Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-07
Discourse Of Rev. DR.. Talmage in
the City Of Brooklyn.
He breaches an Eloquent Sermon Upon
the Uses and Abuses of Summer
Watering Resorts.
An Assertion That They are Responsible for
Mors Domestic Tnfeliclty than all
things Else Combined.
Special to the Gazette.


mage had timely topic for his sermon
for to-day, in the use and abuse of sum-
mer resorts. His text is Mark W., 81:
"Come ye yourselves apart unto
desert place and rest awhile" Follow
ing Is the sermon:
Here Christ advises his apostles to take
a vacation. They have been living an
excited as well as useful lite, and He
advises that they get out into the coun-
try. 1 am glad that for longer or shorter
time, multitudes of our people will have
summer vacation. The railway trains
are being laden with passengers and
baggage on their way to the mountains
and the sea shore. Multituies of our
citizens are packing their trunks for a
restorative absence.
The city heats ara pursuing the people
with torch and fear of sunstroke. The
long-silent halls of sumptuous hotels are
all abuzz with excited arrivals. The
crystalline surface of Winuipiscogee is
shattered with the stroke of steamer,
laden with excursionists. The antIers of
Adirondack deer rattle under the shot of
city sportsmen. The trout make fatal
and toss their spotted brilliance into the
game basket. Already the baton of the
orchestral lender taps the music stand
on the hotel green, and
AMERICAN LIFE PUTS ON FEsTAL ARRAY,
and the rumbliug of the tenpln alley and
the crack of the ivory balls on the green
baized billiard tables, and the iolting of
the bRrroOm goblets, and the explosive
uncorking of champagne bottles, and
the whirl and the rustic of the ballroom
dance, and the gathering hoofs of the
race coursers, attest that the season for
the great American watering places is
fairly inaugurated. Music-fiute and
drum and cornet-a- piston and clapping
cymbGls-will wake the echoes of the
mountains.
Glad 1 am that fagged-out American
life for the most part will have an OPP
portunity TO rest, and that nerves racked
and destroying will find Bethesda.
believe i'll watering places. Let not the
commercial firm begrudge the clerk, or
the employer the jourheyman. or the pa
tient the physician, or the church its
pastor, @ season of inoccupation.
Luther used TO sport with his children;
Edmund Burke used to caress his favor
ite horse; Thomas Chalmers, in the dark
hours of the ohurch's disruption,
played kite for recreation-as l was told
Ivy his own daughteT-and the busy
Christ said to the busy apostles:
"Come We apart awhile into the desert
and rest yourselves. And l have OBJ
served that they VINO do not know how 10
rest do not know how to work.
But 1 have 10 declare this truth to-
day, that some of our fashionable water
ing places are the temporal aud eternal
destruction of ga multitude that no man
can number, and amid the congratu-
latlons of this season aud the prospect of
the departure of many OF you for the
country l must utter a note of warning
plain, earnest, and unmistakable.
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 re-
ligion in the room with the blinds down
aud 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 sur
plus of piety at the watering places. l
never knew anyone to grow very rapidly
Ill grace at the fashionable summer
resort. II is generally the case that the
sabbath 10 more of q cGrousal than any
other day. and there are Sunday walks
aud Sunday rides and Sunday excur-
sOus,
Elders and dedcons md ministers of
religion who are entirely consistent at
home, sometimes when the sabbath
duwus on them at Niagara Falls or the
White Mountains take the day TO them
selves. If they 90 TO the church, it is
apt 10 be a sacred parade, and the dis
course, instead of being q nlain talk
about the soul, Is apt 10 be what is
called a crack sermou-tha. is, some
discourse picked ont of the illusions of
the year as the one most adapted to eX-
cite admiration; and in those churches,
from the way the ladies hold their fans,
you know that they are not so much i'm
pressed with the heat rs with the pic
turesqueuess of half-dlsclosed features.
-Four puny souls stand in the organ-loft
and squnll tune that nobody knows,
and worshipprrs, with $1,000 worth of
diamonds on the right hand, drop a cent
into the poor box, and then the bene-
dictioH is pronounced and the farce is
ended.
THE AIR IS BEwITCHED
with "the world, the flesh and the
devil. - There are hrlstians who IN
three or four weeks in such place have
had such terrible rents made IN their
Christian robe that they had to keep
earning it until Christmas TO get il
meudedi The health OF great many
people makes an annual visit to some
mineral spring an absolute necessity;
but, take your Bible along with You, and
take an hour for secret prayer every day,
though you Ue surrounded by guffsw
and saturnalia. Keep holy the Sabbath,
though they deuouuce you as bigoted
Puritan. Stand off from these institu-
tons which propose TO initiate on this
side of the water the iuiquities of olden-
time Baden Baden. Let your moral and
your immortal health keep pace with your
physical regeneration, and remember
that all the waters of Hathorne aud sui
phur and ehalybeate springs can not do
you so much good as the mineral, heal
ing, perennial food that breaks forth
from the Rock of Ages This may
be your last summer. II SO, make It a
dit vestibule of heaven.
Another temptation around nearly all
our watering places is the horse racing
business. We all admire the horse.
Thera needs 70 he redistribution of