The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-08-15
SUMMER RESORTS.
Dr.. Talmage Turns his Calci.
um Light Upon Their
Visitors.
A Lesson That it Would Pay
Many Pleasure Seek.
ers to Learn.

pNuohLf n, SpeclAI.-Ur luIm0Tcs texl
was Mark 6: vi, 81: Come We yourselvc.
apart unto II desert place and rest Willie.
Following is his sermon:
Here Christ advises His apostles to take q
vacation. They have been living an excited
us well us useful life, and He advises that
they go out into the country. am glnC
TINT for longer or shorter time. multitude,
of our people will have summer vacation
The railway trims are being laden with pas
sengers and baggage on their way to the
ountains and the sea shore Multtudes Of
our citizens are packing their trunks for u re
stoiative absence
Tie city heats are pursuing the people
with torch and fear of sunstroke The
long silent halls Of sumptuous hotels aro al
n h,zz with excited arrivals. The crystalline
surface OF Winnipiscogcc is shattered Will
the stroke O! steamer. laden with excursion
lists. Tile antlers OF Adirondack deer rnttl,
under the shot of city sportsmen. The trout
make fatal snaps ut the hook of adroit
sportsmen and toss their spotted brilunc,
into the game basket. Alrendy the baton
OF the orchestral leader taps the music stan,
." thu hotel green, and American life putt
on festive array, and the rumbling of the ten
pin alley. and the crack of the ivory balls on
the grren-baized billiard.tables. and the jolt
ing o. the bar room goblrts, aud the cxplo
sive nncorking fchamrugne bot tiles, and th,
whrl and the rustic OF the ball room dance
and the Gathering hoofs OF the race courses
attest that the season Of the great Am cricai
watering places is fairly inauguruted Nh
sic-!'uteand drum and cornct- "a piston ant
rlapping cymhas-will wake the choes
the mountains.
Glad am that Jagged out American life
TOR he most part will have an opportunity
forest. and that nerves rnckcd and destroyed
will find IL bethesda. | believe in watering
places. Let not the commercial firm he
"rn'lge the clerk, or the employer the jour.
neymnn, or the patient the physician, or the
church it's pastor IL season of in0rcupatiOu
Luther used to sport with his children Ed
mhiid Burke USED to caress his favurte horse
Thomas Chalmers. in the dark hours OF the
church y disruption. played kite for recre;i
tion-ns was told by his own dungh,er-nn.
the busy Christ said to the busy apostles
Come We apart awhile into the desert AMI
rest yourselves. And have observed that
they who do not know how to rest do not
know how to work
Int have to- declare this truth to-day,
that some of our fashionable watering places
nf" the temporal and eternal dcst r,lrtion o
Il multitude that no MAN can number,
and amid the ratulntions of this srnso,
aud the prospect of the departure of many
OF you for the country, must utter note o
warnlng-IIain, earnes; and nnmistakable
The first temptation that is apt to
hover in this direction is TO leave yonl
ricty all ut home. You will send the dog
and cut and canary bird to be well cared OF
some where else: bat The temptation vii! he
To leave your religion in the room with the
blinds down and he door bnlteh aud then
you willcome back in the autumn to find that
it is starved and sntlocated, lying stretched
on HE rug stark dead. There is no surplus
o'priyat the watering places. neverknrw
amy one to grow very rapidly i'll grace AT the
fashionable summer resort. 1t is generally
the c;ise that the Sabbath is more OF II Gu.
Iousal than any other dny, aud there are
Sundny walks and Sunday rides and Sunday
excursions.
Elders and deacons and minister's of re.
Iigion who are entirely CONSTANT ut home,
sometimes when the Sabbathdawns on them
mt Niagara Falls or the White mountains
take Tie day to themselves. lfthey 20 to
the church. it is APT to be II sacred parade,
and the discourse, instead oibcing II plain talk
about the soul, is apt to he what il called /,
riack sermon-thatis. some discourse picked
out OF the etlnsions ofthe year as the ON,
most adapted to excite udmirntion aud in
their fans, YOU know that they are not &c
much impressed with the heat ms with tho
l,icturesqueness Of half disclosed textures
Four puny souls stand in the organ lo:t and
squat Il tune that nobody knows md wor
shippers. with 81 200 worth of diamonds OF
the right hand. drop II cent into the poor
box, and then the hrnediction is pronounced
and the farce is ended.
