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their nature. Those who have gone into
it fully have found in it illimitable rec
roaticn and amusement. Dark days,
stormy nights, Seasons of sickness, bust
ness disasters, will do little toward de-
pressing the soul which can gallop off
over musical keys or soar in jubilant
lay. 1t will cure pain. 1t will rest ia
: tiguo. 1t will quell passion. 1t will re-
vive health. 1t will reclaim dissipation.
1t will strengthen the immortal soul. IN
the battle of Waterloo, Wellington saw
that tho highlanders wero falling back.
He snid, What is the matter there?"
dc was told that the band of music had
ceased playing. and he called up the
pipers and ordered them to strike up an
inspiriting air, and no sooner did they
strike the air than the highlanders were
rallied and helped to win the day. Oh,
We who have been routed in the conflicts
of life, try by tho force Of music to rally
your scattered battalions.
| am glad to know that in our great
cities there is hardly night in which
there are not concerts, where, with the
best musical instruments and tho sweet
est voices, people may find entertain
ment. Patonize such entertainments
when they are afforded you. Buy season
tickets, if you can, for the Philharmonic
and tho Handel and Haydn societies
Feel that tho SLOT or % that you spend
for the purpose of hearing an artist play
or sing is profitable Investment Let
your Academies of Music roar with the
acclamation of appreciatiye audiences as
sembled at the concert or the oratorlo.
a Sound Body.
Still further, commend, as worthy
of their support, the gymnasium. This
institution is gaining i'll favor every
year, and l know OF nothing more free
from dissipation or more calculated to
recuperate the physical and mental en-
ergies. While there are a good many
people who have employed this lnstltu-
ton there is a vast number who are lG-
norant of its excellencies 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 good sign to be poorly, ard 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. / want to
tell the Christian people of my congre-
CATION that God will hold you respon-
siblc 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
tho soul you acknowledge. Put man
of mild disposition upon the animal
diet of which the Indian partakes, and
in little while his blood will change
it's chemical proportions. twill become
like unto the blood of the lion or the
tiger or tho hear, while his disposition
will change and become fierce and I'M
relenting. The body has powerful et-
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 SKATER the physical vase III
which God has put the jewel OF eternity
There are men with great hearts and in
tellects in bodies Worn out by their
own neutrality-suspicious. machinery,
capable of propelling Il Majestic across
the Atlantic, yet fastened in rickety
North river propeller Martin Luther
was so mighty for God, first, because he
had noble soul, and, secondly, because
he had 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 III fabu-
lous lifting, or in perilous rope walk
ing, or in pugilistic encounter, excites
only our contempt, but we confess to
great admiration for tho man who has
great soul in an athletic body, every
nerve, muscle and bone OF which is con-
secratea to right uses. Oh, it seems to
me outrageous that men, through neg
lect, should allow their physical health
to 90 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
d grand medicamert.
Innocent Hilaritios.
Still further, I commend to you
large class Of parlor games and recrea-
lions. There is way Of making our
homes a hnndredfold more attractive
than they are now. Those parents can
not expect to keep their children away
from outside designations unless they
mako the domestic circle brighter than
anything they can find outside of it. Do
not, then, sit in your home surly aud
unsympathetic and with half coll
demnatory look because of the sportful-
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
sportfulness in those upon whose eyes
there is the first luster and i'll whose
foot there is the bounding JOY Of robust
health. thank Gcd that in our draw
ing rooms and III our parlors there are
innumerable games and sports which
nave not upon them the least taint of
'niquity.
Light up all your homes with inno-
cent hilarities. Do not sit down with
the rheumatism, wondering how chill
dren can 20 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 expectations
are go radiant. The night will come
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