Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 43, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 March 1891 — Page 4

AMUSEMENTS. . T. DeWitt Talmage Continues to Attack the Plagues. i and Sinful Amusements a Fruit* | ful Factor In Luring Young and Old from the Paths of » Rectitude. » following discourse, in continuaof his series oi attacks on “The agues of tjie Great Cities,” was deby Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage in rooklyn and New York city, from the :t: Let the youug men now arise and play beire us—il Samuel II., 11. a There are two armies encamped by pool of. Gibeon. The time hangs efrvily on their hands. One army proa game of sword-fencing. .Nothcould be more healthful and innont. The other army accepts the hllenge. Twelve men against twelve >en, the sport opens. But something eht adversely. Perhaps one of the iwordsmen got an unlucky clip, or in some way had his ire aroused, and that which opened in sportfulness ended in violence, each one taking his contestant by the hair,. and then with the sword thrusting him in the side; so that that which Ripened in innocent fun ended in the massacre of all the twenty-four sportsmen. tVas there ever a better illustration oi what was true then, and is true now, that that which is innocent may be made destructive? What of a worldly nature is more important and strengthening and innocent than amusement, and yet what has counted more victims? I have no sympathy with a straight-jacket religion. This is a very brief world to me, and 1 propose to do all I can to make it bright for others. 1 never could keep step to a deadmarch. A hook years ago issued says that a Christian man has a right to some amusements; for instance, if he comes home at night weary from his work, and, feeling the need of recreation, puts on his slippers and goes into his garret, and walks lively round the floor several times, there can be no harm in it. I believe the church of God has made a tremendous mistake in trying to suppress the sportfnlness of youth, and drive out from men their love of amusement. If God ever implanted anything in us He implanted this desire. But instead of providing for this demand of our nature the church of God has, for the main part, ignored it. As in a riot the mayor plants a battery at the end of the street, and has it fired off, so that everything is cut down that happens to stand in the range, the good as well as he bad, so there are men in the church who plant their batteries of condemnation and= fire away indiscriminately^ Everything is condemned. But my Bible commends those who use the world without .abusing it, and in the natural world God has done everything to please and amuse.us. In poetic fig

ure we sometimes ididk oi natural odjects as being in pain, but it is a mere fancy. Poets say the clouds weep, but they never yet shed a tear; and that the winds sigh, but they never did have any trouble; and that the storm howls, but it never lost its temper. The world is a rose, and the universe a garland. And I am glad to know that in all our cities there are plenty of places where we may find elevated moral entertainment. But all honest men and good women will agree with me in the statement that one of the worst plagues of these cities is currupt amusement. Multitudes have gone down under the. blasting influence, never to rise. If we may judge of what is going on in many of the places of amusement by the Sodomic pictures on board fences, and in many of the show windows, there is not a much lower depth oj profligacy to reach. At Naples, Italy, they keep such pictures locked up from indiscriminate inspection. Those pictures were exhumed from Pompeii and are not fit for public gaze. If the effrontery of bad places of amusement in hanging out improper advertisement of what they are doing night by night grows worse in the same proportion, in fifty years New York and Brooklyn will beat not only Pompeii, but Sodom. To help stay the plague now raging. I project certain principles, by which you may judge in regard to any amusement or recreation, finding out for yourself whether it is right, or whether it is wrong. I remark, in the first place, that you can judge of the moral character of any amusement by its healthful result, or by :Jts baleful reaction. There are people who seem made up of hard facts. They are a combination of multiplication tables and statistics. If you show them an’ exquisite picture, they will begin to. discuss the pigments involved in the coloring. If you show. them a beautiful rose, they will submit it to a botanical analysis, which is only the post mortem examination of a flower. They have no rebound in their nature. They never do anything more than senile. There are no great tides of feeling surging up from the depths of their soul, in ..billow after billow of reverberating laughter. They seem as if natuie had built them by contract’ and made a bungling job out of it. But, blessed be God, there are people in the world who have bright faces, and .whose life is a song, an anthem, a paean of victory. Even their troubles are like the vines that crawl up the side of a great tower, on the top of which the sunlight sits, and the soft airs of summer hold perpetual carnival. They are the people you like to have come to your house; they are people I like to have come to my house. If you but touch the hem of their garments you are healed. Now it is these exhilarant and sympathetic and warm-hearted people that are most tempted to pernicious amusements. In proportion as a ship is swift it wants a strong helmsman; in proportion as a horse is gay, it wants a stout driver; and these people of exuberant nature will do well to look at the reaction of all their amusements. If an amusement sends you home at night nervous, so that you can not sleep, and you rise up in the morning, not because you have slept out. but because your duty drags you from your slumbers,you have been where ^ou ought not to hare been. There are amusements that send a man next day to his work bloodshot, yawning, stupid nauseated; and they are wrong kinds of amusements. They are enteitainments 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 infuriated bulls of the arena. If any amusement sends you home longing for a life of romance and thrilling adventure, love that takes poison and shoots itself, moonlight adventures and hair-breadth escapes, you may depend upon it that you are the sacrificed victim of unsanctifled pleasure. Our recreations are intended to build us up; and if they pull us down as to our moral or as to our physical strength, you may come to the conclusion that they are obnoxious. : . There is nothing more depraving than attendance upon amusements that are full of innuendo and low suggestions. The young man enters. Atnrst he sits his hat on and his coatthat somebody there nights pass

