Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-07-29

OF her hayward boy ana push back
from the bloated brow the long locks
that were once her pride, And the air
will be rent with the fathers cry: "0h,
my son, my son, my poor son; would
God | had died for thee, oh, my son,
my som"
You may judge of amusements by
their effect upon physical health, The
need OF many good people is physical
There are Chritiam 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-
pie who seem to think that it is a 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 character. want to tell Christian
deople that God will hold you re-
sponsible for your invalidism If it is
your own fault, and when through
right exercise and prudence you might
be athletic and well. The effect of the
body upon the soul you acknowledge.
Put man of mild disposition upon the
animal diet of which the Indian par
takes, and in little while his blood
will change its chemical proportions.
1t 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 a 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 dare to shatter the
physical vase in which God put the
jewel of eternity. There are men with
great hearts and intellects in bodies
worn out by their own neglects. Mag
nificent machinery capable of propell-
ing great Etruria across the Allan
tic, yet fastened in rickety 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 great soul in an athletic
body, every nerve, muscle and bone of
which is consecrated to right uses.
Oh, it seems to me outrageous
that men through neglect should
allow their physical health to go
down beyond repair, spending the rest
of their life not in some great enter
prise for God and the world, but in
studying what is the best thing to take
for dyspepsia. A ship which ought,
with all sails set and every man at his
post, to be carrying Il rich cargo for
eternity, employing all its means in
stopping up lealSages! When you may,
through some of the popular and
healthful recreation of our time, work
off your spleen and your querulousness
and one-half of your physical and
mental ailments, do not turn your back
from such grand medicament
Again, judge of the places of amuse'
ment by the companionship into which
they put you. If you belong to an or
ganization where you have to associat,
with the Incorporate, with the IN
clean, with the abandoned, however
well they may BE- dressed, in the nam,
of God quit it. They will despoil YOU
nature. They will undermine you
moral character. They will drop you
when you are destroyed. They viii
not give one cent to support your chill
dren when you are dead. They will
weep not one tear at your burial
They will chuckle over your damna
ton. But the day comes when TIL
men who have exerted evil influenced
upon their fellows will be brought tC
judgment. Scene: The last day, Stage
The rocking earth. Enter dukes, lords
kings, beggars, clowns No sword
No tnsel. No crown. For footlights
the kindling flames of world Flo
orchestra, the trumpets that wake TIL
dead. For gallery, the clouds file
with angel spectators For applause
the clapping floods of the sea Fo
curtains, the heavens rolled togethe
as scroll. For tragedy, the doom O
the destroyed. For farce, the effort I
serve the world and God at the sam
time. For the last scene of the iift
act, the tramp of nations across tn
stage-some to the right Others TO tn
left.
Again, any amusement that give
you Il distaste for domestic life is bat
How many bright domestic circles hav
been broken up by sinful amusements
The father went Off, the mother wen
off, the child went off. There are a
arounds us the fragments OF blaste
households Ga! If you have wal
dered away, would like to CHAR
you back by the sound of tina
one word, Home" DO you nc
know that you have but littl
more time to give to domestic we
fare? Do you not see, father, that yor
children are sool TO 60 out into TN
world, and all the influence for goo
,, you are to have over them you mu,
have how? D1ath will break in o
: your conjugal relations, and, alas!
you have to stand over the grave c
, one who persisted from your neglec
| saw u hayward husband standing a
the deathbed OF his Christian wife
: and saw her point to a ring on he
finger and heard her say to her hu
band: $40 you see that ring" He +
= piled: Eyes, | see it." well, sal
she, "do you remember who put
there?' yes" said he, IL put it there
! And all the past seemed to rush u
!. !. on him. by the memory of that da
4, when in the presence OF men and al
= gels you promised to be faithful in j.
!, aud sorrow, and in sickness and
>, health, by the memory of those plea
,. ant hours when you sat together
= your new house, talking OF brigl
: future; by the cradle and the excite
u hour when the life was spared and u
= other given; by that sick bed, when Il
little one lifted up the hands and Gale
= for help and you knew he must die, al
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