THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 30, 1898, CHEERFULNESS. Rov. Dr. Talmage Enters a Strong Plea in Its Favor. Me Commends Out-door Sports and Lays Down Some Good Rules for the Seleos tion of Pastimes and Amusements Long-faced Christians Are Often Spurious In the following discourse Dr, ‘I'al- mage places himself on record hs in favor of lawful amusements and ex- tracts a good lesson from the story of Samson. The text is Judges 16: 25: “And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they sald, call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport.’ There were 3.000 people assembled in the temple of Dagon. They had come to make sport of eyeless Samson. They were all ready for the entertainment. They began to clap and pound, impa- tient for the amusement to begin, and they cried out, “Fetch him out! Fetch him out!” Yonder I see the blind old giant coming, led by the hand of a child #n to the very midst of the tem- ple. (At his first appearance there goes 3p a shoutoflaughterand derision, The blind old giant pretends he is tired and wants to rest himself against the the main pillars are.” The lad Then the strong man puts his hands on one of the pillars, and, with the | mightiest push that mortal ever made, | the | thunder proportion 08 0 horse is gay 1t wants nee like | throws bh o1f whole house c« forward until mes down in ous crash, grindin } udie grapes ir “And so it came to pass, hearts were merry, that they for Samson, that may And they lled for Samsor of the prison house, ve made them tT Inve amusem bring d« the head While thkev The three t} day in ( with the au sport. sport. there le truce omp : been destroved, body, mind. an by bad usements and by carried to excess ike in tryis su ] of youth and thei lov NECSS instead of prov of our nature, the church of has for the main part ignored it in a riot the mayor plants a bat the end has off, 80 tery at of the street 1 that every! 3 down that happens to sts : range, the good as well as the be there are men in the church who their batterie fire away in is wy blue uniform, like the children of an orphan asylum, and march down the it fired condem iscriminately. condemned They talk tion eryvthing as if they desire that their sports vith his »] dress the ( tree. Ministers have pitches philanthropists have gone a-skating, prime ministers have played ball Our « mities are filled with men and women who have in their souls un- measured resources for and frolic. Show me a man who never lights up with sportfulness and has no sympathy with the recreations of oth- ers, and I will show you a man who is a stumbling block to the kingdom of God. Such men are caricatures of religion. They lead young men to think that a man is good In propor- tion as he groans and frowns and looks sallow, and that the height of a man's Christian stature is in propor- tion to the length of his face, would trade off 500 such men for one bright. faved, radiant Christian on whose face are the words, “Rejoice evermore!” Every morning by his cheerful face he preaches fifty sermons. 1 will go further and say that I have no confl- dence in 8 man who makes a religion of his gloomy looks. That kind of a man always turns out badly. I would not want him for the treasurer of an orphan asylum. The orphans would suffer, Among 40 people whom 1 received into the church at one communion, there was only one applicant of whose jety 1 waa suspicious. He had the fongent story to tell; had seen the omm most visions, and gave an experience so wonderful that all the other appli. cants were discouraged. 1 was not su had run off with the funds of the bank with which he was connected, this black angel that win, Math feet black feet bright, nck, feat eyes bright, wi bright, taking her place in the soul, She that reaches to the skies the bells of Heaven palis n snd sets all n-chiming. There are some persons who, when talking to a minister, al ways feel it politic to look lugubrious. {| whose life is a pillars of the house, “Bring me where | does so. | | exuberant nature will | at | ments. | bers, ye i | of amusement | cause they uld like to have our youth dress in | sportfulness | rised the next year to learn that he Who is ou eall religion Our religion is a bright angol Go forth, O people, to your lawful amusement. God means you to be happy. Dut, when there are so many sources of innocent pleasure, why tam- per with anything that is dangerous and polluting? Why stop our ears to a heaven full of songsters to listen to the hiss of a dragon? Why turn back from the mountain side all abloom with wild flowers and adash with the nimble torrents, and with blistered feet attempt to climb the hot sides of Cotopaxi? Now, all opera houses, theaters, bowling alleys, skating rinks, and all styles of amusement, good and bad, 1 put on trial today and judge of them by certain cardinal principles. First, you may judge of any amusement by its healthful result or by its baneful reaction. There are people who seem made up of hard facts. They are ao combination of multiplication tables and statistics. If you show them an ex- quisite picture they will begin to dis- cuss the pigments involved in the col- oring; if youn show them a beautiful rose they will submit it to a botanical analysis, which is only the post-mor- tem examination of a flower. They mever do anything more than feeb: smile. There are no great tides of feeling surging up from the depth of their soul in billow after billow of re verating laughter. They seem as if nature had built them by contract and made a bungling job out of it. Dut, blessed be God, there are people (in the world who have bright faces and song, an anthem, a paecan of victory Now, it is these exhilarant and syn pathetic and warm-hearted people that are most tempted to a pernicious amusement. In proportion as a ship is swift it wants a strong helmsman; in o strong driver; and thess people of do well to look the reaction If an at night of ams nd home Nervous so you gi sleep, nnd you rise in the mr n AL nnot worning, not | because you are slept out, but because 1 drags you from your slum- been where vou ought There are amuses 1» next day to his yawning, tupid, fy are wrong There are 3 l vour duty work nauseated, and ments that give disgust wit} the drudgery of with tools be- y are not swords, with work- ing aprons because they are not robes, with cattle because they ' furiated bulls the arena amusement sends yon hon for a life of romance and thrilling venture, love that takes ts itself, moonlight dth escapes, you may that you are the sacri- unsanctified pleasure Thos are no‘ in- 11 any tho ventures and hair-brea it victim of furthe wrong in Stil are ments | tures beyond spent in recreation is thrown away. It is all folly for us to from a place of amusement feeling our money and come that we have wasted time. You may by it have made an in vestment worth more than the trans. nm nction that vielded you a hundred or { » thousand lollare. But how properties have been riddled by amusements? The table hn the club Th poagne has cheated the children’s ward. robe. The carousing party has burned up the boy's primes. The tal of the corner saloon is in debt wife's faded dress. Excursi a day make a t Ir nrout month's w» lad} robbed to pay le ecioth to the that In 1 whole business is to their cour ren, 1! 