Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-22

Rlver OF Lie Tor eternity 10 HOOK sHeetl
God intends rs to admire music and fair
faces and graceful step; but amid the
heartlessness and the initiation aud the fam
tsstic influences OF our modern wlteriug
places, beware how you make life long
covenants
Another temptation that will hover over
the watering place is that OF
Baneful Literature.
Almost every one starting off for the sum.
mer takes some residing matter. II is
book out Of the library, or of the book
stand, or bought Of the boy hawking books
on the cars really believe there is more
pestiferous trash read among the intelligent
classes in July and August than in all the
other months OF the year. Men and women
who, at home, would not be satisfied with .
book that was not really sensible, / found
sitting on hotel piazzss or under the trees
reading books the index Of which would
make them blush if they knew you knew
what the book was. oh" they say, "yeu
must have intellectual recreation" Yes;
there is no need that you take along with
you to watering place Hsmiltons Meta
physics or some thunderous discourse on the
eternal DEGREES, or Faraday's Philosophy.
There are many easy books that are good.
You might as wen say: II propose now to
give little rest to my digestive organs, and
instead OF eating heavy meats and yegeta-
bles will, for little while, take lighter
tood-a little strychnine and a few gr-ins
of rassbane" Literary poison in August is
as bad as literary poison in Decemoe'
Mark that Do not let the frogs and ice OF
a corrupt printing press jump and crawl
into your Saratoga trunk or White Noun
tain valise. Would it not be an awful
thing for you to be struck with lightning
some day when you had in your hand one
of these ercovered romances-the hero
Parisan roue, the heroine an unprinci-
pied firt--chapters in the book that you
would not read to your children at the rate
of hundred dollars line. Throw out oil
that stuff from your summer baggage. Are
there not good books that are easy to read
books Of entertaining travel; books OF
corgenial history; books OF pure fun; books
OF poetry, ringing with merry csnto; books
of fine engraving; books that will rest the
mind as we'll as purify the heart and elevate
the whole ife2 My hearers, there will not
be an hour between this and the day of your
death when you can afford to read book
lacking in moral principle
Another temptation lowering all around
our watering places is to
Intoxicating beverage.
| am told that it is becoming more and
more fashionable for women to drink. |
care not how we'll woman may dress It
she has taken enough of wine to flush her
cheek and put Plassiness in her eye
she is intoxicated. She may be handed into
a $500 carriage and have diamonds
CROUCH to confound the Tiffany She is
intoxicated. She may be a graduate Of
Packer Institute, and the daughter Of
some man in danger Of being
nominated for the Presidency-she is drunk
You may have larger vocabulary than |
have and you may say in regard to her that
she is "convivial or she is merry" or
she is festive" or she is 'exhilerated," but
you cannot with all your garlsnSs Of ver.
bsge cover up the plain fact that 1t is an
old.fashioned case Of drunk. Now, the water.
ing places are fall Of temptations to men
and women 10 tipple. At the close Of the
teDpin or billiard game they tipple. At the
close OF the cotilion they tippIe. Seated
on the piazza cooling themselves of they
tipple The tinged glasses come around
with bright slraws and they tipple. First
they take light wines" as they call them |;
but light wines" are heavy enough to de-
base the appetite. There is not very long
road between champagne at IS bottle and
whiskey at five cents glass. Satan has
three or four grades down which he takes
ian to destruction. One man he takes up
and through one spree pitches him into eter'
nal darkness. That is rare case. Very
seldom indeed can you find man who will
be such fool as that. Satan will take an
other man to grade, to descent at an
angle about like that Of the Pennsylvania
coal shute or the Mount Washington rail
road trark and shove him of. But that is
very rare. Whenss ssal man goes down to
destruction Satan brings him to a
| plane. 1t is almost a level.
The depression is 90 slight that you can
hardly see IT. The man does not actually
know that he is on the down grade and it
tips only a little toward darknesg-just a
| little. And the first mile it is claret, and
the second mile it is sherry. and the third
mile it is punch, and the fourth mile it ID
ale. and the fth mile il is porter, and the
sixth mile it is brandy and then it gets
sleeper and sleeper and sleeper aud the man
gets frightened and says: "Oh, let me get
off - NO." says the conductor, "this is an
express train and it don't stop until it gets
the Grand Central Depot at Smashupton !
All. Look no. thou upon the wine when j,
IS red, when it givsth its color in the cup
shen il moyeth itself Alright. At the last ii
bi'pth like q serpent and stingeth ike an
adder" And ifsny young man ofmy con-
9rpga'ion should get astrsy this summer in
| this direction, it will not be because have
not given him fair warning.
Ny friends, whether you tarry at home
which will be quite as safe and perhaps
| quite as comfortable-or 20 into the coun'
try,
Arm Yourself A Against Temptation.
The grace Of God is the only safe shelts,
whether in town or country. There are
watering places accessible TO oil Of Us. fcu
cannot open book Of the Bible without
finding out some such watering place.
Fountains open for sin and uncleanness
Wells of salvation; streams from Lebanon
food struck out Of the rock by Moses
fountains in the wilderness discovered By
| Hagar: water 10 drink and water to bathe
in; the river Of God, which is full Of wstsr
water Of which If man drink be shall nsTei
thirst; wells Of water in the valley Of Bacsi
| living fountains OF water; pure river oil
water ss clear as crystal from under the
throne Of God. These are Watering.places
accessible 10 all Of Us We do not have q
laborious packing Hp before we start--onlJ
the throwing away Of our transgressions
No expensive hotel bills to pay; it 10 "~ith
out money and without price, no long and
dusty travel before we get there. II il oulJ
one step away. In California in FIVE min
u.ss walked around aud saw ten fountaini
all bubbliug up and they we're Gil different
and in Eve minutes / can 20 through
tbi. Bible partere and fod you
ifty bright, sparkling fountains, buoolin1
I'd into eternal h.e-hesling and therspsu
tic. A chemist will 90 10 one OF these sam