The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-04-11

charades and tableaux and battledore
and calisthenics and lawn tennis and
all those amusements which the young
people of our homes know how well to
contrive. Then there will be the par
lor socials-groups of people assembled
| In your homes, with wit, and mimicry
and joviality, filing the room with Joy
from door to mantel, and from the car
pet to the ceiling. Oh, Is there any
| exhilaration like score OF genial
souls in one room, and each one add
ing q con tribution of his own individ-
ual merriment to the aggregation OF
general hilarity.
Suppose you want to go abroad In
the city, then you will find the pan o.
rama and the art gallery and the ex-
quisite collections OF pictures. You
will find the museum and the Histor-
ical society rooms full of rare curiosi-
ties, and the scores of places which can
stand pla inly the test Of what is right
and wrong In amusementa You Will
fnd the occurring hall, which has
been honored by the names of
Agassiz in natural history, Dore-
mus in chemistry, Boynton in
geology, Mitchell in astronomy, John
b. Cough In moral reform, and scores
and hundreds Of men who have poured
their wit and genius and ingenuity
through that particular channel upon
the hearts and consciences and the
imaginations of men, setting this
country 80 years farther In advance
than 1t would have been without the
lecture platform.
rejoice in the popularization Of out
door sports. I hail the croquet ground
and the fisherman's rod and the sports
mans gun. In our cities life Is SO un-
healthy and unnatural that when the
census-taker represents q city having
400, 600 inhabitants, there are only 20O,-
900, since it takes at least two men to
amount to one man, so depict
ing and unnerving and exhaust
ing is this metropolitan life.
We want more fresh air, more
sunlight, more of the abandon Of
field sports. cry out for it in behalf
of the Church of God as well as in be-
half of secular interests. wish that
our ponds and our rivers and our Capt.
toline grounds might be all aquake
with the heel and the shout of the
swift skater. / wish that when the
warm weather comes the graceful oar
might dip the stream, and the evening"
tide be resonant with boatmen's song,
the bright prov splitting the crystal
line billow.
We shall have the smooth and grassy
lawn, and we will call out people of all
occupations and professions and ask
them to join in the ball-player's sport.
You will come back from these outdoor
exercises and recreations with strength
in your arm and color in your cheek
and flash in your eye and courage
in your heart. In this great battle
that is opening against the kingdom
Of darkness, we want not only a conse-
Grated soul, but strong arm and stout
lungs and mighty muscle. bless God
that there are 30 many recreations
that have not on them any faint of in
iquity; recreations in which we may
engage for the strengthening Of the
body, for the clearing of the intellect,
for the illumination Of the soul.
There is still anoth err form of recre-
alton which l commend to.you. and that
is the pleasure of doing good. have
seen young men, weak and cross and
sour and repelling in their disposition
who by one heavenly touch have
Weakened up and became blessed and
buoyant, the ground under their feet
and the sky over their heads breaking
forth into music. "Oh," says some
young man in the house to-day, II
should like that recreation above
all others, but / have not the
means" My dear brother, let us take
an account Of stock. You have large
estate, II you only realize it. Two
hands. Two feet. You will have.
perhaps, during the next year at least
$40 for charitable contribution. You
will have $500 cheerful looks, IL you
want to employ them. You will have
5000 pleasant words IL you want
to speak them. Now, what an amount
that is to start with.
But, before closing, l want to inn
press upon you that mere secular en-
for your soul to build on. l was read
ing of a woman who had gone all the
rounds of sinful amusement, and she
came to die. She said: II will die to-
night at six o'clock" "Ohw they
said, II guess not; you don't seem to
be sick" II shall die at six o'clock and
my soul will be lost. 1 know it will
be lost. have sinned away my day
of grace" The noon came. They de-
sire her to seek religious council. "Oh,"
she said, lit is no use. My day is done.
1 have been all the rounds of
worldly pleasure, and it is too late. I
shall die tonight at six o'clock. The
day wore away, and it came tn four
o'clock, and to five o'clock, and she
cried out at five o'clock. Destroying
spirits, ye shall not have me yeti it is not
6; 1t is not 81" The moments went by,
and the shadows began to gather, and
the clock struck six; and while it was
striking her soul went. What hour
God will call for us 1 do not know
whether six o'clock tonight or three
o'clock this afternoon, or at one o'clock,
or at this moment. Sitting where you