Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-04

toward depressing the SOul WNlCn Gun ss3i-
lop off over musical keys or soar in jubi-
liant lay 1t will cure pain; it will rest
fatigue; it will quell passion it will re-
vive health; it will reclaim dissipation; it
will strengthen the immortal soul. In
the battle of Waterloo Wellington saw
that the Iighlanders were falling back.
He said. What is the matter there He
was told that the band of music had ceas-
ed playing. and he called up the pipers and
ordered them to strike up an inSpiritinc
air, and no sooner did they strike the air
than the IIighlanders were rallied and
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
battalionS.
L am glad to know that in our great
cities there is hardly a night in which
there are not concerts where, with the
best musical Instruments and the sweetest
voices. people may fad entertainment.
Patronize such entertainments when they
are afforded you. Buy season tickets if
you can for the philharmonic and the
Handel and Haydn societies. Feel that
the S1.0O or 50 that you spend for the
purpose of hearing an artist play Or sing
is Il profitable investment. Let your acad-
emics of music roar with the acclamation
of appreciative audiences assembled at
the concert or the oratorio.
Physical Culture.
Still further. | commend. as worthy of
their support, the gymnasium. This in
stitution is gaining in favor every year.
al L know of nothing more free from
dissipation or more calculated TO rccuper-
While there are Il good many people who
have employed this institution. there is
vast number whO'are ignorant of its OK
cellenCies. There are men with crampcd
chests and weak sides and Respondent
spirits WHO through the gymnasium might
be reused up to eXubcrance and eXhiliara
ton of life. There are many Christian
people Respondent 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 invalid they think that by the
same sickness they may come 10 the
same grandeur of character. / want 10
tell the Christian people of my congrega-
ton that God will hold you responsible for
your invalidism If it is your fault, and
when, through right exercises and pru-
dcnce. You might be athletic and well.
The effect of the body upon the soul YOU
acknowledge. Put Il man of mild diSpo-
SitiOn upon the animal diet of which the
Indian partakes. and in little while his
blood will change its chemical proper
tons. 1t will become like unto the blood
of the lion. or the tiger. or the bear. while
his disposition will change. and become
fierce and unrelcnting. The body has Il
powerful effect upon TIE soul.
Parlor Games
Still further, | commend To you large
class of parlOr games and recreatiOns.
There is Il way of making our homes Il
hundredfold more attractive than they are
now. Those parents cannot expect TO
keep their children away from outside dis
sipations 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
tho sportfulness of your children. You
were young once yourself; let your chill
dren be young. Because your eyes are
dim and your ankles are stiff, do not de-
nouEce sportfuness in those upon whose
eyes there is the first luster, and in whose
foot there is the bounding JOY of robust
health. | thank God that in our drawing
rooms and in our parlors there are in
Vulnerable games and sports which have
NOT upon them the least faint of iniquty
Light up all your homes with innocent
hilarities. DO not sit down with the rheu-
matism. wondering how children can go
on SO. Rather thank God that their hearts
are SD light and their laughter is so free.
and their checks are so ruddy. and that
their expectations are SO radiant. The
night will come soon enough. and the
hcartbreak. and the pang, and the dcsola-
tion-it will come soon enough for the
dear children. But when the storm actu-
ally clouds the sky it will be time enough
for you to haul out your reef tackles.
Carry then. into your homes not only the
innocent sports and games which are the
inventions of our own day. but the games
which come down with the sportfulness of
| all the past ages-chess and charades and
| tableaux and battledore and calisthcnics
and lawn tennis, and all those amuse-
ments which the young people of our
| homes know so well how To contrjve
Then there VIII De the paflOf SOci3.i:Ic>
groups of people assembled in your
| homes. with wit and mimicry and jovi-
| ality, filling the room with joy from door
to mantel. and from the carpet to the
ceiling. Oh is there any exhilaration like
Il score of genial souls in one room. each
one adding Il contribution of his own in
| dividual merrmcnt to the aggregation of
| general hilarity?
Suppose you want to go abroad in the
| city, then YOU will find the panorama. and
the art gallery. and the exquisite collec-
tons of pictures. You will find the mu-
scum and the Historical Society rooms
full of rare curiosities. and scores of
places which can stand plainly the test of
what is right and wrong in amusemcnts.
| You will find the lecturing hall which has
been honored by the names of Agassiz in
natural history. Doremus in chemistry,
Boynton in geology. Mitchell in astron-
omy. John Il. Cough in moral reform.
and scores and hundred of men who have
poured their wit and genius and ingenuity
through that particular channel upon the
| hcarts and conScicuceS and lima oinatiaus