The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-02-12


fruits; and as the home is, so are
its children. In an atmosphere OF
honor they will be honorable-sur-
by deceit they will be de-
ceitful. Where wealth is worshipped
they will bow also. Where idle
nese is tolerated they will despisel
work. 1t is worse than vain-it is
criminal-to send youths with un-
formed or badly formed characters
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
them to escape the contamination
inseperable from these establish
ments.
The devout Anselm said that
"Idleness is the sepulchre of liv-
ing man." He who does nothing
is nothing; he is engulfed, swallowed
up and obliterated by the tenure OF
lhis existence. He is worse Oft than
Iif he had never been, for he ne
elects the opportunities which God
and his age have given him. The
old proverbs say: ''Jdleness and
lust are swern friends:' idle men
are the devils playfellows:" "Idle-
ness is the greatest prodigality in the
world" The moralists from Sol
lomon to DR.. Watts, have not only
vented their structures On idleness,
but on sluggishness as well. To
be dilatory or perfunctory is to be
partially idle. To be improvident
is the same. We are invited to
consult Nature and initiate her fore.
sight. And "Whatsoever thy hand
findeth to do, said the Preacher,
"do it with thy might"
Idle and addle have the same
meaning, and, withal, are derived
from the same word, which signi-
fies to be sick, corrupt, void. An
idle person is an ailing person, sick
lin body or mind, corrupt in morals,
void Of understanding. An idle life
lis an added life, noxious, unpro'
J Iductive, and dead to all goodness
4 Yet this is life which SO many cove'
and others are proud to possess, ano
that is the individual who is al
lowed precedence over the indus
} triousl
{ mature fits all her children will
something to do" said the poet
and truly there is SO much to be
done in this world--physically
mentally, morally--that it befits
none to be idle. There are Augear
stables to be cleansed, ancient and
mighty wrongs to be rectified, grave
abuses to be redressed, and dense
clouds of ignorance to be dispelled
THE world mourns from want, anc
misery, and crime, and "the dark
places of the earth are full of cruel
'Ity.r Power and injustice tramplt
upon the weak and the innocent
Nation is arming against nation
and "a mans foes are they Of his
own household. Poverty prays in
vain for its daily bread. We see
the industrious idle from compul-
sion, and the wicked criminal from
want of knowledge. Our boasted
brotherhood is a poetic dream
Each fights for his own hand, re-
gardless of others, and the end none
foresee.
$50 many worlds, so much to do,
So little done, such things TO be,
surely humanity requires the best
efforts of ell its members. This Is
no place for idlers or lovers Of false
gentility. There is work to be done,
serious, patient, and persistent
work, not the service Of the slave,
but the cheerful labor of the free
man, full of loving kindness. The
world is still young, and noble
duties lie before it. As it grows
/, wiser it will grow happier, until
love supplaEts selfishness and be-
, comes the universal law of its being
As Tennyson sweetly sang to the
Great Worker:
Our little systems have their day;
They have their day and cease to be
+ They are but broken lights of Thee,
And Thou, o Lord, art more than they
We have but faith we cannot know;
For knowledge is of things we see;
r And vet we trust it comes from Thee
A beam in darkness let it grow.
, knowledge grow from more TO more
! But more of reverence in US dwell;
That mind and soul, according we'll.
Nav make one music as before.
, London, England, Jan. 25, 1896.
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