The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-05-05
GOOD GAME WASTED.
DEPLORABLE RESULTS OF INDO-
LENCE PORTRAYED.


Sluggard-Somo Arc Born Lazy, Some
Achieve Laziness and Some Haye Lazi-
ness Forced on Them.
BROOKLYN, Il. l., April "a
DR.. Talmage preached sermon on a
practical topic this morning giving
shrewd common sense less ons of inesti-
mable value to his hearers, especially
to the young people, who make up
large part OF his congregation. His text
was Proverbs XII, 81, "The slothtul
man roasteth not that which he took in
hunting"
David and jeremiah and Ezekiel and
Mic;ln and Solomon Of the text showed
that some time they had been out on q
hunting expedition. Spears. lances,
swords and nets were employed in this
service. A deep pitlall would be digged.
In the center Of it there was some raised
ground with pole on which q 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 mis-
slons-onc to clear the land Of tcrocious
beasts, and the other to obtain meat
lor themselves and their families. The
occupation and habit of hunters arc n
iaVorltc Bible smile. David said he
was hunted by his enemy like q par
fridge upon the mountain. My text is
hunting scene.
a sportsman arrayed in q garb appro.
pirate TO The wild chase lets slip the
olood-thirsty hounds from their kennels.
and mounting his fleet horse, with a
halloo andthe yell Of q greyhound pack
~lRey are OIL and away, through brake
and dell, over marsh and moor, across
chasms where misstep would hurl
horse and rider to death, plunglng into
mre up to the launches or into swift
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 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 il for food.
lie lets 1T lie in the dooryard of his home
and become Il portion for vcrmin and
beaks Of prey. Thus by one master
stroke Solomon gives picture of laZi.
ness, when he says, ''The slothful man
roasteth not that which he took in hunt.
ing" The most Of hunters have the
game they shot or cntrapped cooked the
same evening or the next day. but not
so with this laggard of the text. Too
lazy to rip Off the hide. TOO lazy to
klndlc the fire and put the gridiron on
the Goals.
Now, what are the causes of laziness
lic
i,nn VINO was never up to time. 1t
seemed impossible Tor him TO meet an
engagement. When he was to be mar
rcd nc missed the train. His watch
seemed to take on the habits of its own
er, anu was always too slow. lie had
constitutional lethargy for which he
dld not seem responsible. So Incidence
often arises from the natural tempera-
ment. l do not know but there is a
constitutional tendency to this vice in
every man. However active YOU NAV
generally be, have YOU not on some
warm spring day iclt touch ofths feel
ing on you, although you may have
shaken 1t of as you would reptile9
But some are so powerfully tempted to
TINS by their bodily constitution that all
the work Of their life has been accom-
pllshcd with this lethargy hanging on
Their back or trcad'ng on their heels.
on sometimes behold it in childhood.
The child moping and longing within
doors while his brothers and sisters are
at play, or il he join them he IS behind
III every race and beaten in every game.
Ills nerves, his muscles, his bones are
smlttcn with this palsy. lie vcgetates
rather than lives, crecps rather than
walks, yawns rather than breathes.
Ihe animal III his nature is stronger
than the intellectual. IIe is generally
great eater and active only when he
cannot digest what he has eaten. 1t re-
qulrcs as lnuch effort for him to walk as
lor others to run. Ianguor and dro Ysi-
ness are his natural inheritance. He 10
buiiC Tor slow sailing vessel, heavy
hnlk and an insufficient cutwater. Place
an active man in such bodily structure
and the latter would be shaken TO pieces
III one day. Every law of physiology
demands that he be supne. Such q
one is not responsible for tins powerful
tendency OF his nature. His great duty
Is resistance.
Furthermore, Incidence is often the
result OF easy circumstances. Rough
experience III earlier lite seems to be
necessary in order to make man ac-
i've and enterprising. Mountaineers
are nearly always swarthy, and those
who have toiled among mountains of
trouble get the most nerve and muscle
and brain. Those who have become the
dellverers of nations, once had not where
TO lay their heads. Locusts and wild
honey have been the fare ofmany a John
the Baptist, while those who have been
iiohdled OF fortune and petted and praised |
have often grown up lethargir.
IhCy have none of that hcroism which |
comes from fighting ones own battles.
Inc warm summer sun prosperity has
weakened and relaxed them. Born
among the luXuries of life exertion has
been unnecessary, and therefore thew
spend their time in taking it easy. They
may enter INTO business, but they are
nniltted for It's application, it's hardships,
Tor It's repulses, and after having lost
the most of that which they have invest
ed, 60 back to thorough inactiop. THIS
costly yacht may do well enough on the