The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-04-10

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can gallop of over musical keys, or
soar in jubilant lay. re win cure
pain, 1t will rest fatigue. It viii
quell passion. It will revive health:
1t win reclaim dissipation. It will
strengthen the immortal SOUL In the
battle of Waterloo Wellington saw
that the Highlandefs were falling
back. He said: what is the matter
Thereof 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 l know nothing more
free from dissipa ton. or more calcu-
lated to temperate the physical and
mental energies. While there are a
good many people who have employed
this institution, there is a vast num-
Der who are ignorant of its 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
respondent from year to year, who
might, through such an institution, be
benefited in their spiritual relations.
There are Christian people who seeffi
to thirk that il is 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-
ic and well. The effect of the body
upon the soul you acknowledge Put
a man of mild disposition upon the ami
NAL diet of which the Indian partal1es.
and In a 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
disposition viii change and become
fierce and unrelenting. The body has
a 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-magnifcen ma
chinery, capable of propelling a Ma
jestic across the Atlantic, yet fastened
in rickety North river propeller. Mar
tin Luther was so mighty for God, first,
because he had a noble soul, and Sec
ondly, because he had a muscular de-
velopment which would have bled
him to thrash any FIVE of his perse-
cutors, If it had been Christian so to
do. Physical development which
merely shows itself in ia bilious lifting,
or in perilOus rope-walking, or In pu-
gilistic encounter, .excites only our
contempt but we confess to great
admiration for the man who has
great soul in an athletic body,
every nerve, muscle and bone of
which is concen trated to right uses
Oh, its 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,
employing 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: / commend to you a
large class of parlor games and recrea-
tions. There is way of making our
homes a 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
fulness 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 draw
ing-rooms and in our parlors there are
innumerable games and sports which
have not upon them the least faint of
iniquity.
Light up all your homes with inno-
cent hilarities. Do not sit down with
the rheumatism, wondering how chill
dren can go on so. Rather thank God
that their hearts are so light, and their
laughter is SO free, and their cheeks
are so rudy, and that their expecta-
tions are so radiant. The night viii
come soon enough, and the heart
break, and the pang, and the desola-
ton it will come soon enough
for the dear children. But when
the storm actually clouds the
sky, it will be time enough for you to
haul out your reef tackles. Carry,
then, into your homes not only the in
nocent sports and games which are the
inventions of our own day, but the
games which came down with the
sportfulness of all ages-chess and
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 viii be the par
Tor socials-groups of people assembled
In your homes, with wit, and mimiery