The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 13, 1885, Page 2

VARIED PLEASURES. = Ss Dr. Talmage Disconrse~ on the Good Bed Amusements of the American People. nd The Terrible Fate of the at the Hands the Picture Philistines lind i] of Samson a Mistakes Into Which Chris':ans Have Fallen—Long Faces Not Those of the Best Persons. ——o Pastimes Judged by Tleir Healthfai Results r Baneful Reactions on Soul and Body PS ee AMUSEMENTS—GOOD AND BAD - co e- : Brooklyn, N. Y., May 3-—Dr. tne Brooklv: Talmage preached tabernacle this morning on the sub ject of opera tiouses, U neaters, bow! ing alleys, skating rinks and all styles of amusements, good and bad, 0 tnal. The opening hymn was: ‘‘Awake, m he And press with vigor on.’ : The text was from Judges, xvi 25: ‘And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that “y said: ‘Call tor Samson, that he may { make us sport.’ And they called Hi for Samson out of the prisoa house, ; t and he made them sport’? Follow- 3 ing is the sermon in full: There were 3,000 people assem Ther eyeless bled in the temple of Dagon, of ready to had come to make sport ull They began to Samson, They were the entertainment. clap and pound, impatient for the amusement to begin, and they cried: “Fetch him out! Fetch him out!’’ Yonder Isee the blind old gian: coming, led by the hand of a child into the very midst ot the temple. At his first appearance there goes up ashout of laughter and derision. The blind old giant pretends he is tired to himselt against the pillars of the house; so he says to the lad who leads him: “Show me where the main pillars are.’’ The lad does so. Then the 5 strong man puts his mght hand on one pillar, and with the mightiest push that mortal ever made, throws himself torward until the whole house comes down thunderous crash, grinding the audience like grapes in awine press. ‘*And so it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said: ‘Call for Samson, that he may make us sport.’ And they called for Samson out of the prison house, and he made them sport.’? In other words, there are amusements that are destructive and bring down disaster and death upon the heads of those who practice and wants rest in them. While they laugh and cheer, they die. The 3,000 who perished that day in Gaza are as nothing com- pared with the tens of thousands who have been body, a mind and soul, by bad amusements and by good amusements carried to an excess. destroyed, MISTAKES OF THF CHURCH OF In this course ot Gop. sermons I am now preaching you must have notic- ed thatI have no sympathy with ecclesiastical strait-jackets, or with i that wholesale denunciation { amusements to which : pledged. Ibe the church God has-made a_ tremenduou take in trying to suppress the sport- tulness of youth_and dnve ou men their love of many are ieve mus- ot If God ever implanted anything in us, he implanted this desire. But stead of providing for this demand of our nature, the church God has, for the main part, ignored tt amusement. in- of Asina not, the mayor p! a battery at the end of the street and has it fired off, so that everything is eut down that happened to stand the range, the good a the well bad, so there are men in the church who plant their batteries of condem- as nation and fire away indiscriminate- Ww. Everythir nz 1s corkiemnend. There are « great many who de- gmounce ball-playing. They hate puzzles. They despise charades. They abhor tapleaux. They say Away with all parlor games! talk as if they would lik youth dressed in bine uniform, the children of an orphan march down the patk They im, of | from | e to have our} the tun. ot the Dead March i They hate a blue sash or a in the hair or tasseled ga: E think a man almost ready for Sing Sing- who utters a co Young Men’s Christian Associati ot the c rooms where w our young well God calls us to a workin las piritua! athletes. 