The air is bewitched with the word, eth,
flesh and the devil" There are Christian.
who in three or four weeks in such a place
hive lad such terrible rents made in tlc
Chrstianrobe that they had TO keep darnin;
IL until Christmas to get IL mended! TIN
health ofn great many people makes an an
nnulivisit to some mineral spring an absolut
Necessity: but. take your Bible along will
You, aud take nm hour for secret prayer every
dry. though you be surrounird by gaii'nw m,
saturnulie. Keep holy the Sabbath. though
they:ienonnccyoun Ms biyoted Puritan. Stan,
oil from these institutions which propose II
initiate ON this side the water the iniquitir
of olien time ltadcn-BaIcn. Let your mora
ami your Immortal health keep peace Will
your physical recuperatioll. and rcmemb be
that all the waters OF lInthorne and sn!phu
und chalybeute springs can not do you =,
much good MS the mineral. healing. perennial
Hood that breaks forth from the Rock o
Ages" This may be your last summer.
so. make it fit vrs,ibnlc o. heaven.
Another temptation around nearly nil on
Watering places is the horse racing business
redistribution of coronets among the brnt
creation. For ages the lion has heel
called the king of beasts. | knock %:
it's coronct and put the crown upon tn
horse. in every way nohler whether in slap
or spirit or sngacity or intelligence
or affection or usefulness lie is semi
human and knows how to reason on II small
IL, W. tn,, of.
horse and part man, seems to he IL suggrs
ton Of The tact that the horse il somethin,
more than n beast. Job sets forth hi
strength, his beauty, his majesty, the pant
ing OF his nostrils the pnwing OF his hooi
and his enthusiasm for the battle. VIVA
Rosa Bonheur did Tor the cattle. md wha
I.nndseer did for the dog, Job, with mightie
eight times does the Bible 'spenk oihim
lie comes into every kingly process
sion, and into every great OCCASION and int,
every triumph 1t il very evident that J0l
and David and Isaiah and Ezekiel and Jere
miah aud John were very fond OF tho horse
He came into much of their imagery, A re'
forse-that meant war; black horse-thn
meant famine; IL pale horse-thn: mean
| death: n white hOrse-thut meant victory.
| As the Bible makes II favorite of the horse
! the patriarch md the prophet and the evan
Srlist and theapostle. stroking his sleek hide
and pnitng his rounded neck, and tpndrrl,
lifting his cxquisitely formed boot, mud liz
tening with thrill to the champ %. his bit
so all grea, natures in all ages have spokel
of him i'll rncomiastic terms Virgil in hi
Georges almost seems to plagiurize from
the description of Job. The Duke o
Wellington would not allow any one rrever
emily to touch his old war horse. Copcnha
gen, on whom lie had ridden Is hours with
out dismoun,ing nj Waterloo: and when ol,
Copenhagen died, his master ordered a mil
itary salute fired over his grave. join
Howard showed that he did not exhaust al
his sympatl,es i'll pitying the human race
for, when sick. he writes home '.lIas my oil,
clnise-loIse become sick or spoilcd?'
But we do not think that the speed of til
horse should he cultured ut the expense O
human degradation. Horse races, in ollc
lines, were under the ban OF Christian pee
pie. ind in our day the same institution ha
come up under fictitious names. and it i
called Summer Mccting," almost sur
gestiye Of positive religious exercises. An,
it is called an Agricultural Fair" suggest
i've of everything that IL improving in til
art of farming But under these dereptiv
titles are the same cheating md the sam
betting the same drunkenness and the sam
vagabondage and the same HiominatiOr
TINT were to be found under the old hors
racing system.
never knew man yet who could giy
himself to the pleasures o. the turf for
long reach of time, and not be battered j
moruls. They hook up theirspanking team
md put on their sporting cap. aud liyi
their cigar, and take the rcins. uni lus
down the road to perdition. The grent da