The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-03-14

store or the shop or the factory and t1y !
70 seS;lce you away from you regular
calling ard in your business hours try
- se6uce you away. There IS nothing
that would please them so we'll as to
have you give up your employment aud
consort with them.
These idlers you will find standing
around the engine houses or standing
at MONDAY or about noon on the steps
Of some hotel or fashionable restaurant,
giving the idea they have dined there.
They have not dined there. They
never dined there. They never will
dine there. Before you invite young
man into your association ask MN Ja
plainly, What do you DO for living!
II he saws, Nothing; | am gentle
MAI, look out for HIM. | care pos
how soft his hand or hoE elegant MS
apparel or hox high sounding MS laol'-
" naue, his touch is death.
These people who have nothlng to DO
will come around you in your busy
bonrs and they will ask you 10 ride
with them aud they will tell you of
some excursion that you must make, Of
some wine that you must drink, OF some
beautiful dancer that you must see.
They will Try to take you away from
your regular work. Associate with
these meu, and. first Of all, you will
become ashamed of your apparel; then
YOU will lose your place, then you will
lose lose your respectablllty, then JoI
will lose Your soul
l6!eness is the next door 10 vi.lalpy.
When the police go to aud criminals,
where do they 90 to Gnd them? They
ind them among the the idle-those
who have nothing to 90, or, having
something to d., refuse to engage IN
their daily work. Some one came to
good old Ashbel Green and asked him
why he worked at 50 years of age when
it was time for him to rest. "Oh, be
replied, "l work 10 keep out Of mis-
chief" And no man c.u afford to be
idle. care not how strong his moral
character, he cannot afford TO be idle.
But you says: "a great many people
are suffering from enforced idlencss.
Daring the hard times there were a
great many people out of employment.
| know it, but the times of duIlOess IN
business are the times when men ought
to be thoroughly engaged IN lmprov-
ing their minds aud enlsrging their
hearts The fortunes to be made 70
Years from now will be made by the
young men who IN the times when bu,l-
ness was dull cultivated their minds
aud improved their hearts. They Will
get the fortunes after awhile, while
those men who hang around their
stores, never engaging ID any usefu!
patton, will be as poor then as
they are n,w. 1t is absurd for q
Christian man to say he has nothing to
10.
I went into store in New York
where there were Eve Christian ,nan,
aud they said they had nothing TO DO.
The whole world lying in sin. Poverty
TO be comforted, sickness to be alle7ia-
ted, Bible in the back Office, every
opportunity of mental culture, spiritual
culture; every inducement to work, yet
Christian man, sworn before high
heaven to consecrate his whole life TO
usefulness, has nothing to do! If you
have not any business Tor this world,
my Christian friend, then you ought to
be doing business for eternity.
Again counsel you, avoid the pleas
ure seeker, the man whose entire busi-
ness it is to seek for recreation and
amusement. l believe in the suuse-
nents of the world so far as they are
innocent. l could not live without
them. Any man of sanguine tempers-
uent must have recreation or die.
And yet the amusements and recrea.
tions Of life must administer to hard
work. They are only preparatlve for
the occupation to which God has called
US.
God would not have given Us the
capacity to laugh if he did not some
times intend us to indulge it. God
hath hung in sky and set in wave and
printed on grass many sroundelay. But
all the music and the brightness of the
natural world were merely intended 20
it Us for the earnest work of life. The
thundercloud has edges eZquisitely
purpled, but it jars the mountain as ii
says, i come down to water the fields !"
The flowers standing under the fence
look gay aa4 beautiful, but they say,
I'VE >,Srd here 10 refresh the hus-
band uen at the incoming" The brook
frolics and sparkles and foams, but it
says: Il go to baptize the moss; l go
to slake the thirst of the bird; turn
the wheel of the mill; in my crystal
cradle rock muckshaw and water lily;
| play, but l work.
Look cut for the man who plays and
never works Lock out for that man
whose entire business is to play ball or
sail in yacht or engage in any kind of
merriment. These things are all beau
tiful and grand ia their places, but
when they become the chief work of
life they become mans destruction.
George Brummel was admired Of all
England. He danced with peeresscs
and went round of mir,h and folly,
until after awhile, exhausted Of purse,
ruined Of reputation, blasted Of soul,
he begged crust from grocer, de
clariDg as his deliberate opinion that
he thought th.t dogs life was better
than man :.
These mere plessurists will come
around you while you are engaged in
your ao!k, 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. Oa, my
friends, before you 90 with these pleas
,.ro Sa.Lors thnsn men whose entire