Connecticut western news., 1890-08-06
can afford to read a book lacking i moral principle.

can afford to read a book lacking in moral principle.
 Another temptation lowering all around our watering places is the in- toxicating beverage. am told that it is becoming more and more fashionable well @ woman may dress, if she has taken enough of wine to flush her cheeks and put glassiness on her eyes she is intoxicated. She may be handed into $2, 800 carriage, and have dia- monds enough to confound the Mffanys -she is intoxicated. She may be 8 graduate of great institute, and the daughter of some man in danger of be- ing nominated for the presidency-she is drunk. You may have larger vo- cabulary than I 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 'texhilarated, but you cannot with all your garlands of Everbiage cover up the plain fact that it is an old fashioned case of drunk.
 Now the watering places are full of temptations to men and women to tip ple At the close of the tenpin or bill iard game they tipple. At the close of the cotillion they tipple. Seated on the piazza cooling themselves off they tipple. The tinged glasses come around with bright straws and they tipple. First they take Tight wines," as they call them; but Tight wines" are heavy enough to debase the appetite There is not a very long road between cham pagne at five dollars per bottle and whisky at five cents 8 glass. @ 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 dark ness. That is a rare case. Very sell dom, indeed, can you find man who will be such fool as that.
 When a man goes down to destruc- tion Satan brings him to plane. It is almost 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 a little toward darkness a little. And the first mile it is claret, and the second mile it 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 offl' ''No," says the con. ductor, this Is an express train, and ii does not stop until it gets to the Grand Central Depot of Smashupton." An, Hook not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth it's color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like serpent and stingeth like an adder"
 ARM YOURSELVES.
 My friends, whether you tarry al home-which will be quite as safe and ] perhaps quite as comfortab able-or SC into the country, arm yourselves against temptation. The grace of God is the only safe shelter, whether in town o1 l country. There are watering place. accessible to all of us. You cannot open a book of the Bible without find ing out some such watering place 1 Fountains open for sin and uncleanli ness; wells of salvation; streams from Lebanon; 8 flood struck out of the rock by Moses; mountains in the vii l derness discovered by Hagar; water te drink and water to bathe in; the river of God, which is full of water; water of which if a man drink he shall never thirst; wells of water in the Valley o1 Baca; living fountains of water; g l pure river of water as clear as crysta from under the throne of God.
 These are watering places accessible 1 to all of us. We do not have a labori ous packing up before we start-only the throwing away of our transgres sions. No expensive hotel bills to pay
 it is without money and without price" No long and dirty travel be fore we get there; it is only one steI away. In California in five minutes walked around and saw ten fountains all bubbling up, and they were all diff ferent. And in five minutes can gc through this Bible parterre and tind you fifty bright, sparkling fountains bubbling up into eternal life.
 A chemist will go to one of these summer watering places and take th> water and analyze it, and tell you that it contains so much of iron, and SC much of soda, and so much of lime, and so much of magnesia. l come te 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 that thirsteth come | ye'' to this watering place!
 Crowd around this Bethesda today
 Oh, you sick, you lame, you troubled, you dying-crowd around this Bethes da! Step in it Oh, step in it. The angel of the covenant today stirs the water Why do you not step in it
 Some of you are too weak to. take g step in that direction. Then we take you up in the arms of our closing prayer and plunge you clean under the wave hoping that the cure may be as sudden and as radical as with Captain Naaman who, blotched and carbuncled, stepped into the Jordan, and after the seventh dive came up, his skin roseate com plexioned as the flesh of a little child
 London's Diamond Market.
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 being the diamond center of the world, and never was an importan, | business done in so peculiar a manner