Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1900-03-22

idle. I care Tot how strong his moral
character, he cannot afford to be idle.
But you say: "a great many people are
suffering from enforced idleness. During
the hard times there were a great many
people out 0; employment" | know Ii,
but the times Of dizziness in business are
the times when men ought to be thor
oughly engaged in improving their minds
and enlarging their hearts. The fortunes
to be made twenty years from now will be
made by the young men who in the times
when business was dui; cultivated their
minds and improved their hearts. Tnev
will set the fortunes after awhile, while
those men who hang around their stores,
lever engaging IN any useful occupation.
will be as poor then as they ere nov. It is
absurd for a Christian man to sag he has
nothing to do.
l went into 4 store in NeV York wnera
there were five Christian men, and they
said they had nothing to do. Tie whole
world lying In sin. Poverty to be com
forted, sicanes to be alieviated, a Btble in
the back office, every opportunity Of men
tai culture, spiritual culture: every In
ducemen: to work, yet a Christian man,
sworn before high heaven to conSecrate
his whole life to usefulness, has nothingto
10, II you have not any business for this
world, my Christian friend, then you ought
to be doing business fer eternity.
Again, l counsel you, avoid the pleasure
seeker. the man whose entire business it IS
to seek for recreation and amusement. !
believe in the a~musements OF the world so
far rs they are innocent. could not live
without them. Any man OF sanSuine tenn
permanent must have recreation or die.
And yet the amusements and recreationS
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-
ity to iangh if He did not sometimes intend
,s to indulge It. God hath hung il sky
ard set in wave and printed on grass rnaay
Il ~r0undelay. Bat all the music anu tine
brightness % the natural world were
merely intended ~ Il. US for tho earnest
work of life. The thundercl0ud has edges
exquisi.ely purpled, but It jars the noun
tain az il says, II come down to water the
fields The flowers standing under tho
fence look gay and beautiful, but they say,
stand here 10 refresh the husbands
men at the nooning.' The brook frolics
ana s~parhies and foams. bur it says, Il &
to baptize the moss: [ 80 to Stake the
thirst of the bird: | turn the wheel OF the
mill; in ny crystal cradle j rock muck
shaw and water lilyi play, but work
Look out for the man who plays and
never works. Look oul for that man
whose entire business is to play ball or
sail Il yacht or engage in any kind Of mcr-
LtiIflts hVS iiir L tA 'NN 'IA
grand In their places, but when they be-
come the chief work OF life they become
mans destruction. George Dr1nlmei was
admired Of all Englaud. He dance! with
peeresess and went a round o. mirtfi and
folly until after Il while. exhausted of
purse, ruined Of reputation, blasted OF
soul, he begged a crust from a grocer, de-
ciarinG as hts deliberate opinion that he
though tina. q dogs life was better than Il
mans.
These mere pleasuristS will cone around
YOU while you are engaged in your work.
and they will try tutake you away. They
have lost their places. Way not you lose
Your place? Then you will be II 70 OF them.
Oh, my friends, before You so with these
pleasure seekers, these men whose entire
life is fun and amusement and recreation,
remember while after q man has lived q
life Of integrity and Christian consecra-
ton, kind to the poor and elevatinS to the
worlds condition., when he comes to die
he has a glorious reminiscenco lying on his
death pillow, the nero pleasurist has moth
ing by way Of review but a torn playful, n
ticket for the race, an empty tankard or
the cast out rinds OF q carousal. And as i'll
deliriu1n Of his awful death he clutches the
goblet and presses ii to his lips, the dregs
falling on his tongue will begin to uncoil
and hiss with the adders Of an eternal poi
son.
tiSdtu, re axe u ctIvitI pLSttNCiSs 1OA
| me how a young man spends his Sahbata.
and ] will tell YOU what arc his prospects
in business. ana | will tel! you what arr
his prospects for the eternal world. God
has thrust into our busy lie q sacred day
when we are to look after our souls. Is it
exorbitant after giving six days 10 this
feeding and the clothing OF these perish
able bodies that God ShOul1 demand Oua
day for the feeding aud thu clothing Of the
immortal soul? Our bodies ara seven day
clocks, and .hey 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 and mental
health. Ask those aged men, and they
will tell you they never knew men who con
tinuouslv broke the Sabbath WHO did not
fail either in mind, body or moral prin-
ciple. A manufacsnrer gave this as his ex-
parience. He said. Il owned q factory
on the LehigI,. Everything ~prospered.
l kept the Sabbath, and everything went
on well. But one Sabbath morning | be-
thought myself OF u new shuttle, aud |
thought | would invent that shuttle before
sunset, and l refused all food and drink
until l had completed thatshuttle. By sun
down 1 had completed It. The next day.
Monday. l showed to lay workmen and
friends this new shuttle. They all con-
graduated me on my great success. Tput
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. On, my friends. keep the
Lords day. Iou may think il old fogy al
vice, but | give il 70 you now 'Remelnhe-
the Sabbath, day. keen it holy. Six
days shalt thou labor and do all thy
work. bat the seventh is the Sabbath Of the
Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any
work" A man said that he would prove
that all this was n fallacy, and so he said,
4 shall raise a Sflnday crop" And he
plowed the field on the Sabbath, and then
he put In the seed on the Sabbath and cui.
tivated the ground on the Sabbath. When
the harvest was ripe. he reaped it on the
Sabbath, and he carried 1t into the now OF
the Sabbath, aud then be stood out delan,
to his Christian ~neiShhors and said
There. that is my sunday crop, and it is
all Sarnered." After awhile a storm cams
up and 4 great darkness, and the light
nings II heaven struck tie barn, and AVA
wen his Sunday crop. Beware, young man
CT all Sabbath breakers.
Again, l charge you. beware Of associa.
ton with the dissipated. Go with then
aud you will in time adopt thei- habits
Who Is that man fallen against the curh.
stone, covered with bruises and beastli
ness? He was as bright q lad as eve
looked up from your nursery. His nothe,