Sharp County record., 1890-10-23
SUMMER RESORTS.
Their Abuse Portrayed in q Ser
mon by DR.. Talmage.
The search for Health and Innocent Hs-
creation Met on Al sides By TemptA
tiozs Appealing to the Grosser
side Of Human Nature.

cred BY Rev. L. Dewitt Illmlye IN the
Brooklyn Academy Of Music, from the
text.
Come ye yourselves apart 1rto desert
place and resE ava i.si. Marx vi. 81
Here Christ advises His disciples TO
tske VACATION They have been living
al excited - we'll As 4 useful life. and
bic advises that they get out into the
country an glad that FOR longer or
shorter time muIti1udes Ot our people
VIII have summer vacation The rail-
say traias are being laden with passen-
gers and baggage on their way TO the
mountains and the selShOre. Multi
tu,ies 0f our citizens are packing their
trunks for . restorative absence.
The city heats are pursuing the peo-
pie with torch and fear OF suns5roke.
The long silent halls Of sumptuOus
hotels are al abuzz with excited ar
rivals The crystalline surface Of Win
nipiseogee is shattered with the stroke
Of steamer laden with eXcurslOnlsts.
The an5lers 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
baized tables, and the jolting Of the
bar-room goblets, and the explosive un-
corking of champagne bottles, and the
whirl and the rustic of the ballroom
dance, and the clattering 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 mbals-will wake the echoes Of
the mountains.
Glad l am that fagged-out American
life for the most part will have an op-
portunity to rest and that nerves
racked and destroyed will find Be-
thesda. l 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, a 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
rSption, played kite for recreation-as
l was told by his own daughter-and
the busy Christ said to the busy apos-
ties: Come ye apart awhile into the
desert and rest yourselves. And l
have observed that they who do not
know how to rest do not know how to
work.
But l 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 no
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 note
Of warning-plain, earnest and unmis-
taxable.
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 relig-
ion in the room with the blinds down
and the door bolted, and then you will
come back in the autumn to hnd
that it is starved and suiro-
Gated, lying stretched on the rug
stark dead. There IL no surplus
Of piety at the watering places never
knew any one to grow very rapidly in
grace at the fashionable summer resort.
1t is generally the case that the Sab
bath is more of a carousal than any
other day, and there are Sunday walks
and Sunday rides and Sunday excur-
sions.
Elders and deacons and ministers Of
religion who are entirely consistent at
| home, some times when the Sabbath
dawns on them at Niagara Falls or the
| White mountains take the day 20 them
selves, II they &c 10 the church. 10 is
apt TO be sacred parade, and the dis
course instead of being a plain talk
about tho SOUL is apt TO be what
| is called crack sormon-that
is some discourse picked ont
OF the etrusions of the year
as the one most adapted 20 excite ad.
miration, and in those churches, from
the way the ladies hold their fans, you
know that they arc not so much i'm.
pressed with the heat as with the pict-
ur.Iueness Of half.disclosed features
Four puny souls stand in The organ.loft
and squall tune that nobody knows
and worshipers, with two thousand dol.
lars worth Of diamonds on the right
hand drop cent into the poor. box, and
then the boncdicton Is pronounced and
the farce is onded.
The air is bewitched with 'the
world. the flesh and the devil" There
are Christians who In thrcc or four
weeks in such place have had such
terrible rents made In thoir Christian
robes that they had TO toop darnlnq 10
until Christmas To gct @ mcntod The
health Of great many people maltos nm
annual visit 10 some mineral spring an
absolute necessity; but take your Bible