The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1912-04-25

c0Ad, PA1dO, VI ola VIVID, hoH, Ahoa
forms, wider dominion, and is
concealed under more DISCUSSES
than any other evil thing; and
these DISCUSSES, Like the pale light
of the moon, are both it's luster
and it's shade, betraying it to
others and hiding it from them
selves. Concerning cleanliness and
responsibility and companionship,
pride may be honored but doubt
less, idleness maintains an obsti-
nate position.
Idleness exists sometimes where
it is little suspected and as it
terminates in itself it may be en-
joyed with little injury to others.
Idleness is silent and peaceful
and does not raise envy, nor OPP
position of necessity. 1t is it's own
worst enemy and spoils none but
itself.
There are professional idlers in
full dignity. They are not asham
ed but boast that they do nothing.
They thank their god they have
nothing to do. They sleep until
they can sleep no longer and rise
that hours of wakefulness may
enable them to sleep again. With
double curtains they prolong their
hours of slumber and meet the
beautiful beams of the morning
sun with regret that they must
rise again. Their little labor is
the very posture of indulgence,
and their day differs from their
night but as a couch or a chair
differs from bed.
Sweet industry, the nOblest
thing God made, and only creator
of true happiness has little or
no charms for these. They are
open votaries of idleness forget
ting and soon to be forgotten,
who have already ceased to live
in fact, and at whose death it
can only be said they have. ceas-
ed to breathe. Such a person is
an annoyance, of no use, an in
truder in the busy thoroughfare
of every day life and on the part
of his relatives and nearest
friends causes regret and shame.
They may have income to sup
port their idleness, or sponge on
their good-natured friends, but
IN any case they are despised and
their room always more accepta-
bic than their presence. They
are criminal prodigals, fruit-pro-
ducing authors of want, work
shops for the devil to work in,
and no real good can ever be
looked for from them, they are
public nuisances and need abate-
ment for the worlds advancement.
ldleness is one of many deadly
sins, a bane of the mind, for it
is of its make up active, and if
1t be not occupied about some
good thing it rushes into mischief,
or sinks into melancholy. Idle
ness is the great author among
vices of all evil doing, the bane
OF the body, the nurse of naughti-
ness, the cushion on which the
devil reposes.
Of all things contemplate
none is, perhaps, more so than an
inert, sluggish man, with so much
time to tattle and criticise, and
so little time to do good and SYM
pathize. The veriest imp of Satan
on earth is such a man or woman.
In Turkey, it is said the devil
tempts everyone, but the ideal
man tempts the devil. Loafing
seems to be a kind of profession
and when we observe a man can
be success at the business with
less money, less brains, less char
acter than are required to sue
coed in any other profession we
cannot blame him so much after
all. for those are things the idler
is usually destitute of, and we
see as actual fact, that they do
succeed in their business, without
energy, or brains, or character in
truth, or anything of real good
to mankind. They are dead beats
"a kind of dead men among the
living who cannot be buried.
Idleness is a lower ingredient
In an upper current hardly known
and never tolerated in the good
old honest, happy, active, mush
and milk, tow and linen, pork ant
potato days of the pilgrim fathers
and revolutionary patriots.
There are those right among
us who will beg, clad in rags be-
fore they will work. There are
also so-called gentlemen idlers
who pass along down the stream
of life, parasites of their fellow
passengers. They live well. thew
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