The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-08-15
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Watering-Place Life, It's Temnta-
lions and Designations.
me MANY rittalls for the Needless md
Onwary of Both Sexes Found where
He'lth-G,ving Recreation
is Sought.


the following discourse on the "Abuse
OF summer Resorts" in the BROOKLYN
Academy of Music. His text was:
Come ye yourselves apart unto desert
piace and rest awhle--Mark VII, 81.
Here Christ advises His disciples to
take vacation. They have been living
an excited as well as useful life, and
lie advises that they get out 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 passen-
gers and baggage on their way to the
mountains and the seashore. Multi
tudes of our citizens are packing their
trunks for a restorative absence.
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 VIM
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 leader
taps the music stand on the hotel
green, and American life puts
on festal array, and the
rumbling of the ten-pin alley, and the
crack of the ivory balls on the green.
Gaized tables, and the jolting of the
bar-room goblets, and the explosive I'M
eorking 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 clap
ping eymbals- wake the echoes of
the mountains.
Glad I am that fagged-out American
life Cor the most part will have an OPP
portunity to rest, and that nerves
racked and destroyed will find Be-
thesda ] believe in watering places.
Let not the commercial firm begrud ge
the clerk, or the employer the journey
man, or the patient the physician, or
the church its paster, season of inoc-
cupation Luther used to sport with his
children; Edmund Burke used to caress
his favorite horse; Thomas Chalmers,
in the dark hours of the church's dis
ruption, played kite for recreation-as
l was told by his own daughter-and
the busy Christ said to the busy apos.
ties; "Come we 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 of our fashionable water.
ing places are the temporal and eternal
destruction of "a multitude that nc
man can number" and amid the con
gratulations of this season and the
prospect of the departure of many Of
you for the country must utter a note
of warning earnest and unmis'
taxable.
The first temptation that is apt tc
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
temptati 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 sutfo
Gated, 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 il
grace at the fashionable summer resort
II is generally the case that the Sab
bath is more of carousal than any
other day, and there are Sunday walks
and Sunday rides and Sunday excur
sioRs.
Elders and deacons and ministers o
rehgion who are entirely consistent a
home, some times when the Sabbath
dawns on them at Niagara Falls or thu
White mountains take the day to them
selves. If they go to the church, it il
apt to be sacred parade, and the dis
course, instead of being a plain tall
about the soul, is apt to be Yha
is called crack sermon-tha
is some discourse picked GU
of the illusions of the yea
as the one most adapted to excite ad
miration; and in those churches, from
the way the ladies hold their fans, yo'
know that they are not SO much i'm
pressed with the heat as with the pict
uresoueness of half-disclosed features
-Four puny souls stand in the organ-lof
and squall tune that nobody knows
and worshipers, with two thousand dol
lars worth of diamonds on the RICH
hand drop a cent into the poor-box, ant
then the benediction is pronounced AM
the farce is ended.
The air is bewitched with 18th
world, the flesh and the devil" Their
To-