that first came into his cheek when auything indecent was enacted comes no more to his cheek. Farewell, young man! You have probably started on the long road which ends in con .summath destruction. The stars ot nope win go out one by one, until yo.t will be left in utter darkness. Hear you not the rush ot the maelstrom, in whose outer circle your boat now dances, making merry with the whirling waters? But you are being drawn in, and the gentle motion will become terrific agitation. You cry for help. In rain! You pull at the oar to put back, but the struggle will not avail! You will be tossed, and dashed, and shipwrecked, and awallowed in the whirlpool that has already crushed in its wrath ten thousand hulks. Young men who have just come in from country residence to city residence will do well to be on guard, and let no one induce you to places of improper amusement. It is mightily alluring when a young man, long a citizen, offers to show a new-comer all around. Still further; those amusements are wrong which lead you into expenditure beyond your means. Money spent in recreation is not thrown away. It is all folly for us to come from a place of amusement feeling that we have wasted our money and time. You may by it have made an investment worth more than the transaction that yielded you hundreds of thousands of dollars. But how many properties have been riddled by costly amusements. The first time I ever saw the city—it was the city of Philadelphia—I was a mere lad. I stopped at a hotel, and I remember in the even-tide one of these men plied me with his infernal art. He saw i was green. He wanted to show me the sights of the town. He painted the path of sin until it looked like, emerald; but 1 was afraid of him. I shoved hack from the basilisk—I made up my mind he was a basilisk. I remember how he wheeled his chair round in front of me, and with a concentered and diabolical effort, attempted, to destroy my soul; but there were good angels in the air that night. It was no good resolution on my part, but it was the all-encom-passing grace of a good God that delivered me. Beware! beware! oh, young man. There is a way that seemeth right -into a man, hut the end thereof is death. The table has been robbed to pay the eluh. J The champagne has cheated the children’s wardrobe. The carousing party! has burned up- the boy's primer. The tablecloth of the corner saloon is in debt to the wife’s faded dress. Excursions that in a day make a tour around a whole month’s wages; ladies whose lifetime business is to “go shopping;” large bets on horses, have their counterparts -in uneducated children, bankruptcies that shock the money market and appall the church; and that sends drunkenness staggering across the richly-figured carpet of the mansion, and dashing intp the mirror, and drowning out the carol of music with the whooping of bloated sons come up to break their old mother’s heart.

