Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-04
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all of u.s. We do not have laborious pack
ing up beforc VIC st4rt-only the throwing
away of our transgressions. No expensive
hotel bills to pay; it is without money
and without price, No long and dirty
travel before we get there; it is only one
step away. In California in five minutes
walked around and saw ten fountains, all
bubbling up and they were all different
And in five minutes | can go through this
Bible parterre and find you fifty bright,
sparkling fountains bubbling up into eter
nal life.
A chemist will go to one of these sum-
mer watering places and take the water
and analyze it, and tell you that it contains
so much of iron, and 50 much of soda, and
so much of lime, and SO much of magnesia.
come to this Gospel we'll, this living
fountain, and analyze the water, and find
that It's ingredients are peace, pardon, for
giveness, hope, comfort life, heaven, "Ho,
every one th.-t thirsteth, come ye" to this
watering place!
Crowd around this Bethesda today Oh,
you sick, you lame, you troubled, you dy-
ing-crowd around this Bethesda Step in
it! Oh, step in it! The angel of the COW
enant today stirs the water. Why do you
not step in it? Some of you are too weak
to take a step in that direction. Then we
take you up in the arms of our closing
PRAYER and plunge you clean under the
| has on her back; useless ever since sne was
born, and to be useless until she is dead
and what they will do with her in the next
world | do not know, except to set her
upon the banks of the River of Life for all
eternity to look sweet God intends us to
admire music and fair faces and graceful
| ,kn hut ha hao loco ho
imitation and the fantastic influences of
our modern watering places beware how
you make life long covenants!
| Another temptation that will hover over
the watering place is that of baneful litera-
ture. Almost every one starting off for
| the summer takes some reading matter.
It is book out of the library or OFF tho
book stand or bought of the boy hawking
books through the cars. really believe
there is more pestferous trash read among
| the intelligent classes in July and August
than in all the other ten months of the
| year Men and women who at home would
| not be satisfied with book that was not
really sensible found sitting on hotel ri
azzas or under the trees reading books the
| index of which would make them blush if
| they knew that you knew what the book
| was.
ooh" they say, "yOu must have intel
| lcctual recreationl" Yes. There is no
need that you take along into watering
| place "Hamilton's Metaphysics" or some
| thunderous discourse on the eternal de
| crees, or "Faraday's Philosophy" There
are many easy books that are good. You
might as well say, Il propose now to give
| a little rest to my digestive organs and in.
| stead of eating heavy meat and vegetables
| will for little while take lighter food--a
| little strychnine and IL few grains of rats
bane.' Literary poison in August Is as
| bad as literary poison in December. Mark
| that. Do not let the frogs ana the lice oil
a corrupt printing press jump and crawl
| into your Saratoga trunk or White noun.
| tain valise
WHAT If LIGHTNING SHOULD STRIKE YOUi
Would it not be an awful thing for you
| to be struck with lightning some day when
| you had in your hand one of these paper
| covered romances- the hero a Partisan
| roue, the heroine an unprincipled iirt--
chapters in the book that you would not
read to your children Mt the rate of 500 a
| linel Throw out that stuff from your sum.
| mer baggage. Are there not good books
| that are easy to read-boois of congenial
history, books of pure fun, books of poetry
ringing with merry canto, books of fine
engravings books that will rest the mind
as we'll as purify the heart and elevate the
whole life? My hearers, there will not be
| an hour between this and the day of YOU
death when you can afford to read book
lacking i'll moral principle.
Another temptation lowering all around
our watering places is the Intoxicating
beverage. | am told that it is becoming
| more and more fashionable for women tc
| drink. care not how well woman may
| dress, if she has taken enough of wine 20
| flush her check and put glassiness on her
eyes she is intoxicated. She may lie handed
into n s., 800 carriage and have diamonds
| enough to confound the Tiffanys-she is
intoxicated. She may be graduate of a
great institute and the dauyhtcr of sont
man in danger OF being nominated for the
presidency-she is drunk. You may have
larger vocabulary than | have, and you
may say in regard to her that she is "con.
vivial," or she is merry" or she is
festive" or she is "exhilaratcd," but you
cannot with ali your garlands of verbag(
cover up the plain fact that it is an old
fashioned case of drunk.
Now, the watering places are full OF
ptations to men and women to tipple
AZ lllS ClOSS VI Tue lCllpl OE DlllldTu }SlIt
they tippe. At the close of the cotillon
they tipple. Seated on the piazza cooling
themselves off they tipplc. The tinged
glasses come around with bright straws
and they tipple. First they take eight
Wines" as they call them; but eight
wines" are heavy enough to dobase the ap
| petite There is not a very long road be
tween champagne at five dollars por bot
| flo and whiSk ut five pnntl a fl1sq
sATAN's DIVERSIFIED GRADES.
Satan has three or four grades down
which he takes men to destruction. One
man he takes up, and through one spree
pitches him into eternal darkness. That is
rare case Very seldom, indeed, can you
find a man who will be sEch fool as that,
When man gocs-eiown TO destruction
Satan brings him to Il plane. 1t is almost
II level The depression is so slight that
you can hardly see it. The man does not
actually know that he is on the down
| grade, and it tips only little toward
| darkness-just little. And the first mile
| il Is clnret, and the second mile ii is sherry,
and the third mile it is punch, and the
| fourth mile it Is ale and the fifth mile it is
| porter, and the sixth mile it is brandy, and
! then it gets sleeper and sleeper, and the
man gets frightened and says, "Oh, let me
get OFF, NO" says the conductor, this
is an express train, and it does not stop
until it gets to the Grand Central depot OF
! Smashupton." All, "look not thou upon
| the wine when it is red, when it giveth its
color in the cup, when it moyeth itself
Alright. At the last it biteth like "A serpent
and stingeth like an adder"
| My friends, whether you tarry mt home
which will be quite as safe and perhaps
| quite as Comfortable-or go into the coun.