Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-22
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"Oh," he replied, 81 work to keep out OF
mischief!" And no man can afford to be
| idle. l care not how strong his moral
character, he cannot afford to be idle.
But you say: "a great many people arc
suffering from enforced idleness. During
the hard times there were great many
people out OF employment" l know 1t.
but the times of dullness in business are
the times when men ought to be thor.
oughly engaged in improving their minds
and enlarging their hearts. The fortunes
to he made twenty years from now will be
made by the young men who in the times
| whom business was dull cultivated their
minds and improved their hearts. The,
| 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 a Christian man to say he has
nothing to do.
| l went into store In New York where
there were five Christian men, and they
said they had nothing to do. The whole
world lying in sin. Poverty to be COM
| forted, sickness to be alieviated, H. Bible In
the back office, every opportunity OF men,
tal culture, spiritual culture; every in-
ducemen. to work, yet II Christian man.
| sworn before high heaven to consecrate
his whole life to usefulness, has Iothinst to
do! II you have not any business for this
world, my Christian friend, then you ought
to be doing business for eternity.
Again, 1 counsel you, avoid the pleasure
seeker, the man whose entire business it is
| to seek for recreation and amusement.
believe in the nmusements OF the world so
fur as they are innocent. could not live
| without them. Any man OF sanguine tenn
permanent must have recreation or die.
| And yet tho nmusements and recreations
OF life must administer to hard work. They
! are only preparatiye for the occupation to
| which God has called US.
God would not have given US tho capac-
ity to laugh If He did not sometimes intend
US to indulge 1t. God hath hung In sky
and set In wave and printed on grass many
II roundelay. But all the music aud the
brightness OF the natural world were
merely intended to fit US for the earnest
work of life. The thundercloud has edges
exquisitely purpled, but it jars the noun
| tain as it says, 81 como down to water the
flelds.'' The flowers standing under the
fence look gay and beautiful, but they say.
eve stand here to refresh tho husband
men at the nooning." The brook frolics
and sparkles and foams, but it says, 81 go
to baptizo tho moss; l go to slake the
thirst OF the bird; turn the wheel of the
mill; in my crystal cradle / rock muck
shaw aud 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 o. engage In any kind OF mer-
rinent. These things are all beautiful and
grand in their places, but when they be-
come the chief work OF life they become
mans destruction. George Brummel was
admired of all England. He danced with
peeresess and went a round OF mirth and
folly until after while. exhausted OF
purse, ruined of reputation, blasted OF
soul he begged crust from grocer, de-
claring as his deliberate opinion that he
though thar dogs life was better than u
mans.
These mere pleasrri3ts Will come around
you while you are engaged In your work,
and they will try !" take you away. They
have lost their places. Why not you lose
your place? Then you will be one OF them.
Oh my friends, before you go with these
pleasure seekers, these men whose entire
life is fun and amusement and recreation,
remember while after man has lived
life OF integrity and Christian consecra-
tion, kind to the poor and elevatinS to the
worlds condition, when he comes to die
he has a glorious "Reminiscences lying on his
death pillow, the mere pleasurist has moth
ing by way of review but O torn playful, q
ticket for the race, an empty tankard or
the cast out rinds OF a carousal. And rs in
deliriu IN of his awful death he clutches the
goblet and presses 1t to his lips, the dregs
falling on his tongue will begin to uncoil
and hiss with the adders OF IA eternal pol
son.
Again. beware OF Sabbath breakers. Tell
mo how young man spends his Sabbath,
and will tell you what are his prospects
in business. and will tell you what are
his prospects for the eternal world. God
has thrust into our busy life II sacred day
when we are to look after our souls. Is It
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 tue
immortal soul? Our bodies are seven day
clocks, and they need to be wound
up and il they are not wound up
they run down into the grave. No
man can continuously break the Sab
bath and keep his physical aud mental
health. Ask those aged men, and they
will tell you they never knew men who con-
tinuously broke tho Sabbath who did not
fnil either in mind, body or moral prin-
clple. A manufacturer gave this as his ex-
perlence. He said: II owned q factory
on the Lehigh. Everything prospered.
1 kept the Sabbath, and everything went
on well. But one Sabbath morning l be-
thought myself Of Il new shuttle, aud 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. l enlarged my
business; but, sir, that Sundays work cost
. me $50 900. From that day everything
went wrong. l failed In business, and I
lost my mill. Oh, my friends, keep the
Lords day You may think It old togy adj
vice, but give 1t to you now: "Remembei
, 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 it thou shnlt not do any
work. man said that he wouid prove
that al! this was fallacy, and so he sud.
II shall raise Il Sunday crop And he
plowed the field on the Sabbath, and thet
he put In the seed on the Sabbath and cul-
, tivated the ground on the Sabbath. When
the harvest was ripe, he reapcd 1t on the
Sabbath, and he carried it into the NOW on
the Sabbath, ana then he stood out defiant
to his Christian neighbors and said.
"There, that is my Sunday crop, and 1t is
! ali garnered" After awhile n storm camo
up and great darkness, and the light
nings Of heaven struck the barn. and away
went his Sunday crop. Beware, young man,
OF oil Sabbath breakers.
Again. charge yor, beware Of associa-
tion with the dssipated. 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 IA bright n Ind as ever