The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25


sea, not one quail whistling from the grass,
not one hawk cawing in the sky, but il
busy now and is busy always, fulfilling It's
mission as certainly as any monarch on
earth or any angel in heaven. You hear
the shout of the pillow boys busy in the
field and the rattle OF the whiffie trees on
! the harrow, but you do not know that there
is more industry in the earth upturned and
in the dumb vegetation under foot than in
| all that you see. II you put your ear TO
lump Of riven sod you may hear nothing in
the roots and spiculae OF grass but there are
at work spades and cleavers and pile drivers
| and batterIng rams and internecine wars.
| ! do not wonder that the lively fancy Of the
ancients saw in the inanimate creation
around Floras and Pomonas and Graces
aud Fauns and Fairies and Satyrs and
! Nymphs. Everything is busy. Nothing IS
! inanimate, except the man who cannot
see the life and hear the music At
! the creation the morning stars sang to-
| gether, but they were only the choir which
was to lead all the stars and all the mount
aims 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
natural objects at one and the same time it
is Hallow Fen and Whit Sunday and Ash
Wednesday aud 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
intellectually, morally and physically
| only upon the condition Of an active indus
| try know men die every day Of over-
| work They drop down in coal pits and
among the spindles 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 counters and
| work benches and anVlls. But, there are
other multitudes who die from mere iner-
tia. Indulgences every day are contract
| ing diseases beyond the catholicon
of allopathy and Homeopathy and hydro
patty and ecleoticism. Rather than work
| they rush upon lancets and soappels. Nature
has provided for those who violate her laws
| by inactivity, what rheum for the eyes aud
| what govt for the feet aud what curvature
for the spine and what structures for the
chest aud what tubercles for the lungs aud
what rheumatisms for the muscles and what
neuralgias for the nerves. Nature in time
arraigns every such culprit at
her bar, and presents against
him an indictment of one hum
| bred counts, and convicts him on each of
them. The laws of nature will not stop their
action because men may be ignorant of
| them. Disease, when it comes to do its
| work, does not ask whether you understand
| hygiene, or pathology. or materia medica.
| II there we're not so many lies written on
| tombstones and in obituaries, You would see
what multitudes OF the worlds inhabitants
are slain In their attempts TO escape the
necessity of toll. Men cross oceans and con-
tinents, and climb the Alps, and sit under
the sky Of Italy or the shadow of the
| Egyptian pyramid, and go down
into ancient ruins, and battle at
| Baden Baden, and come home with the
| same shortness of breath and the same
| poor digestion and the same twitching OF
the nerves, when at home with their own
spade they might have dug health out OF
the ground, or with their own ak hewn
health out of log, or with their own soythe
| garnered health from the grain field. There
are many who estimate the respectability of
an occupation by the little exertion it de-
mnnds, and would not have their children
enter any employment where their hands
may be soiled, forgetting that laborer's
overalls are Just as honorable as a priests
robes, and an anvil is just as respectable as
| pulpit. Health flies from the bed of down
| and says: 81 cannot sleep hereM and from
the table spread with ptarmigan and epicur
can viands, saying; II cannot eat here;n
and from the vehicle of soft cushions and
easy springs. saying: 81 cannot ride here"
| and from houses luxuriously warmed and
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and some day you meet health. who de-
clined all these luxuriaut places, walking in
the plows furrow or sweltering beside the
Kissing forge or spinning among the looms,
or driving a dray, or timing a roof. or
| carrying hods Of brick up the ladder OF a
| wall
Furthermore, notice that Incidence en-
dangers the soul Satan makes his chief
| conquests over men who either have
nothing to do, or, II they have, refuse to
do it. There is legend that st. Thomas,
| years after ChrisFs resurrection, began
| again to doubt, and he went to the
apostles aud told them about his doubts.
Each apostle looked at him with surprise
and then said he must be excused for he
had no time to listen any longer. Then
| ST. Thomas went to the devout women
of his time and expressed his doubts.
| They said they were sorry but they had
| no time to listen. Then ST. Thomas oon-
| cluded that it was because they were
so busy that the apostles and the devout
women had no doubts. ldleness not
! only leads a man into associations which
| him the worst kind of skepticism.
Loafers are almost always inhdels, or
fast getting to be- Consummate idlers
never read the Bible. and, if they appear
in church, can be distinguished in an
audience of a thousand by their listless-
! ness, Tor they are too lazy to hear. IL is
not 80 much among occupied merchants.
industrious mechanics and professional
men always busy that you hear the re.
ligion OF Jesus maligned, as in public
loungiug places given up to profanity
and dissoluteness. They have no sym.
pathy with the book that says: LET him
that stole, steal no more; but rather LET
him labor, working with his hands the
thing which is good, that he may have tc
give to him that needeth." Inever knew G
man given up to thorough idleness that wai
converted Simon and Andrew were con-
verted while fishing aud LYDIA while sell.
ing purple. and the shepherds of Bethlehem
Watching their focks heard the voice o.
angles, and Gideon was thrashing on the
threshing-t1oor, but no one was ever con-
verted with his hands in his pockets. Lee
me tell the idler that there is no hope for
him either in this world or in the world
which is to come. II the Son Of GOD, whC
owned the whole universe, worked in tn
carpenter shop of Joseph, surely we, VIII
own so little, yet want so much. ought to b.
busy. The redeemed in heaven are never
idle. What exciting songs they singl Oh
what messages of love they fly through al
the universe, fulfilling Gods high behest
and taking worlds in one circuit, rushing
with infinite derceness against sin anC
cruelty and oppression. and making tn
gates of hell to quake at the overthrow o
the principallties Of darkness, and in tn
same twinkle Of an eye speeding back t.