The Monitor-register., 1896-04-03
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gestion, bad taste, coated -
tongue, sick headache, in -
somnia, etc. Hoods Pills
cure constipation and all its un~
results, easily and thoroughly. CSC. All druggists.
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The only Pills to take with Hoods Sarsaparilla.
when they are afforded you. Buy season
tickets, if you can, for the Philharmonic
and the Handel and Haydn societies.
Feel that the 81. so or SO that Won snand
for the purpose of hearing an artist NAV
or sing is a profitable investment. Let
your Academies of Music roar with the
reclamation Of appreciative audiences as
sembled at the concert or the oratorio.
A Sound Body.
! Still further, ! commend. as worthy
of their support, the gymnasium. This
institution is gaining in favor every
year, and l know of nothing more free
from dissipation or more calculated to
Tecuperate the physical and mental en-
ergies. While there are a good MANY
people who have employed this institu-
tlon there is a vast number who are ig-
norant of its e~xcellencies. There are
men with cramped chests and weak
sides and respondent spirits who through
the gymnasium might be reused up to
exuberance and ~exhilaration of life.
There are many Christian people de-
spondent 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 be-
cause Richard Baxter and Robert Hall
were invalids they think that by the
same sickness they may come to the
same grandeur of character. I want to
tell the Christian people of my congre-
cation that God will hold you respon-
sible for your invalidism if it is your
fault and when, through right exercise
and prudence. you might be athletic
and we'll. The effect of the body upon
the soul you acknowledge. Put a man
of mild disposition upon the animal
diet of which the Indian partakes, and
in a little while his blood will change
its chemical proportions. 1t will become
like unto the blood of the lion or the
tiger or the hear, while his disposition
will change and become fierce and un-
relenting. The body has a powerful eff
feet 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 the jewel of eternity.
There are men with great hearts and in
tellects in bodies worn out by their
own neglects-magnificent machinery,
capable of propelling a Majestic across
the Atlantic, yet fastened in a rickety
North river propeller. Martin Luther
was SO mighty for God, first, because he
had a noble soul, and, secondly, because
he had a muscular development which
would have enabled him to thrash any
five of his prosecutors if it had been
Christian so to do. Physical develop
ment which merely shows itself in fabu-
lous lifting, or in perilous rope walk
ing, or in pugilistic encounter, excites
only u contempt, but we confess to
great admiration for the man who has q
great soul i'll an athletic body, every
nerve, muscle and bone of which is con
secrated to right uses. Oh, it seems to
me outrageous that men, through neg
lect, should allow their physical health
to go down beyond repair-a ship which
ought, with all sail set and every man
at his post, to be carrying a 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 all
ments, do not turn your back upon such
a grand medicament.
Innocent Hilarities.
Still further, l commend to you a
large class of parlor games and recrea-
tlons- There is a way of making our
homes a hundredfold more attractive
than they are now. Those parents can
not expect 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 con-
demnatory look because of the sportfuI-
ness of your children. You were young
once yourself; let your children be
young. Because your eyes are dim and
your ankles are stiff do not denounce
s%portfulness in those upon whose eyes
there is the first luster and in whose
foot there is the bounding joy of robust
health l thank God that in our draw
ing rooms and i'll 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 60 on so. Rsther thank God
that their hearts are SO light, and their
laughter is SO free, and their cheeks are
SO rudy, and that their expectations
are so radiant. The night will come
soou enough, and the heartbreak and
| the pang and the desolation-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. Garry, then,
into your homes not only the innocent
sports and games which are the inven-
lions of our own day, but the games
which come down with the sportfulness
of all the past ages-ehess and charades
| and tableaux and battledoor and calls
, themes and lawn tennis and all those
amusements which the young people OF
our homes know so we'll how to con-
trive. Then there will be the parlor So
cialities-groups of people assembled in
your homes, with wit and mimicry and
| joviality, filling the room with joy from
| door to mantel and from the carpet to
the ceiling. Oh, is there any exhilara-
ton like a score of genial souls in one
room, each N adding a contribution Of
his own individual merriment 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 col
l~ections of pictures. You will find The
museum 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 amuse
ments. You will find the lecturing hall,
which has been honored by the names
of Agassiz in natural history, Doremus
in chemistry, Boynton in geology, Mitch
ell 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 par
ticular channel upon the hearts and con-
sciences and imaginations of men, set
ting this country so years farther in ad-
vance than it would have been without
the lecture platform.