Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-08-14
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Subject: ''surnmer Vacation


TEXT: "C0me ye yourselves apart into O
desert place and rest alohiie. Mark vi, 81
Here Christ advises His apostles TO take a
vacation. They have been living an excited
~ well as a useful life, and He advises that
they getout into the country. am glad that
for longer or shorter time multitudes of our
people will have summer vacation The rail-
way trains are being laden with passengers
and baggage ON their way to the mountains
and the sea shore. Multitudes of our citi-
Eons arc packing their trunks for restora-
tive absence
The city heats are pursuing the people
with torch and fear of sunstroke. The long
silent halls of sumptuous hotels are all abuzz
with excited arrivals. The crystalline sur
face of Winnipiseogee 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 Already the baton of the
orchestral leader 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 jolting of the
bar-room goblets, and the explosive uncork-
ing of champagne 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 inaugurated.
Music-fute and drum and cornet-a-piston
and clapping cymbals-wil wake the echoes
of the mountains.
Glad am that tagged out American life
for the most part will have an opportunity to
rest, and that nerves racked and destroyed
will find a Bethesda. / believe in watering
places Let not the commercial firm be-
grudge the clerk, or the employer the jour.
nsyman, or the patient the physician, or the
church its pastor season of inoccupation.
Luther used to sport with his children; Ed
mund Burke used 10 caress his favorite horse;
Thomas Chalmers, in the dark hours of the
church's disruption, played kite for recrea
tomas | was told by his own daughter
and the busy Christ said TO the busy apostles,
"Come ye yourselves apart into a desert
place, and rest awhile" And have OBJ
served 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 Of our fashionable watering places
are the temporal and eternal destruction of
n multitude that no man can number and
amid the congratulations of this season
and the prospect of the departure of many
Of you for thecountry | must utter a note
Of warning-plain. earnest AMI unmistak-
able.
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 temptation will be TO leave
your religion 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
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any one to grow very rapidly in grace at the
fashionable summer resort. 1t Is generally
thecase that the Sabbath is more Of a ca
rousal than any other day, and there are
Sunday walks and Sunday rides and Sunday
excursions.
Elders and deacons and ministers Of relig-
ION who are entirely consistent at home
sometimes when the Sabbath dawns on them
1t Niagara Falls or the White Mountains
take the day to themselves II they 90 to the
church, it is apt TO be a sacred parade, and
the discourse, instead of being plain talk
about the soul, is apt to be what Is called
crack sermon-that is some discourse picked |
out Of the illusions of the year as the one
most adapted 20 excite admiration; and in
those churches, from the way the ladies hold
their fans, you know they are not half 50
Of half disclosed features /
Four puny souls stand in the organ loft and I
squall a tune that nobody knows and wor-
slippers, with two thousand dollars worth OF /
on the right hand drop a cent \
INTO the poor box, and then the benedic-
hon is pronounced and the farce is ended. 4
The air is bewitched with "the world the 4
aesh and the devil" There are Christians 1
who in three or four weeks in such a place
have had such terrible rents made In their
Christian robe that they had to keep darning /
{ until Christmas to get it mendedl The /
aealth of great many people makes an an
lual visit to some mineral spring an absolute
but take your Bible along with
rou and take an hour for secret prayer every
lay, though you be surrounded by guffaw
md saturnalia. Keep holy the Sabbath,
Ihough they denounce you as bigoted Puri-
an. Stand of from these institutions which
propose to initiate on this side the water the
niquities Of olden time Baden-Baden. Let
Tour moral and your immortal health keep
PACE with your physical recuperation. and re-
member that all the waters OF Hathorne and
nlphur and chalybeate springs cannot do
Tou so much good as the mineral, healing.
perennial food that breaks forth from the
Rock Of Ages This may be your last sum-
Der. If 80, make it a 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
DISQUALIFICATION Oi cOTonetS among the brute
;reation. For ages the lion has been called
he king of beasts. l knock off its coroner
nd put the crown upon the horse in every
Vay nobler, whether in shape or spirit or
agacity or intelligence or affection or use
illness. He is semi-luman and knows how
o reason on a small scale. The centaur of
lden times part horse and part man. seems
0 be a suggestion Of the fact that the horse
J something more than a beast.
But we do not think that the speed of the
orse should be cultured at the expense Of
uman degradation. Horse RACES in oldsn
imes were under the ban OF Christian peo-
10, and in our day the same institution has
ONE up under fictitious names and it is
alec summer nesting" almost sugyes~
We OF positive religious exercises And IL
called an agricultural fair" suggestive
everything that is improving in the art Of
arming. But under these deceptive titles
re the same cheating and the same betting.
be same drunkenness and same vagabond-
&c. and the same denominations that were
D be found under the old horse racing sys-
sm.
never knew man yet who could give
lmself to the pleasures of the turf for a
ing reach of time and not be battered in
sorals They hook up their spanking team,
n.