The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-08-15


Country. am glad that for
longer or shorter time, multitudos 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. Multitudcs of our citizens are
packing their trunks for 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
Winnipiscogec is shattered with the
stroke of steamer, laden with cxcur-
sionists. The antlers of Adirondack
deer rattle under the shot Of city
spOrtsmcn. The trout make fatal
snaps Mt the hooks ofndroit sportsmen
and toss thcir spotted brilliance into
the game basket Already the baton
of the orchestral leader taps the mu-
sic-stand on tho 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 baiZcd billiard tables. and
the jolting of the bar-room goblcts,
and the explosive uncOrking of cham
pngnc 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 inaugurnted l[usic-hutc
and drum and cornct-a piston and
clappng CNmhals Will wax" tn"
echoes oi the mountains.
Glad am that tagged out .Amcri
crn lif" for the most part Will have an
opportunity To rest. and that nerves
rackrd and destroyed will find Il
Bethesda. | believe in watering
places. Let not the commercial firm
Ri At. &c c &k, or .bG empls xer
physician, or the church its pastor.
season of inoccupation Luther used
to sport with his children: Edmund
Burke used to carcss his favoiite
horse; Thomas Chalmers. i'll the dark
hours of the church's disruption.
played kite for recreation. as was
told by his own daughter-and the
busy Christ said to the busy apostles:
Come yc apart awhile into the desert
and rest yourselves" And | have
observed that they who do not
know how to rest do not know how
to work.
But | have to declare this truth to
day, that some q! our fashionable
watering places arc the temporal ana
eternal obstruction of IA multitude
thnt no man can number. and nmi,i
the conGratulations of this scaSon
and the prospect of the departure OF
many of you for the country | must
utter note OF warning plain. car
nest and unmistaknble, -
The first temptation that i. aptto
hover in this direction is TO ltate
your piety oil Mt home You will
send the dog and cat and canary ybird
to be well cared for somewhere else:
but the temptation will be to leaye
your religion in the room with the
blinds down and the door bolteu.
and then you will come back III ttha
autumn to find that it is starved aHT
Sutfocatcd, lying stretched on the rhS
stark dead. There is no srupluSSQI
plcty i'll the watering places. ! ncvs&
knew any one to grow very rapidly
III grace at the fashionable summer
resort 1t is generally the case that
the Sabbath is more OF carOusul
than any other day. and there are
Sunday walks and Sunday rides and
Sunday excursions.
elders and leacQuS and ministers