Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-04

ana Pitfalls That Entlce UnWary Feet
During the Period That Should BE De-
voted 10 Rest.
BROOKLYN, Aug. 3-Come We yourselves
apart into desert place, and rest awhile
Mark vi, 81
Here Christ advises his apostles to take
a vacation They have been living an ex-
cited as we'll as a useful life, and lac ad-
vises that they get out into the country
! am glad that for longer or shorter time
multitudes of our people will have sum
mer vacation. The railway trains are be
ing laden with passengers and baggage on
their way TO the mountains and the sea
shore Multitudes of our citizens are pack
ing their trunks for n restorative absence.
The city heats are pursuing the people
with torch and fear of sunstroke. The long
silent halls Of sumptuous hotels are all
abuZz with excited arrivals. The crystal
line surface of Winnipiseogee is shattered
with the stroke of steamer, laden with eX-
cursionists The antlers of Adirondack
deer rattle under the shot of city sports
men. TIE trout make fatal snaps at the
hook Of adroit sportsmen and toss their
spotted brilliance into the game basket.
Already 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 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 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 watering places is fairly inaug-
urated. Music-hute and drum and cor
net-a-pston and clapping cymbals-will
wake the echoes of the mountains.
VACATIONS ARE GOOD BUT-DEWAREl
Glad am that tagged out American life
for the most part will have an opportunity
TO rest, and that nerves racked and de
stroyed will find Bethesda. believe in
watering places. Let not the commercial
firm begrudge the clerk, or the employer
the journeyman, or the patient the phys
ician, or the church its pastor season of
inoccupaton. Luther used to sport with
his children; Edmund Burke used to caress
his favorite horse; Thomas Chalmers, in
the dark hours Of the church's disruption,
played kite for recreation--as was told by
hsown daughter-and the busy Christ said
TO the busy apostles, "Come We yourselves
apart into desert place, and rest awhile"
And have observed that they who do not
know how to rest do not know how to work.
But have to declare this truth today,
that some of our fashionable watering
places are the temporal and eternal de-
struction of "a multitude that no man can
nVl bn tIIl lat ia ~
this season and the prospect of the depart
urc of many of you for the country | must
utter note of warning-plain earnest
and unmistakablc.
The first temptation that is apt to hover
in this direction is to leave your piety all
at home You will send the dog and cat
aud canary bird to be well cared for some
whore else but the temptation will be to
leave your religion in the ROOM with the
blinds down and the door bol:cd, and then
you will come back in the autumn to find
that it Is starved and sutfoCatcd, 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 fashionable summer resort.
1t is generally the case that the Sabbath is
more of II carousal than any other day, and
bherc are puhday walks anu ouhu'y rlueS
and Sunday excursions
THE DEllNQuENclES OF PROGRESSED CHRIS
IlANS'
Elders and dcacons and ministers of re
ligiuu who are entirely consistent ut home
sometimes when the Sabbath dawns on
them ut Niagara Falls or the White noun
tains take the duv to themselves. If they
go to the church, it is apt to be sacred
parade, and the discourse, instead OF being
plain talk about the soul, Is apt to be
what is called Il crack sermon-that IL,
some discourse picked out OF the eituSions
of the year as the one most adapted to eN-
cite admiration; and in those churches,
from the way the ladies' hold Their fans,
you know that they are not 50 much I'M
pressed with the heat as with the pictur-
esqucness of half disclosed features. Four
puny souls stand III the organ loft and
squall tune that nobody knows, an" wor-
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