The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-26
MIND AND BODY
Their Consideration in
Business Hours
Second Address by Rev. Wal
lace Nutting.
In the Course "Man at Rest and
at Work."

Nutting. Sunday evening. The theme
was, "MInd and Body in Business
Hours" the text. Mark xii, "a: "To
Every Man His Work." and the address
in full follows:
The truth is not OF much good until II
touches the people who work. The FAULT
of the Greek age was that It's philosophy
was kept for a clique. Christianity is
the philosophy for the multitude; the
universal literature; the savior OF the
great body of society. 1t speaks more
movingly TO the busy than 10 the idle.
This distinguishes 1t from all other re-
ligions. For the religion OF the Orient
cannot be entered into at length, except
by the castles who have large leisure. In
other words the devotee in other re-
ligions can only be religious out OF his
work, while the Christian must be re-
ligious at his work.
sympathy means an experience along
SIDE Of another. Unless one has been
worker with his hands, he cannot there
fore have q true sympathy with manual
workers, and he can never understand
the world thoroughly. People who work
hard have poured upon them much false
sympathy which they do not need, and
hateful pity. To understand man we
must for time at least, be put In his
place. Hence IL was that, when Jesus
was sent into the world, no preparation
was found so good for Him as that of
working with HIS hands. The fact that
Jesus could builo a house, Paul could
make a tent, and Peter and John could
catch fish indicates that our religion has
a basis In practical men. There is a GER
tain satisfaction in working on things
that can be handled because
WE CAN SEE THE RESULTS
10 look back OVER a well-turned fur
row, or completed house-to use tools
gives sense OF power and poise OF
character tnat is often wanting 10 a
purely intellectual career.
The notable preachers A. j. f. Behrens
and George Gordon derive something OF
their power from an early practical train
ing, and have always believed that the
former could speak TO you with more
telling effect because he was an expert
cabinet maker, and hence not an imagin-
er OF unreal schemes brought out from
his study. Every one In the country
learns to work and for this reason the
country feeds the town. An independent
minu is impossible without the know
ledge now to do something. The need,
the dignity and the good effects of work
being granted we proceed TO speak of the
conditions of the mind and body in busi-
ness hours.
/. The lord does not ask one to do
.alth. There are men who, for tesug
sake, undertake such things as nursing
lepers. For them we have the highest
respect, because their work aileviates
human Woe But any work that risks
the life of man for the sake OF money is
blasphemy against the body. There are
always TO be found men ready for work
like this. But whatever demand of socie-
~ takes away dignity from manhood is
wrong. Society can get on without hav-
4 Il IL 81 ff--
pay for anything that degrades the
question the right or society to pay
for the life OF pearl-divers. and workers
under the pressure OF caissons. II is pay
ing men
TO SHORTEN THEIR LIVES
Iquesticn the right OF any firm or corr
poration to hire man for long extra
time, however much they pay him,
merely because he is willing to do IL.
III there are persons ready TO commit
crime for pay that doesn't justify me in
hiring them. We should not be fearful OF
wearying ourselves, but we should shun
asa wrong regular exposure or over
doing that must early result in decrepi-
tude. This overwork is dissipation.
Nervous prostration is SO common that
sometimes we.fear IL has been crime.
"Killed by overwork' is an spitaph only
degree better than "Killed by drink. .
IL q manifest absurdity for woman to
grow pale In answering the question
sWherewith hal shall j be clothed?' | dc
not disparage the charm of proper dress.
Indeed Wa honor our bodies by atten-
tion 10 dress. Rut the line is drawn
where additions to the dress are abstrac-
tions from health. IL is better to
possess the exhilarstion OF excellent health
In plain gown than weary air In a
rich array. This Is gospel for this gen
Grafton; for many a woman has lost the
luster OF her eye and added IL to her
gown. and this is sin. The body is made
subject to work. 10 sustain it, not TO
break il. Work defeats its object when
IL bears down the body. When this SER
vice is done for others however the self
ishness being largely taken out OF il, the
blame IL less. But has the mother a right
TO. enslave herself for her daughters
sake? She has that right IL IL is necessary
for the training OF her daughter in
righteousness, but no farther. / object
that the mothers kept away from church
by their toiling for their daughters ap.
pearaDce are not kept away for legiti-
mate reason.
WOMAN WHO BELIEVES IN CHRIST
with all her heart will have only a linn
tied faith in clothing.
The law OF work becomes distorted
when IL extends TO exhaustion for the
world. The pertinent question Is: For
what do 70 dedicate your body TO work.
DO you work TO live? And how do you
def ne life?
When see well-to-do men pale and ex.
hausted by work / know that there is |
"something rotten In the state of Den.
mark Slow suicide IN also wrong. |
J The expenses Of a woll-to-do man need |
regulating as much as those OF poor |
man, else toll will know no end. Yet II is |
hard 10 refuse money to those you love |
80 long as any remains ana many men /
would rather ovcrwork than refuse u. /
DO not ask your father for something the |
granting OF which will bend his mead |
ftill lower over lis toll. DO not demand /
snyihing that viii keep your mother in 4
oCofs during that baif-heHr which alone
yoamins 10 her for going out into Gods
free ar. The tyranny oi silent selfish.
moss that receives without protest moro
fnan u cue from our parents g. fast wear
Ing out sosre Of them. When the boy is in