The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-26

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will bow also. Where idleness is
tolerated they will despise work. 1t
is worse than vain--it is criminal--to
send youths with uniformed charac-
ters into great schools and colleges,
and expect them to profit by the ex-
perience. Nothing less than deeply
rooted sentiments of purity, and
habits strong from daily use and
correct from conviction, can enable
hem to escape the contamination
nseparable from these establish
nents.
The devout Anselm said that
- Nenesaiis the sepa,sAre OF =" .liv-
~ '-sn." He who does ing is
lothing; he is engulfed, swallowed
'p and obliterated by the tenure of
lis existence. He is worse off than
he had never been, for he ne
elects the opportunities which God
nd his age have given him. The
I'D proverbs say: "Idleness and
ust are sworn friends; idle men
ire the DEVILS playfellows"; ''1dle-
less is the greatest prodigality in
,he world" The moralists from
solomon to DR.. Watts, have not
,nly vented their structures on idle
less, but ON sluggishness as we'll.
TO be dilatory or perfunctory is to
be partially idle. To be improvi-
lent is the same. We are invited
to consult Nature and initiate her
foresight. And whatsoever thy
hand 6ndeth to do, " said the Preach
er, edo it with thy might.
Idle and addle have the same
meaning, and, with all. are derived
from the same word, which signif-
ed to be sick, corrupt, void. Al
idle person is an ailing person, sick
in body or mind, corrupt in morals
void in understanding. An idle
life is an added life, nexious, un.
productive, and dead to all good.
ness. Yet this is the life which sc
many covet and others are proud
to possess. aud this is the individual
who is allowed precedence over the
industrious.
mature fits all her children
with something to do, said the poet
aud truly there is so much to b.
done in the world physically
mentally, morally--that it befits none
to be idle. There are Augean stab
les to be cleansed, ancient ano
mighty wrongs t. be rectified, grav,
abuses to be redressed, and dens
clouds of ignorance to be dispelled
The world mourns for want, anC
misery, and crime, and "the darl
places of the earth are full of cruel
ty." Power and injustice trampl
upon the weak and the innocent
Nation is armed against nation, ant
ga mans foes are they of his owl
household" Poverty prays in vail
for its daily bread. We see the in
iustrious idle from compulsion, ant
the wicked criminal from want o
knowledge. Our boasted brother
hood is a poetic dream. Fac
lights for his own hand, regardles
# others, and the end no man ca
foresee.
80 many worlds mu,h to do,
So Ii tls done, such things to be-
surely humanity requires the bes
: efforts of all its members. This
no place for idlers or lovers of falls
gentility. There is work to be dom
! serious, patient, and persistent worl
7 not the service of the slave, but til
f, cheerful labour of the free maj
i full of loving kindness. The worl
0 is still young, and noble duties
+. before it. As it grows wiser it WI
b grow happier, until love suppla
!, selfishness and becomes the univeI
# al law of its being. As Tennys'
C sweetly sang the Great Worker:-
i Our little systems have their y;
II They havs tneir day aud cease to bs
Il They are but broken lig It's II Thee,
o And Thou. o Lord, art more than they,
e We have but faith we cannot know;
;. For knowl dge is OF things we see;
= And yet we trust it comes from Thee,
|, beam in darkness; let it grow.
IS Let knowledge grow from more to more,
But more of rever ence us dwell;
3 That mind and SOUL according will
8 May make one mu sic a. before.
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