The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-06-30

them into 4 chaplet for tie silent heart
81 Der wayRard boy and push back
from the bloated brow the long locks
that were once her pride. And the air
will be rent with Tile father er HOh,
my son, MY son, my poor on; would
God I bad died for thee, Oh my son,
my SOM
You may judge Of a%masements 81
their effect upon physical health Ths
need 81 many good people physical
r-ecuperation. There are Chfltiam men
who write hard things against their
immortal souls when there IS not hing
the matter with them but an incom-
petent liver. There are Christian peo-
BE who seem 10 think that Il Is o good
sign 10 b poorly. and because Richard
Baxter and Robert Hall were invalids
they tbink that By the same sickness
they may come To the same grandeur
Of character. want to tell Christian
deopie that God win hold you re-
spousible for your inYalidism ~ it Is
your own fault. and when through
eight exercise and prudence you might
be athletic and we'll The effect Of the
body upon the soul you acknowledge
Put q man Of mild disposition upon the
animal diet OF which the Indian par
takes, and In a little while his blood
win change its chemical proportions.
N will become like unto the blood Of
the lion, or the tiger, or the bear while
his disposition will change and be-
come fierce, cruel and unrelenting.
The body has q powerful effect upon
the soul There are people whose
ideas Of Heaven are all shut out with
clouds Of tobacco smoke. There
are people who dase TO shatter the
physical vase ia which God put the
Jewel Of eternity. There are men with
great hearts and intellects ia bodies
worn out by their W ]neglects Mag
nihcent machinery capable of prOpell-
ing a great Etruria across the ATTAIN
tic, yet fastened in a rlcl1ety North
River propeller. Physical develop
ment which merely shows itself in a
fabulous lifting, or In perileus rope
walking or in pugilistic encounter
eXcites only our contempt, but we con-
fess to great admiration for the man
who has a great soul in an athletic
body, every nerve, muscle and bone Of
which is consccrated to right uses,
Oh, it seems to me outrageous
that men through neglect should
allow their physical health TO 60
down beyond repair, spending the rest
Of their life not Ia some great enter
prise for God and The world, but in
studying what is the best thing totake
for dyspepsia. A ship which ought,
with all sails set and every man at his
post, TO BE- carrying a rich cargo for
eternity, employing all its means la
stopping up ~leakagesl When you may,
through some of the popular and
healthful recreation Of our time, work
of your spleen and your querulousness
and One-half Of your physical and
mental ailments, do not turn your back
from such a grand medicameut.
Again, judge Of the places Of amuse-
ment BY The companionship into which
they put you. If you belong to an Dr.
ganization where you have TO associate
with the Incorporate, with the IN
clean, with the abandoned, however
well they may be dressed, in the name
OF God quit it, They win despoil your
nature. They will undermine your
moral character. They will drop you
when you are destroyed. They win
not give one CEN TO support your chill
dren when you are dead. They win
weep not one tear at your burial
They will chuclzle over your damna-
ton. But the day comes when the
men who have eXerted evil influence
upon their fellows viii be brought to
Judgment. Scene: The last day. Stage:
The rocking earth, Enter dukes, lords,
kings, beggars, clowns, No sword.
No tinsel. No crown. For foOtlights,
the kindling flames Of a world For
orchestra, the trumpets that wake the
dead For gallery, the clouds filed
with angel spectators. For applause,
the elapping floods Of the sea. For
curtains, the heavens rolled together
as a scroll. For tragedy, the doom of
the destroyed. For farce, the effort to
serve The world and God at the same
time. For the last scene of the dfth
act, the tramp of nations across the
stage-some to the right others TO the
left.
Again, any amusement that gives
you a distaste for domestic life is bad,
How many brightd domestic circles have
been broken up by sinful a~musementsf
The father went of, the mother went
of, the child went on. There are all
arounds as the fragmentR Of blasteQ
households. Ohl Il you have wan
dered away, | would like to charm
you back by the sound of hal
one word, Home. do you not
know that you have but little
more time 10 give to domestic vel.
furef Do you not see, father, that your
children are soon to go out into the
world, and all the influence for good
you are to have over them you must
have how2 Death viii break in on
your eonjugal relations, and, alas! il
you have to stand over the grave Of
one who persisted from your neglect.
4 saw n WY WbIu atUAuAhk 1T
the deathbed of his Christian wife,
and ] saw her point to a ring on her
finger and heard her say to her hus'
band: DO you see that ring2' He re-,
piled. Eyes, / see it," Well, said
She, do you remember vino put il
there21 Eyes, said he, Il put it there. e.
And all the past seemed TO rush up.
on him. by the memory Of that day
when in tine presence Of men ana an
gels sou promised to be faithful in joy
aud sorrow, aud in sickness and in
heulth, by The memory Of those pleas
ant hours when you sat together in
your lew house. talking OF a bright
future by the cradle and the excited
hour when the life was spared and an
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