Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-07-12
An APPEAL TO PLEAsURE.SEEK.
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The daily Journals of this season, as
of every year at this time, abound in
condolences with those poor sufferers
who,in seeking summer recreation, find
so often the bitter mingled with the
sweetness of their pleasure. We con-
fess that these condolences do not touch
our sympathies very deeply. Another
class of sufferers is in our thoughts
those who have no summer recreation.
AS We read of the vast exodus which, at
the first spproaeh of summer heat. pours
out from winter homes over the ocean,
up the mountain sides, or down upon
the sea-shore, we cannot shut out of our
minds the vision of the far greater num-
Der who must live OH through summer
heat us they have lived through winter
cold-stat home" 10 these two classes
the summer brings very different ex-
perieilce; andwe do not know which is
the most fortunate. Which seems to be
the more fortunate is not matter OF
doubt, and were those who are obliged
to stay at home given on opportunity to
join the tide of ,pleasure-seekers, we inn
agine that the doubt would soon be prac-
tically solved by most of them.
We are not writing, however, for pur-
poses of doubtful speculation on unim-
portant considerations connected with
the habit of summer travelling; we are
wondering how the pleasure-seekers are
regarding and acting toward those who
cannot join their happy ranks.
We wonder, inithe first place, whether
it has occurred to the one class that il
has any duties toward the other, arising
from its summer pleasuresS Do the
| pleasure seekers ever think that those
whom they leave behind them have q
claim upens them because. their pleas
ures cannot be shared? Among the un-
fortunate ones who are obliged to stay
| at home, we do not reckon those who dc
! this from preference, for they are not tG
be pitied; nor do we count among them
those who are detained by the claims Of
| a successful business, and who. are ir
health and comfort. But we have in
mind the countless crowd of the really
unfortunate, who are confined by pov.
! erty in sitting city lanes, where they
gasp in vain for breath of the eNllilar.
Eating atmosphere which bathes the sum.
NIT Of Mount Washington, and of those
who toss from side to side on beds OF
fever, which would be dissipated by the
| ocean breezes. We cannot forget the
little children who never have looked
upon a landscape, except as it may haYt
| been parodied in the. starved vegetation
| of city "park."
!. How often do our travellers contrast
| their own pleasant condition of these
! home-bound sufferers? Do they evel
devise. any charitable plan for mitigat
ing their discomforts?
The. object of our writing, then, i:
simply this-to suggest to summer tour.
| lists a, duty which seems to belong es.
| pecially to them, of providing for the
poor and sick and suffering, who are
cut off from enjoyments which are givcr
| to them in profusion. We cannot imag
! inc a better way of completing ant
crowning their happiness than the per
| fOrmance Of this good work. Why can
! not those who abandon so many of oul
churches in the. summer season, leave
behind them their contributions to ;
fund for, providing comfort for the un
comfortable, and health for the sick? 4
very small percentage of the amour
which they lavish upon their own en-
| joyment would create very great res
ervoir from which the suffering coult
draw satisfaction. Such action as thi
would rejoice many a rector's heart.