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Show len Too Slurried to lie Naturally Philadelphia Preacher Thinks That Life Today Is Too Swift, nnd Without Leisure. PHILADELPHIA, June a. The Rev. Marlon C. Peters of tho Broad street Bnptlst church, says that tho Inhabitants In-habitants of this part of the earth have no leisure. "We are the most hurried hur-ried and worried people on the globe." Continuing, he said. "o do not know how to rest; we are. not resting unless we make hard work of our holidays, and we usually come back from our Summer outings more weary than when we went, and wo feel relieved when wo can get' to work to rest from the dissipations of our so-called recreations. "Wo have not even lulsun to die a nntural death; we run tin- machine at high pressure until the boiler bursts, and we die just when we ought to begin to live. Our fathers lived to a good old age and dkd of lingering maladies. Death it-si-lf having adopted. our terrible American gait, w dl- In a hurry and are buried the next day." |