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

superstition and dissipation, we all
know 1t may be the means of high
moral culture. Oh, 1t Is grand thing
to have our children brought up amidst
the sound of cultured voices, and
amidst the melody of musical instru-
meDts.
There Is In this art an indescribable
fascination for the household. Let all
those families who have the means to
afford IL, have flute, or harp, or piano,
or organ. As soon as the hand Is large
enough to compass tho keys, teach 1t
how to pick out the melody. Let our
young men try this heavenly art upon
theis nature. Those who have gone
into h fully have found In 1t illimit-
able recreation ar d amusement. Dark
days, stormy nights, seasons Of sick
ness, business disasters will do little
toward depressing the soul which
can gallop of over musical keys, or
soar in jubilant lay. 1t will cure
pain. 1t will rest fatigue. 1t will
quell 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: 1 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 be 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 Think that it is a good sign to be
poorly; and because Richard Baxter
and Robert Hall were invalids, they
think that by the same sickness they
may come to the same grandeur of
character. 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-
upon the soul you acknowledge. Put
a man of mild disposition upon the ami
NAL diet of which the Indian partakes.
and in little while his blood will
change its chemical proportions. 1t
will become like unto the blood of the
lion, or the tigar, or the bear, while his
will change and become
fierce 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
tobacco smoke. There are people who
dare to shatter the physical vase in
which God has put His jewel of eter-
nifty. There are men with great hearts
and intellects, in bodies worn out by
their own neglects-magnificen ma
chinery, capable of propelling n Ma
jestic across the Atlantic, yet fastened
in a rickety North river propeller. Mar.
tin Luther was so mighty for God, first,
because he had noble soul, and sec
ondly, because he had muscular de-
which would have enabled
him to thrash any five of his perse-
cutors, IL it had been Christian so to
do. Physical development which
merely shows itself in fabulous lifting,
or in perilous rope-walking, or in pu-
gilistic encounter, excites only our
but we confess to great
great soul in an athletic body,
every nerve, muscle and bone of
which is concentrated to right uses.
Oh, it's seems to me outrageous that
men, through neglect. should allow
their physical health to go down be-
yond repair--a ship which ought, with
all sail set and every man at his post
to be carrying rich cargo for eternity,
all its men in stopping up
leakages! When you may, through
the gymnasium, work off your spleen
and your querulousness and one-half
of your physical and mental ailments,
do not turn your back upon such
grand medicament.
Still further: l commend to you a
large class of parlor games and recrea-
tions. There is way of making our
homes hundred-fold more attractive
than they are now. Those parents
can not ex pect to keep their children
away from outside designations unless
they make the domestic circle brighter
than anything they can find outside
of it. Do not, then, sit in your home
surly and unsympathetic, and with
a half-condemnatory look because
of the sportfulness of your chill
dren. You were young once your
self; let your children be young. Be-
cause your eyes are dim and your
ankles are stiff, do not denounce sport