The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-06-19

that there is providence but that pnrl Of
Tor sight; thcn shall want to mpiore you to
do what Bartmeus dd-iollow Him who is willing TO
teach YOU willing to lead you and willing 70 heal you
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
THE TEMPTATIONS OF WATERING PLACES CON-
srpxREp-sERxoN OF REV. T. DE WITT TALL
MAGE.
The Tabernacle was crowded, usual, at the FORE
noon services yesterday. Rev. I. De Witt Talmagc
preached taking his text from ST. John, VI, 2 ga
pool which rs called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda.
having five porchcs In these lay great multitude OF
impotent folk Of blind halt, withcrcd, waiting for
tho moving OF tho wacr Ho said just outside Of the
city or Jerusalem there was a watering place. tho
popular for invalids To this day there dry
basin of rock, which shows that there must
have been a pool there $50 feet long, 13O
feot wide and IS feet deep So lar as
rcinvgoraton concerned IL have been Sara
toga and Long Branch small scale, Leaning.
ton and Brighton combned-medical and thcrapeu-
tic That angel OF God that stirred up the Judean
watering place had his counterpart in tho angel Of
healing that day steps into the mineral
of Congress Sharon Sulphur Springs, into the
salt Cape May and Nahant where multitudcs Who
worn out with commercial and professional anxo-
tics, we'll those who afflicted with rheumatic
neuralgia aud splenctic Diseases go and cured by
thousands We are at a season Of the year when our
rail trains being laden with passengers and baggage
their way to the mountains and tho lakes and the
shore. The city heats are pursuing tho people
with torch and lear OF sunstroke. Glad am that
PAGGRD OUT AMERICAN LiFE,
for the most part will have an opportunity to rest
and that racked aud destroyed will lind Beth
csda Let hot the commercial nrm bcgrudge the clerk,
the employer the journeyman, or the patient The
physician or tho church It's pastor. Of
patton. have observed that those who do not know
how O do how work.
hut have TO declare this truth, that our fashionable
watering places the poral aud eternal deslruc
ton of ~ great multitude that man NUMBER"
aud amid the congratulations OF this season, ana the
prospect OF the departure Of many OF you Tor the
country, must utter warning paln earnest and
instak able The first temptation that Is apt hover
In this direction is TO leave your piey all ut home
There Is
NO SURPLUS or riErr AT THE WATERING PLACES
never knew any one to grow very rapidly grace
nj the catsxill Mountain House Sharon Springs
the tails OF Montmorcncy IL Is generally tho that
tue Sabbath is Of carousal than any other day
and there sunday walks. rides and excursions
Elders, deacoGs and ministers, who are entirely
slstcnt at nome, sometimes when The sabbath dawns
upon them NJ Niagara Falls or the White Noun
ta,ns take tho day to themselves Iaashtcr) II
they church II Is apt To be Tor the sake parade
From the way tue lsdics mold their fans you know that
they not SO much impressed with the hea. with
the pcturcsqucucss OF half disclosed features. -Four
puny souIs stand IN the lot and squal that
nobody knows and worsnippcrs With GOO worth OF
diamonds on tue right hand drop cent tho poor
boxisu2 herl-and then tue Ocnediciun pronounced
and tho farce " ended The toughest thing
do to be good Al watering place. The air be-
witched with he world the flesh alid the devil But.
my dcar friends take your Bible along with You, and
take hour tor secret prayer every day TINS be
your last summer. IL so make II M vestibuc of
heaven Horse racing business Il another temptation
towering round our watering places The horse
not OF such Importance as the human race Horse
IN oden times were under the han OF Christian
people, and in our day the same institution has
up under fictitious Names and II IL called
summer meeting almost suggestive OF positive re-
ligous cxcrc>cs-and II Is called an agricultural
lar suggestive OF everything that Is improving In
the OF iarm,ug but under these deceptive titles
the same cheating and betting and drunkenness and
vagabonda.e ana The same abominauon taat
10 be found under The Old horse racing system.
never knew nau who could give himself to the pleas
ures or the turf Tor long or time and be
battered IN morals. They hook up Their spanking
team aud put their sporting cap. aud light their
cigar aud take the rcins and shout g ang! and dart
rwo.roary OK THE ROAD TO HILL
The great day nearly ail the watering places the
day OF tie races. Three weeks before tho takes
place the struggle IS decided ard the men n the secret
know which stccd 10 bet their money. An! my
friends have nothing TO do with horse racing dccep
tions lhis summer With the buiinghls Of SPAN and
The bear batting Of the PIT may Tue Lord God anniha'c
the infamous and accursed horse racing system of
England and Ainerca. tApplaGsc.) New York and
Broosyn idoss boastIns OF having m0ioed twenty
tive glasses OF Congress wafer before breakfast
families accustomed TO going 10 bed al ten
O'Clock at nIkht lossping until one and Two
O'Clock. IN the morning; dyspcptics, usually very
cautious about their heath in,nging ice creams and
lemons aud lobster salads ana cocoaDuts until the
c Juices III up their voices oi amenation aud pro-
test, Jcilsatc women aud uranless young men
chasseing themselves INTO vertigo aud catslepsy--
Thousands Of men aud women coming back from our
watering places IN autumn with the foundations laid
Tor ailments that viii last them all their lifetime A
fragment OF 81 laui's charge 1" the Jaicrs would be
an appropriate Inscription ior tue hotel register IN
every watering pace, '.Do thyself no harnl"
And The temptation hanging around tne watering
places ~ the fountain Of hasiy and lifelong alliances.
The watering places responsible Tor OF the do
nestle nsecitics vi this country Than all other things
combined society u artincial there that
judgment Of character can be formed. they who form
eompanousips amid such circumstances into lot
tory where there are t~cnty blanks to one prxc. In
the severe tug oil lite you moro than glitter aud
splash Lite Is not ballroom. where The de-
cidcs tho step, ana bow aud prancc ami graceful