The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1900-04-07

them SmonrF thsr idleAthoss who havl
nothing TODD, or, having something to do.
refsseito engage ID their daily work. Some
one came to good old Ashbel Green and
asked him why he worked at eighty years
of age when 1t was time for him to rest.
"Oh," he replied, II work to keep out OF
mischiefr'' And no man can afford to be
idle. 1 care rot. how strong his moral
character, he cannot afford to be idle,
But you say: n great many people are
suffering from enforced idiensss. During
the hard times. there were O. great many
people, out Of employment" l know 1t,
but the times of dizziness in business are
the times when men ought to be thor;
oughly engaged in improving their minds
and eniafgins their hearts. The fortunes
to be made twenty years from now will be
made Try the young mon WHO in the times
when business was dull cultivated their
minds and improved their hearts. They
will get the fortunes after awhile, while
thoss men who hang around their stores,
never. engaging in any useful occupation,
will b4 asspoor them as they are now. 1t fs
absurd for aiChristtan man to say he has
nothing to do. 49,. !:
/ went into o store in New York where
there were I've Christian men, aud they
said they had nothing to do. The whole
world lying in SIN. Poverty to. be com.
forted, sickness to be alleviated, Bible in
the back Office, every opportunity OF mep-
tai culture, spiritual culture; every In;
ducemenc 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 for this
world, my Christian friend, tbcn-you ought
to be doing thsinss for eternity. ; :,
Again, L counsel you, avoid the pleasure
seeker, the man whose entire business 1t Is
to seek, for recreation and amusement. l
believe in the YmuSements OF the world SO
far as they are innocent. l could not live
without them. Any man of sanguine TEN,
permanent must have recreation or die.
And yet! fine amusements and recreation&
of life must administer to hard WORK. They
are only preparative for the occupation ia
which God has called us. E,
God would not have given US the .capac:
ity to laugh if He did not sometimes intend
us to fndtil9e 1t: God hath hung IN sky
and get in wave and printed on grass many
a roGndelays But oil the music and the
brightness OF tile: natural world wett
merely iRtenda4l to, fl us for the earnest
work OF life. The thundercleud has edges
exquisitely purpled, but it jars the noun.
tain as 1t says, IT 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 noonipg.'' The brook frolics
and .spaEkIes and foSms, but 1t says, Il go
to baptize the moss; 1 go to stake 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. book out for that man
whose entire, business IL to play ball OF
sail yacht or engage in any kind OF mer>
risnent. These things are all beautiful and
gxand IN their places, but when they. be.
come the Chief work OF life they become
mans destruction. George Brummel was
admired Of MI England. He danced with
peeresess and went a round of mirth and
folly until after a while, exhausted oil
purse. ruined Of reputation, blasted OF
soul, he begged a crust from grocer, de-
,laring as his deliberate opinion that be
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These mere pleasuristy Will Come around
you whileyou are engaged In your work; |
!, nd they wt1ktry to take you away They
10 ee lost thedr places Why not you loss
your Rlaee?: Then YOU will be one Of them. |
Oh, my friends, before you go With these |
pleasure seekers, these men whose entire |
lie Is fun and amusement and recreation, |
.emehiber Wills after s man has lived a
life ofr4ht egrh VI and Christian conseeratf
ion, kind 70 the poor and elevating to the
when he. comes to die
le has glorj usrenfiniscenc lying on his
leath pillOw Vi the mere pleasurist has moth
ng. By way 81 review but torn playful,
icket for the race. an empty tankafd OF
1lB east 6tft rfnds of a carousal. End as In !
leliriu m of his awful death he clu; ches the
,oblet and presses-it to his lips, the dregs
aliing on, his tongue Viii begin. to uncoil
nd hiss with the adders OF an eternal poll
on.
Again, beware OF Sabbath breakers. Tell
1e how.ayoqng man spends his. Sabbath,
nd | will tell you what are his prospects
n Business. and 7 will tell you what are
is prospects for the eternal world. God.
hen. We are to look after our souls. . Is It
xorbitant after giving six days to the
eeding and the clothing OF these perish.
BILE bodies that God should demand one
ny fc. the feeding and the clothing of the
IMMORTAL soula Our bodies are seven day
locks, and they need to be. wound
p. and IT. they arc not wound up
ley run down into the grave. No
ian can continuously break the Sab
ath and keep bis physical and mental
ealth. Ask those aged men, and they
ill tell you they never knewmen who con.
nuonsly broke the Sabbath who did not |
Ill aeither in: mind, body or. moral prin-s
pie. A manufacturer gave this as Ais.ex-J
4 he .Lehis h. Everything prospered.
kept tie Sabbath, and everything went
! we'll. But one Sabbath morning be-. /
fought myself OF a new shuttle, and
fought would invent that shuttle before
inset, and i refused all food and drink
1ttl had completed that shuttle. By sun.
own I had completed it,, The next day,
lends this new shuttle. They all c6naE
me Unmy great suceess.- Iput
at shuttle into play. I enlarged my
lsiness; but, sir, that Sundays work cost
g. $50, 900. From that day everything
ent wrong. failed In business, and I II
st my mill. Oh, my friends, keep the
You may think 1t old fogy ad..
&c, butt give It to you now: "Remeinber
er-.Sabb ath. day, keep 1T holy. Si1
'ys shalt, thou laher aud. do. all thy
ork, but the seventh lathe Sabbath OF tina
,rd thy God; in It thou shalt not do any
)rk. A man said that he would prove
at all THIS was! a fallacy, and SO he said.
shall raise Sunday CROP" And he
owed the field on the Sabbxth; and then1 1
put iR,thesseed Oh the Sabbat hand cul.
.atad the gaouad on the Sabbath. When
9 harvest was lipe. he, reaped 1t on the !
bbath, aud he carried it into the NOW on i
Q Sabbath, and then he stood out defiant ,
his Christian nefghbors and said,
here, that IS my; Sunday crop, and 1t is
garnered." After awhile storm camel
and q great darkness, ., and the light.
lgs Of heaven struck the barn, and away .
mt his Sunday CROP Beware, young man,
all Sabbath breakers. ~
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