The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-05-27
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK.
The Great Religious Summer Resort

ever has witnessed the folly and dis
sipation. the temptations and sins OF
our fashionable watering places, must
have felt that however conducive tc
health and pleasure the atmosphere
and waters of Saratoga, the surf and
breeze of Cape May, Long Branch,
Newport, the moral environment is
anything but favorable to the culti-
walton of pure and elevated charac-
ter. A "season" can scarcely be spent
amid such surroundings without
either a moral letting-down or a
moral WEAKNESS. Christian people
do not wish to refresh the body at
the expense of the soul. It is more
in accord with their feelings to build
up body and soul at the same time in
that heaIthfulness peculiar to each.
Hence, Ocean Grove, Atlantic High
lands, Ocean City, Chautauqua and
the like.
1t has come to be perceived that
summer resorts conducted upon re-
ligious principles offer many adj
yantages. Neither healthfulness nor
pleasure are interfered with by what
ever religious services are held. On
the contrary, these break up the
tedium of days that might otherwise
hang heavily and rescue rest from
listlessness. Not few have found
in them priceless blessings, and have
learned to regard the day that intro
duced them amid these Christian in
tiuences as the day of days in their
lives.
SEASIDE VERSUS MOUNTAIN.
Heretofore all such resorts have
been established on the sea shore. A
few enterprises might be excepted,
that with a Camp Meeting as their
nucleus, have expanded into some
thing more. The seaside has pecu-
liar fascination and to very many
people offers unsurpassed facilities for
rest and refreshment. On the other
hand, there are many others who de-
rive no benefit from a visit to the
seaside. Some are positively injured
by it. 1t is beginning to be under
stood that the conditions of perma-
nent inauguration are best secured by
a brief visit to the seaside followed
by a longer soJourn in upland regions.
Mountain air possesses superior tonic
properties, and its effects are as a
rule more enduring than those of sea
air.
There are other advantages offered
by the mountains, not unimportant
to comfort and pleasure, if on the
whole subordinate. The nights are
always cool. Mornings and evenings
are characterized by delightful tenn
perature. There is something in the
atmosphere of the mountains that
renders the heat more bearable at
ninety-five degrees than it is else
where at eighty. Then there are de-
lightful walks and drives in endless
variety new tangles to explore, new
dells to discover, wooded recesses in.
wiling repose where light and heat
are tempered and quiet is enshrined.
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK.
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This new religious summer resort
Is situated on the line of the Balti-
more and Ohio Rail Road, pa miles
west of Baltimore and 149 miles east
of Wheeling. 1t is near the summit
Of the Alleghenies, twenty.seven hun.
dred feet above the level of the sea.
On the west of 1t the waters flow to
the Mississippi. on the east to the
Atlantic. 1t contains eight hundred
acres of ground. nearly all of it avail
able for building sites and heav-
lily timbered with white oak. The
grounds front on the railroad for a
distance of mile and a half, and
stretch back nearly mile. In front
is a broad, grassy meadow threaded
by the Youghiougheny River. From
this meadow rise successive terra
ces, broken into low, softly outlined
knobs, in among which wind little
glades admitting the breezes to the
very heart of the woodland. Shade
Is perfect water is sweet, soft, cool,
abundant. A system of roads and
walks has been perfected which will
render every part of the extensive
tract easily accessible. The county
roads are excellent, inviting excur-
sions into the surrounding country.
The scenery is superb; a wide ex.
panse of glade country bounded by
the backbone of the Alleghenies"
at the distance ola few miles. A lake
will be constructed at an early day
which will cover about twenty-four
acres and afford facilities for boating.
This property is owned in fee by the
Mountain Lake Park Association. 1t
is paid for. Not one dollar of incum-