News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-07
The Watering Places.
SUBJECT OF DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON
ON SUNDAY.

He Declares That They Are Full of the
Most Destructive Influences, and Warns
All Men and Women to Beware of the
Shares of Vacation Time.
BROOKLYN, Aug. 3. = Come We
yourselves apart into a desert place,
and rest awhile.-Mark vi, 81.
Here Christ advises his apostles to
take a.vacation. They have been iv-
ing an excited as well as a useful life,
and he advises that they get out into
the country. / am glad that for longer
or shorter time multitudes of our peo-
pie will have summer vacation. The
railway trains are being laden with pas
sengers and baggage on their way to
the mountains and the seashOre. Null
titudes of our citizens are packing their
trunks for restorative absence.
THE HEAT OF THE CITY.
The city heats are pursuing the peo-
pIe with torch and fear of sunstroke.
The long silent halls of sumptuous
hotels are all abuzz with excited ar
rivals. The crystalline surface of Win
nipiseogee is shattered with the stroke
of steamer, laden with eXcursionists.
The antlers of Adirondack deer rattle
under the shot of city sportsmen. The
trout make fatal snaps at the hook of
adroit sportsmen and toss their spotted
brilliance into the game basket. Al
ready the baton of the orchestral lead
err 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 joIting 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 water
ing places is fairly inaugurated. Music
flute and drum and cornet-a-piston
and clapping cymbals-will wake the
echoes of the mountains.
Glad | am that tagged out American
life, for the most part, will have an OPP
portunity to rest, and that nerves racked
and destroyed will find Bethesda. |
believe in watering places. Let not the
commercial firm begrudge the clerk, or
the employer the journeyman, or the
patient the physician, or the church its
pastor, a season of inoccupation. Luther
used to sport with his children; Ed
mund 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 his
own 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.
AND ETERNAL DESTRUCTION.
But have to declare this truth to-
day, that some of our fashionable
watering places are the temporal and
eternal destruction of "a multitude
that no man can number, and amid
the congratulations of this season and
the prospect Of the departure of many
of you for the country must utter
note of warning plain, earnest and I'M
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 and canary bird to be well
cared for somewhere else, but the
will be to leave your relig-
ion in the room, with the blinds down
and the door bolted, and 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 piety at the watering
places. never knew any one to grow
very rapidly in grace at the fashiona-
bic summer resort. 1t is generally the
case that the Sabbath is more of
than any other day, and there
are Sunday walks, and Sunday rides,
and Sunday excursions.
Elders and deacons and ministers of
'eligion who are entirely consistent at
nome, sometimes when the Sabbath |
lawns on them at Niagara Falls or the |
White mountains take the day to them
selves. If they go to the church it is
lpt to be a sacred parade, and the dis
course, instead of being plain talk
about the soul, is apt to be what is
,alled crack sermon-that is, some
discourse picked out of the illusions of |
he year as the one most adapted to ex-
lite admiration; and in those churches,
rom the way the ladies hold their fans,
you know that they are not so much
with the heat as with the
of half disclosed feat
1res. -Four puny souls stand in the or
gan loft and squall a tune that nobody
knows, and worshipers with two thou
sand dollars worth of diamonds on the
right hand drop a cent into the poor
box, and then the benediction is pro-
and the farce is ended.
THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL.
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 in their Christian robe that |
they had to keep darning it until Christ |
mas to get it Inended! The health of a |
great many people makes an annual |
visit to some mineral spring an absolute |
but take your Bible along
with you, and take an hour for secret |
prayer every day, though you be sur
by guffaw and saturnalia
Keep holy the Sabbath though they
ienounce you as a bigoted Puritan |
Stand off from these institutions which
propose to initiate on this side the water |
he iniquities of olden time Baden
Baden. Let your moral and your i'm
mortal health keep pace with your
physical recuperation, and remember
hat all the waters of Hathorne and |
sulphur and ehalybeate springs cannot !
10 you so much good as the mineral, |
healing, perennial flood that breaks
forth from the Crock of Ages" This |
may be your last summer If so, make |
it fit vestibule of heaven.
Another temptation around nearly
all our watering places is the horse
racing business. We all admire the
horse. There needs to be a redistribu- !
ton of coronets among the brute crea-
ton. For ages the lion has been called
the king of beasts. 1 knock off its
and put the crown upon the
horse, in every way nobler, whether in
shape or spirit or sagacity or intelli- |
gence or affection or usefulness. He is
and knows how to reason
ON a small scale The centaur of OIden