Telegram-herald., 1890-08-04
SUMNER VACATIONS
IR TsLAsGE BREACHES or THE
skTEaisG PLACES.

@aa Pitfalls That Ezsies Ua@4ry Fses
DuEins the Psziod Ehat sAsaid BE Ds-
voted - Esst.
EECoELTs. arg s-C0ne Ys yourselves
apart i-t7 . desert place. AID rsst ashiis.
-slsrz VI g.
Here Christ advises ala apostles % take
Taeafion- Theg have beaa living a ex-
cited Eeu es usefal li1e, aad he al
sises thai they sec 0as into the country
aln glad that fer longer Or shorter tlrns
nnl1itgdes u oCr people vii hare som
ner vacation fAe railway trains are be-
tng Lzden With passengers sad bazzaas on
their Way % the mountains snd the SEA
sn0re. n1lLsLades u Cur citizens are pack
tng their trunks Tor restorative ahseaee.
The city heats are pursuing the people
WITH torch ard fear of sanstrOke The long
sllent halls u sumptaous hOtels are al
hDuzz With excited arrivals. The crystal
hne surfaces of Winli Plseogee Is shattered
With the stroke II steamer, laden With ex-
euxzionists- The antlers OF Adirondack
deer rattle under the shot Of city sports
naen- The trout make fatal snaps st the
hook Of sdroit spoFLsmsn and toss their
spotted 0riliiance iuto the game basket.
Already the baton OF the orchestral leader
tape the music stand on the hotel green
snd American life puts on nestal array.
aud the run5ling OK the tenpin alley, and
the crack of the ivory balls on the green
baizs billiard tables, and the jolting of
the bar room goblets, aud the explosive
uneOrkia1 Of champagne bottles, and the
Whirl and the rustic OF the ball room
dance and the Gathering hOofs OF the race
courses attess thar tAs season for the great
American watering places Is fairly inaug-
urated. Mas.c-aute and dram and cor
set-a-p.ston and elapping cymbals-will
wake the echoes - the mountains.
VACATIONS ARR GOOD, BUT-BEwAREi
Glad / am that tagged out American life
ror the Hl0st part viii have an opportunity
2, rest, and that nerves racked and de-
sroyed viii nud q Bethesda / believe in
watering places. let not the commercial
frm beErufge the clerk, or the employer
the Iour1eyrnan, or the patient the phys
iciaE. or the church It's pastor a season of
inOccupetiOn. Luther used 70 sport with
his chlldrea, Edmund Burke used to c2ress
his favOTite borse. Thomas Chalmers, in
the dark hours q the ehurch's disruption,
played kite for recreation--es was told by
hisown daughter-and the busy Christ said
% the busy apostles, Come ye yourselves
apart into desert place, and rest awhile" +"
And have observed that they who DO not
know how % rest do not know how 20 work
But have 70 declare this truth today,
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 depart
Gre of many OF you for the country must
utter note OF warning-plain, earnest
and unmistakable.
The first temptation that is apt 70 hover
In this direction Is TO leave your piety all
At home. You win send the dog and cat
and canary bird 70 be well cared for some
where else. but the temptation viii be TO
leave your religion in the room with tie
blinds down and the door bolted, and then
you Will come back IN the autumn 10 fnd
that i5 IS starved and suffocated, lying
stretched on the rug stark dead. There is
10 surplus OF piety at the watering places.
never knew any one to grow very rapidly
In grace az the fashionable summer resort.
II Is general the case that the Sabbath il
more ot carousal than any other day, and
there are Sunday walks and Sunday rides
arf Sunday excursions.
fHE DEIINQUESCIEs OF PRoFESsED CHRIS
TIANs.
Elders and deacOns and ministers OF re-
Egion who are entirely consistent az home
sometimes when the Sabbath dawns on
them az Niagara Falls OF the White noun
tains take the day TO themselves. IL they
90 % the church. 10 is apt TO be a sacred
parade, and the discourse, instead Of being
plain talk about the soul, Is apt 70 be
what "a called q c-acS serfnOn-that IL,
some discourse picked out OF the efiusiOns
u the year IS the ono most adapted TO ex-
cite admiratioa; and in those churches,
from the way tbe ladies hold their fans,
you know that they are not 50 much i'm
pressed with the heat as with the pictur-
csqueness OK half disclosed features Four
pgay souls stand I'm the organ loft and
squaU a time that nobody knows. and wor-
shippers, With two thousands dollars worth
1f diamonds on tie right hand. drop a
cent int0 the poor box. and then the bene-
diction Is pronounced aud che farce is ended.
The air Is hewitchad with ''tha world,
the Ccsh and che Gssil" There are Chris
tlns who ia t1rCc or four week ia such a
place have bad such terrible rents made in
their Christian robe that they bad 70 keep
iarning 10 until Christmas 70 get it mend
~ AHe no@ith 90 p SIt',s many PsoPie
mAAes IA "nnu.d 'isis % soilo miner u
sprlnS nn aosoi3te necessary oot take
your bloie alon- WIN you and ta&e an
hour tor secret pT'{er every Day though
you oe surrountie4 ~ suia" ana sa5ar-
ndlia keep holy -ae Saooatl, though
they fenou1ce Jon as niSo'ei FUFltan.
stand OF from taese INSTITUTIONS which
propose 20 Initiate on this side the water
TIE iniquit'es az old-a time oAaen-i'a
let your moral AMI y71r immortal health