The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-08

helped to win the day. Oh, We who
have been routed in the conflicts OF
life, try, by the force of music, to rally
your scattered battallous
I am glad to know that in cur great
cities there IS hardly night in which
there a.e no. concerts where, with the
best musical instrument and the sweet
est voices, people may find entertain
nlent. Patronize sach entertainments
when they are afforded you. Buy sea
son tickets if you can for the Phllhar
monic and the Handel and Haydn So
cieties. Feel that the $3.50 or 50 that
you spend for the purpose Of hearlng
an artist play or sing is a profitable
investment. Let your academies OF
music roar with the acclamatlon or
appreciative audiences assembled at the
concert or the oratorio.
Still further, l commend, as worthy
of their support, the gymnasium. This
institution is gaining in favor every
wear. and I know OF nothing more
free from Sipation, or more calcu:
lated to recu Derate the physical aud
mental energies. While there are a
COED many people who have employed
this institution, there IS vast mum Der
who are ignorant OF It's excellencles.
There are men with cramped chests
and weak sides and despondeut spirits
who through the gymnasium might
be reused up to exuberauce and ex-
hilaration of life. There are many
Christian people despondent from year
to y ear, who might, through such an
institution, benefited in their spiritual
relations. There are Christian people
VINO seem to think that it is a good
sign to b- poorly; and because Rich
ard Baxter and Robert Hall were ln-
valid, they think that by the same
sickness they may come to the same
grandeur Of character. | want TO tell
the Christian people of my congreea-
ton ,nat God will hold you response
bic for your invalidism if it is your
fault, aud when, through right exer,
else and prudence, you might be athle-
tic and well. The effect Of the body
upon the soul you acknowledge. Put
q man of mild disposition upon the
animal diet of which the Indian par.
takes, and in little while his blood
will change its chemical proportions:
It will become like unto the blood OF
the lion, or the tiger, or the bear, while
his disposition will change and become
6erceand unrelentiog. The body has
a powerful effect upon the soul.
There are good people whose ideas
of heaven are all shut out with clouds
oftobaeco smoke. There are people
who dare to shatter the physical vase
in which God has put the jewel of
There are men with great
hearts and intellects, in bodies worn
out by their own negiects-magnlh-
cent machinery, capable Of propelling
a Majestic across the Atlantic, yet fas-
tened in rickety North river propeller
Martin Luther was so mighty for God,
first. because he had noble soul, and
because he had a muscular
development which would have en-
abled him to thrash any five of his
prosecutors, if it had been Christian SO
to do. Physical development which
merely shows itself in fabulous lifting
or in perilous rope walking, or in
encounter, excites only our
contempt; but we confess great ad-
for the man who has a great
soul in an athletic body, every nerve,
muscle and bone of which is conse-
Grated to right uses. Oh, it seems to
me outrageous that men, through ne
ylect, should allow their physical
health to 60 down beyond repalr-a
ship which ought all sailset and
every man at his post, to be
rich cargo for
eternity, employing all its men IN
stopping up leakages! When you
may, through the gymnasium, work
DIFF your spleen and your querulous:,
ness and one, half of your physical
and mental ailments, do not turn your
oack upon such grand medicament
Still further, I commend to you a
arge class of parlor games and recrea-
ions. There is a way.of making our
homes hundredfold more attractive
;han thev are now. Those parents
,annot expect to keep their children
aWay from outside diSsipations unless
,hey make the domestic circle brighter
han anhthing they can ind OUTSIDE OF
L. Do not, then, sit in your home
surely and unsympathetic and with
,elf con6emnatory look because of
he sportfulness of your children.
You were young once yourself; let
your children be young. Because
your ewes are dim and your ankles are
tiff. do not denounce sportfulness 10
hose upon whose eyes there is the first
uster, and in whose foot there Is the
bounding Joy of robust health. l
hank God that in our drawing rooms
and in our parlors there are innumer-
able games and sports which have not
,pon them the least taint of inlQulty.
Light up all your homes with inno
cent hilarlties. Do not sit down with
he rheumatism, wondering how chill.
3ren can 90 on so. Rather thank God
hat their hearts are so light, and their
laughter is so free, and their cheeks are
30 ruddy, and that their expectations
IS so radiant The night will come
soon enough, and the heartbreak, and
he pang, and the desolation-it will
come soon enough for the dear chill
lren. But when the storm actually
clouds the skyit will be time enough
'or YOU to haul out your reef tackles
Carry, then, into your homes not only
he Innocent sports and games winch
are the inventions of our own day,
out the games which come down with
he sportfuiness of all the past ages
chess and charades and tableaux and
oattedore and calisthenics and lawn
tennis and all those amusements which
he young people of our homes know
90 we'll how to contrive. Then there
Will be the parlor socialities-groups
Of people assembled in your homes,
with wit and mimicry and Jovlallty,
illing the room with JOY from door 10
nantel, aud from the carpet to the cell
.ng. Oh, is there any exhllaratlon
i score of genial souls IN one room