The Portland daily press., 1873-07-14
sUNDAY SERVICES.
PARK STREET.

This was the last sermon before vacation,
which is to continue for five Sundays. The
pastor, Rev. Mr. Buck, chose Lis text from
Isaiah Kill, "Let the people renew their
strength and from it made "a Plea Tor va
cations" The clerical vacation is well estao-
lished; it needs not to be defended or urged;
ministers are given rest in the hot season by the
considerateness of the congregations. But the
people of the congregations have equal need of
rest their brains and sinews grow weary, also;
to them the monotony of routine is wearying; in
their behalf the text may be applied, ''Let the
people renew their strength
The custom is increasing of joining the years
by walton break; as by the lock on a canal the
passing vessel, pausing, is lifted to higher
level. That canal boat is wasting time, you
think, lying idle there; but no, while it waits it
is lifted up; the higher level stoops to it, it
rises on the condescending wave, its course
henceforth will be on higher plane.
This increase of vacation idlers establishes
the legitimacy of vacation dleness; as Sunday,
the weekly vacation, is established by the di-
vine appointment which is written in human
necessity. The various multtudes who at this
season journey to the mountains and to the sea
to1become brilliant butterflies at the populous
watering places, hermits of sequestered dales,
fishes in the briny deep, camp-meeting eXhort-
ers or camp-meeting converts, all illustrate the
necessity of variety and rest, or in one express
sve word, of recreation. They declare in their
varied action the mandates of Omnipotence;
and if society is now constituted that there
are some who cannot obey that mandate it is
crime that lies at society's door, for which So
ciety pays annually heavy penalty.
There are two obvious uses OF vacation. The
first is that it revives over-worked energies.
"The mind that lies falow gains quiet power
Strength to unfold the future seed or hower.'
Even let the summer vacation be period of
completed incidence; the Interviewing forces
do not slumber; then they have free scope; the
forces of physical nature renew activity in
nerve and muscle, and the irrepressible thinking
escaped from harness. brings from hidden treas
ure chambers things new and old. Even while
we muse, in irresponsible reverie. the fire of
new epthusiasms is kindled within u.s.
So vacation does not imply vacuity One
thing goes out; another thing comes in or comes
up. ''The loud laughter speaks the vacant
mind, vacant of care and trouble, but occu-
pied none the less. The brain weary with work
soonest finds repose, not in entire cessation of
action, but in other easier or different work.
As music or spectacle, engaging the senses,
quietly lets down the over strained faculties,
by at once occupying and vacating soliciting
and releasing, so the easier and perchance more
congenial pursuits of the rest period may furth
er the attainment of rest. Only change the
daily custom; change, if possible, the scene of
labor, and though your days may be filled with
industry they VIII also be hlled with rest. For
he who walks upon the highway, OF on the level
beach stretching on for miles before, will far
sooner be exhausted than he who, walking
through uneven forests or pasture land, changes
his work with every step he takes.
The second use OF vacation is that 1T offers
new point OF vlew,-outsIde the course. 1t lifts
the contestant to the Judges seat. where he can
witness lmpartally his own performance, and
notice wherever it might he improved. He is
runner and spectator at once. He realizes the
advantages indicated IN the familiar INES
TO see oursells as lthers see US:
IL way s lrae mlny oluhder Tree us,
Anu ioonsn ho'ion
Doubtless, IN the absorbing work OF his dali
ly life, he has unconsclously fettered himself
with many blunder and foolish notion. How
shall he find it out, except by getting out HIM
self, outside the absorbing demands OF the
present task? From the outside view he may
discern some exigenco Of his position hitherto
hidden from him. some new turn he can give
to his work, some error by which he has I'M
consciously weighted himself. When you
work piece of embroidery, you sometimes
stop moment mold your work at arms length,
and see howl looks; your next stitches go
better for that inspection, for that moment
OUTSIDE your WORK. W men you are trying to
plane a poaru 10 Scraieht euge, you test your
WORK ny gettilg pehlho IL; you noiu tne Doard
9eiore you ana take a sqelne along us INES.
