The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-07-13
.TwO-FOrty on the Road to He'll. %

''TWo-FortY on the Road to Hell.''
Inever knew any one to grow very
rapidly in grace at the CatskilI Mountain
House or Sharon Springs or the Falls of
MOntmOrence. 1t is generally the case
that the Sabbath is more of earousal
than any other kind of day, and there
are Sunday walks, rides and excursions.
Elders, deacons and ministers, who are
entirely consistent at home, sometimes
when the Sabbath dawns upon them at
Niagara Falls or the White Mountains,
take the day to themselves. Laugh
ter. If they go to church it is apt to
be tor the sake of parade. From the
way the ladies hold their fans you
know that they are not so much impress
ed with the heat as with the picturesque
ness of halEdisclosed features. Four
puDny souls stand in the organ loft and
squall tune that nobody knows, and
wOrshippers with $1,000 worth of dia-
monds on the right hand drop a cent in
the poor box laughter and then the
benedi ctiOn is pronounced and the farce
is ended. The toughest thing l ever
tried to do was to be good at a watering
place. The air is bewitched with the
world, the flesh and the devil But, my
dear friends, take your Bible with you,
and teke al hour for secret prayer every
day. This may be your last summer.
Ii so make it fit vestibule of heaven.
HUrse-racing business is another temp
tation lowering around our watering
places. The horse race is not of such
Importance as the human race. Horse
| races In the Olden time were under the
ban OF Christian people, and in our day
| the same institution has come up under
! fictitious names, and it Is called a sum-
mer meeting, almost suggestive of posi-
| tive religious exercises; and 1t is called
an agricultural fair, suggestive of
everything that is improving in the art of
| farming, but under these deceptive titles
are the same cheating and betting and
drunkenness and vagabOndage, and the
same abOminatiOn that were to be found
under the old horse racing system.
never knew a man who could give him
self to tie pleasures of the turf for a
long reach Of time and not be battered
in morals They hook up their spanking
team, and put on their sporting cap, and
light their cigar. and take the reins and
shout "g'lang,' and dart down at two
forty on the road to hell. The great
day at nearly ell the watering places is
the day of the races. Three weeks be-
fore the race takes place the struggle is
decided, and the men in the secret know
on which steed to bet their money. All
my friends, have nothing to do with
hOrse-racing deceptiOns this summer
With the bullfghts Of Spain and the
bear-bating of the pit may the Lord
God annihilate the infamous and ac-
| cursed bOrse-racing system of England
and America. Applause. New YOrh
aud Brooklyn idiots bOasting of having
imbided twenty-five glasses of Congress
water before breakfast; families aceus
toned to go to bed at ten O'Clock at
night gOssippiug till one or two O'Clock
in the morning; dyspeptics usually very
| cautious about their health, mingling
ice-creams and lemons and lobster salads
and cocoanuts. until the gastric Juices
lift up their voices of lameatatiOn anC
protest. delicate women and brainles
young men chasing themselves into Yer
tigO and talepsy-thousands of mel
and women coming back from our wa
tering places in autumn with the fOun
dations slaid for ailments that will las
them all their life time. A fragment o
st. PauTs charge to the jailers would b
an appropriate inscription for the hOte
register in every watering place, sd
thyself no harm!'