1 saw a beautuui Home, wnere rne bell rang violently late at night. The son had been off in sinful indulgences. His comrades were bringing hiin home. They carried him to the door. They rang the bell at one o'clock in the morning. Father and mother came down. They were waiting for the wandering son, and then the comrades, as soon as the door was opened, threw the prodigal headlong into the doorway, crying: “There he is, drank as a fool. 11a, ha!” When men go into amusements that they can not afford, they first borrow what they can not earn, and then-they steal .what they can not borrow. ' First they go into embarrassment, and then into lying, and then into theft; and when a man gets as far on as that, he does not stop short of the penitentiary. There is not a prison in the land where there are not victims of unsanctified amusements. Merchant of Brooklyn or New York, is there a disarrangement in your accounts? Is there a leakage in your money drawer? Did not the cash account come out right last night? I will tell you. There is a young man in your store wandering off into bad amusements? The salary you give him may meet lawful expenditures, But not the sinful indulgences in which he has entered, and he takes by theft that which you do not give him in lawful salary. How brightly the path of unrestrained amusement opens? The young man says: “Now I am off for a good time. Never mind economy. I’ll get money somehow. What a fine road! What a beautiful day for a ride! Crack the whip, and over the turnpike! Come, boys, fill high your glasses. Drink! Long life, health, plenty of rides just like this!” Hard-working men hear the clatter of the hoofs, and look up and say: “Why, I wonder where those fellows get their money from? We have to toil and drudge; they do nothing!” To these gay men life is a thrill and an excitement. They stare at other people, and in turn are stared at. The watch-chain jingles. The cup foams. The cheeks flush. The eyes flash. The midnight hears their guffaw. They swagger. They -jostle decent men off the sidewalk. They take the name of Godin vain. They parody the hymn they learned at their mother’s knee; and to all pictures of coming disaster they cry out: “Who cares?” and to the counsel of some Christian friend: “Who’ are you?” Passing along the street some night you hear a shriek in a grogshop, the rattle of the watchman’s club, the rash of the police. What is the matter now? Oh, this reckless young man has been killed in a grogshop fight. Carry him home to his father’s house. Parents wiU come down and wash hjs wounds, and close his eyes in death. They forgive him all he ever did, although he can not in his silence ask it. The prodigal has got home at last. Mother will go to her little garden and get the sweetest flowers and twist them into a chaplet for the silent heart of the wayward boy, and push back from the bloanxl brow the long locks that were once her pride. And the air will be rent with agony.. The great dramatist says: “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child.” I go further, and say those are unchristian amusements which become the chief business of a man’s life. Life is an earnest thing. Whether we were born in a palace or hovel; whether we are affluent or pinched, we have to work. If yon do not sweat with toil, you will sweat from disease. Yon have a soul that is to be transfigured amidst the pomp of a judgment day; and after the sea has sung its last chant, and the mountain shall have come down in an avalanche of rock, you will live and think and act, high on a throne where seraphs sing, or deep in a dungeon where demons howl. In a world where theire is so much to do for yourselves, and so much to do for others, God pity that man who has nothing to do. I had a friend at the west—a rare friend. He was one of the first to welcome m,e to my new home. To fine personal appearance he added a generosity, frankness and ardor of nature that made me loye him like a brother. But I saw evil people gathering around him. They came up from the saloons, from the gambling hells. They plied him with a thousand arts. They seized upon his social nature, and he could not stand

on the treikers. 1 used to admonish him, I would say: “Now, 1 wish you would quit these had habits, and become a Christian.” "Oh,” ho would reply, “1 would like to; I would like to; but 1 hare gone so far I don’t think there is any way back." Ixj his moments of repentance he would go home and take his little girl of eight years, and embrace her convulsively, and cover her with adornments, and strew around her pictures and toys, and everything that could make her happy; and then, as though hounded by an evil spirit, he would go out to the enflaming cup and the house of shame, like a fool to the correction of the stocks. 1 was summoned to his death-bed. I hastened. I found him, to my surprise, lying in full everyday dress on the top of the couch. I put out my hand. He grasped it excitedly, and said: "Sit down, Mr. Talmage, rightthere.” I sat down. He said: “Last night I saw my mother, who has been dead twenty years, and she sat just where you sit now. It was no dream. I was wide awake. There was no delusion in the matter. 1 saw her just as plainly as I see you. Wife, I wish you would take these strings off of me. There are strings spun all around my body. I wish you would take them oft of me.” I saw it was delirium. ‘‘Oh,” replied the wife, “my dear, there is nothing there, there is nothing there.” He went on, and said: “Just where you sit, Mr. Talmage, my mother sat. She said to me: ‘Henry, I do wish you would do better.’ I got out of bed, put my arms around her and said: “Mother, I want to do better. I have been trying to do better. Won’t you help me to do better? You used to help me.’ No mistake about it, no delusion. I saw her—the cap and the apron and the spectacles, just as she looked twenty years ago, but I do wish you would take these strings away. Won’t you take them away?” I knelt down and prayed, conscious of the fact that he did not realize what I was saying. I got up. I said, “Good-by; I hope you will be better soon.” He said, “Good-by, good-by.” That night his soul went to the God who gave it. Arrangements were made for the obsequies. -> Some said. “Don't bring him in the church; he was too dissolute.” “Oh,” I said, “bring him. He was a good friend of mine while he was alive, and. I shall stand by him now that he is dead. Bring him to the church. As I sat in the pulpit and saw his body coming up through the aisle. I felt as if I could weep tears of blood. I told the people that day, “This man had his virtues and a good many of them. But if there is any man in this audienco who is without sin, let him cast the first stone at this coffin lid.” On one side the pulpit sat that little child, rosy, sweetfaeed. as beautiful as any little child that sat at your table this morning, I warrant you. She looked up wistfully, not knowing the full sorrows of an orphan child. Oh, her countenance haunts me to-day, like some sweet faee looking upon us through a horrid dream. On the other side of the pulpit were the men who had destroyed him. There they sat, hard-visaged. some of them pale from exhausting disease, some of

