Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-05-27

too hard. 1t is getting dark in the
room"
Again, urge yo1 TO shun the com.
partnership of idlers. There are men
hanging around every store and Office
and shop who have nothing to do. or
act a. IL they had rot. They are M,
to como in when the firm arc away and
wish TO engage you in conversation
while you arc engaged in your regular
employment Politely suggest to such
persons that you have no time TO give
them during business hours Nothing
would please them SO we'll as TO have
you renouncc your occupation and as
sociate with them. Much of the time
they lounge around the doors of engine
houses. or after tho dining hour stand
upon the steps of n fashionable hotel
or an elegant restaurant, wishing to
/ give you the idea that that Is the place
I where they dine. Hut they do not dine
there. They arc sinking down lower
and lower day by day. Neither by day
nor by night have anything to do with
idlers. Before you admit n man into
your acquaintance ask him politely,
What do You do for living?' IL he
says, Nothing; am gentle
man." look out for him. He may
have very soft hand and very fault
less apparel and have high-sounding
family name, but his touch il death
Before you know IL you will in his pres
encc bc ashamed OF your work dress
business will become to you drudgcry,
and after awhile YOU will lose your
place, and aftcrward your respectable
ity, and last of all your soul. Idloness
is next door TO villainy. Thieves, gam
blers, burglars, shopliftcrs and assas-
sins are made from the class who have
nothing do. When the police 20 to
hunt up and arrest culprit they seldom
go TO look I'm Mt the busy carriage fac
tory, or behind the counter where dill
igent clerks are employed, but they go
among the groups of idlcrs. The play
is going on ut the theater, when sud
denly there is "A scuiilc in the top gal
lery. What is IL? A policeman has
come in, and. leaning over, has tapped
on the shoulder of young man say
ing: II want you, sir" He has not
worked during the day. but somehow
has raked together n shilling or two to
! get into the top gallery. He is an i'd
Ter. The man on his right hand Is an
idler. and the man on his left hand Is
an idler.
During the past few years there has
been great deal of dullncss in bust
ness. Young men have complained
that they have little to do. II they
have nothing clso to do they can read
and improve their minds and hearts
These times are not always to continue
business is waking up, and the SUI
pcrior knowledge that in this interreg-
mum of work you may obtain will be
worth $4,000 of capital. The large
fortunes of the next 90 years are hav-
ing their foundations laid now by the
young men who are giving themselves
To self-improvement / went into store
in New York and saw five men, nil
Christians, sitting around saying that
they had nothing TO do. IL is an out
rage for n Christian man to have
nothing to do. Let him gro out and
visit the poor, or distribute tracts, or
go and read the Bible TO the sick, or
take out his New Testament and be
making his eternal fortune. Let him
go into the back Office and pray.
Shrink back from idleness in your
self and in others IL you would MAIN
tain a right position. Good old Ashbel
Green, at more than so years of age,
was found busy writing, and some
young man said to him: "Why do you
keep busy? 1t is time for You to rest "
He answered: II keep busy to keep
out OF mischief No man is strong
enough be idle"
Are you fond OF pictures? II SO, /
will show you one OF the works of an
old master. Here IL Is: II went by
the field of the slothful, and by the
vineyard of the man void of under
standing; and lo it was all
grown over with thorns, and
nettles had covered the face
thereof, and the stone wall was broken
down. Then i saw and considered well.
j looked upon it and received instruc.
ton. Yet n little sleep, n little slum.
Der, little folding of the hands 70
sleep. So shall thy poverty come as
one that traveleth and thy want as an
armed man" / don't know
of another sentence in the Bi.
BILE more explosive than that.
1t first Kisses softly, like the fuse
of n cannon, and at last bursts like a
54-pounder. The old proycrb was
right. "The devil tcmpts most men,
but oilers tempt the devil"
A young man came TO n man OF 90
years OF age and said TO him: How
have you made ont TO live so long and
be so well?" The old man took the
youngster TO an orchard, and, pointing
to some large trees tull OF apples, said:
II planted those wees when i was a
boy. and do you wonder that now / am
permitted 20 gather the fruit?" We
gather in old age what we plant In our
youth. Sow TO the wind and we reap
the whirlwind. Plant In early life the
right kind Of Christian character and
you will eat luscious fruits in old age,
and gather these harvest apples in
! eternity
urge you TO avoid the perpetual
! pleasure seeker. believe in recreation
/ and amusement. God would not have
made us with the opacity 20 laugh II He
had not intended ms sometimes 20 i'm
! dulge IT, God hath hung IN sky. and
set in wave, and printed on grass many
a roundelay; but he who chooses pleas
ure seeking for his life work does not
understand for what God made him.
| Our amusemcnts arc intended 90 help ms
/ In some earnest mission. The thunder
/ cloud hath an edge oyquisitely purplcd,
/ but with voice that jars the earth II de-