The Penn's Grove record., 1900-03-09
II. PENIS GROVE, N. J., FRIDAY, MARCH ., 1900.

tnos6smen who hang around their stores.
never engaging In any useful occupation.
VIII pc as poor then as they are now. It Is
absurd for Q Christian man to say he has
nothing to do.
! vent into o store in New York where
there were five Christian mon, and they
said they q nothing to do. The whole
world lying In elm. Poverty to be com.
iorted, Z to be alleviated, q Bible ia
the BACK office. every opportunity OF men.
tal cultures, spiritual culture; every in.
ducement to work, yet a Christian man,
sworn before high heaven to consecrate
MS whole life to usefulness, has nothing to
dol II you have not any business for this
world. my Christian friend, then you ought
to be doing business for eternity.
People go to Florence and to Venice and
10 Rome to see one of the works OF the
great masters. think I can show you the
picture OF one OF the great masters. 81
went by the field OF the siothfui and by the
vineyard OF he man void OF understand.
ing, and. 10, 1t was all grown over with
thorns. and netties had covered the face
thereof, and the stone wall thereof was
broken down. Then saw md considered
It well. l looked upon It Inc received in.
structton. Yet q little sleep, a little slum-
Der, q little folding Of the hands to sleep,
So shall thy poverty come as one that
traveleth and thy want as an armed man,
There Is no more explosive passage In all
the Bible than that. It first begins to hiss
like the fuse OF a cannon and then bursts
like q ffty-four FOUNDER. Tie old proverh
was true, "The devil tempts most men. but
idlers tempt the devilr' Therefore seek
something to do. II no worldly business
offers, then. IN the name OF the Lord Jesus
Christ, go out on Christian toll, and the
Lord will bless you, and the Lord will help
you.
Again, I counsel you, avoid the pleasure
seeker, the man whose entire business it is
to seek for recreation and amusement. I
believe In the amusements Of the world SO
Tar as they are innocent. / could not live
without them. Any man OF sanguine tem-
permanent must have recreation or die.
And yet the amusements and recreations
OF life u 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 laugh II He did not sometimes intend
US to indulge It. God hath hung in sky
and set in wave and printed on grass many
o roundelay. But al the music and the
brightness OF the natural world were
merely intended to fr us for the earnest
work OF life. The thundercloud has edges
exquisitely purpled, but 1t jars the noun
tain as It says, II come down to water The
fields" The flowers standing under the
fence o gay and beautiful, but they say,
1--WE stand here to refresh the husband
men at the nooning." The brook frolics
and sparkles and foama, but 1t SAYS, 81 90
to baptize the moss; I go to slake the
thirst Of the bird; I turn the wheel OF the
mill; In my crystal cradle I rock muck-
shaw and water lily; I play, but l 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 q yacht or engage in any kind OF mer-
rifnent. 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 q while, exhausted OF
purse, ruined Of reputation, blasted of
soul, he begged a crust from a grocer, de-
claring as his deliberate opinion tina he
though that a dogs life was better than a
mans.
These mere pleasurists will come arouhl
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 placer Then you will be nj 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 a man has lived q
life OF integrity and Christian consecra-
tion, kind to the poor and elevating to the
WOIlu COAQlblOu, VIGIL 10 COIaoS TO ul6
he has q glorious "reminiscences lying on his
death pillow, the mere pleasurist has moth
ing by way of review but a torn playful, a
ticket for the race, an empty tankard or
the cast out rinds OF a carousal. And as in
delirium 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 an eternal pol
son.
Again, beware of SABBATH breakers. Tell
me how q young man spends his Sabbath,
and I 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 sonls. 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 inc 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 u 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 knewmen who con-
tinuously broke the Sabbath who did not
fail either In mind, body or moral prin-
ciple. A manufacturer gave this as his ex-
psrlence. He said: 81 owned O factory
O the Lehigh. Everything ~prospered.
I kept the Sabbath, and everything went
or well. But one Sabbath morning I be-
thought myself Of q new shuttle. and l
thought / would invent that shuttle before
sunset, and 1 refused all food and drink
until / had completed that shuttle. BY sun
down I had completed 1t. The next day,
Monday, / showed to my workmen and
friends this new shuttle. They all con-
graduated me on my great success. I put
that shuttle into play. ! enlarged my
business; but, sir, that Sundays work cost
me $50, 1000. From that day everything
went wrong. ! failed In business, and I
lost my mill. Oh, my friends. keep the
Lords day. You may think It old fogy adj
vice, but I give 1T to you lows: Remember
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. shalt not do any
work." A nan said that he would prove
that all this was a falacy, and SO he said,
II shall raise q Sunday CROP" And he
plowed the field on the Sabbath, and then
he put In the seed on the Sabbath and cul-
tivated the ground on the Sabbath. When
the harvest was ripe. he reapedf 1t on the
Sabbath, and he carried 1t into the NOW on
the Sabbath, and then he stood out defiant
to his Christian ~neighbors and said,
'sThere, that Is my Sunday crop, and 1t is
all garnered." After awhile a storm came
up and a great darkness, and the light
nings OF heaven struck the barn, and away
went his Sunday crop. Beware, young man,
OF all Sabbath breakers.
Again, I charge you, beware OF associa-
ton 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 aa bright a 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 Fited. He en-
tered lite with bright no, The world
beckoned him, friends cneered him,
but the archers shot at him; vile
men set. traps for him, bad habits hooked
fast to him with their iron grapples; his
feet slipped on the way, and there he lies.
Who would think that that uncombed hair
was once toyed with by a ather's fingers?
Would you think Tint those bloated cheeks
were ever kissed by a moth 3r's slips? Would
you guess that that thick tongue once
made 3 household glad with its innocent
prattle? Utter no harsh words in his ear.
Help him up. Put the hat over that once
manly brow. Brush The dust from that
cont that once covered q generous heart.
Show him the way to the home that once
| reiOfCed at the sound OF bfs footeteD and