The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-08-14
SUMMER RESORTS.
ASERMON ON THEIR USE AND THEIR
ABUSE.

1ue IeAC OF LII. IallnaSeS SUNDAY
sermon was, Mark vi, 81: "Comc We
yourselves apart unto desert place
and rest awhile Following is the !
sermon:
Here Christ advises His apostles to |
take q vacation. They had been liv-
ing an excited as well rs useful life, |
and He advises that they go out into |
the country. L am glad that for
longer or shorter time, multitudes of |
our people will have summer vacation.
The railway trains are being laden
with passengers and baggage on their
way to the mountains and the sea-
shore. Multitudes of our citizens are
packing their trunks for q restorative
absence.
The city heats are pursuing the
people with torch and fear of sun
stroke. The long silent halls of sumptu-
GUS hotels are all abuzz with excited
arrivals. The crystalline surface of
Wnmplseogee is shattered with the
stroke Of steamer, laden with excur-
slonlsts. The antlers of Adirondack
deer rattle under the shot OF city
sportsmen. The trout make fatal
snaps at the hooks of alroit sportsmen
and toss their spotted brillinncc into
the game basket Already the baton
OF the orchestral leader taps the mu-
sic-stand on the hotel green, and
American life puts Oh festal array,
and the rumbling of the tcnpin alley,
and the crack of the ivory balls on
the green baized billiard tables, and
the jolting of the bar-room goblets,
and the explosive uncorlling of cham
pagnc bottles, and the whirl and the
rustic OF the ballroom dance and
the gathering hoofs of the race
courses, attest that the season for
the great American Watering places
is fairly maugluated. Music-tiute
and drum and cornct-a- piston and
clappmg cymbals-will wake tho
echoes of the mountains.
Glad am that tagged out Amcri
can lie tor tho most part will have an
opportunity to rest, and that nerves
rackcd and destroyed will find Il
Bethesda. / believe in Watering
places. Let not the commercial firm
Degrudge the clerk, or the employer
the Jorrncyman, or the patient the
physician, or the church its pastor, a
season OF lnoccuDation. Luther used
to sport with his children; Edmund
burke used to carcss his fuvorit G
horse; Thomas Chalmers. in the dark
hours OF the church DISRUPTION,
played kite for rccreatioD-- | was
told by his own dnughtcr-and the
busy Christ said to the busy apostles:
Come We apartawhilc into the desert
and rest yourselves" And l have
observed that they who do not
Know how to rest do not know how
to work.
But L have to declare this truth to-
day, that some of our fashionable
watering places arc the temporal and
eternal destruction of n multitude
That no man can numhcr.' and amid
tho congratulations of this season
and the prospect of the departure OF
many ofyou for the country | must
utter note OF warning plain. car
nest and unmistakable,
Ihe first temptation that is aDt TO
hover in this direction is to leave
your plety all at home. You Will
send tho dog and cat and canary bird
to be well cared for somewhere else:
put the temptatiQR viii be to leave
your relgiQn4i6 the room with the
plnaSSi<down and the door bolted,
-'efnd then you will come back in the
autumn to find that it is starved and
suffocated, lying stretched on the rug
stark dead There is no surplus Of
picty in the watering places. never
knew any one to grow very rapidly
in grace at the fashionable summc,
resort. 1t IS generally the case that
the Sabbath is more of carousal
than any other day, and there arc
Sunday walks and Sunday rides and
Sunday excursions.
Elders and deacons and ministers
OF religion who are entirely consistent
at dome, sometimes when the Sab
bath dawns on them at niagara Falls
or the White Mountains take the day
to themselves. If they so to the
church, it is apt to bea sacred parade,
and the discourse, instead of being
plain talk about the soul, is apt to be
what is called q crack scrmon-that
is, some discourse picked out Of the
etuslons of the year as the one most
adapted to excite admiration; and in
those churches, from the way the
ladies hold their faces, you know that
they are not so much impressed with
the heat as with the picturcs1ueness
of half-disclosed features -Four puny
souls stand in the organ loft and
squall a tune that nobody knows, and
worshippers, with $4,000 worth of
diamonds on the right hand, drop a
cent into the poorbox, and then the
bencdiction is pronounced and the
farce is ended.
The air is bewitched with "the
world, the flesh and the devil" There
are Christians who in three or four
week ks in such place have had such
terrible rents made in their Christian
robe that they had to keep darning it
until Christmas to get it mendol!
The health OF O great many people
makes an annual visit to some mineral
spring an absolute necessity; but,
take your Bible along with you, and
take an hour for secret prayer every
day, though you be suirounde / by
glltfaW and satllrnnlia Kaa,, Ii.