The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-08-06
SUMMER TEMPTATIONS.
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The Evils and Benefits OF Watering
Places
Discussed by Rev, T. pc witt Taimage--
He Says Those In search Of Rest and
Recreation should Take Their
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Of summer resorts. His text was Mark
9, xxi: "Come ye yourselves apart unto
desert place and rest awhile" Fol-
lowing Is the sermon: tcltl
Here Christ advises the apostles TO
take vacation. They have been living
an excited as we'll as useful life, and
He advises that they get out into the
country. am glad that for longer or
shorter time, multitudes Of our people
will have summer vacations. The rail-
way trains are being laden with passen-
gers and baggage on their way to the
mountains and seashore. Multitudes Of
our citizens are packing their trunks for
restorative absence. wa .to
The city heats are pursuing the people
with torch and fear of sunstroke. The
long silent halls of sumptuous hotels
are all abuzz with excited arrivals. The
crystalline surface of Winnipiseogee Is
shattered with the stroke Of steamer,
laden with excurslonists. The antlers
Of Adirondack deer rattle under the shot
Of city sportsmen. The trout make
fatal snaps at the hook of adroit sports
men, 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 pats on festal array, and the rum
blingof the tenpin alley, and the crack
Of the ivory balls on green-baized bill
lard tables, and the jolting Of the bar
room goblets, and the explosive uncork-
ing Gf champagne bottles, and the whirl
and the rustic Of the ballroom dance,
and the Gathering hoofs Of the race
courses, attest that the season for the
great American watering-places is fairly
inaugurAted Music-hute and drum
and cornet-a-piston and clapping GYM
bals-will wake the echoes OF the noun
tains.
Glad am that fsgged-out American
life for the most part will have an op-
portunity to rest, and that nerves
racked and destroyed will find Be-
thesda. believe in watering-places.
Let not the commercial firm begrudge
the clerk, or the employe, the journey
men, or the patient the physician, or
the church its pastor, season OF inoc-
cupation. Luther used to sport with
his children, Edmund Burke used to
caress his favorite horse, Thomas Chsl-
mers, in the dark hours Of the church's
disruption, played kite for recreation
as was told by his own daughter-and
the busy Christ said TO the busy apostles;
Come ye apart awhile into the desert
and rest yourseixes-" And have OBJ
served that they who do not know how
10 rest do not know how TO work.
But have TO declare this truth to-day
that some Of our fashionable watering
places are the temporal and eternal de-
!, struction OF "a multitude that no man can
number." and amid the congratulations
OF this season and the prospect Of the
departure Of many Of yoo for the coun-
try must utter q note OF warning
plain, earnest, and unmistakable
The first temptation that is apt 10
hover in this direction is to leave your
piety all at home. You will send the
dog and cat and canary bird TO be well
cared for somewhere else; but the temp
tation will be TO leave your religion In
the room with the blinds down and the
door bolted, and then you will come back
in the autumn to find that II Is starved
and suffocated, lying stretched on the
rug stark dead. There is no surplus oi
piety at the watering places, ! never
knew anyone to grow very rapidly In
grace at the fashionable summer resort.
II is generally the case that the Sabbath
is more OF carousal than any other day,
IA 4to.o an Cnn1o =, ..,allya and Cuuda y
rides and Sunday excursions.
Elders and deacons and ministers OF
religion who are entirely consistent al
home sometimes when the Sabbath
dawns on them at Niagara Falls or the
White Mountains take the day TO them
selves. II they go to the church II ID
apt TO be q sacred parade, and the dis
course, instead Of being plain talk
about the soul, Is apt TO be what is called
crack sermon-thatis, some discourse
picked out Of the efiusions Of the year
as Che most adapted to.excite admira-
ton; and in those churches, from Che
way the ladies hold their fans, you know
that they are not SO much impressed
with the heat as with the picturesque
ness OF half-disclosed features -Four
puny souls stand In the organ-loft and
squall tune that nobody knows, and
worshipers With tgo thousand dollars
worth Of aismoeas On the risht hShd
drop Acsnt into The poorlbox, and thei
the benediction 10 pronounced and ths
farce is ended rs
The air IS bewitched vithths ''woria
the flesh and the devil" There are
Christians who in three or four woeki
In such place have had such tefrbls
rents made In their Christian robe thai
they had TO keep darning u until Christ
mas 10 get II mendedl The health Of Z
great many people mskes an snnual
visit to some mineral spring an abso
lute necessity; but, take your Bible
along with you, and take an hour fol
secret prayer every dag, though you b,
surrounded by guffaw and saturnalia
Keep holy the Sabbath, though the.
denounce you as bigoted Puritan
Stand of from these institutions, whiot
propose to initiate on this side ths
water the iniquities Of olden-time Bad
en-Baden. Let your mortal and I'm
mortal health keep pace with your ply
sical recuperation, and remember tina
all the waters Of Hathorn and, sulphur
and ohalybeate springs can not do 20.
70 mnch good as the mineral, healing
perennial flood that breaks forth from
the "Rock Of Ages" This may b
your last summer. II SO make 10 q
ycetibule Of heaven. ffayft al 4.
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