The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-20

! dte q GOmD1ndLlOn OF mutt lDltdltOn Ia
( hles and statistics. If YOU show them an
! exquisite picture they will begin to dis
| cuss The pigments involved in the coloring;
ii y0U snow them a beautiful rose, they
VIII submit il TO a botanical analysis,
which is only the post norton examina-
ton of a flower. They never do anything
more than feebly smile. There are no
great tides of feeling sdrging up from the
depth of their soul IN billow after billow
Of IeverpSraunS laughter. They seem as
il. udjUre had built them by contract and
| made bunSling job out of il. But. blessed
be God, there are people in the world who
have bright faces and whose life is a song,
an anthem, paean of victory. Even
their troubles are ike the vines that crawl
up the side OF a great tower on the top OF
which the sunlight sits and the soft airs
OF summer hold perpetual carnival They
are the people YOU like to have come TO
your house; thoS are the people ! like TO
nave come to fly house. Now it is these
eXhiiarant and sympathetic ana warm
hearted People that are most empted 10
pernicious amusements. In proportion as
a ship IS swift it wants a strong nelms-
man; In proportion as a horse Is gay it
wants a strong j,iVer and these people
OF eXuberant nature win do well TO look al
the, reaction of all their amusements If
an amusement sends you home at night
nervous so you cannot sleep and you rise
i'm the morning, not because YOU are slept
out but because your duty drags you from
your slumbers, you have been where you
ought not to have been. There are amuse-
ments that send a man next day to his
work b.oodshot, yawning, stupid nause-
ated, and they are wrong kinds of amuse-
ments There are entertainments that
give a man disgust with the drudgery of
NE with tools because they are not
SWORDS, with working aprons because they
are not robes with cattle because they are
not iniuriated bulls of the arena If any
amusement sends you home longing for a
NE or romance and thrilling adventure
love that takes poison and shoots itself.
moonlight adventures and hairbreadth es-
capes you may depend upon it that you
are the sacrificed victim of unsanctified
pleasure. Our recreations are intended to
DutId US up, and If they pull us down as
TO our moral or as to our physical
strength, you may come to the conclusion
that they are obnoxious.
Sdn further: Those amusements are
wrong which lead into expenditure beyond
your means. Money spent in recreation
is not thrown away. 1t is all folly for US
to come from place of amusement feel
ing that we have wasted our money and
tme. You may by it have made an in
Vestment worth more than the transaction
that yielded you a hundred or a thousand
dollars But how many properties have
been riddled by costly amusements? The
table has been robbed to pay the club. The
champagne has cheated the children
wardrobe. The carousing party has
burned up the boys primer. The table
cloth OF the corner saloon is in debt TO the
wite's faded dress. Excursions that in
day make tour around a whole months
wages; ladies whose lifetime business it is
to go shopping" have their counterpart
in uneducated children, bankruptcies that
shock the money market and appal the
church, and that send drunkenness stag
gering across the richly figured CARPET of
the mansion and dashing into the mirror.
and drowning out the carol of music with
the whooping of bloated sons come home
TO break their old mothers heart When
men go into amusements that they cannot
afford, they first borrow what they cannot
earn, and then they steal what they can
not borrow. First they go into embarrass-
ment and then into theft, and when a man
gets 5 far on that he does not stop
short Of the penitentiary. There is not a
prison in the land where there is not vic
Tins of unsanCtifed amusements. How
often | have had parents come 10 me and
ask me to go and beg their boy off from
the consequence of crimes that he had
committed against his employer-the tax
ing OF funds out of his employers ill. or
the disarrangement of the accountsi WHY
he had salary enough 10 pay all lawful
expenditures, but not enough salary to
meet his sinful amusements. And again
and again l have gone and implored for
the young man-sometmes, alas the petit
ton unavailing.
How brightly the path of unrestrained
amusement opens! The young man saws:
Now l am off for a good time Never
mind economy; I'll get money somehow.
! What a fine road What a beautiful dav
for ride. Crack the whip, and over the
| Iurnpikel Come, boys. fin high vour
oil aGf 1Y~ifl
of rides just like thisw Hard-wor<ing
men hear the clatter of the hoofs and look
| up and say, Why, l wonder where those
! fellows get their money from We have
to toll ana drudge They do nothing.
! To these gay men life is a thrill and an
excitement. They stare at other people
! ana IN turn are stared at. The watch
! chain jingles. The cup foams. The cheeks
! flush, the eyes flash The midnight hears
! their guffaw. They swagger They iostle
decent men off the sidewalk They take
the name of God in vain. They parody
! the hymn they learned at their mothers
| knee, and 10 all pictures of coming dis
aster they cry out: "Who caresi' and
! TO the counsel of some Christian friend
| who are you?" Passing along the
street some night you hear a shrek in
| grog-shop, the rattle of the watchman's
club, the rush of the police. What is the
| matter now? Oh, this reckless young
man has been killed in a grog-shop fight,
| Carry him home TO his fathers house
| Parents viii come down and wash his
! wounds and close his eyes In death. They
| forgive him all he ever did. though he
| cannot in his silence ask it. The prodigal
| has GOT home at last. Mother will go ia
her httle garden and get the sweetest
| flowers and twist them into chaplet for
! the silent heart of the hayward bow ana
! push back from the bloated brow the lone
| locks that were once her pride And the
air will be rent with the fathers cry: "Oh
| my son, my son, my poor son; would God
l had died for thee, oh, my SON. my SOM
You may judge of amusements bv THEN
| effect upon physical health. The need OF
many good people is physical recupera-
| ton. There are Christian men who write
hard things against their immortal souls
when there is nothing the matter with
them but an incompetent liver. There
are Christian people who seem to think
that il is 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 gr1na-
| eur OF character l want TO tell Chris
tan people that God will hold YOU re-
sponsible for your jnva}idism if it is YOU,
Town fault and when through right exer-
else and prudence you might be athletic