Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-17

they will do with her in the next world l
do not know, except to set her upon the
banks of the River of Life for eternity to
look sweet! God intends us to admire
music and fair faces and graceful step;
but amid the heartlessness and the intia-
ton and the fantastic influences of our
modern watering-places, beware how you
make lifelong covenants.
LITERATURE.
Another temptation that will hover over
the watering-places is that Of baneful lit
erature. Almost every one starting Off for
the summer takes some reading matter.
1t is a book out of the library or off the
bookstand, or bought of the boy hawking
books through the cars. 1 really believe
there is more pestiferous trash read among
the intelligent classes in July and August
than in all the other ten months of the
year. Men and women who at home would
not be satisfied with a book that was not
really sensible 1 found sitting on hotel
piazzas or under the trees reading books
the index of which would maket hem blush
II they knew that you new what the book
was. "Oh," they say, ''you must have in
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need that you take along into a watering
place "Hamilton's Metaphysics" or some
thunderous discourse on the eternal de-
crees, or "Faraday's Philosophy" There
are many easy books that are good. YOU
might as well say: II propose now to give
a little rest to my digestive organs, and
instead of eating heavy meat and vege-
tables l will for u little while take
lighter food-a little %strychnine and a few
grains of ratsbane." Literary poison in
August is as bad as literary poison in De-
cember. Mark that.
INTOXICATING DRINKS. .a3s
Another temptation lowering all around
our watering-places is to intoxicating
beverages. am told that it is becoming
moro and more fashionable for women to
drink. Icare not how we'll a woman may
dress, If she has taken enough of wine to
flush her cheek and put a %glass!ness OIL her
eye, she is intoxicated. Shemay be hand
ed into q twenty-five hundred dollar car
rage and have diamonds enough to con-
found the Titfany's-she is Intoxicated.
She may be q graduate Of Packer lnsti-
tute, and the daughter Of some man in
danger of being nominated for the Presi-
dency-she is Trunk. You may have u
larger vocabulary than 1 have, and you
may say in regard to her that she is 'con-
vivial," or she is "merry," or she is "fes-
tive" Or she is "exhilarated,' but you can
not with all your garlaads of verbiage
cover up the plain fact that it is an old
fashioned case of drunk. Now, the water
ing-places are full of temptations to men
and women to tipple. At the close Of the
ten-pin on billiard game they tipple. At
the close of the cotillon they tipple.
Seated on the piazza, cooling themselves
off, they tipple. The tinged glasses come
around with bright straws, and they tip
pie. First they tak slight wines," as
they call them; but eight vines are
heavy enough to debase the appe-
tite. There is not a very long
road between champagne at five dol
lars a bottle and whisky at five cents a
glass. Satan has three or our grades
down which he takes men to destru ction
One man he takes up, and, through one
spree, pitches him into eternal darkness.
That is a rare case. Very seldom indeed
can you find q man who will be such a fool
as that. Satan will take another man to
a grade, to a descent at an angle about
like that of the Pennsylvania coal-chute
or the Mount Washington rail-track and
shove him off, but that is very rare. When
a man goes dow to destruction Satan
brings him to a plane. 1t is almost level.
The depression is so slight that you can
hardly see it. The man does not actually
know that he is on the down grade, and it
tips only q little toward darkness-just a
little; md 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 is
ale, and the fifth mile it is porter, and the
sixth mile it is brandy, and then it gets
sleeper and sleeper and sleeper, and 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 to the Grand Central Depot at
Smashupton!"
BE Fob TEMPTATION.
My friends, whether you tarry at home
which will be quite as safe and perhaps
! quite as comfortable-or go into the coun-
try, arm yourself against temptation. The
grace of God is the only safe shelter
whether in town or country. There are
watering places accessible to all of us.
You can not open a book of the Bible with
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Fountains open for sin and uncleanliness,
Wells of salvation. Streams from Leb.
anon. A flood struck out of the rock by
Moses. Fountains in the wilderness dis.
covered by Hagar. Water to drink anc
water to battle in. The river Of God
which is full of water. Water of which il
altman drink he shall never thirst. Well:
, of water in the valley Of Baca. Living
fountains of water. A pure river of water
, as clear as crystal, from under the thron,
of God. These are the watering-places &C
, cessible to all of us. We do not have
laborious packing up before we start
only the throwing away of our transgres
a sions. No extensive hotel bills to pay; i
! is swithout money and without price," N
long and dusty travel before we get there
1t is only one step away. In California
in five minutes l walked aroun,
, and saw ten fountains all bubbling up, an
they were all different. And in five min
utes l can go through this Bible parterr
f and find you fifty bright, sparkling fount
, aims, bubbling up into eternal life-healin'
r and therapeutic. A chemist will go to on
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