The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-05
THE WATERING PLACES.
SUBJECT OF DR.. TALMAeE's SERMON
ON SUNDAY.


ON SUNDAY.
He Declares That They Are Full of the
Most Destructive Influences, and Warns
All Mcn and Women to Beware of the
SHARES of Vacation Time.
BROOKLYN, Aug. s. Come We
yourselves apart into Il desert place,
and rest awlile.-Mark vi, 81.
Here Christ advises his apostles to
take vacation. They have been liy-
ing an excited as we'll as a useful life,
and he advises that they get out into
the country. am glad that for longer
or shorter time multitudes of our pco-
pie will have summer vacation. The
railway trains are being laden with pas
sengers and baggage on their way to
the mountains and the seaslorc Null
titudes of our citizens are packing their
trunks for 4 restorative absence.
THE HEAT OF THE CITY.
The city heats ere pursuing the peo-
pie with torch and fear of sunstroke.
The long silent halls of surlptuous
hotels are all abuzz with excited ar
rivals. The crystalline surface of Win
nipiseogee is shattered with the stroke
of steamer, laden with eXcursionistS
The antlers of Adirondack deer rattle
under the shot of city spor;slnen. The
trout make fata! snaps al the hook of
adroit sportSlnen and toss their spotted
brillimce into the game basket. Al
ready the baton of the orchestral lead
er taps the music stand ON the hotel
green and American life puts on festal
array. and the rumbling of the tenpin
alley, and the crack of the ivory balls
on the green baize billiard tables, and
the jolting of the bar room goblets, and
the explosive uncorking Of champagne
bottles, and tie whirl and the rustic Of
the bail room dance and the gathering
hoofs of therace courses attest that the
season for the great american water
ing places is fairly inauSuraTcd. Music
flute and drum and a-piston
and clapping cymbals-will wake the
echoes of tie mountains
Glad | am that tagged out american
life, for the most part, will have an op-
portunity TO rest. and that nerves rackcd
and DESTROYED will find 4 Bethesda. l
believe in watering places. Let not the
commercial firm bcgrudge the clerk, or
the employer the joumeyman. or the
patient the physician, or the church its
pastor. q season of inoccupation Luther
used TO sport with his children; Ed
mund Burke used to caress Ills fayorite
horse; Thomas Chalmers. in the dark
hours OF the church, disruption, played
kite for recreation-as was told by his
own dauchter-and the busy Christ
said 10 the busy apostles Come We
yourselves apart into a desert place and
rest awhile And have observed that
they who do not know how rest do
not know how to work.
TEMpoRALAND ETERNAL DESTRUCTION.
But have 10 declare this truth to
day. that some of our fashionable
watering places are the temporal and
eternal destruction OF n multitude
that no man can number. and amid
the congratulations 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 ln-
lniStakablc.
The first temptation that is apt to
hover in this direction is 10 leave Your
piety all at home. You will send the
dog and cat and canary bird 10 be well
cared for somewhere else. but the
temptation VIII be to leave Your relis-
ion in the room. with the blinds down
and the door bolted and then YOU will
come back in the autumn to find that
it is starved and sutTocated, lying
stretched on the rug stark dead. There
is no surplus of piety at the watering
places. never knew any one to grow
very rapidly in grace at the faShiona-
BILE summer resort 1t IS generally the
case that the Sabbath is more Of n
carousal than any other day. and there
are Sunday walks, and sunday rides,
and Sunday cvrurSiOns
Elders ard deaeons and ministers Of
religion who are entirely c0nsistent-at
home. sometimes WHOM the Sabbath
dawns on them at Niagara Falls or the
White mountains take the day to them
selves. If they go to the church it is
apt to be sacred parade, and the dis
course instead of being q plain talk
about the soul, is apt to be what is
called crack sermon-that is, some
discourse picked out Of the effusions Of
the year as the one most adaptedto OK
cite admiration; and in those churches,
from the way the ladies hold their fans,
you know that they are not so much
impressed with the heat as with the
picturesqueness of half disclosed feat
ures. -Four p.;ny souls stand in the or
gan loft and sQualI a tune that nobody
knows, and worshipers with two thou
sand dollars worth Of diamonds on the
right hand drop q cent into the poor
box, and then the benedictjon is pro-
nounced and the farce is ended.
THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL
The air is bewitched with "the world,
the flesh ana the devil. . There are
Christians WHO in three or four weeks
in such place have had such terrible
rents made in their Christian robe that
they had to keep darning it until Christ
mas to set it lnended. The health OF a
great many people makes an annual
visit to some mineral spring an absolute