IDLENESS NOT CONDUCIVE TO GOODNESS.
The bread of idleness breeds sin and trouble to those who eat it. This is well illustrated in the effect of tropical vegetation upon the inhabitants. The unsought bounty of nature feeds a race of idle and dissolute men. There are those who believe that the banana tree is a curse rather than a blessing to tropical countries, because it will support life with no labor. "It grows as a weed, and hangs down its branches of ripe, tempting fruit into your lap as you lie in its cool shade." One never becomes tired of its taste, and without suffering in health you may live upon it exclusively. Such are the results of eating the bread of idleness; yet how many parents toil, and save, and hoard, that they may bring up their children in idleness and leave them a fortune as fatal as the banana plant. The fortune which exempts them from toil seduces them into sin. Idle bodies, hungry souls.