1 A nd that ser ge of their effects n physical he need of man recuperati men who their i: nothing an ince tiar pe rood sign t | Richard Baxter and invalids they think that by the same sickness they may come to the grandeur of character. I want to tell Christian people that God will hold you responsible for your invalidism if same | It is your own fault, and when through right exercise and prudence you might be athletic and well. The effect of | the body upon the soul you acknowl | edge Put a man of mild disposition upon animal diet of which the Indian partakes, and in a little time his blood will change its chemical proportions. It will become like unto the blood of the lion or the tiger or the bear, while his disposition will change and become fierce, eruel and unrelenting. The body has a powerful effect upon the soul There are people whose ideas of Heaven are all shut out with clouds of tobacco smoke. There are people who dare to shatter the physical vase in which God put the jewel of eternity. There are men with great hearcs and intellects in bodies worn out by their own neglect. Magnificent machinery capable of propelling a great Etruria ncross the Atlantic, yet fastened ia a rickety North River propeller. Physi. eal development which merely shows itself in a fabulous lifting, or in peril ous ropewalking, or In pugilist en. counter, excites only our contempt, but we confess to great admiration for the man who has a soul in an athletic body, every nerve, muscle, and bone of which is concentrated to right vees, Oh, it seems to me outrageous that men through neglect should allow their physical health to go down be- yond repair, spending the reat of thelr life, not in roma great enterprise for God and the world, but in studying what is the best thing to take for Sapepia. A ship which Bught with all sails set and every man at his post to be carrying a rich eargo for eter nity, employing all its men stoppin up leakages! When you may throug some of the popular and heaitbhf al ree- roations of our time work off yowr spleen and your querulousness and | Answer was, one-half of your physical and mental aiimente, do not turn your back {rem such a grand medicament, Again, judge of the places of amuse- ment by the companionship in which they put you. If you belong to an or- ganization where you have to associate with the {otemperate, with the un clean, with the abandoned, however well they may be dressed, in the name of God quit it. They will despoil your nature, They will undermine your moral character, They will drop you when You are destroyed. They will not give one cent to su port your children when vou are or They will weep not one tear at your burial. They will chuckle over your damna- tion. But the day comes when the men who have exerted evil influence upon thelr fellows will be brought to judgment. Scene: the last day. Stage: the rocking earth. Enter dukes, lords, kings, beggars, clowns No sword. No tinsel, No crown. For foot-lights the kindling mes of a world. For orchestra, ‘he trimpets that wake the dead. For gallery, the clouds filled with angel &.ectators. For applause, the clapping tioods of the sen. For curtains, the Heavens rolled together as a scroll. For tragedy, the doom of the destroyed, For farce, the effort to serve the world and God at the same time. For the ln the fifth uct, the tram if across the stage the others to the left Again, you a dista How many have bec n broken 1 ments? The mother went There are all blasted hou nations right, 1} 4 ight ou have 1 to domestic w father, that » go out into thy e for g them you mu break in ny alas! § grave of one fluenc Ay 1 struggling young man's soul street. "Come with me,” sald angel, “I will take you home spread my wing over your pathway I will lovingly escort you all through life. I will bless every cup you drink { of, every couch you rest on, every rway 3 I will consecrate ur tears when you weep, your sweat il, and at the I will your grave into the hand of prightest angel of a Christian res " wiki at the corner « » u enter last father's petition I have been tid neve le of road there d the man asked the bad that lion and the “That is the lion of all devouring despair.” A vulture flew through the sky, and the man asked the bad angel, “What is that vulture 7 and the answer was, “That is the vul- ture waiting for the carcases of the slain.” And then the man began to try to pull off of him the folds ef something that had wound him round and round, and he said to the bad angel, “What is it that twists me in this awful convolution?” and the an- swer was, “That ig the worm that never dies!” and th, the man said to the bad angel, “What does all this mean? I trusted in what you said at the corner of the street that night; I trusted it all, ard why have you thus deceived me?” Then the lost deoe tion fell off the charmer, and it sald: “I was sent forth from the pit to de. stroy your soul; I watched my chance for many a long year; when you hesi- tated that night on the street I gained my triumph; now you are here. Hal ha! You are here. Come, now, let us fill there two chalices of fire and drink together to darkness and wes and death. Hall! hail!” will the good angel sent forth by Christ, or the bad angel sent forth by ein, get the victory over your soul? Their wings are interlocked this mo- ment above you, contending for your destiny, na above the A]ennines cagle and condor fight midaky. This hour may decide your destiny. God help you! To hesitate is to die! the was a lion, a “What angel, Telephone Girls in France, The managers of the telephone com. pany operating the system a! 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