Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-05-22

Il SWitt IL wants strong hclmSman,
in proportion as n horse il gay il wants
stout driver, and these people Of
eNubcrant nature will do well tn look
at the reaction Of all their amuSe-
ments. III an amusement sends
YOU home at night nervous, SO
that YOU cannot sleep. and YOU
rise up in the morning not because YOU
are slept out. but because Your duty
dragS YOU from your slumbers, yoa
have been where you ought not to have
been. There are amuSements that
send a man next day 10 his work with
his eyes bloodshot, yawning. stupid.
nauscatcd. and they are wrong kinds
of amusement. They are entertain
mentS that give a man disgust with the
drudgery of life. with tools because
they are not swords, with working
aprons because they are not robes,
with cattle because they are not in
furiated bulls of the arena. If any
amusement sends YOU home longing
for life of romance aud thrilling adj
venture, love that takes poison and
shoots itself, moonlight adventures
and hair-breadth escapes. YOU may de-
pend upon IL that YOU are the sacri-
Our rccreations are intended 10 build
rs up. and if they pull MS down as to
our moral or as to our physical
strength YOU may come TO the con-
clusion that they are obnoNious.
Stiil further. these amuScments are
wrong which lead YOU into expcndi-
lures beyond your means. Money
spent in recreation is not thrown
away. 1t is all folly for us TO come
from place of amusement feeling
that we have wasted our money aud
time. You may by it have made an
investment worth more than the
transaction that yielded YOU hun
ureds OF thousands OF dollars. But
how many properties have been rid
dled by costly amuScmcntS.
The first time ever saw the city
It was the city OF Philadelphia was
a mere lad. I stopped at hotel. and
remember in the cvcntidc one OF
these men piled me with his Internal
art. He saw ! was green. He wanted
TO show me the sights OF the town
He painted the path Of sin until it
looked like emerald. hut | was afraid
of him. | showed back from the bas-
siIlsk-I made up my mind he was a
baSiliSk. l remember how he wheeled
his chair round i'm front Of me, and
with conccntered and din bolical cf-
tort, attempted to destroy my soul
but there were good angels IN the air
that night. II WAS no good resolution
on my part. but it was the all en-
comprising grace of II good God that
delivered me. BeYarc. beware. o
young man! There * n way that
scemcth right unto mau, but the
end thereof is death"
The table has been robbed to pay
the club. The champagne has cheat
ed the childrcn's wardrobe. The ca
rousing party has burned up the
boys primer. The tabiecloth OF the
corner saloon is i'm debt TO the wifc's
faded dress. Excursions thas i'm n
day make a tour around whole
months wages, ladies, whose lifetime
business il is TO go shopping. large
bets on horses, lave their counter
parts in uneducated children. bnik-
ruptcics that shock the moncY mar
kct and appall the church and that.
send drunkenness staggering across
the richly figured carpet OF the man
sion and dashng into the mirror and
drowning out the carol of music with
the whooping Of bloatcd sons come
home to break their old mothers
heart.
I saw a beautiful home where the
bell rang violently late at night Tho
son had been oif In sinful indul-
gcnces. His comrades were bringing
him home. They carried him TO the
door. They rang thc bell ~ one
o'clock in the morning. Fn her and
mother came down. They were whit
ing for the wandering son. and then
the comrades as soon a tho door
was opened threw the prodigal head
long into the doorway. crying:
There he is as drunk as a fool. Ha.
hal" When men go into amusemcnts
that they cannot afford, they first
borrow what they cannot earn. and
then they steal what they cannot
borrow. First they 90 into cmbnrrass-
ment and then into lying and then
into theft. and when u man gets 50
far as that he does not stop short Of
the penitentiary. There is not pris-
on in the land where there are not
victims of unsanctiied amusemelts.
Merchant. IS there disarrange-
mcnt in your accounts? is there =
leakage in your money drawer? Did
not the cash account come out right
last night? I viii tell you. There is a
young man in your store wandering OFT
into bad amusements. The salary
you give him may meet lawful cxpend-
itures. but not the sinful indngences
in which he has entered. and De takes
by theft that which you do not give
him in lawful salary.
60 further and say those are un-
Christian amuscments which become
the chief business Of mans life. Life
is an earnest thing. Whether Nc are
born iu a palace or bOvel, whether ,ye