The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-04-10

fascination for the household. Let 81
those families who have the means +
afford it, have flute, or harp, or piano
or organ. As soon as the hand is larg
enough to compass the keys, teach ]
how to pick out the melody. Let on
young men try this heavenly art upo'
their nature. Those who have gon'
into it fully have found in 1t illimit
able recreation az amusement Darl
days, stormy nights, seasons OF sick
ness, business disasters will do LITTLE
toward depressing the soul which
can gallop off over musical keys, OF
soar in jubilant lay. 1t will cure
pain. 1t will rest fatigue. 1t will
uuell passion. 1t will revive health
1t will reclaim dissipation. 1t will
strengthen the immortal soul. In the
battle of Waterloo Wellington saw
that the Highlanders were falling
back. He said: what is the matter
therc?" He was told that the music
had ceased playing, and he called up
the pipers and ordered them to strike
up an inspiring air; and no sooner did
they strike the air than the Highland
were rallied, and helped to win the day.
oh, we who have been routed in the
conflicts of life, try by the force OF mu-
sic to rally your scattered battalions.
Still further: commend, as worthy
of their support, the gymnasium.
This institution is gaining in favor
every year, and know nothing more
free from dissipation, or more calcu-
lated to recuperate the physical and
mental energies While there are a
good many people who have employed
this institution, there is vast num-
Der who are ignorant OF it's ex-
cellencies. There are weak and
respondent spirits who through
the gymnasium might sbe reused up
to exuberance and exhileration of life.
There are many Christian people
from year to year, who
might, through such an institution, be
benefited in their spiritual relations.
There are Christian people who seem
to thirk that it is good sign to be
poorly; and because Richard Baxter
and Robert Hall were inyalids, they
think that by the same sickness they
may come to the same grandeur Of
character. I want to tell the
Christian people Of my congregation
that God will hold you responsible
for your invalidism if it is your
fault, and when, through right exer-
Else and prudence, you might be athlet-
C and we'll The effect of the body
upon the soul you acknowledge. Put
man of mild disposition upon the ami
nal diet of which the Indian partakes.
md in little while his blood will
,hange it's chemical proportions. 1t
will become like unto the blood of the
ion, or the tigar, or the bear, while his
disposition will change and become
ierce and unrelenting. The body has
powerful effect upon the soul.
There are good people whose ideas of
heaven are all shut out with clouds OF
obacco smoke. There are people who
lare to shatter the physical vase in
which God has put His jewel of eter-
lity. There are men with great hearts
nd intellects, in bodies worn out by
heir own neutrality-suspicious. ma
hinery, capable of propelling Ma
estic across the Atlantic, yet fastened
n a rickety North river propeller. Mar
in Luther was so mighty for God, first,
because he had noble soul, and Sec
ndly, because he had muscular de-
elopment which would have enabled
i'm to thrash any FIVE Of his perse-
utors, if it had been Christian so to
10. Physical development which
merely shows itself in fabulous lifting,
II in perilous rope-walking, or in pu-
tilistic encounter, excites only our
ontempt; but we confess to great
for the man who has a
,reat soul in an athletic body,
very nerve, muscle and bone of
which is concentrated to right uses.
III, its seems to me outrageous that
nen, through neglect, should allow
heir physical health togo down be-
,ond repair-a ship which ought, with
ii sail set and every man at his post
o be carrying rich cargo for eternity,
employing all it's men in stopping up
eakagesi When you may, through
he gymnasium, work off your spleen
md your querulousness and one-half
# your physical and mental ailments,
10 not turn your back upon such q
.rand medicament.
Still further: I commend to you a
arge class of parlor games and recrea-
ions. There is way of making our
ZONES a hundred-fold more attractive
han they are now. Those parents
an not ex pect to keep their children
way from outside designations unless
hey make the domestic circle brighter
han anything they can find outside
# it. Do not, then, sit in your home
'urly and unsympathetic, and with
half-condemnatorv look because