary IN order
IN make a man active and enterprislng'
Mounfa ,neers are nearly always sWartny'
and those who have toile1 among mountain
of trouble get the most nerve ana mus''e
and brain. Those who have become the de-
Iiverers OF nations. once had not wnere 70
Law their heads. EOcusts and wild money
have been the fare of many John the pap
list while those who hal been fondle1 Oh
fortune aud petted AMI praised have oi'ea
grown up lethargic. ,..h;oh
They have none OF that heroism wren
comes from fighting one's own battles. Inc
warm snmm " sun Of prosperity has weak
aned and relaxed them. Born among tue
mxur;es of life, exertion has been unneces-
snry and therefore they speud their time Ia
taking Il easy. Tney may enter into DUST
noes but they are not fitted for its aPpiica-
ton TIA hardships, for its repulses, and after
having lost the most OF that which they nave
invested go back to thorough inactlon. lhi'
costly yacht may do we'll enough on III
smooth, CLASSY bay. but cannot live an hou
amid a chopped sea.
Another cause of Incidence is severe di
enlargement. There are those around l
who started life with the most Sanguin
expectation Their enterprise excited III
remark of all compeers. But some su1de
and overw helming misfortuns met them
and henceforth they have been inactive
I Trouble, instead OF making them more de
terminel, have overthrow them. The
have lost all sef-reliance. They imagine tina
all men and all occurrences are against then