Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-03-14

suffering from enforced idieness. curing
he hard times there were a great man,
people out OF employment" 1 know 1t
but the times OF dullness in business ar,
oughly engaged in improving their mind:
and eniarging their hearts. The fortunes
to be made twenty years from now will b.
made by the young men who in the times
whom business was dul; cultivated theil
minds and improved their hearts. They
will get the fortunes after awhile, while
those men who hang around their stores,
never engaging In any useful occupation.
will be as poor then as they are now. 1t Is
absurd for Christian man to say he has
nothing to do.
went into a store in New York where
there were five Christian men, and they
said they had nothing to do. The whole
world lying 10 sin. Poverty to be com
forted, sickness to be allevinted. n Bible In
the back office, every opportunity OF men,
tai culture, spiritual culture; every in
| ducemens to work, yet n Christian man.
sworn before high heaven to consecr lte
his whole life to usefulness, has nothing to
| do! II you have not any business for this
world. my Christian friend, then you ought
to bs doing business for eternity.
Again, l counsel you, avoid the pieasure
| ecker, the man whose entire business II Is
| 10 seek for recreation and amusement. 1
believe in the amusements of the world so
| far as they are innocent. / could not live
without them. Any man of sanguine tenn
permanent must have recreation or die.
And yet the amusements and recreattons
OF life must administer to hard work. They
| are only preparative for the occupation to
which God has called us.
God would not have given US the capac.
| .ty to laugh II He did not sometimes intend
Us to indulge 1t. God hath hung In sky
and set In wave and printed on grass many
rouudelay. But all the music and the
brightness Of the natural world were
merely intended to fiI US for the earnest
work OF life. The thundercloud has edges
axquisiteiy purpled, but it jars tho noun
| tain rs IL says, 81 come down to water the
fields" The flowers standing under the
fence look gay and beautiful, but they say.
''we stand here to refresh the husband
men at the nooning." The brook frolics
and sparkies and foams, but it says. II go
to baptize the moss; l go to slake the
thirst of the bird; turn the wheel OF the
MILL in my crystal cradle I rock muck
shaw and water lily; play, but work.
Look out for the man who plays and
never works. Look out for that man
whose entire business is to play ball or
sail yacht or engage In any kind OF mer-
| rinent. These things are all beautiful and
grand in their places, but when they be-
J come the chief work OF life they become
admired of all England. He danced with
peeresess and went round Of mirth and
| folly until after a while, exhausted of
purse. ruined Of reputation, blasted OF
soul. he begged a crust from grocer, de-
| ciaring as his deliberate opinion that he
though tha, dogs life was better than a
| mans.
These mere pleasurists will come around
| you while you are engaged In your work,
and they will try to take you away. They
| have lost their places. Why not you lose
| your place? Then you will be one OF them.
| fri On Ui hpS
pleasure seekers, these men whose entire
| life is fun and amusement and recreation,
| remember while after a man has lived u
| life of integrity and Christian consecra-
| tion, kind to the poor and elevating to the
worlds condition. when he comes to die
| he has q glorious "reminiscences lying on his
death pillow, the mere pleasurist has moth
Ing by way of review but a torn playbill, a
| ticket for the race, an empty tankard or
| the cast out rinds OF a carousal. And as in
| goblet and presses 1t to his lips, the dregs
falling on his tongue will begin to uncoil
and hiss with the adders Of an eternal poi
| son.
Again, beware Of Sabbath breakers Tell
| ne how a young man spends his Sabbath,
| and will tell you what are his prospects
In business. and l will tell you what are
| his prospects for the eternal world. God
has thrust into our busy life a sacred day
when we are to look after our souls. Is 1t
exorbitant after giving six days to the
feeding and the clothing of these perish
able bodies that God should demand one
| day for the feeding and the clothing OF the
| immortal soul? Our bodies are seven day
clocks, and they need to be wound
up, and II they are not wound up
| they run down into the grave. No
man can continuously break the Sab
bath and keep his physical and mental
health. Ask those aged men, and they
will tell you they never knew men who con-
tinuously broke the Sabbath who did not
fail either in mind. body or moral prin-
parience. He said: II owned a factory
on the Lehigh. Everything prospered.
I kept the Sabbath, and everything went
on we'll. But one Sabbath morning l be-
thought myself of new shuttle. and l
thought would invent that shuttle before
sunset. and l refused all food and drink
until had completed that shuttle. By sun
down I had completed it. The next day.
Monday, 1 showed to my workmen and
friends this new shuttle. They all con-
graduated me on my great success. put
that shuttle into play. 1 enlarged my
me $4,000. From that day everything
went wrong. I failed In business, and
lost my mill. Oh, my friends. keep the
Lords day. You may think 1t old fogy al
the Sabbath day, keep 1t holy. Six
days shalt thou labor and do all thy
work, but the seventh is the Sabbath of the
Lord thy God; In 1t thou shalt not do any
work" man said that he would prove
that all this was fallacy, and so he said.
Il shall raise Sunday crop" And he
plo wed the field on the Sabbath, and then
he put in the seed on tho Sabbath and cul-
tivated the ground On the Sabbath. When
the harvest was ripe, he reaped 1t on the
Sabbath, and he carried II into the NOV on
the Sabbath, and then he stood out defiant
fn auIh
"There, that Is my Sunday crop, and it is
al, garnered." After awhile a storm came
up and great darkness, and the light
nings OF heaven struck the barn, and away
went his Sunday crop. Beware, young man,
II all sabbath breakers.
tion with the dissipated. Go with them
and you will in time adopt their habits.
Who is that man fallen against the curb
stone, covered with bruises and beastli-
ness: He was as bright lad as ever
looked up from your nursery. His mother
rocked him, prayed for him, fondled him.
would not let the night air touch his
cheek and held him up and looked down
into his loving eyes and wondered for what
high position he was being fitted. He en-
tered lite with bright hopes. The world
beckoned him, friends cheered him,
hut the archers shot at him; vile
men set traps for him, bad habits hooked
fast to him with their iron grapples; his
foet slipped on the way, and there he lies.
Who would think that that uncombed hair
WAS once toyed with by a fathers fingers?
Would yon think that those bloated cheeks
were ever kissed by a mothers lips? Wonld
you guess that that thick tongue once
made u household glad with its innocent
prattie? Utter no harsh words in his ear.
Help him mp. Put the hat over that once
manly brow. Brush the dust from that
coat that once covered "A generous heart.
Show him tie way to the home that once
rejoiced mt the souni OF his footstep and
with gentle words tell his children to stand
back AS you help him through the hall.
Old men are apt to think that about
all they are fit for is to make money
and save It