The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-08-06

vocabulary than I have, and you may
say In regard TO her that she is ''conviv-
lal, or she is merry" or she Is fest
I've" or she is "exhilarated," but you
can not with all your garlands Of verbi-
age cover upthe plain fact that II Is an
old-fashioned case Of drunk. FHe
Now, the watering places are full OF
temptation TO men and women to tipple.
At the close Of the tenpin or billiard
game they tipple. AT the close of the
cotillon they tipple. Seated on the
piazza cooling themselves of they tip
pie. The tinged glasses come around
with bright straws, and they tipple.
First they take "light Wines" as they
call them, but eight vines are heavy
enough to debase the appetite. There
V not very long road between cham
payne at five dollars per bottle and
whisky at five cents 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. That
Is 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 plane. 1t is al
most level. The depression is so
slight that you hardly see II. The man
does not actually know that he Is on the
down grade, and 1t tips only little
toward darkness-just little. And the
first mile 1t is claret, and the second mile
IS sherry, and the third mile 1t Is punch,
and the fourth mile 1t is ale, and the
fifth mile 1t is porter, and the sixth mile
1t Is brandy, and then 1t gets sleeper
and sleeper, and the man gets fright
ened and says, 80, let me get OFF,
mo" says the conductor, this is an
express train, and 1t does not stop until
it gets TO the Grand Central Depot OF
the Smashupton. All, "look not thou
upon the wine when 1t is red when II
giveth its color in the cup, when 1t NOV
eth itself Alright. At the last It biteth
like serpent and stingeth like an ad-
DER ..tF
My friends, whether you tarry al
home-which will be quite as safe and
perhaps quite as scomfortable-or 60 intc
the country, arm yourself against
temptation. The grace Of God is the
only safe shelter whether In town OIL
country. There are watering-places &C
cessible to all Of u.s. You can no
open q book OF the Bible without
finding out some such watering-place
Fountains open for sin and uncleanli
ness; wells Of salvation; streams from
Lebanon; flood struck out Of the rocl
by Moses; fountains in the wilderness
discovered by Hagar; water 10 drinl
and water TO bathe in; the river of God
which Is full Of water; water Of whicl
II man drink he shall never thirst
wells OF water in the Valley OF Baca
| living fountains OF water; pure rive
OF water as clear as crystal from unde
the throne OF God.
These arc watering-places accessible
10 all OF US. We do not have laboriou
packing up before we start-only tn
throwing away Of our transgressioni
No expensive hotel bills 10 pay; It
"without money and without price.
No long and dirty travel before We &c
there; 1t Is only one step away. In ca
ifornia in five minutes walked aroun
and saw ten fountains, all bubbling VI
and they were all different And in fiy
minutes can 60 through this Bibl
parterrs and find you fifty bright sparh
ling fountains bubbling up into eterni
Life.
Achemist will 60 10 ono Of these sun
mer watering-places and take the waite
and analyzo 1t, and tell you that 1t COZ
tains so much Of iron, and 80 much
: soda, and so much Of lime, and so muc
: OF magnesia. / come TO this gospt
: we'll, this living fountain, and analyl
the water, and find that itsingredient
arc peace, pardon, forgiveness, hop'
comfort, life, heaven. "Ho, every on
that thirsteth, come ye" to this wate
placel ...l
Crowd around the Bethesda to-da.
o, you sick, you lame, you troubled
you dying-crowd around the Bethesdi
Stop in I'll o, step in III The angel (
the covenant to-day stirs the waite
Why do you not step in It? Some {
you are too weak to take step In thi
direction. Then we take you up in th
arms Of our closing prayer and plung
: you clean under the wave, hoping thu
the cure may be as sudden and I
radical as with Captain Naaman. wh'
. blotched and carbuncled, stepped ini
the Jordan, and after the seventh div
came up, his skin roseate-complexione
as the flesh OF little child.