Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1903-05-16
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ElooUs MI DISCOURSE ENTITLED
"PLEAsURE AND COD"
The Rev. A. y. Kinroivinx shows THAT
when the soul HAS Pound IT. True
Life the simplest Taiuxs VIII Serve
Then n Mans Heart Laughs.

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Brooklyn. preached Sunday morning on
Pleasure and God D." His text was taken /
from III Timothy ~. a. Lovers Of pleasure
rather than lovers of God Mr. kinsoiv-
ing said.
This Is ono OF those biting sentences Of
which ST. Paul's letters are fpA. lt occurs
in a hurrying category ana arrests our
thoughts at once.
These two things. religion and pleasure,
have always been here on Gods iair earth
They arc undoubtedly primal constituents
of hie aud vet 10 has ever been difficult /
for men 60 harmonic them and keep them
ou friendly terms. Religious pcop.c have
often committed the b.under OF looking
asl,ancc at amusement. iucced, some ot
the best and most earnest among them
have conceived OF picty as scarcely less
than a ki!l-joy They have represented \
God as intensely jealous of LIES innocent /
a. well a. its forbidden pleasures. until !
their systems have gotten 60 be- So one I
sided. and eNtravaCant. and Over-wrouyht, /
and onc-idcacd and melancholy as 70 cast +
an awful gloom upon communities Tor COM R
siderable periods. such men have missed /
| altogcthrr the Cosmic note OF Ciacucss
/ which shimmers boz the sunlight. dances NJ
| the laughing waters, which ripples and
/ murinurs in the brooks and streams. which
/ SMILES from Che h.uc dome above and
| thrills us IN the spring bird notes and the
| summer flowers The material for enjoy
| mcnt. says some one. "l- SO lnwrougnt
! into the worlds constitution that we cam
| not put spade into thc ground anywhere
| without turning II up. rs travel. by stay
| ing at home. by working oy resting. hv
| strain of the mu~r,es or strain Oh the mind;
| by speech. by silence; hy solitude, by 500
| cietv. Dy helping. by hclng helped by TO
/ cciving. hy givinr-by all these different
roads DO men reach lov-
/ And yet with our eve uDon Che history
Of mankind is there not abundant reason
| FOR religions suspicion OF the rot oi pleas
urct What nation of antiquity has not
been s,ain hy its sensual p.ea-urcs. Run
] 81 ~.
dca. Pcrss. the Egyptian monarchy.
| Greece. Carthage Eomc-did not thc na--
sion for hccntous pleasure and the eIem-
macy which ln consequence came every
where en- the p.acc whc,u manly virtue and
stole -eii-contro and splendid discipline of
body and nnd bal been. did not these
undermine the mighty fabric ~ kousc it-
sell.
Look ~ t-e world that Christianity On.
tered What made b. So hostile to Christ
Him ont If its sight and fling Ills ,ol.ov-
crs 20 ihc boasts in the great amphit ncatr,
| az Rome " hy. more sham auEnt c.er tnt
unbrid.ed love of sinful pleasures WIKI
fierce flashes III anger those heather llev
| ais refused 90 have their Indulgence inter
| icrcd with. They vould NOS suffer q laiti
| 10 Doc taught ln their midst which tncl
astutcy saw would have the moral cilcc
/ OF stopping their games and go they erie,
| with helliSh hate. The Christian 60 th
| hons. and go che lions they were thrown.
We know FROM thr pages oi Nrotc ans
/ bionon something ot the cNcessc~ ot tn
/ tn..is -lhat which be-an Mil, some .ho,
I of dc-cnrv dcrencratod often into thc a.,
/ trrnre of Hccut,ousncS- and rnfnistcrcd d
/ The haecst missions FrerurntiV for dqv
! ans weeks f.,-.I,tr fh,, ,f,s.r,e1 fhf NM
/ lie mind. making men oh,ivious % ever
| moral Obligation and deaf to th, claims ,
/ humanity" Gihh,n saws that Rome ha
az one time 5000 female dancers and q
| many singers and that when seasons q
famine came. while AN strangers and eve
/ professors OF the hhe~al arts were ban
! ishCd from the cltv the dancers were a
\ | lowed o. rcmai~ Their performance
were characterized hv everything CHAT wa
! morally degrading. and sas orgies whic
took place around the Tempe 81 the Go,
h / dcss Flora and No'unta-. the Goddess &
Pleasure. descended into che depths q
rroHigacy. Iu the times of Charles VI ,
- France. ln the times OF the Gcor-cs. th
N Borgias and the later Louis OF France thci
~ was only too much to remind men of ti
" hacKest moral chapters IN past histo-
81 | Men nN'd in pleasure % me earth au
Va / were wanton; tnev noun ned their ncar
a IN oaN OF >.auehtfr- No wonder, nrct
FL I rem. WITH sncn snttiac'es before them. tn.
~ / serious hfistAn peon-c- feaii tlng tle Ie a
IA | ~ peru from inns Quarter. should ln me
"a moral earnestne~s oiten pave gone zoo =
III | o1c laied 70 recognize tnat me thif-t 81
III | pc 9sute ana "thNs. menu ls human tlt>
81 and must oe provided Tor ana guided ar
81 | sNHl't .lHed WIN; OF c-~c Do WlI uecon
"a | ei.sion fiNai ana antagonist.
81 AGAIN. When men nave tr.ed 10 soiNe u
n | mystery OF nughter tneN nave advance
81 very diverse OPINIONS Rascal Thought ih
~ the passion Tor amusement was an hu
~ trauon oI the rea. unhappiness OF most D
/ r. III 1