The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1883-09-01
GOING AWAY IN SUMMER.

] A't' IT. fu"Fs
This going away demands several
things:
First. We leave comfortable houses,
spacious slceping-rooms, cosy hooks
where We may spend half hours with re-
freshing books ard magazines, and we
go to
I. The din, clattcr, clutter and clamor
OF hotel life.
:. Into minute bedrooms, whose scant
proportions resemble a cottage designed
for half-grown Iiliputians.
5. To meet and minglc with all sorts
of people, some of whom are more dis
agreeable than ourSclf.
!. We are to live ON the mysterious
dishes served up At public tables.
5. We are to pay for these "aCcom-
modations" sums perhaps not equal TO
princes ransom, but certainly sugges-
tive of the same before princes became
so unmarkctablc an article.
submit, the case is fairly summed
up; but nevertheless Everybody" will
60. Homes will become an extinct
institution.
Perhaps much good comes from this
mingling of pcoplcs-this stirring up
OF sections and mixing them all
Through Other; and not the least
benefit will be that sensible folks will
come back in September with a feeling
of thanksgiving that home is, after all,
the best place in the world, and that
some of its fancied ills are "A I" bless
ingS.
rs going is inevitable, and only
excmpis physicians. editors and sccrc-
tarics, let little sense and religion
come into the preparatory arrange
mcniS.
And TO begin. suppose tha, what
ever is injurious to health At home can.
not be promotive of health from home.
There i, no law known To me by which
the indiscNtihly al the table presided
over by wifc and mother, becomes the
digcSiiblc at hotel or restaurant. If
dancing until O'Clock in the morning
breaks down health in New York or
Philadelphia, il is hard 70 see how il
can promote health 4, Newport, Nahant
or Cape MAY
Nor do we. by going away, pass in
to 4 realm under different moral govern.
mcnt. The crossing of river does
not abrogatc the Dccaloguc. nor set
aside the Sermon on the Mount. What
is wrong in Baltimore is not made
rlgh; 10y going to Long Branch. The
horse race Is no more a divine ins,itu-
tlon n Saratoga than at Pimlico, nor
the theatre more religious in Boston
than Chicago. Card playing, so naughty
in indianapolis, does not. BY virtue OF
longitude, become holy at the White
Mountains.
Nor can we throw aside the oblica-
tionS OF Christianity for the travelling
season. and resume them, like a winter
ovcrcoai. with cool weather. Ofcoursc
there will be rest from some details of
religious life bu, in July and August,
as well as in June and January, we are
required 10 '.let the same mind be In
us which WAS also in Christ Jesus our
Lord" Nor are we absolved by any
temporary change OF place from the
obligation. "let your light so shine be-
fore men. that they may see your good
works. and glo-ify your Father which
is in heaven" OF all true disciples.
in all places, and at all times, suppose
the Master says: "As thou hast sent me
into the world. even so also send them
into the world" And | suppose tha,
n summer SolS;icc. As well as the time
OF yulelog. is this standing ever firm
and immovabe as premise and conclu-
sion in Christian life. aye are not
Your own; yc are bought with a price;
wherefore, glorify God in your body
a~d spirit, which are His"-.His at the
seaside or among the mountains; AT
Long Branch and Ocean Grove 4,
Cape May and Sea Cliff; a, White
Mountains and Mariha's Vineyard.