Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-08-04
SHARES ALL ABOUT.
THE TEMPTATIONS WHICH THE SUMMER REST
BRINGS.
Dr.. Talmags On the Difficulties that Await the
Christian Who Takes His Yacahons-The
Evil Allurements Of Popa-
lar Resorts.
Special telegram to ne Register.

country. l am glad that for longer or
shorter time. multitudes OF our people
will have summer vacation. The rail
way trains are being laden with pas
sengers and baggage ON their way to
the mountains aud Seashore. Multi
tudeS of our citizens are packing their
trunks for 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
crystalline surface OF WinnipiSeogee Is
shattered with the stroke of steamer
laden with eNcurSioniSts. The antlcrS
of Adirondack deer rattle under the
shot of city Sportsmen. The trout make
fatal snaps at the hook of adrOit sports
men and toss their spotted brlliance in
to the game-haSket. Already the baton
of the orchestral leader taps the music
stand ON the hotel green, and American
life puts on feStal array, and the rum
bling of the tcnpin alley, and the crack
of the ivory balls on the grecn-baiLed
billiard tables, and the jolting OF the
bor-room gobletS, and explosive un-
corking of champagne bottles, and the
whirl and the rustic of the ballroom
dance, and the gathering hoOis OF the
race-courses attest that the season for
the great American water-placeS Is ialr-
lv inaugurated. Music-Hutc and drum
and cornet-a-piStOn and clappinS Gym
bals-will wake the echoes.
But | have to declare this truth to-
dav. that some Of our fashionable wat
ering pieces are the temporal and eter-
nal destruction OF "a multitude that no
man can number" and amid the con
gratulations of this season and the pros
pect % the departure Of many OF you
for the country | must utter note OF
warning, plain, earnest and unmiStak-
able.
THE FIRST TEMPTATION
that IS apt TO hover in this direction Is
TO leave your picty all at home Nou
/ will send the dog and cat and canary
bird TO bc well cared for somewhere;
but the temptation will be to leave your
religion i'm the room with the blinds
down and the door bOltcd, and then you
will como back in the autumn To find
rhat IL is starved and SuiIOc0ted, lying
Stretched ON the rug stark dead. There
is no surplus of piety at the watering
places. l never knew any one to grow
very rapidly in grace at the fashionable
summer resort. II is generally the case
/ that the Sabbath is more of a carouSal
than any other day. and there are sun
day walks and Sunday rides and sun
day excursions.
The air is bewitched with the world,
the flesh and the devil There are
Christians who in three or four weeks
in such place have had such terrible
rents made i'm their Christian robe that
they had 10 keep darning il until Christ
mas To get 10 meuded The health of a
great many people makes an annual
visit 10 some mineral spring an absolute
necessity: but take your Bible along
with YOU. and take an hour Tor secret
PRAYER every day, though you be sur
rounded by guilaw and Saturnalla. Keep
holy the sabbath, though they denounce
YOU as a bigOtcd Puritan. Stand OF
from these institutions which propose
10 initiate ON this side the water the III
lquiticS of olden-time Badcn-Badcn.
Let your moral and your immortal
health keep pace with your physical re-
cuperatiOn, and remember that all the
waters OF HathOrne and sulphur and
chalybcatc springs cannot do you SO
much good as the mineral. healing, per
ennial flood that breaks forth from the
Rock Of Ages" This may be your
/ last summer. If SO. make IL a fit vesti-
/ bulc OF heaven.
ANOTHER TEMPTATION
around nearly all our watcring-placeS
/ is the horSe-racing business. We all
admire the horse. There needs to be u
redistribution of coronets among the
| brute creation. For ages the lion has
been called the king of beasts. l knock
on its coronet and put the crown upon
the horse, in every way nobler, whether
i'm shape or spirit CT sagacity or lntelll-
gence or affection or usefulness. lie Is
Semi-human and knows how 10 reason
ON a small scale. The centaur of olden
times. part horse and part man. seems
10 bc n suggestion of the fact that the
horse is something more than beast
Job sets forth its strength, his beauty,
his majesty. the painting of his noStrll,
the paving of his hoof, and his enthuSl-
asm FOR the battle. What Rosa Bon
heur did for the cattle. and what Land
seer uIl lOI lllt MO-s NNUs NANA- 't''-
mcneil does for the horse. Eighty
eight times does the Bible speak oI MN.
He comes into every kingly procession
and into every great occasion and into
every triumph. IL is very evident that
lob and David aud Isaiah and Ezeklel
and Jeremiah and John were very iona
of the horse. He came into much OF
their imagery. 4 red hOrSc-that
meant war: a black horSc-that meant
famine; pale hOrse-that meant death'
white hOrse-that meant victory.
As the Bible makes favorlte OF the
horse. the patriarch and the prophet
and the evangelist and the apostle
stroking his sleek hide. and pattlng ms
rounded neck, and tenderly lifting MS
cxouisitely formed hoof, and listening
with thrill TO the champ OF his bit, so
all great natures IN all ages have SPOKEN
of him i'm cncomiaStic terms. NlrglI IN
his Georrics almost seems To plagarlle
from the description Of Job. The Duke
of Wellington would not allow any one
irrevcrentlv to touch his old war
horse, Copenhagen. on whom he hau
ridden fifteen hours without dlsmouhV-
ing mt Waterloo: and when Copenhagen
died his master ordered u military Sa-
lutte fired over his grave. John Howard
showed that he did not exhaust all his
sympathieS in pitying the human race
for when sick he writes home; has
my old chaiSe horse become sick or
spOiled?'
But we do not think that the speed
of the horse should be cultured at the
expense of human degradation. Horse
races. i'm olden times, were under the
ban of Christian people, and in our
dav the same institution has come up
under fcticious names, and it is called
Summer Meeting" almost suggestive
of positive religious exercises. And it
is called an agricultural Fair sug-
gestive OF everything that is improving
i'm the art of farming. But under
these deceptive titles are the same
cheating and the same betting. the
same drunkenness and the same vaga-
bondage and the same denominations
that we're to be found under the old
racing system.
WEALTH DESTROYING RESr.
20 further, and speak OF another
temptation that hoverS over the water
fne places: and this is the temptation
10 sacrifice physical strength. The