I
you get pehiho tle worh tlaI mas peeh drawing
you on
IL is true that we nave sunday, a vacation IN
every week. put SUNDAY 10 W very man! pei
SONS gay Oh WORK IL ushers thein lnto
series OF labors SO tollsome and exhausting
Inat us own eViI Is suiliclent uuto III IL can
spare on lhonght lor yesterday OF 1or to-m4r-
NOV, IL Is not Vacation, IL Is crisis' Cne
weekly culmination OF Toll.
Nor is Sunday sqfflclent, even when employ
ea dhiy as Gay OF ress. one DAY does not
give rest. Inc overWofkeo Drain or irane
keeps ITS acquired momentum through one
DAY; on the second It's action is SPENT on tne
second vacation DAY, TINS worker 1alnts OF
sleeps; he discovers how tired he Is
Nor can one day suffice tor the OUTSIDE IN
spectioL winch may correcC errors. Our cares
lie, as IL were, ia three sIorlSS, upper story,
ground moor ana basement. Ihose IN tne up
per STORY are tne prlsntesl, tney receive al
lio:C eAeiusiVe,y olI oaly ae!1n'!1n, III Va
ca1on Oh one gay we deal WIN 5nose on tne
gloInu nooI ouG M, 10 1ahee several uays W set 10
oiio o's'enien', Ineie dio oaieo Mnlcn nc coV
oiou .ie pieeen0 g =. oletlao1o aoIen-
.lon Ilo1 Ineln aisili I:S tne present. engage
mem dnu lhey 'ise up !ihe Dauquo snoSe, anu
upe loiiIay sun ilsihg 10 hoI enouSu " oahlsh
;aJ EEeis Une islns worhtul me - our
leu auCoii'licdiy, oei0W Tue region OIL present
CONSCIOUSNESS, win aHalrs which only vaca-
''on OF uays S can nn nul.y reveal f u, u.
49,, /" $50 $50 60 e ". az, Uni polaiA ule
W ;+ 90 ~ 49, ~. q - 10y ,aoi Tnen
W oio az oe ~ VI yo.i oono IN Sone ioNely
piaGe, alu maxi acqualneance WIN tne stars,
70 1iilnh nov staole eiGS are Through lhe ages
enui'1ui ~ III ny JUG poeI-oiaoi 'laC rises
lo,, our nIol9 eine,, W Lesalu your W95h as
know what YOU are doing. Or. to- 90 where
you may hear the surf sounding continuously
ele nlsiiC vi tIe ocean ,-or ohe OCEAN, unrest
To- itself restless bnt self-contained tonching
the shore, to reshape it gradually in the long
centuries, ana yet grandly aioot from the work
W. of ,a w m tha st .,,e traa
far-rooted, upright, unyielding. in the slow,
patient and mighty energies of nature working
.ielG, III Ine e'eraal silellce einPlaslzeu ny
!llici e ~ sounas-ol pira-song OF Wiue Whisper
lns vi IIe leaves, Or cleah oi s"aylng otancn-
es sounus InaI are tuneiess, because OF every
luneL.neIe aiso W iearn 'ne tWo-lolu PrecepG
Wliicl la'use eVefyM here repeats-Jtuee@y ana
pusseMce. E s!.ils Is eYerywheie paClent, Is
es1ryWnere faithful, anu whoever ~ tempted
70 peie.1e n.s woih wlIl. patcn-Worh concession
OF expeulehos, OF 10 hasteh ms career py impa-
tlenC ci los OF 70 replie because MS WORK
seems lor the present IrulGless' ne needs such
sac vac as may lntroouee MN 10 the naenty
dlu patehce Vi natqre WORK, 10 the iheHapie
conteh1nent that proods over the outward
world
'he ola mythologles tell OF giant who,
Wheh weary, feil prone upon the earth and
arose refreshed ana recreateQ, Lit is truth