them nusnea until it seemeu as ii tno fires of iniquity flamed through the. eheek and crackled the lips. They were the men who had hound him hand and foot. They had kindled the fires. They had poured the wormwood and gall into that orphan's cup. Did they weep? No. Did they sigh repentingly? No. Did they say: “M’hat a pity that such a brave man should he slain?” No. no; not one bloated hand \^is lifted to wipe a tear from a bloated cheek: They *sat and looked -at the coffin like vultures gazing at the carcass of a lamb whose heart they had ripped out! levied in their ears as plainly as I could: “There is a God and a judgment day!'* Did they tremble? Oh. no, no. They went back from the house of God, and that night, though their victim lay in Oakwood cemetery, I was told that they blasphemed, and they drank, and they gambled, and there was not one less customer in all the houses of iniquity. This destroyed man was a Samson in physical strength, but Delilah sheared him, and the Philistines of evil companionship dug his eyes out and threw him into the prison of evil habits. But in the hour of his death he rose np and took hold of the two pillard curses of God against drunkenness and uncleannesS, and threw himself forward, until down upon him and his companions there came the thunders of an eternal catastrophere. Again: Any amusement that gives yon a distaste for domestic life is bad. How many bright domestic circles have been broken up by sinful amusements! The father went off, the mother went off, the child went off. There are today the fragments before me of blasted households. Oh, if you have wandered away, I would like to charm you back by the sound of that one word “home.” Do you not know that you have but little more time to give to domestic welfare. IX) you not see, father, that your children are soon to go out into the world, and all the influence for good you are to have over them you must have now? Death Will break in on your conjugal relations, and alas, if yon have to stand over the grave of one who perished from your neglect! ' I saw a wayward husband standing iit the death-bed of his Christian wife, and I saw her point to a ring on her finger, and heard her say to her husband: “Do you see that ring?” He replied: “Yes, I see it.” “Well,” said she, “do yon remember who put it there?’* “Yes,” said he, “I put it there;” and all the past seemed to rush upon him. By the memory of that day, when, in the presence of men and angels you promised to be faithful in joy and sorrow, and in sickness and health; by the memory of those pleasant hours when you sat together in your hew home talking of a bright future; by the cradle and the joyful hour when one life was spared and another given: by that sick-bed, when the little one lifted up the hands and called for help, and you knew he must die, and he put one arm around each of your necks and brought you very near together 'in that dying kiss; by the little grave in Greenwood that yon n aver think of without a rush of tears; by the family Bible, where, amidst stories of heavenly love, is the brief but unexpressive record of births and deaths; by the neglects of the past and by the agonies of the future; but a judgment day, when husbands and wives, parents and children, in immortal groups, will stand to be caught up in shining array, or to shrink down into darkness; by all that, I beg you to give to home your best affections. Ah, my friends, there is an hour coming when our past life will probably pass before us in review. It will be our last hour. If from our death pillow we have to look back and see a life Spent in sinful amusement, there will be a' dart that will strike through our soul sharper than the dagger with j which Virgmius slew her child. \ The memory of the past wiU make | us quake like Macbeth. The iniquities and rioting through which we have passed will come upon us, weird and skeleton as Meg Merrilies. Death, the old Shylock, will demand and take the remainingpound of flesh, and the remaining drop of blood; and upon our last opportunity for repentance, and our last ohance for Hflflyan, the certain wlU

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k ■■■ .- ----- Keep Your Blood Pure. A small quantity of prevention is worth many pounds of cure. If ^our blood is in good condition the liability to any disease is much reduced and the ability to resist its wasting influence is tenfold greater. Look then to your blood, by taking Swift’s Specific (S. S. S.) every few months. It is harmless in its effects to the most delicate infant, yet it cleanses the blood of all poisons and builds up the general health. < (QJ C O cured mo sound and well of contagious Blood Poison. As soon as I discovered I'tyaa afitictikt with the disease I commenced taking Swift’s Specifio (S. S. S.) sad ia & tear weeks 1 was permar nently cored.” GEor.eE Stewabt, Shelby, Ohio. Treatise on Blood and Skia disease? mailed free. The Swift Specifio Co., Atlanta, Ga.

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REAL ECONOMY. It is worse than nonsense to buy a cheap article with which to damage more valuable property. Scouring soap is at best only a trifling expense, but with a poor and cheap article it is likely to do considerable damage to fine, marble or other property,

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