Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-18

TIERS cry, "Oh, my son, my son, my
poor son. would God I had died for
thee, oh, my son, my sonn'
You may judge of amusemcnts by
their effect upon physical health. The
need CT many good people is physical
recuporation. There are Christian men
who write hard things against their i'm
mortal souls when there is nothing the
matter with them but an incompetent
liver. There arc Christian people who
seem to think that it is good sign to
be poorly and because Richard Baxter
and Robert Hall were invalids they
think that by the same sickness they
may come to the same grandeur of char
actor. / want to tell Christian people
that Goa will hold you responsible for
your invalidisn if it IS your own fault
and when through right exercise and
prudence you might be athletic and
we'll. The effect of the body upon the
soul you acknowledge. Put man of
mild disposition upon the animal diet
of which the Indian partakes, and in a
httlo while his blood will change its
chemical proportions. 1t will become
like unto the blood of the lion or tho
tiger Or the bear, whilo his disposition
will change and become fierce, cruel
and unrelenting. The body has pow
orful effect upon the soul. There arc
people whose ideas of heaven are all
shut out With clouds of tobacco smoke.
There arc people who dare to shattor
the physical vase in which God put the
jewel of eternity. There are men with
great hearts and intellects in bodies
worn out Dy thor own neglects Mag
niticent machinery capable OF propelling
a great Etruria across the Atlantic, yet
fastened i'll a riol1ety North river pro-
pcllcr. Physical development which
merely shows itself in fabulous lift
ing or i'll perilous ropo walking or in
puElllstic encounter eXcites only our
contempt, but we confess to great ad.
miration for the man who has great
soul in an athletic body, every nerve,
muscle and bone of which is consecrated
to right uses Oh, it seems to me out
rageous that men through neglect should
allow their physical health to go down
beyond repair, spending the rest of their
life not In some great enterprise for
God and tho world, but in studying
what is the best thing to take for dys-
persia. A ship which ought with all
sails set and every man at his post to be
carrying rich cargo for eternity, en-
pfoying all its men in stopping up leak
ages When you may through some of
the popular and healthful recreations of
our time work off your spleen and your
Querulousness and onc-half of your
physical and mental ailments, do not
tuln your back from such a grand mod
icalnent.
Again, Judge of the places of amuse-
mont by the companionship into which
they put you. If yen belong to an or
ganization where you have to associate
with the Incorporate, with the un-
clean, with the abandoned, however
Weir hcy may be dressed, in the name
of God quit it. They will iaespillr:9rg
nature. They will undermine your
moral character. They will drop you
! when you are destroyed. They will not
give ono cent to support your children
when You are dead. They will wecr
not one tear at your burial. They will
chucklc over your dannation. But the
day comes when the men who have ex,
erted evil influence upon their fellows
will be brought to Judgment Scene, the
last day. Stage, the rocking earth. En-
ter dukes lords, kings beggars clowns.
No sword. No tinsel No crown. For
footlights, tho kindling flames of a
world. For orchestra, the trumpets
that wake the dead. For gallery, the
clouds filled with angel spectators. For
applause, the clapping floods Of the sea.
For curtains, the heavens rolled togeth-
er as scroll. For tragedy, the doom of
the destroyed. For farce, the effort
to ssr7e tire world and God at the
same time. Tor the last scene Of the
fifth act, tho tramp Of nations across
the stage-somo to tho right, Others to
the left.
Again, any amusement that gives you
a distaste for domestic life is bad. How
many bright domestic circles have been
broken up by sinful amusemcnts? The
father went off, the mother went Off,
the child went of. There are all around
us no fragments Of blasted households.
Oh, If you have wandered away, l
would like to charm you back by tho
sound Of that one word, "hone!" Do
you not know that you have but little
nl01e time to give to domestic welfarei
Do you not see, father, that your chill
drcn are soon to go out into the world
and all the Influence for good you are
to have over them you must have now?
Death will break in on your conjugal
relations, and alas if you have to stand
over the grave of one who persisted from
your neglect!
1 saw hayward husband standing at
the deathbed Of his Christian wife, and
l saw her point to ring on her finger
and heard her say to her husband, "Do
you see that ring?" He replied, eyes,
/ see it.. "Well," said she. edo you
remember who put it therc?" eyes"
said he, Il put 1t there" And all the
past seemed to rush upon him. BY the
memory of that day, when in the pres
onco of men and angels you promised to
be faithful in JOY and sorrow and il.
sickness and IN health; by the memory
of those pleasant hours when you sat to-
gether in your new house talking of a
bright future; by the cradle and the ex
cited hour when one life was spared and
smother given; by that sickbed, when
the little one lifted up the hands and
called for help and you knew he must
die, and he-put one arm around each of