Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-05-27


Of work you may obtain will be worth ESQ.,.
600 OF capital. The large fortunes OF the
next twenty years are having their founda-
tions laid now by the young men who are
giving themselves to self Improvement.
! went into a store in New York and saw five
men, all Christians, sitting round, saying
| that they had nothing to do. 1t is an out.
| rage for Christian m an to have nothing to
do. Let him go out and visit the poor, OF
distribute tracts. or go and read the Bible to
the sick. or take out his New Testament and
be making his eternal fortune. Let him go
| into the back Office and pray
Shrink back from idleness in yourself and
In others If you would maintain a right posi-
| tion. GOOD Old Ashbel Green at more than
eighty years OF age was found busy writing,
you keep busy2 1t is time for you to rest"
He answered, Il keep busy to keep out OF
mischief" No man is strong enough to be
idle.
Are you fond of pictures? II so, will
show you one OF the works OF an old master.
Here II is: 81 went by the field of the soth.
ful and by the vineyard of the man void OF
understanding, and 10! it was all grown ovei
| with thOrns. and neftleS had covered the face
thereof, and the stone wall was broken down
Then l saw and considered well. I looked
upon 1t and received instruction. Yet lit.
tie sleep, a little slumber, little folding OF
| the hands to sleep. So shall thy poverty
come as one that trayeIeth and thy want as
An armed man." don't know of another
sentence in the Bible more explosive than
that. 1t first kisses softly, like the fuse of q
| cannon. and at last bursts like a flfty-foul
FOUNDER. The old proverb was right, "The
! devil Temps most men, but idlers tempt the
| devil"
young man came to a man OF ninety
years OF age and said to him, "How have
you, made out to live so long and be so well?''
| The old man took the youngster to an or.
chard, and pointing to some large trees full
| of apples, said, II planted these trees VIII en
I was a boy, and do You wonder that now
| am permitted to gather the fruit of them?'
We gather in old age what We plant in oui
| youth. Sow to the wind, and we reap the
| whirlwind- Plant in early life the right
kind OF Christian character, and you will
eat luscious fruit in old age and gather these
harvest apples in eternity.
| Iurge you to avoid the perpetual pleasure
! seeker. l believe in recreation and amuse
ment. God wocid not have made us With
4 the capacity to laugh If He had not intended
! us sometimes to indulge it. God hath hung
| in sky aud set in wave and printed on grass
many rOunde!ay, but he who chooses pleas
| ure seeking for his life work does not un
derstand for what God made him. Om
, amusements are intended TO help us in some
earnest mission. The thundereloud hath an
eiSe exquisitely purpled, but with voice
| that jars tho earth it declares, 'I go to water
| the green fields" The wild flowers under
the fence are gay, but they say, "We stand
| here to make room for the wheatfleld and tc
| refresh the husbandmen in their nooning."
| The stream sparkles and foams and froiics
and says: II go to baptize the moss. lave
the spots on the trout. 1 slake the thirst OF
the bird. L turn the wheel of the mill. :
| rock in my crystal cradle muckshaw and
water lily." And so. while the world PLAYA
| it works. Look out for the MAJ who alwayI
| PLAYS and never works.
| You will do well to avoid those whose
aAs.sh hsf Is TO l...h -I-n
! go a-bOating. All these sports are grand in
| their places. L never derived so much ad.
vantage from any ministerial association rs
, from a ministerial clup that went out to play
| ball every Saturday afternoon in the out.
| skirts of Philadelphia. These rccreations
| are grand to give us muscle and spirits fol
| our regular toll. L believe in muscular
! Christianity. A man Is often not so near Goo
( with weak stomach as when he has :
| strong digestion. But sbun those who
make it their life occupation to sport. There
| are young men whose industry and useful
| ness have fallen overheard from the yacht
| There men whose business fell through
the ice of the skating pond and has never
| since been heard of. There Is beauty in
the gliding of a boat. In the song of skates,
| in the soaring of q well struck ball, and
never see enc fly but L involuntarily throw
| up my hands to catch it, and so far from lay.
| ing an I'M junction upon ball playing or any
other innocent sport, 1 claim them all as
belonging of right to those of Us who toll In
| the grand industries of Church and State.
But the life business of pleasure seeking
always makes IN The end criminal or a sot.
George Brummel was smiled upon by all
England, and his life was given to pleasure.
He danced with the peeresseS and swung
a round of mirth and wealth and applause
until, exhausted of purse and worn out OF
body, and bankrupt of reputation, and
ruined of soul, he begged biscuit from
grocer and declared tina. he thought a dogs
| life was better than mans.
( Such men will come into your office, OF
crowd around your anvil, or seek to de-
coy you off. They will want you to break
| out in the midst OF your busy day to take a
ride with them. They will tell you Of some
people you must see. OF some excursion that
you must take, OF some Sabbath day that
you ought to dishonor. They will tell you
Of exquisite wines that you must taste, of
costly operas that you must hear, Of wonder
full dancers that you must see, but before
you accept their convoy or their companion
ship remember that while at the end Of a
useful life you may be able to look back to
ktndnesses done, to honorable work accom-
plished, to poverty helped, to a good name
earned, to Christian influence exerted, to a
Saviour's cause advanced-these pleasure
seekers on their deathbed have nothing bet.
ter to review than torn playbill, a ticke:
out rinds of a carousal, and, as in the de-
liiium of their awful death they clutch the
| goblet and press it to their lips, the dregs OF
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ground oyster cellar or at the table back
If the curtain covered with greasy cards. or
| In the steamboat smoking cabin, where the
| oloated wretch with rings in his ears deals
put his pack and winks at the unsuspecting
.rayeler-providing free drinks all around
but in gilded parlors and amid gorgeous
surroundings.
This sin works ruin, first, by unhealthful
| ,timulants Excitement Is pleasurable,
| Under every sky and in every age men have
sought it. The Chinaman gets it by smok-
lng his opium. the Persian by chewing has
aeesh, the trapper In a buffalo hunt, the
| sailor in squall, the inebriate in the bottle
! and the avaricious at the gaming table. We
must at times have excitement. thousand