Sharp County record., 1890-10-23

Of the boy hawking uooss 1-107
cars. I really believe there IS more pes.
tifsrous trash read among the inteLigen'
classes in July and August than II
all the other ten months OF the year,
Men and women who at home WolLu
not be satisfied with book that was
not really sensible, found sitting on
hotel uiazzas or under the trees read
ing books, the index OF which Woula
make them blush if they knew that
you knew what the book was.
"Oh, they say, you must have IL
tellectuaI recreation Yes. Inere Is
no need that you take along into wa
tering place "Hamiltou's METAPHYSICS
or some thuuderous discourse on the
eternal DEGREES, or "Faraday's PhiLoSo-
ply" There are many easy books tnat
are good You might as WeA
say: Il propose now to give
a listle rest to my digestive organs; and'
instead Of eating heavy meat and Vege-
tables, will for q little while take
lighter food-a little strychnine and
few grains OF ratsbane," Literary poison
in August is as bad as literary poison IL
December. Mark that. Do not let the
frogs and the lice Of corrupt printing
press jump and crawl into your Saratoga
trunk or White mountain valise.
Would it not be an awful thing for
you to be struck with lightning some
day when you mad in your hand one OF
thoss paper-covered romances-the hero
a Partisan roue, the heroine an unprin-
cipled firt-chapters in the book that
you would not read to your children at
the rate of one hundred dollors a line.
Throw out that stuff from your
summer baggage. Are there not
good books that are easy to read
books of congenial history, books OF
pure fun, books of poetry ringing with
merry canto, books Of fine engravings,
books that will rest the mind as well as
purify the heart and elevate the whole
life? My hearers, there will not be an
houS between this and the day OF your
death when you can afford to read
book lacking in moral principle.
Another temptation lowering al
around our watering-places is the in
stoxicating beverage. | am told thatlt
is becoming more and more fashionable
for women to drink l care not how
well women may dress, if she has
taken enough of wine to flush her cheek
and put glassiness on her eyes, she IS
intoxicated. She may be handed
into 4 twenty-fve-hundred-dollar car
riage, and have diamonds enough to con
found the Tifanys-she is intoxicated.
She may be a graduate of great in
stitute, and the daughter of some man
in danger Of being nominated for the
presidency-she is drunk. You may
ihave larger vocabulary than l have,
,and you may say in regard to her that
she is ''convivial," Or she is merry
Nor she is festive, or she is 'exhil-
arated," but you can n0v-sh all your
garland of verbiage 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
Pile. At the close of the ten-pin or
billiard game they tipple. At the close
of the cotillon they tipple. Seated OF
the piazza cooling themselves off, they
tipple. The tinged glasses come around
with brightstraws, and they tipple.
First they take light Wines" as they
call them; but light wines are heavy
enough to debase the appetite. 1t is
not very longroad between champagne
at five dollars per bottle and whisky at
five cents 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 darkness.
That is a rare case. Very seldom, in
deed, can you find a man who will be
such a fool as that
My friends, whether you tarry at
home-which will be quite as safe and
perhaps quite as comfortable-or 90
into the country, arm yourself against
temptation. The grace Of God is the
only safe shelter, whether in town or
country There are watering places
accessible to all OF US. You can not
open a book OF the Bible without
finding out some such water
ing place. Fountains open for
sin and unceanness; wells, Of
salvation; streams from Lebanon; o
food struck out Of the rock by Moses;
fountains in the wilderness discovered
by Hagar; wafer 10 drink and water to
bathe in; the river Of God, which is full
of water; water Of which il a man drink
he shall never thirst wells Of water in
the Valley Of Baca; living fountains Of
water; pure river Of water as clear
as crystal from undc~ the throne Of
God.
These are Watering places accessible
to all Of u.s. We do not have labori-
GUS packing-up before we start-only
the throwing away Of our transgres-
sions. No expensive hotel bills to pay;
tits without money and without price"
No long and dirty travel before we get
thero-it is only one step away, In
California in Ave minutes walked
around and saw ten fountains all bub.
bling up, and they were all different.
And in hvo minutes can 20 through
this Bible partere and find you atty
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