The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-08-08
A TIMELY TOPIC.
DR.. Talmage on the Fonies o.
Summer Resorts.
Evils Surrounding the Fashionable water.
nag PIaoes-Plety Too Often Left 1t
Home By the VlsItors-FrivoE-
itiss and RoIliss Exposed-


Here Christ advises His apostles to
take q vacation They have been living
Anrexeitad;as we'll as = useful life. and
he advises that they get out into the
country. am glad that for longer or
shorter time multftudes OF our people
will have summer vacation. The rail-
way trains are being laden with passen-
gers and baggage on their way. to the
mountains and the seashore. Multi
tudes Of our citizens are packing their
trunks for a restorative absence
The city heats are pursuing the peo-
pie with torch and fear of sunstroke.
The long silent halls of sumptuous
hotels are all abuzz with excited ar
rivals The crystalline surface of Win
nepiseogee is shattered eith the stroke
of steamer laden with excursionists-
The antler of Adirondack deer rattle
under the shot of city sportsmen. The
@troutna fatal snaps at the hook of
-adfoit 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,
snd the rumbIing OF the ten-pin alley.
and the crack of the ivory balls on the
F-gesenThaiEed Tbiliards tEbies and the
explosive uncorking of champagne bot
= ~. 80 NC WHIT ana tho rustic of the
~l rapmsdzEe,V anF tue eiaHerinE
hoofsSH tho hcee Fses atteSt that
She -ssason4Orth e 6seatAmetican water,
ing places is fairly inaugurated-
Glad am that tagged out American
life for the most part will have an OPP
portunity to rest and that nerves racked
and destroyed will find bethesda.
believe in watering places. Let. not the
commercial firm begrudge the clerk, or
the employer the journeyman, or the
patient the physician, or the church its
pastor, a season of inoccupation. The
busy Christ said to the busy apostles:
Come ye apart awhile into the desert,
and rest yourselves" And / have OBJ
served 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 water
ing places are the temporal and eternal
destruction of "a multitude that no man
can number" and amid the congratula-
tions of this season and the prospect of
the departure OF many of you for the
country / must utter note of warning
plain, earnest and unmistakle.
The first temptation that is apt to
nONer IN Lnlb OlreCtiOu Is u IeaVe your
piety all at home. You will send the
dog and cat and canary bird to be well
cared for somewhere else, but the temp
tation will be to leave your religion in
the room with blinds down and 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 surplus of
piety in the watering places. l 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.
Elders and deacons and ministers OF
religion. who are entirely consistent at
home, some times when the Sabbath
dhwhs on them at Niagara Falls or the
White mountains take the day to them
selves :. II. they go to church. it is apt
10 be . sacred parade. and the discourse,
Instead q heing.a plain talk about the
: sd A&bt To be Swhat iscatlea acracf
: SernionEAhats il, some discourse that 4
picked out of the illusions of the year
as the one most adapted to excite ad-
miratiOa; and in those-charehes from
the way the ladies hold their fans, you
know they are not half so much i'm
pressed with the heat as with the pictur-
sequences of half disclosed features
Four puny souls stand in the organ loft
and squall a tune thatnobo&y knows, and
worshi pers, with two thousand dollars
worth OF diamondso on, the right hand,
drop n cent into the poor box. and then
the benediction is pronounced and the
farce Is ended. -.
The air is bewitched with 1.-The world,
the fesh Rnd the devil" There are
chrskia1s WHO in fhree or four weeks
-AAshcA.< piAse have had such terrible
Observation-Disclosures Christian rObe-thst
,Seises had to- keep adarning- u = until
E Christmas Ia ge4 1t mendedl The health
OF a great many people makes an annual
visit to the springs an absolute neces-
sity; but take your Bible along with
you, and take an hour for secret prayer
every day. though you'be surrounded by
g6aa& and saturnalia. This. may he
your last summer. If so make, it-a fit,
vestibule OF Heaven. &C.
Another temptation around nearly all
Our.wptering places isthe horse-racing
business We ALI admire the horse.
There needs to be q redistribution of
coronets among the br1te creation For
ages the lion has been called the king
~ot beasts knock or It's coronet and
put the crown upon the horse, in every
way nobler. whether in shape or spirit
or sagacity or intelligence or affection
or usefulness
Job sets forth his-ssrength, his beau
ty, his majesty. the painting of his nos
trils, the paving of his hoof, and his
enthusiasm for the battle. What Rosa
Bonheur did for cattle. and what Land
seer did for the dog, Job, with mightier
pencil, does for the horse Eigh tySe eight
times does the Bible speak OF him. He
comes into every lkingly possession, and
into every great occasion and into every
triumph It is very evident that job
and David and Isaiah and Ezekiel and
Jeremiah and John were very fond of
the horse. He came into much of Their
imagery. red horse-that meant war;
= black horse-that meant famine;
pale horse-that meant death; a white
Aorse-that meant victory.
As the Bible makes n favorite of the
horse, the patriarch and prophet and
the evangelist and the apostle, stroking
his sleek hide and patting his rounded
neck and tenderly lift ng his exquisitely
formed hoof, and listening with a thrill
to the champ of his bit 50 all great
natures In All ages have Spoken>of him
in ecomiastic terms
I sBVt W do not think That the speed of
The hfh8 should Bs-cIhtured atxthe tx
PensP d human degradation Horse
races of olden times were under the ban
OF Christian people, and in our day the
same institution has come up under fic-
titious names and IL is-calIed = esum-
mer meeting" almost suggestive of