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« PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, FEB. 4, 1881. "Who are Responsible for Intem suasion even, if they would control anic iren. And not only this, but we this chai mer's siren vmce. This leads , spend a third more, money and time perance. Destroying Spirituality. Ths Successful Man. When our Successful Man vpas a 1 have been “ mixing ” with the Y. us back to- home again. It must be for dress, than w-e need to if we only boy, and lived in a manufacturing M. C. A. A mix, or mingle, is the ’ A paper read before a public meeting of tbe “ Blue made pleasant, beautify ano inter understood the laws of economy and ■ Hlbbon Club.’’ at Walla Walla, W. T., Aug. 16, village of New Hampshire, a widow’s nearest I can come to a definition of j 1HS0, by J(rs, J. A. C. Merriman. esting, in order to attract the soul of appropriation. Thus we see that son, the greatest luxury he knew was our relations. I can t say 1 united j A given effect awakens curiosity in the young. And boys and girls have mothers deprive themselves of time to eat apples. So he told us the oth with them. Their profession to teach the mind and leads to a( search after souls that must be entertained, and for study and culture and for the er day wheif we fell into a conversa nothing but the Bible 1 yejoice in, but * the cause or train”of causes fhat pro ■ minds and bodies that need healthful training of the young, while they fol- their failure to understand and to tion about old times. duce it. The scientist of to-day exercise, in order to happiness, con - low the monotonous tread of custom I “Yes,” said he,“ when I was ten thinks if he has an effect and its tent and development. Bare floors, day by day and year by year for a teach the Bible is most evident. When yeais oid, I used to think that if ever I would read what the sinner is to do , - causes, he has in his possession the bare walls, no song, no birds, no lifetime, never daring to vaiy their to be saved, I was admonished that I was rich enough to have as many modus operandi by which he can flowers, ami, to cap the climax, long course lest tfiey may be branded with apples as I wanteoall the year round the introduction of such thoughts make an appropriation to utility/ faces with no fun and sunshine in . “ innovation.” They supply their Intemperance has had a history them, do not constitute home. There families with, food that is not food, I would destroy the spirituality of the 1 should, be perfectly happy. And' since the early, years of human life. is something wrong, the divine idea and with raiment that reaches far be- I meeting. Well, that which some now± He wont on to say that he had one It has been talked about, preached of.the family must be lost sight of, yond the limit of simplicity, ami many I people call spirituality ought to be of the finest orchards, on a small destroyed,, especially when reading- upon, w ritten upon, wept and prayed when parents have less influence over times beauty, and all that they may j God's word will destroy it. scale, to be found anywhere in Massa- over probably more than any other their -children than the demoniac ; compete with others in the strife for chesetts, which produced last year A young man, for instance, came popularity, for leadershipL-iq fashion. I one subject, that has engaged the agents of his satanic majesty. ninety-four barrels of apples of the running, kneeling-and saying to the' attention of man. The last assertion Men and women need to learn No ‘wonder that our inothers are tired | best varieties yet produced. But he ■Savior, “ Good Master, what good -elicits the question then, why does humility and simplicity. That it will and irritable and die at an early age, j did not eat twoapples per annum. He thing shall 1 do, ” Ac. He seemed to -intemperance appeal to be-on the in do them ¿ood every day to descend and that father’s head is silvered and I c<while he was making be wonderfully spiritual, but the crease, ? (1 am not informed on the from the bights of authority and sub his mind imbecile before middle age, j I his fortune he worked so hard, and Savior just sa<d a word or two winch statistics of the subject). May not lime gravity, and take a romp and an ' when vigor and strength should crown j i confined himself so closely, as to con destroyed his spirituality utterly It the answer to the question be found exercise at some innocent game with : him with "influence ami honor. No j tract a chronic weakness of digestion. took tire life out of him, ami why ’ . couched in what we believe to be a the children. Behold the lambs, colts ! wonder too that our boys are going, With all the luxuries of the world art