The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-04


discourse on the eternal DEGREES. OF "Fara-
DAYS Philosophy There are many easy
books that are good. You might as well
say: 81 propose now 20 give little rest TO
my digestive organs; and, instead OF eating
heavy neat and vegetables. will for a little
while take lig hter fOod-a little strychDlne
and few grains or ratsbane." Literary
poison in August is as bad as literary poison
IN December. Mark that. Do not let the
frogs and the lice of a corrupt printing press
jump and crawl into your Saratoga trunk
or White mountain vallse.
Would it not be an awful thing for you to
be struck with lightning some day wne1
YOU had in your hand one OF thess paper
covered romances-the hero Partisan roue.
the heroine an unprincipled fiirt-chapters
in the book that you would not read 70 your
| children at the rate of one hundred dollars
a line Throw out that stuff from your
! summer baggage. Are there not good books
that are easy TO read-boJks Of congenial
| history. books of pure fun, books of poetry
ringing with merry canto, books of fine en-
| cravings, books that will rest the mind as
! we'll as purify the heart and elevate the
| whole lifel My hearers, there Will not be
| hour between this and the day OF your
| death when you can afford TO read book
! lacking in moral principle.
| Another temptation lowering all around
| our watering pla es Is the intoxicating bey-
era e. | am told that it is becoming more
| and more fashionable for women to drink
| | care not how well a woman may dress if
| she has taken enough Of wine to flush her
cheek and put glassiness on her eyes, she is
intoxicated. She may lie handed into a
81 500 carriage and have diamonds enough
TO confound the Tiffanys-she Is intoxicated.
She may be a graduate of a great institute
and the daughter of some man in danger of
being nominated for the presldency-she is
drunk. You may have larger vocabulary
than have, and you may say in regard TO
her that she is 'convivial," or she is
''merry," or she is festive" or she is sex
hllaraued," but you cannot, with all your
garlands Of verbiage. cover up the plain fact
that it is a case of old-fashioned drunk
Now, the watering places are full of tenn
tations TO men and women to tipple. At
the close of the tenpin or billiard game
they tippe. AT the close of the cotilion
they tipple Seated on the piazza cooling
themselves off they tlpple The tingei
glasses come around with bright straws,
aud they tipple. First they take light
wines, as they call them; but eight winesn
are heavy enough to debase the appetite
There is not a very long road between
champagne at So per bottle, and whisky at
D cents q gaSs.
Satan has three or four grades down
which he takes men to destruction. One
man he takes up, and through one spree
plISAiCo Illll 1llUO 6loEUdl udThi6SS. lQ6D Is
rare case. Very seldom, in deed, can you
find man who will be such fool as that.
When q man goes down to destruction
Satan brings him to plane. 1t is almost
level. The depression Is SO slight that you
can hardly see it. The man does not actu-
ally know that he is on the down grade,
and it tips only a little toward darkness
just little. And the first mile it is claret,
the second mile it is sherry the third mile it
is punch, and the fourth mile it is ale, and
the fifth mile it is porter, and the sixth
mile 1t is brandy, and then it gets sleeper
and sleeper, and the man gets frightened
and says, "Oh, let me get off ~ No" says
the conductor, this is an express train, and
1t does not stop until it gets to the Grand
Central depot of Smashupton." All, 'look
| not thou upon the wine when it is red, when
| it giveth its color in the cup, when it
moveth itself Alright. At the last it biteth
like serpent and stingeth like an adder"
My friends, whether you tarry at home
| which will be quite as safe and perhaps
| quite as comfortaDle-or go 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 cannot
| open book of the Bible without finding out
some such watering place. F untains open
| for sin and uncleaDliness; wells OF salvation
streams from Lebanon; flood struck out
of the rock by Moses; fountains in the will
derness discovered by Hagar; water to
drink and water to battle in; the river
| of God, which is full of water; water of
which if a man drink he shall never thirst
wells of water In the Valley of Baca; living
| fountains of water; pure river of water a
| clear as crystal from under the throne OF
| God.
These are watering places accessible to al
of us. We do not have laborious packing
up before we start-only the throwing away
of our trausgressions. No expensive hotel
and without PRICE, No long and
dirty travel before we get there; it is only
one step away. In California in five
minutes, l walked around and saw ter
fountains. all bubbling up, aud they were
all different And in five minutes can &c
through this Bible pdrterre aud find you
fifty bright, sparkling fountains bubbline
up into eternal life.
A chemist will go to one of these summer
watering places and take the water and an
alyze it and tell you that it contains SC
much of iron, and so much of soda and sc
much of lime, and so much of magnesla.
come to this gospel WELL this living foun
tain and analyZe the water, and find that
Its ingredients are peace, pardon. forgive
ness, hope, comfort, life, heaven. "Ho
every one that thirsteth, come ye" to thi.
watering place!
Crowd around this Bethesda to-day! Oh,
you sick. you lame, you troubled, you
dying-crowd around this Bethesda! Step
In 1t! Oh, step in it! The angel of the
covenant to-day stirs the water. Why dc
you not step in ltl Some of you are toe
weak to take a step in that direction Then
we take you up in the arms of our closing
prayer and plunge you clean under the
wave, hoping that the cure may be as sud,
den and as radical as with Capt. Naa man,
who. blotched and carhnncled, stepped int
the Jordan, and after the seventh dive came
up. his skin roseate complexioned as the
flesh Of little child
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