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unto desert place and rest awhile" Fol | lowing is the sermon:
 l Hero Christ advises His apostles to take l . vacation. They havc been living an ex- cited as well e useful life, and He advises 1 that they get out into the country. l am I glad that for longer or shorter time, null I titudes of our people will have summer va cation. Tho railway trains arc being laden with passengcrs aud basgage on their way | to the mountains and the sea-shore. Multi l tudcs of our citizens arc packing their | trunks for restorative absence.
 The city heats arc pursuing tho people with torch and fear of sunstroke. Tho long silent halls of sumptuous hotels arc all abuzz with excited arrivals. Tho crys-
 talline surface of Winnipiscogce is shat i tered with the stroke of steamer, laden
 with excursionists. The antlcrs of Adj I rondack deer rattle under the shot of city sportsmcn- Tho trout make fatal snaps at I the hook of adroit sportsmen and toss | their spotted brilliance into tho game
 basket. Already the baton of the orches- | tral leader taps the music-stand on the
 hotel green, and American life puts on
 fcstal array, 'and the r,lmbling of the ten pin alley, and tho crack of the ivory balls l on the green baked billiard tables, and the jolting of the bar-room goblets, and tho l explosive uncorking of champagne bottles,
 and the whirl and the rustic of the ball
 room dancc, and tho clattering hoofs of | the race-courses, attest that the season for l tho grcat American watering places h
 fairly inauguratcd. Music-fute and drum
 and cornet-a-piston and clapping cymbals-- 1 will wake the echoes of the mountains Glad am that faRged-out American life I for the most part will have an opportunity
 to rest, and that nerves racked and de
 stroycd will and Bethesda. believe in | watcring-places. Let not the commercial 1 firm bcgrudgc the clerk, or the employer
 the journeyman, or the patient the physi- clan, or the church its pastor, . season oY inoccupation. Luther used to sport with his children; Edmund Burke used to cArcss his favoritc horse; Thomas Chalmers, in | the dark hours of the Church's disruption. played kite for rccreation--ss was told by his own dAughtcr-and tho busy Christ l said to the busy apostles: sCome yc apart
 awhile into the desert and rest yourselves. !" l And have observed that they who do not know how to rest do not know how to work l But have to declare this truth today.
 that some of our fashionable watering places arc tho temporal and eternal de- struction of ssa multitude that no man can numbcr,n and amid the congratulations of I this season and the prospect of the depart I urc of many of you for the country must
 utter note of warning plain, earnest, ] and unmistakable
 The first temptation that h apt to hover in this direction Is to leave your picty all at home. You will send the dog and cat and canary bird to be well cared for somewhere | else; but the temptation will bc to leave l your religion In the room with blinds down
 and the door boltcd, and then you will come
 back in the autumn to find that 1t k starved
 and suf1ocatcd, lying stretched on the rug stark dead. There IS no surplus of picty In
 tho watering places. never knew any one to grow very rapidly in grace at the 1 fashionable summer resort. It Is generally 1 tho case that the Sabbath Is moro of ca- l rousal than any other day, and there arc I Sunday walks and Sunday rides and sun
 day excursions.
 l Elders and dcacons and ministers of
 religion, who are entirely consistent at home. sometimes when the Sabbath dawns l on them at NiaRarA Falls or tho White 1 Mountains takt the day to themselves If they go to the church, it Is apt to bc sa-
 cred parade, and tho discourse, instead of
 being plain talk about the soul, k apt to 1 bc what Is called crack scrlnon--that is, some discourse that h picked out of tho
 cffusions of the year as tho one most
 adapted to excite admiration; and in those l churches. from the way the ladies hold their fans you know they are not half % much impressed with the heat as with the pictu. | rcsqueness of half-iiscloscd features Four puny souls stand in the organ loft ! and squAll tune that nobody knows. and 1 worshippers, with two thousand dollars ! worth of diamonds on the right hand, drop
 cent into the poor-box, and then tho hen- 1 cdicticn is pronounced and tho farcc k ended.
 l The air is bewitched with s.she world. the l flesh, and tho devil" There arc Christians 1 who in three or four wecl<s In such place
 have had such terrible rents made in sheir 1 Christian robe that they had 10 keep darn ing IL until Christmas to get it mcndca The health of great many people makes ] an annual visit to the spring an absolute 1 necessity; but take your Bible along with I you, and take an hour for secret prayer I every day, though you be surrounded by guffaw and saturnalia Keep holy the l Sabbath. though they denounce you as A bigntcd Puritan Stand of from these in- stituticns which propose to initiate on this 1 side the water the iniquitics of olden.time Baden Baden. Let your moral and your
 immoral health keep pace with your physi- 1 cal rccupcration, and remember that ali the waters of Hathorne and sulphur and chnly- beatc springs can not do you so much rood
 as the mineral, healing, perennial Hood that breaks forth from tho Rock of Aees VI 1 This may be your last summer. If 90, make l it . it vestibule of heaven.
 l Another temptation around n0arly all our
 watering places Is tho horsc- racing buiness. i We all admire the horse There needs to bc redistribution of corpnets amonx the brute creation. For ages the lion has been ! called the king of bcasts. knock of its coronet and put the crown upon tho horse,
 in every way nobler, whether in shape or i spirit or sagacity or intelligence or affection 1 or usefulness. He Is scmi-human, and knows how t0 reason on small scale. The
 ccutaur of oldcn times, part horse and part | man, seems to bc suggcstion of the fact that tho horse is something mors than | ] beast.
 Job sets forth his strength, hia beauty.
 his majesty. tho panting of his nostril, tho ! paving of bis hoof. and his enthusiAsm for the battle. What RosA Honhcur did for
 cattle, and what Lsndsccr did for the dor,
 Joh. with mishtier pencil, docs for tho uvAsc- HA8nsy<49Ht taAxl91 OQ1~ tu1 niuto l speak of him. Hs comaa Into every kinxiy
 procession, and Into every grsAt ocrasioa and into every triumph IL is very evident l that Job and David and Isaiah anA Esehtal and Jeremiah and John were very fond oe the horse. He came into much q their imagery. A rcd horso--thAt meant war;
 black horse--that meant famins; . Dale
 horsc--that meant death; wAlte Aorne--
 that meant victory.
 1 Al tho Bible makas fAvosits of the
 horse. the patriarch and tho propAee and tho evanxelist and the apostla strokine his
 sleck hide. and pattlns his rounded neck,
 and tsndoriy lifting hia sxquiaitely tugmAd hoox and listening with tArin = tho
 champ of his bit @ all greet natures n all asss have spoken q hin in eoontnatte ! tO plAgiArisa from tho deocg1ptton of Joh YkA YnSakn He Vn.1t{~n&<srH ~a.sf1 ~Kn.sn.