Because he didn ’ t, watit to do what fact, that the causes of intemperance 1 and more mature animals, how they '■rapidly going to ruin, and that many his command, he was obliged to live the Lord told him to do. -So now, do are not generally understood, nor delight in frolic and play. We might I of our girls are fast and liable to be ; the words of our Master interfere principally upon oatmeal and milk. practiced largely by those who do learn a useful lesson from them. We i drawn into the- vortex that is ever , Later in youth, his ambition soared sadly with the spirituality of all who understand them, If this is true or haiLe the same right to be light and > widening for the unwary. above apples. He was beginning to do not wish to do what he says. not true, would it not be well for us gay in a restricted sense. Innocent 1 believe we have the remote cause ■ Jesus talked with the • woman < get a little more money than he abso as a temperance band t< sport once established as a round of I of intemperance—Woman’s lack of i lutely fieeded, and able occasionally to Samaria <>H spiritual matters, but causes of it and then, home life and p.-n.-nt« would Bot tind proper education. , -Gentlemen,- you . when she knew that he knew her life indulge in a rider He then thought selves, our posterity, and perhaps^ so much command, corporeal punish have it in your power to save future — her sin — it destroyed her spiritu IT lie < ould ever own a -horse—fast- other-i uxyjy whom we may have an ment, Ac., necessary when mental and generations from the curse of our fair ality, or rather she didn ’ t wish that enough to pass everything on the influence, by setting the Leaven of manual tasks are'imposed. land. subject dwelt upon, and so she changed road, and take no man ’ s dust, he truth to work. In other words having Will you do it ? Right here I’m met with the cry -would be the proudest and happiest which"* 4 by asking a theological question, the effect, if we could uriderstand the , from die.middle classes, We have not Then build up schools in the real causes of it, might we not the means to maife our homes beauti your daughters and daughters’ daugh “Qur fathers worshipped in this of men ' . . _ ■ ■ “ Wellf" Tie continued, “ I have a also be able to make an appropriation ful or grapd, nor have we the time or ters may be taught physiology, ana mountain, but^you, say Jerusalem is the plase where men ought to wor : horse that I think is the fastest in my to utility b . vitality to engage in levity or play tomy, hygiene and chemistry, particu ship. ” Now, settle that I Just like a county, but I never drive him. 1 The great Ruskin said, “Women, I with our children. And still a score larly thd ifliremistry of food and its ( man on whose conscience 1 pressed | gave him to my son last summer, and there is no suffering, no injustice, no j 0f voices respond, no one woujd be relation to the human system ; schools the claims of the word of God for his for my own uie 1 keep an old plug misery, no guilt, but the guilt of it' more delighted than I to throw qff where they may be taught to know acceptance and obedience, and who to that jogs along six miles an hour lies lastly with you. I don t believe ,;ar(. anj be a child again every day themselves and how to relate their in dismiss an unwelcome subject said, without troubling myself about him.” it is true. He hadn’t forgotten the . for awhile, if I could. fluence to humanity; not where they “ Where did -Cain get his wife ?” At this point our poor Successful eld, old story of Adam, like some of ' j believe you but if your children’s may simply * get a smattering of “ New, sir, I don t know, and don't Man wearily took out his watch to our immediate sprites of chivalry and | sa|v&lion anj the world’s progress French, music, and paintipg and a carerand would not have cared had see how time was getting on, and we -education. And aulì, ladies. .1 ahull , |Hiig»>a-wn Imine-training, would it not few technicalties of the sciences and z 1 V» r/i»' ’T.i z> n >' r , » « 4 1-v rx <> ztzv I zx 1 ■ • ... > . — Cain never feuad a w ife AVLat cun - olaeryed thj,t the w atch was of a pe der, for facts stare us in the face. Let be worth you while to consider the the belle lettres course; But discipline cerns you is that you are a sinner and culiar pattern rarely seen in this coun us turn the scales first though, and propriety of a change ? Let us search that shall give mental and moral Jesus is the only Savior. ” In quoting try. glance at the other side. I said 1 for a remedy Would not one-third vigor, with the power of appropria This watch,” said he, “ is another didn’t subscribe to Raskin’s assertion of the money spent to furnish your tion ; and not only this, but strength to him Re that believeth and is as the whole truth, nor do 1, because table every meal with a variety of to resist evil, and that sin greatest I baptized shall be saved ; but he that case in point. One of my young am man has always led the world, and luxuries, sufficient for a feast be bet- believe among us women, indolence, believeth not shall be damned,” bitions was to possess as good a watch rightfully too, but while lie has been I i ter invested irt books, music, pictures, or the disposition to let the world (Mark xvi. 15, 16,) I saw his enthusi as mortal man can make. I have one. miscalled spirituality die 1 gave 8600 in gold for it, when gold so magnanimously engaged in his own ' gylnnasiIHJ|. beautiful grounds and wag as it may, never giving ourselves asm away. was a more expensive article than it education, in his acquisitions in the ]10lne toys.' And, mothers, would any concern only so that our own and On another occasion I was talking i is now. But knocking about the kingdom of finance tips science, ! there hot be a saving of time and our families superficial wants are sup finance, noli polities, to a preacher and quoted the same world in sleeping cars, and Mediter- literature, and even religion, he has streng(h OiK<y£>ur part ' ? ___ And would plied. The part that takes the “ sleep largely forgotten the proper develop. „()t ,x,^.£Urd-cutoff the- super- less nights and those awful tlioru- words from Mark» testimony, a ndjt e r ran e an - s te ambo a t s, 1 wits at way s a inent of-woman,"also Ilfat be has other abundance of the caibenaceous, and crowned days,” in which to plan and said, “ Ah, let us pray that we may little anxious for the safety of my understand what the Lord means watch, and, besides, the possession of work than to rule at hotye. jnuch of the condiments, pastries and work ^for the eternal interests of But who is responsible for this stimulating drinks, all of which tend humanity, thft majority of us w illingly when he says * He that believeth and so costly an article .by a traveler is w formidable foe that floods our hearts j to tire up the blood of the young be- leave for larger hearts and more is baptized shall be saved I*'” Cer temptation io robbers. One day in and our homes with suffering, poverty | yond a nominal condition, and make magnanimous souls. We forget that tainly, pray that we may understand Paris 1 noticed in a shop window this and woe ? . . them irritable, restless, discontented the dispensation of blessing, not only it, but be Very careful lest (we pray curious little watch, marked twenty- Napoleon once asked a celebrated of the physical but of the head and aguiMt understanding it. Strapge to five francs. A five dollar.watch was and hard to manage ? French lady, “ U hat is yet wanting in say that the evident meaning of the a novelty,‘and 1 bought it. I deposit And with our boys of large brains heart, is the true meaning of God order that ttie people shall be properly commission is in eternal conflict with ed niv six hundred dollar time-keeper given faculties. The synonym for and small stomachs, they soon learn educated Mothers,” was the. re I that mother’s cooking good as it is, lady is loaf, or bread-giver. Let us fhe majority of prayers, and, say the with my banker, and it has been ever ply. see to it then that we dispense pure Y. M. C. A., must not be insisted upon since in an iron MW Lfind that thi» My response to the question I have does not satisfy the craving for ex bread for the physical, and not only because thereby the spirituality of the. little watch keeps time as well, for all asked would be, notonlj mothers but citing food, and then tobacco is sought meeting would be destroyed. Alas, the ordinary purposes of life, as fathers', in th At they felt unitedly' to *n^n this is not enough and strong this, but why not the bread of life ? for human folly 1 _______ .____ other, and have carried it eyer since.” l . J ... — 1 r I 1 ... . . Tears and prayers should not be our «•' establish homes for the young. Yes, drink follows. • O. A. t ’Allll. The Successful Man said these only indulgence as w% witness the This is not a mere supposition, but my friends, I firmly believe that the Columbia, Mo., Jap.. 13.1881. things with what wo may call a good woes of mankind ; but work judicious general cause of intemperance is found men of science have investigated and humored despair. He made no com work. —Geo. W. Bungay, in his “ Pen in the fact that we have comparatively proven that food makes the man. plaint, but at the age when he ou^ht O! that men and women both Portraits” in the National Temper no homes. Ali is hurry, strife and There are arguments which might be to