Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-17
TAKE A VACATION.
-.,aostive Labor Calls for Sea-
sons of Rest.
,,,,uace OH the Temptations Which
u.sct one in the Hours of Relaxa-
ton Notes of Warning
The Living Fountain.

ton - Notes of Warning
The Living Fountain.
, u1ulv and August Temptations" was the
inject of Il recent sermon by Rev. r. De
1vitt Talmage, delivered at the Broyklyn
W. hernacle. The text was from Mark vi,
~. "Come ye yourselves apart into a
,a.art place, and rest awhile" DIR. Tai
mage said:
Mere Christ advises His apostles to take
. vacation. They had been living an ex-
"i,al as we'll as useful life, and He advises
that they get out into the country. When
six weeks ago standing in this place 1 ad-
vorated, with all the energy I could COM
mapd, the Saturday afternoon holiday, 1
did not think the people would SO soon get
fiat release. By divine fiat it has come,
and l rejoice that more people will lave
opportunity of recreation this summer
than i'll any previous summer. Others will
have whole weeks and months of rest. The
railroad trains are being laden with pas
seugers and baggage on their way to the
FOUNTAINS and the lakes and the sea-
shore. Multitudes of our citizens are pack
IN their trunks for a restorative absence.
Let not the commercial firm begrudge
tie clerk, or the employer the journeyman,
or the patient the physician, or the church
its pastor q season of inoccupation. Luther
used to sport with his children; Edmund
Burke used to caress his favoriue horse;
Thomas Chalmers, in the dark hour of the
Church's disruption, played kite for
recreation-so l was told by his own
daushter-and the busy Christ said to the
busy Apostles: "Come we apart awhile
into the desert AID rest yourselves" And
have observed that they who do not
know how to rest do not know how to
work.
A NOTE OF
But l rave to declare this truth to-day
that some of our fashionable watering
places are the temporal and eternal de-
%s.ruction of "a multitude that no man can
nrmber;" and amid the congratulations of
this season md the prospect of the depart
ure of many of you for the country l
must utter a note of warning, plain, ear
nnst and unmistakable. The first tempta-
ton that is apt to hover in this direction
IS TO leave your piety all at home You
will send the dog and cat and canary bird
to be cared for somewhere else; but the
temptation will be to leave your religion
in the room with the blinds down and the
door bolted, and then you will come back
i'll the autumn to find that it is starved and
sulrocated, lying stretched ON the rug,
stark dead. There is no surplus of piety at
the watering-places. 1 never knew any
one to grow very rapid i'll grace at the
Cutskill Mountain House or Sharon
Springs of the Halls of Montmorency. 1t
is generally the case that the Sabbath is
more of a carousal than any other day,
and there are Sunday walks and Sunday
rides and Sunday excursions. Elders and
dcacons and ministers of religion, who are
entirely contented at home, sometimes
when the Sabbath dawns on them at Mag
ara Falls or the White Mountains take
their day to themselves. If they go to
the church it is apt to be q sacred
parade, and the discourse, instead Of being
a plain talk about the soul, is apt to
ie lat is called a crack serrcon-that is,
some discourse picked out of the effusions
of the year as the one most adapted to
excite admiration; and in those churches,
from the way the ladies hold their fans
you know that they are not so much inn
pressed with the heat as with the pictur-
esqueness of half-disclosed TEXTURES. -Four
puny souls stand in the organ loft and
squall a tune that nobody knows, and wor-
Slippers with 1000 worth of diamonds on
the right hand drop a cent into the poor
box, and then the benediction is pronounced
and the farce is ended. The toughest thing
l ever tried to do was to be good at q
watering place.
The health of a great many people makes
an annual visit to some mineral spring al
absolute necessity; but, my dear people
take your Bible along with you, and take
an hour for secret prayer every day,
though you be surrounded by guffaw and
saturnalia. Keep holy the Sabbath, though
they denounce you as a bigoted Puritan
Stand off from those institutions which
propose to initiate OH this side the water
the %iniquities of Baden Baden. Let you
neral and immortal health keep pace with
Your physical recuperation, and remember
that all the waters of Hawthorne and sui.
phur and chalybeate springs can not dc
You SO much good as the mineral, healing,
perennial flood that breaks forth from the
Rock Of Ages" This may be your las,
summer. If so, make it a tit vestibule O
Heaven.
THE HORSE AND HORSE-RACING.
Another temptation around nearly al
our watering places is the horse-racins
business. We all admire the horse. Their,
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among the brute creation. For ages tn,
non has been called the king of beasts.
Knock off its coronet and put the crow
upon the horse, in every way nobler
Whether in shape or spirit or sagacity O
INTEL sence or affection or usefulness.
AS the Bible makes a favorite of tn
horse, the patriarch and the prophet AM
The evangelist and apostle stroking hi
seek hide and patting his rounded neck
and tenderly lifting his exquisitely fornle'
moot and listening with a thrill to tn
champ of his bit, so all great natures in al
ages have spoken Of him in encomiasti
terms.
There is a d~elusion abroad in the worl,
mat a thing must be necessarily good an
Christian if it is slow and dull and plod
ulng. There are very good people VIII
Seem to imagine it is humbly pious t
oflve a spawned, CALLED, glandered
Spr!ns-halted, blind-staggered jade
There is not so much virtue in a Rosinant