The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-08-15


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. Multitudes of our citizens are
packing their trunks for restorative
absence.
The city heats are pursuing the
people with torch and fear of sun
stroke. The long silent halls of sumptu-
GUS hotels are all abuzz with excited
arrivals. The crystalline surface of
Wmmpiseogee is shattered with the
stroke of steamer, laden with excur-
slonists. The antlers of Adirondack
deer rattle under the shot of city
sportsmen. The trout make fatal
snaps at the hooks ofadroit sportsmen
and toss their spotted brilliance into
the game basket, Already the baton
OF the orchestral leader taps the mu-
sic-stand on the hotel green, and
American life puts ON festal array,
and the rumbling of the tenpin alley,
and the crack of the ivory balls on
the green baized billiard tables, and
the jolting of the bar-room goblets,
and the explosive uncorking of cham
pagne 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
rs fairly inaugurated. N[usic-hute
and drum and cornet-a- piston and
clapping cymbals-will wake the
echoes of the mountains.
Glad | am that fagged-out Ameri-
can life for the most part will have an
opportunity to rest, and that nerves
racked and destroyed will find a
Bethesda. l believe in watering
places: Let not the commercial firm
b& 80 .te clark, or. tho empleser
ti3sntiHnc ieymat lec the pffsisnt ,tfSs
physician, or'the church its pastor,
season of inoccupation. 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 disruption,
played kite for recreation.-as 1 was
told by his own daughter-and the
busy Christ said to the busy apostles:
Come we 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 have to declare this truth to-
day, that some of our fashionable
watering places are the temporal ana
eternal destruction of "a multitude
that no man can number, and amid
the congratulations of this season1
and the prospect of the departure OF
many of you for the country. l must
utter note of warning plain. ear
nest and unmistakable, -,
The first temptation that is. aptto
hover in this direction is 'fo 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 religion in the room with the
blinds down and the door boHed.,
and then you will come back in fttse
autumn to find that it is starved aux
sutfocated, lying stretched on the ras
stark dead. There is no surplusfW
piety in the watering places. / nevsx4
knew any one to grow very rapidly
in grace at the fashionable summer
resort. 1t is generally the case that
the SabbaCh is more of carousal
than any other day, and there are
Sunday walks and Sunday rides and
Sunday excursions.
Elders and deacQps and ministers
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