be in the full tide of cheerful activ might realize the essence of that eter ance Advocate, says of Mrs. llayei: commotion. There is no poetry, no adduced, if time -Would permit, to ity, he appeared to have exhausted nal truth that, “ Man shall not live by ’* She has done more to bring the quiet, no rest. All is swallowed up confirm the statement. Food that life — Ex. . bread alone, but by every word that wine-drinking habit into disfavor in in the great rush for the almighty would be life-giving to one boy would piUceedeth out of the mouth of God ‘ in I ‘ ro< Ji>ce disease and death for another, the circle of fashion than any other dollar, for the highest place i_ —Gortschakoff, the distinguished And that »low perhaps, but sure. And the de and again, that “ Whatsoever ye do, woman in America fier education, politic-», society or fashion. _______ , sire for liquors is only disease. Here *hethe.r ,e?4 or driol£’ do 40 the Russian diplomat, is entirely unfitted culture, and womanly graces have en is probably the reason that there is a, glory of God.” for further service in the Russian , , 1 believe we have the prime cause of When woman shall have guarded throned her on the hearts of the best much Iaeger per cent, of alcoholic Cabinet, in consequence of did age. her influence and learned that she was citizens. At State dinners at the liquors used in the small towns of intemperance. His silvery locks and tottering step not made to spend the best part of her. Hidden in the gifts that How like White House she had the courage to this coast, than there is in towns of life alone, in vine-like twinings, but in give evidence that he cannot survive the same size in the East. And until infinite blessings from a mothers action, well-directed action for the refuse wine to her guests, and she Hid a great while longer. He spends the I we learn that ^pme has a broader, heart to her child, we have the poison elevation of the human race, then her duty in that respect with such summer months in Baden-Baden and and deeper, and more beautiful mean that “ biteth like a serpent and sting- shall we have reached the good time blended courtesy and sweet dignity the winters in Southern France or ing than that of being a place simply eth like an adder.” Like a snake coming when King Alchohol shall lie no offence was given. The influence Italy, having ignored Russia as a ill the gutter, unattended by the im of thia brave woman had a marvelous to get one’s meals, one’s making and neath fallen rose leaves it lies, con mortal spirit, arid reason and truth place of residence. It is said that his trending done, and a place to stop cealed of times for years. shall hold undisputed sway.. Then effect u|>on high life and fashionable i Mothers sow the seeds which grow shall we see who were responsible for society at the Capitol Her example mind ha« become weak and childish, . when there cannot be mor w and pleasure found elsewhere, we shall | abnormal appetites , and passions, intemperance. This course will cost w<s copied by other noblq ladies, and and that he constantly mourns over have intemperance increasing on our which the young and imip*ture in sacrifice and effort, but there, is no to this day all kinds of intoxicating the ingratitude of Iris country in not hands, our sons and our «laughters tellect cannot control, while they de- excellence without it. drinks are excluded from parties in reinstating him in ¡tower, as in days- “ In the long rfiu all love is paid by love. too, going down to ruin. i prive them not consciously but ignor- Though undervalued by the hearts of the best and must letined society in gone by. the city of Washington. We cannot My heart weeps for women whose Jantly of phosphorous or the brain earth ; overestimate the worth of a true The greet eternal government above, The Peruvian Sjrifp baa cured thou husbands areNilling drunkards graves, and nerve-making principle, and Keeps strict account and will, redeem its woman who * rtnrw tn tin right ’ ui the sand« who were suffering from Dyspepsia. but, my fríen« D», it is the boys and the-flargely of nitrogen or the muscle work ; ' ’ face of the wdrld, for she put her pre Debility, Liver .Complaint, Boils, Humors girls for whom I would work I making element; they also throw out Give thy love freely aud do not count the cepts into practice in the prusriicc of female Complaints, etc. Pamphlets free cost ; representatives of all the first-class to any address, Seth \V. Fowls * Hons, Temperance men must strike at the iron and we go around a pale- So beuulifiil « thing was never lost, nations on the globe." Boston. 'j <leeper roots, than coercion or moral ¡ faced people, taking bands of inorg- In the luug run.” ä t