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

BROOKLYN, N. T., June 2l.-Dr. 1al'
images sermon at the Brooklyn Tabernacle
this morning was on the subject: July and
August temptations" Before the sermon
he read passages of Scripture concerning
the gardens of the Bible. The opening
hymn was:
"Come we who love the Lord.
And let our joys be known"
The text was from Mark vi. 81: Come
ye yourselves apart into a desert place and
rest awhile" Following is DR.. Talmage's 5
sermon in full
Here Christ advises his apostles to take
a vacation. They had been living an ex-
cited as well as useful life, and he advises
that they get out into the country. When,
six weeks ago, standing in this place, ad-
vocated with all the energy could COM
mand, the Saturday afternoon holiday, 1 did
not think the people would 80 soon get that
release. By divine fst it has come, and |
rejoice that more people will have the op-
portuniy of recreation this summer than
in any previous summer. Others will have
whole weeks and months of rest. The rail-
way trains are being laden with passengers
and baggage on their way to the mountains
and the lakes and the sea,shore. Multitudes
of our citizens are packing their trunks for
a restorative absence. The city heats are
pursuing the people with torch and fear Of
sunstroke. The long silent halls Of sump-
tuous hotels are all abuzz with exci.ed ar
rivals. The crystalline surface of Win.
nipiGgee is shattered with the stroke
of steamers laden with excursion
lists. The antlers of Adirondack deer
rattle under the shot of city sporismen. The
trout make fatal snap at the hook OF adrolt
sportsmen and toss their spotted brilliance
into the game basket, Already the baton
of the orchestral leader taps the music stand
on the hotel green and American life puts
on festal array and the rumbling Of the ten.
pin alley and the crack OF the ivory balls on
the green.baized billiard tables and the Jolt.
| ing of the bar.room goblets and the exp!os-
i've uncorking Of champagne bottles and the
whirl and the rustic of the bar.room dance
and the clattering hoofs Of the race courses
| attest that the season for the great Ameri-
can watering places is fairly inaugurated
| Music! Flute and drum and corneIa
piston and clspping cymbals will wake the
echoes OF the mountains. Glad | am that
tagged out American life for the most part
will have an opportunity TO rest and that
nerves racked and destroyed will find a
Bethesda.
believe in
| Watering Places.
| Let not the commercial firm begrudge the
clerk or the employer the joHrneyman, or
the patient the physician, or the church its
pastor season Of inoccupstion. Luther
used to sport with his children; Edmund
Burke used to carSss his favorite horse;
| Thomas Chalmers, in the dark hour of the
church disruption, played kite for recreation
so was told BY his own daughter-and
the busy Christ said to the busy apostles:
"Come ye apart awhile into the desert and
rest yourselves" And | have observed that
they who do not know how to rest, do not
know how to work.
But have to declare this truth today,
that some OF the watering places are the tem
poral eternal destruction of "a multitude
| tat no man can number" and amid the
\ congratulations of this season aud the pros
pect fthe departure OF many of you for the
| country, | must utter note OF warning
plain, earnest and unmistakable. The first
sempta6on that is likely to hover in this di-
rection is tc leave your plety all at home.
You will send the dog and cat and canary
bird to be we'll cared for somewhere else;
but the temptation will be to leave your re
hgion in the room with the blinds down
and the door bolted, and then you will come
in the autumn to find that il is starved and
suffocated, living stretched on the rug stark
dead. There is no surplus Of piety a. the
water placee. / never knew any one to
grow very rapidly in grace at the Catskil
Mountain House or Sharon Springs or the
Falls of Montmorency. 1t is generally the
case that the sabbath is more Of q carousaI
than any other day. and there are Sunday
walks, and Sunday rides, and Sunday ex'
cursions Elders and descons aud minis
tiers of religion, who are entirely consistent
at home, when the Sabpath dawns on
them at Niagara Falls or the
White mountains takes the day to them
selves. If they 60 to the church it is apt
10 be
"A Sacred Parade,
and the discourse, instead OF being plain
talk about the soul, is apt to be what i:
called q crack sermon-thst is, some dis
course picked out of the efusions Of the
year as the one most adapted TO excite ad
miration, and in those churches from the
way the ladies hold their fans you know
that they are not so much impressed with
the heat as with the picturesquene5so of half
disclosed features. -Four puny souls stand
in the organ loft and squall tune thai
nobody knows, and worshippers, with two
thousand dollars worth OF diamonds on the
= right hand, drop cent into the poor boz
and then the benediction is pronounced and
the farce is ended. The toughest thing
ever tried to do was to be good at water
ing place.
The air is bewitched with "the world, tht
flesh and the detil" There are Christian
who, in three or four weeks In such place
have had such terrible rents made in theil
Christian robe that they had TO keeE
daruing it until Christmas to get j
mended! The health Of a gres
: many people makes an annual visi
some mineral spring an absolute neces
sity; but, my dear people, take your Bibl:
along with you and take an hour for sscre
PRAYER every day though you be surrouude'
by gufsw and saturnala. Keep holy th'
Sabbath though they denouncs you as
bigoted Puritan. Stand of from those in
stitutions which propose to initiate on TN
. sids Of tbe water the iuiquitiss Of Baden
Baden. Let your moral and immorts
health keep pace With your physical rscn
peration, and remember that all the water
of Hawthorne and sulphur and chaiiySeat
springs cannot do you 80 much good IS th
mineral, healing. perennial food that bress
forth from the "Rock Of ages. This ma
Ia your last summer. If 50. make 1t q
, ! Yesiibule Of heaven.
Another
Temptation
is,,r,sd yearly all our waterinE-Plsce: Is II
- ..o,, q business. We all admire u