The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-04-01

or organ. AS soon as the hand is large
enough to compass the keys, teach it
how to pick out the melody. Let all
our young men try this heavenly art ,
upon their nature. Those who have
gone into it fully have found in it
illimitable recreation and amusement. |
Dark days, stormy nights, seasons OF
sickness, business disasters, will do
little toward depressing the soul which |
can gallop off over musical keys, or soar
in iubilant lay. 1t will cure pain. 1t
will rest fatigue. 1t will quell passion.
It will revive health. 1t will reclaim
dissipation. 1t will strengthen the I'M
mortal soul. In the battle of Waterloo,
Wellington saw that the Highlanders
were falling back. He said, What is
the matter there?" He was told that
the band of music had ceased playing
and he called up the pipers and ordered
them to strike up an inspiring mir; and
no sooner did they strike the air than
the Highlanders were rallied, and
helped to win the day. Oh, ye who
have been routed in the conflicts OF
life, try by the force of music to rally
your scattered battalions
am glad to know that in our great
cities there is hardly night i'll which
there are not concerts, where, with the
best musical instruments and the
sweetest voices, people may find enter
tainment Patronize such entertain
ments when they are afforded you.
Buy season tickets, if you can, for the
philharmonic" and the Handel and
HAYDN" societies. Feel that the S1.50
or So that you spend for the purpose OF
hearing an artist play or sing is prof
table investment. Let your academies
of music roar with the acclamation of
of appreciative audiencies 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
year, and | know of nothing more free
from dissipation, or more calculated to
recuperate the physical and mental
energies. While there are good many
people who have employed this insti-
tuition, there is a vast number who are
ignorant of its eXcellences. There are
men with cramped chests and weak
sides and despondent spirits who
through the gymnasium might be
reused up to exuberance and exhilara
ton of life. There are many Christian
people respondent from year to year
who might through such an institu'
ton be benefited in their spiritual re
lations.
There are Christian people who seen
to think that it is good sign to be poor
ly; and because Richard Baxter ant
Robert Hall were invalids, they thinl
that by the same sickliness they ma.
! come to the same grandeur of charac
, ter. want to tell the Christian pee
{ pie of my congregation that God vii
3 hold you responsible for your invalid
c ism if it is your fault, and when
p through right exercise and prudenct
: you might be athletic and well. Th
? effect of the body upon the soul yo
, acknowledge. Put man of mild di:
position upon the animal diet of whic
!. the Indian partakes, and in little Will
!. his blood will change its chemical pre-
portions. 1t will become like unto tn
4 blood of the lion, or the tiger, or th
!. bear, while his disposition will chang
and become fierce and unrelentint
4 The body has powerful effect upo
4 upon the soul.
r. There are good people whose ideas
II Heaven are all shut out with clouds {
s tobacco-smoke. There are people WI
d dare to shatter the physical vase
# which God has put the jewel of etern
d ty. There are men with great heart
n and intellects, in bodies worn out |
;e their own neglects-magnificent m
Y chinery, capable of propelling a M
4 jestic across the Atlantic, yet fastene
n in a rickety North river propelle
d Martin Luther was so mighty for Go
"a first, because he had noble soul, al
Il secondly because he had a muscul;
O. development which would have e
ID abled him to thrash any five Of h
,e prosecutors, if it had been Christie
ID so to do. Physical developmel
re- which merely shows itself in fabulo
TO lifting, or in perilous rope-walking,
a in pugilistic encounter, excites only o.
ye contempt; but we confess to great a
g. miration for the man who has gre
III soul in an athletic body, every nerv
lv muscle and bone of which is cons
I Grated to right uses. Oh, it seems to +
" outrageous that men, through negleC
le should allow their physical health
SO go down beyond repair-a ship viii
is ought, with all sail set and every mi
at his post, to be carrying rich car
en- for eternity, employing all its men
mt stopping up leakages! When you ma
no through the gymnasium, work off yo
ly spleen and your querulousness and OF
m, half of your physical and mental a
nd ments, do not turn your back upon su
n a grand medicament.
m. Still further: l commend to yor
is, large class of parlor games and recr'
M tions There is way of making o
&C. homes hundredfold more attracti
hit than they are now. Those parents ca
in not expect to keep their children aw
&C. from outside designations unless tn
81 make the domestic circle brighter th
he anything they can find outside Of
to Do not, then, sit in your home SUI
lp- and unsympathetic, and with ha
lst condemnatory look because of
,re sportfulness of your children. Y
ect were young once yourself; let yc
at children be young. Because your ey
ore are dim and your ankles are stiff,
ire not denounce sportfulness in the
lp- upon whose eyes there is the first Il
ter, and in whose foot there is
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