The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-08-15

trail can make up for strong cemmoR
sense. You may as well go among
the gayly paintei yachts of summer
regatta to find war vessels as to 60
among the light spray of the summer
watering place to and character that
can stand the test of the great strug-
gle of human life. All, in the battle
or lie you want n stronger weapon
than lace fan or u croQuet mallet!
The load of life is so heavy that in
order to draw it, you want team
stronger than one made up of mas
cullne grasshopper and II feminine
butterfly.
Another temptation that will hover
over the watering place is that of
baneful literature. Almost every one
starting off for the summer takes
some reading matter. 1t is a book
out of the library or off the book
stand, or bought of the boy hawking
books through the cars 1 really be-
lieve 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 book that was not
reall y sensible, l found sitting on
hotel piazzas or under the trees read
ING. books the index Of which would
make them blush if they knew that
YOU knew what the book was.
..Oh, they say, you must have in.
teuectual recreationl" Yes. There
IS no need that you take along into Il
watering place "Hamilton's Meta.
physics OF some thunderous dis
course on the eternal decrees. or
"Faraday $ Philosophy" There are
many easy books that are good. You
might as well say: Il propose now
to give n little rest to my digestive
Tgans; and, instead Of eating heavy
meat and vegetables. will for lit
tie while take lighter food-a little
strychnine and n few grains of rats
bane. Literary poison in August is
MS bad rs literary poison i'll Decem-
Der. Mark that. Do not let the
frogs and the lice of corrupt print
ing press jump and crawl into your
Saratoga trunk or White Mountain
valice.
Would it not be al awful thing for
YOU to be struck with lightning some
day when you had in your hand one
OF those overedromances- the
hero OF Partisan roue, the heroine
an unprincipled tlirt-chapters in the
book that YOU would notread to your
children at the rate of 800 line
Throw out that stuff from your sum
mer baggage. Are there not good
books that are easy to read-books
of congenial history, books of pure
fun, books of poetry ringing with
merry canto, books of fine engrav-
ings, BOOKS that will rest the mind as
well as purify the heart and elevate
the whole life? 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 the in
toXicating beverage. am told that
it is becoming more and more fashion
able for women to drink. / care not
how well il woman may dress. if she
has taken enough of wine to flush her
cheek and put gllssiness on her eyes,
she is intoxicated. She may be hand
ed into a $4,000 carriage, and have
diamonds enough to confound the
Tiffanys-she is intoxicated. She
may be a graduate of great institute
and the daughter of some man in
efaSis " ,oeims aae1 ax6sget SORT
presidency-she is drunk. You may
have n larger vocabulary than I have,
and you may say in regard to her
that she is cornwall or she is
Ismerry" m Sha ic .sfacLiyo" or cbo 10
''exhilarated, but you cannot with
all your garlands of verbiage cover
up the plain fact that it is an old
fashioned case of drunk
My friends, whether you taIry at
at home-which will be quite as safe
and perhaps quite as comfortable-or
so into the country, arm yourself
against temptation. The grace of
God is the only safe shelter, whether
in town or country. There are water
ing places accessible to all of U.S. You
cannot open book of the Bible with
out finding out some such watering
place. Fountains open for sin and
uncleanliness: wells Of salvation;
streams from Lebanon: flood struck
out Of the rock by Moses: fountains
IN the wilderness discovered by
Hagar: water to drink and water to
bathe in; the river of God, which is
full of water; water of which if man
drink he shall never thirst; wells of
water in the valley of Baca: living
fountains of water: pure river of
water as clear as crystal from under
the throne of God.