The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-03-07
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| tianity. He will by SCOTS ana JeerS anu
caricatures destroy your faith in that re-
| ligion which was the comfort OF your IA
Their in his declining years and the pillow
on which your old mother lay a-dylng.
! Again, avoid the idlers-that IS, those
people who gather around the store or
the shop or the factory and try to seduce
! you away from your regular calling and
! in your business hours try to seduce you
| away. There is nothing that would
please them so we'll as to have you give
up your employment and conSort with
them.
What Does He Do?
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 a young man
into your association ask him plainly,
what do you do for a living" II he
says Nothing; [ am gentleman, look
out for him. / care not how soft MS mana
or how elegant his apparel or how high
sounding his family name, his touch IS
death.
These people who have nothing to 90
will come around you in your busy hours,
and they will ask you to ride with them
to Chevy Chase or to Central Park, and
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 men, and, first of all, you VIII
become ashamed of your apparel; then
you will lose your place, then you will
lose your responsibility, then you will
lose your soul.
Idleuess is the next door to villainy.
When the police go to find criminals,
where do they go to find them? They
find them among the idle-those VINO
have nothing to do, or, having something
to do refuse to engage in their daily
work Some one came to good old Ash
bel Green and asked him why he worked
at so ears of age when it was time for
him to rest. "Oh," he replied, Il work
to keep out of mischief" And no man
can afford to be idle. | care not how
strong his moral character, he cannot af-
ford to be idle.
But you say: "a great many people are
suffering from enforced idleness. During
the hard times there were great many
people out of employment" l know it,
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 for
tunes to be made twenty years, from now
will be made by the young men who in
the times when business was dull Guilt
waited their minds and improved their
hearts. They 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.
Picture of a Great Master.
People go to Florence and to Venice
and to- Rome to see one of the works of
the great masters. / think | can show
you the picture of one of the great mas
ters L went by the field of the slothful
and by the vineyard of the man void Of
understanding, and, 10. it was all grown
over with thornS, and nettleS had COW
cred the face thereof, and the stone wall
thereof was broken down. Then | saw
and considered it WELL l looked upon it
and received instruction. Yet little
sleep, little slumber, 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 1t first begins to hiss like the fuse
of a cannon and then bursts like 54-
FOUNDER. The old proverb was true,
1.-The devil tempts most men, but idlers
tempt the devl!' Therefore seek some
thing to do. If no worldly business of
fers, them 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 pleas
ure seeker. the man whose entire bust
ness it is to seek for recreation and
amusement. l believe in the amusements
of the world so far as they are innocent.
could not live without them. Any man
of sanguine temperament must have
recreation Or die. And yet the amuse-
ments and recreations Of life must ad-
minister to hard work. They are only
preparatiye for the occupation to which
God has called us.
God would not have given us the capac-
ity to laugh if he did not sometimes in
tend us to indulge it. God hath hung in
sky and set in wave and printed on grass
many a roundeay. But all the music
and 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 mountain as it says, Il come down
to water the fields" The flowers stand
ing under the fence look gay and beau
tiful, but they say, Eve stand here to re-
fresh the husbandmen at the nooning."
The brook frolics and sparkles and foams,
but it says: Il go to baptize the moss;
/ go to Stake the thirst of the bird;
turn the wheel Of the mill; in my crystal
cradle / rock muckshaw and water lily;
l 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 a yacht or engage in any kind of
merriment. These things are all beauti-
full and grand in their places, but when
they become the chief work of life they
become a mans destruction. George
Brummel was admired Of all England
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