1 to God time might soon come when all our colleges and theological at Princeton, a gym We eminaries, as established. hard }nasiam shall be i study end seven years ot | preparation for the ministry and ! ome ont with bronchitis and dys- pepsia and liver complaint and then up mto the pulpit and le say: ‘Don’t looks e look heaven sickly. Let rather than t desire for - best men that the } e rid ever knew have had ther j sports. William Wilberforce trun | dled hoop with his children. Martin j Luther heiped dress the Christmas | ree Ministers have pitched quoits. H Philanthropists have gone a skating. Prime ministers have played ball. | They are a combination of cation tables and statistics. showt in } involved nature jand madea bungl 3ut blessed be God the } petual carnival. Ti peo pie you like to have come to your house. Thev are people I Ike to have come to my house. It you but hem of their garments you Now, it i wants portion as 4 it driver; rant nature reaction | amusement sen nervous so you ONG FACES NOT THOSE CF THE BEST. This church to-day is filled with men and women who have in their souls unmeasured resources of sport- fulness and frolic. Show me a man who never lights up with sportfulness and has no sympathy with the recre- ations of others, and I will show you a man who is a stumbling-block to Such men are They the kingdom of God. caricatures of religion. lead young people to think that a man_ ts good in proportion as he groans and and that frowns and looks sallow. the height of stature 1s in proportion to the length ot his face. I would trade off 500 such men for one bright-faced, radi ant Christian on whose tace are the words, ‘‘Rejoice evermore!’’ Be tween here and Fulton terry every morning, by his cheerful tace, he preaches fifty sermons. J] will go farther and say that I have no conti- dence in a man whomakes a religion of his gloomy looks. That kind of a man always turns badly. I would not want him for the treasurer of an orphan asylum. The orphans would suffer. Among forty people whom I received into the church at a man’s Christian out one communion, there was only one applicant of whose piety Twas sus He had the longest story | the picious. to tell; had seen and gaye an experience so rapturous most visions Who is this biack ange! that ed: gs black, feet Our religion ht, Taking | 2 pulls a rope is a brig eyes wings her s of heaven a-c s who, w are sor e pers teel Go 'to a minister, always to people. to your law leok lugubrious. ful ar 3u God means vou to be h innoc tar any luting? Why stop ot { beaven full of songsters to listen | a dragon. Why tur ountain side, jabloom w wild flowers, | dash with the nimble torrents tered teet attempt to clit sot fire-belching RIGHT AND WRONG Now, all opera houses, theaters, £; = 2 i § alleys, skating rmks and all styles of amusement, good and bad, to |Iputon tnal today and judge of them by certain cardinal principles. First. you may judge oi anv amuse- | ment by its heaithful result or by ; baleful reaction. There are people hof Hie to! who seem made up of hard tacts. | and profound that ali the other ap- feeling that we have wasted our plicants were discouraged. I was} Money and time. You may by it not surprised in a year atter to learn have made an investme worth | that he had run off with the funds of | More than the transaction that the bank with which he was connect- | Yielded you a hundred or a thousand AMUSEMENTS. |} its | rise in the mor are slept out, but because your duty drags you trom your nbers, you have be that send a man next day to his work stupid. bloodshot, yawning. mause- | } 10 HOURS 7 ated, and they are wrong kinds ot amusements, There are entertain ments that give a man disgust with | the drudgery of hfe, with tools be cause they are not swords, with working aprons because chey are not robes, with cattle because they are not infuriated bulls of the arena. It any amusement sends vou hom longing tor life of romance and thrilling adventure, love that takes id shoots itself, poison 3 moonhght adventures and hair breadth escapes, you may depend upon it that you are the sacrificed victim of unsancti Our intended to build us up: and it fied pleasure. recreations are pull us down as to our moral o1 as to our physical strength, you may come to the concl nthat they are ob- é noxious. EXTRAVAGANT PLEASURES ARE RAD. Still further: Those amusements hich } ¥ ead you into ex- are wrong penditure beyond vour mean-. Money thrown away. spent m recreation is not It isall folly tor to come trom a pl amusement dollars. But how many properties have been riddled by costly amuse table has been robbed ments? champagne n’s wardrobe. ot Ee k th } whooping I home to break their When men ge into j they cannot } what they car eal they } then into ! and when a man gets that, he does not ; penitentiary. 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