Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-05-04

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The probabilityis that Jon w1ll ef4b.-
have 70 give up yonr 1ooos Indulgence.
or else give up your occupntion. Sin
viii take all enthusiasm ont 0f vou-
work and make you sick Of LIES irudr-
cry, and though now nnd then between
your seasons of dissipation Won NAV
Ggain in the chase of some high and noble
end. even though you catch the game
rouse up to sudden activity and starr
I you will sink back into slothfulnx~s h.
fore you have roasted that which Won
took in hunting. Bad habits unfit man
for everything but politics.
Now, what are the results Of indo-
lence? A marked consequence Of thi,
vice Is physical disease. The healthk
ness OF the whole natural world de-
ponds upon activity. Tho winds, tossed
and driven in endless circuits, scatter
ing the mists from the mountains and
scooping out death damps from the
caves and blasting the miasma Of
swamps and hurting back the fetid at
mospherc of great cities, nre healthy.
just because of their swiftness and nm.
controllableness of sweep. Bot, after
while, the wind falls and the hot su,
pours through 1t, and when the leaves
are still and the grain fields bend not
once all day long, then pestiience smite,
it's victims and digs trenches Cor tho
dead The fountain, born far up in
the wild wood Of the mountain
comes down brighter for every obstacle
against which il is rivcn, aud sinriup =
new song on every shelf of rock owe,
which it bounds till il rolls over th.
water-wheels in the valley, moi
ashamed to grind corn, and run,
through the long grass of the meadow.
where the willows reach down to dip
their branches and the uuyolxed oxen
come mt eventidc to cool Health,
water! Bright water. Happy water
While some stream, too lazy any more
to run, gathers itself into wayside
pool where the swine wallow, and filthy
insects hop over the surface, and rep
tiles crawl among the ooze. and frogs
utter their hideous croaiS, and by dav
and by night there rises from the foul
mirc and green scum, fever and plague
and death. There is an endless activity
under foot and overhead Not one four
o'clock in the fiower-bed, not one fiy on
the window-pane, not one squirrel
gathering food from the cones OF the
white pine, not one rabbit feeding
on clovertops, not one drop fall
ing in the shower. not ono
minnow dancing in the sea no.
one quail whistling from tho grass.
not one hawk cawing in the sky, but 4,
busy now and is busy always, fulfilling
his mission as certainly as any monarch
on earth or any angel in Heaven. You
hear the shout of the plow-boys busy In
the 6Nl1 and hn Df
trees on the harrow, but you do no.
know that there is more industry in the
Garth upturned and in the dumb vege
tation under foot than in all that Won
see. II you put your ear to a lump of
riven sod you may hear nothing In the
roots and spicul@ of grass, but there
AFRO at work spades and cleavers and
pile-drivers and battcring rams and in
ternccine wars. do not wonder that
the lively fancy OF the ancieuts saw
in the inanimatc creation around Floras
and Pomonas and Graces and Fauns
and FAIRIES and Satyrs and Nymphs
Everything is Busy. Nothing Is
inanimate except the man who can not
see the life and hear the music. At tho
creation the morning stars sang togeth-
er, but they were only the choir which
was to lend all the stars and all tho
mountains and all the seas in Gods
worship. All natural objects seem at
one and the same time uniting in work
and JOY and worship. In Gods creation
there is no pause in either the worship
or the work or the joy Amid all nat
ural objects mt one and the same time IL
is Hallow Zen and Whit Sunday aud
Ash Wednesday and All Saints Day.
All the healthy beauty of that which
we see and hear in the natural world Is
dependent upon activity and unrest
Men will be healthy-intellectua
morally and physically-only npon the
condition of an active industry. !
know men die every day of ovcrworlS.
They drop down in coal pits and among
the spindlcs of northern factories, and
on the cotton plantations of the south.
In every city, and town, and village you
| find men grooming under burdens. as, in
the east. the camels stagger under their
loads between Aleppo and Damascus
| Life is crushed out every day at coun-
tcrs, and workshops, and anvils. But
there are other multitudes who die from
mere inertia. Indulgences every day
contracting diseases beeond the cath
olicon of allopathy, and homeopathy
and eclecticism. Rather than work they
rush upon lancets and scalpels. Nature
has provided for those who violate her
laws by inactivity, what rheum for
the eyes, and what govt for the
feet, and what curvature for the
spine. and what structures for the
chest, and what tubercles for the
lungs, and what rheumatisms for the
muscles and what neuralgias for the
nerves. Nature in time arranges every
such culprit Mt her bar, and presents
against him an indictment of 100 counts,
and convicts him on each one of them
The laws Of nature will not stop their
action becausc men may be ignorant OF
them. Disease, when il comes 10 do its
work. does not ask whether you under
stand hygiene, or pathology, or ma
| terra medica. II there were not so
many lies written ON tombstones and In
obituaries you would see what multi
tudes OF the worlds inhabitants arr
slain in their attempts TO escape the
necessity of toll Men cross oceans and
continents and climb the Alps, and 81
under the sky OF Italy or the shadow OF
the Egyptian Pyramid, and go down