The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-08-09
A TIMELY TOPIC
DR.. Talmage on the Fonies OF
Summer Resorts.
Evils Surrounding tho Fashionable Water
Ing Places-Piety Too Often Left AZ
Home by the vis~itors-Frivol-
tiles and Foliies Exposed

In q late sermon at Brooklyn Rev. 7.
Dewitt Talmage discoursed upon the
use and abuse Of summer resorts. His
text was Mark 6, 81: "Come ye your
selves apart into a desert place and rest
awhile" He said:
Hero Christ advises His apostles 10
take q vacation. They have been living
an excited as we'll as Q useful life. and
no advises hat they get out into the
country. am glad that for longer or
shorter time multitudes Of our people
will have summer vacation. The rail-
way trains are being laden with passen-
gers and baggage on their way to the
mountains and the seashore. Multi
tudes of our citizens are packing their
trunks for q restorative absence.
The city heats are pursuing the peo-
pie with torch and fear Of sunstroke.
The long silent halls of sumptuous
hotels are all abuzz with excited ar
rivals The crystalline surface Of Win
nepisecgoe Is shattered With the stroke
of steamer laden with excursionists-
The antler OF Adirondack deer rattle
under the shot Of city sportsmen. The
trout make fatal snaps at the hook OF
adroit sportsmen and toss their spotted
brilliance into the game basket Al
ready the baton of the orchestral leader
taps the music stand on the hotel green,
and American life puts on festal array,
and the rumbling of the ten-pin alley,
and the crack OF the ivory balls on the
green baized billiard tables, and the
iolting Of the barroom goblets, and the
explosive uncorking Of champagne bot
ties, and the whirl and the rustic of the
ball room dance, and the gathering
hoofs Of the race courses attest that
the season for the great American water
ing places is fairly i~naugurated.
Glad I an that tagged out American
life for the most part will have an OPP
portunity to rest, and that nerves racked
and destroyed will find 9 Bethesda 1
believe In watering places. Let not the
commercial firm begrudge the clerk, or
the employer the ~journeyman, or the
patient the physician, or the church Its
pastor, a season of inoccupation. The
busy Christ said to the busy apostles:
Come ye apart awhile into the desert
and rest yourselves" And l have OBJ
served that they who do not know how
to rest do not know how to work.
But ! have to declare this truth to
day, that some OF our fashionable water
ing places are the temporal and eternal
destruction OF "a multitude that no mar
can number" and amid the congratula'
lions Of this season and the prospect OF
the departure OF many Of you for the
country / must utter q note of warning
plain, earnest and unmistakle.
The first temptation hat Is apt Il
hover in this direction Is TO leave you
piety all Mt home. You will send the
dog and cat and canary bird to be wei
cared for somewhere else, but the temp
tation will be to leave your religion II
the room with blinds down and the doc
bolted, and then you win come back IL
the autumn to find that 1T Is starved anC
~suffocated, lying stretched on the rul
stark dead. There is no surplus o
piety in the watering places. l neve
knew n one to grow very rapidly II
grace ut the fashionable summer resort
IL is generally the case that the Sab
BATH is moro of q carousa than an.
other day.
Elders and deacons and ministers o
religion, who are entirely consistent Q
home, some times when the Sabbath
dawns on them at Niagara Falls or tn
White mountains take the day to them
selves. II they go to church, 1t 10 ap
to be a sacred parade, and the discourse
instead OF being Q plain talk about tn
soul, is apt to be what is called q craol
asrmon-that Is, some discourse that
picked out of the illusions Of the yea
as the one most adapted to excite nd
miration; and in those churches, from
the way the ladies hold their fans, yo1
know they are not half so much i'm
messed with the heat as with the pictur
esqueness of half disclosed features
-Four puny souls stand In the organ lof
and squali a tune that nobody knows. AM
worshipers, with two thousand dollars
worth Of diamonds on the right hand
drop a sent into the poor box, and thel
the benediction lie pronounced n tn
farce il ended ;.
The air is bewitched with "the world