Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-08

books of congcnial history, books OF pures
! fun. books of poetry ringing with merry
i canto. books oil fine eugrayings t.,n,i>S
that will rest the mind as well as purify
the heart and elevate the wtoh, tsfe?'
My hearers. there will not be an boar
! between this AID the day OF your death.
when yon can afford to read book lack
ing in moral principle.
Another temptation lowering all srs,,.uH
our watering places is the Intoxicating
beverage am told that it is hcc>,mi,.g
more and more fashionable for welHaet, Ia.
drink. care not how well y w<man
may dress, if She has taken enough of
wine to flush her cheeks and put glassi--
ness on her eyes she is intoxicated Slte.
may be handed into $500 carriage.
and have diamonds enough to eoRSemnd
the Iiffanys-she is intoxicated s;i.+-
may be a graduate Of Il great institute.
and the daughter of some man in danger
OF being nominated for the prcsitlenrs--
she is drunk. You may have a larger
vocabulary than i have. and You M,ty
say in regard to her that she rs s.e.,a-
vival,'' or she is "merry," or She ls
''festive," or She is s'exhilarated," hut
you cannot with all your garlands vi
verbiage cover up the plain fact that il
is an old fashioned case of drunk.
Now the watering places are EuN uf
| temptations to men and women to- tip
pie. At the close of the tenpin OF hilt--
lard game they tipple. Seated Oh ti.4s
piazza cooling themselves off they tipple-
The tinged glasses come around with
| bright straws and they tipp.c. First
they take eight wines,'' as they s:ln
them; but slight wines" are heavy
enough to debase the appetite. There is
not very long road between champagne
at five dollars per bottle and whisky al
five cents a glass.
Satan has three or four grades down
which he takes men to destruction. One
man he takes up, and through one spree,
pitches him into eternal darkness. Thai
is a rare case. Very seldom, indeed, can
| you find man who will be such = fool
as that.
When man goes down to destruction
Satan brings him to a plane. II is ai-
most a level The depression is SO Slight
that you can hardly see it. The mar
does not actually know that he is on the
down grade, and it tips only kflie
toward darkness-just a little. Aud this
first mile it is claret. and the second snilta
it is sherry. and the third mile it is
Pt1ASIi. stuu 'GHc iOuIull lllllc III Is itNs. NtO
the fifth mile it is porter, and the sixth,
mile it is brandy, and then it gets sleeper
and sleeper, and the man gets frightened
and says, ''Oh, let me get off, No.
says the conductor, s. this in an express
train. and it does not stop until it gets t0
the Grand Central Depot of SmashuptoIl--
An, look not thou upon the wine when
it is red. when it giveth it's color in tiss
cup, when it moveth itself alright. At
the last it biteth like serpent and
stingcth like an adder.
My friends, whether yon larry at hoIt,e
which will be quite as safe and per-
haps quite as comfortable--or go in,s, tiHs
country. arm yourself against tempta-
| ton. The grace of God is the only safe
shelter, whether in town or country.
There are watering places accessible Ia,
! all OF us. You cannot open a book at
the Bible without finding out some sust
watering place. Fountains open for sin
: and uncleanliness; wells of salvation.
! streams from Lebanon: q flood struck
ont of the rock by Moses: mountains ia
Il the wilderness discovered by Ifagar:
o water to drink and water to battle in: the
j river of God, which is full of water;
u of which if a man drink he shall never
y | thirst; wells of water in the Valley of
Baca: living fountains of water; a pure
river OF water as clear as crystal from
under the throne of God.
These are watering places accessible
to all of us. We do not have q laborious
packing up before we start-only the
throwing away of our transgressions.
No expensive hotel bills to pay; il is
: without money and without price" No
long and dirty travel before we get there;
it is only one step away. In California
: in five minutes walked around and saw
ten fountains, all bubbling up, and they
were all different. And in five minutes
/ can go through this Bible parterre and
find you fifty bright. sparkling fountains
bubbling up into eternal life.
A chemist will go to one of these SUM
mer watering places and take the water
and analyze it, and tell you that it con-
J tains so much of iron, and so much Of
soda, and so much of lime: and so much
of magnesia. l come to this Gospel well.
j this living fountain, and analyZc the
water, and find that its ingredients are
peace, pardon. forgiveness, hope, COM
fort, life, Heaven. "io, every one that
thirsteth come ye' to this watering
place.
Crowd around this Bethesda to-day.
Oh, you sick, you lame, you troubled, you
dying-crowd around this Bethesda.
Step in it! Oh, step in it! The angel of
the covenant to-day stjrs the water
Why do you not step in it? Some OF YOU.
are too weak to take step in that dires.-
tion. Then we take you up in the arms
of our closing prayer and plunge you
clean under the wave, hoping that the
cure may be as sudden and as radical as
with Captain Naaman, who, blotciaeti
and carbuncled, stepped into the Jordan.
and after the seventh dive r:)n mo nm his
skin roseate compleXioncd as the flesh Of
| a little child
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