Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-06-05
PLEA FOR SUMMER REST.

PLEA FOR SUMMER REST.
Rev. mr. willard of the Westville
Congregational Church Gives Fe"
Timely and Pertinent Thoughts on
The Way to Spend Your summer
Vacation-FaIse Notions of Summer
Rest-Ouiet Home Life Preferable 10
the Fashionable Whirl of Saratoga
or Long Branch.
Mark vi:31: And he said unto them, come ~
yourselves apart into desert place anu ''''
awhile.
Many q poor soul, tired out In bssn
body and mind, needs to 60 apart INTO
q desert place asd rest awhile. Bus Is
Saratoga, is Long Branch, Is Newport, IL
Bethlehem, q desert placer I grant that
rest, sweet rest, may be found in any enc OF
In all these; but as rule, are they restfu''
quiet hooks, where calm thoughts fan men
and women with their cooling breath: VI
are they full Of noise, and din, and ciaster'
and fashion, Now, that rest is needed We
all admit. The horse needs ii, the OK needs
it, man needs It, It is part of the econ
omy of life. But while the name is USED
for covering, the real thing mag be per
yerted and abused. And so call your az
tention to few thoughts that nave Deen
passing through my own mind ABOUT anef-
lean summer rest.
1. The multitude do not take 1t In des-
ert place. know that some there are VINO
60 among the gentle hills, or on the plains,
cool with towering trees, and tnere' ~
long GUNNER days they follow the old
roads that wind through meadows and
along the green, glossy banks OF lowing
streams, They search out every little
haunt or corner where beauty fingers and
invites: they listen to the morning and even
inc song of birds; they climb trees to find
out what theee songsters have laid away In
their nests; they gather wild flowers in
road and dell; they drink in health from
rain, and dew and sunshine. But these
are the exceptions, and it is safe to say that
the multitude are not seeking rest In q
desert place. Nine out of every ten would
say, ono desert for me-"
2. The craze for summer rest, so called
ia whitening the root principle of what
should be a contented home life. "Where
Quickstep to Maggie Soundthought. 'A1
the prompt reply. Don't you find II
home. And at the risk of being called old
fashioned, I shall remain in it right
through the summer months" That was
a brave girl She had her opinion and ex
pressed it, and lived it.
And here, should some one ask, "Would
you have our girls always keep Themselves
In the chimney corne,p my reply would
be 'No, not that; but it may bs a better
place, and safer, than many anoiher; and {
little moro home life ia a thing very much
needed by the ma!dens of this generation
To use an old Greek expression, "Doke
moi ge," OF least 1t seems 80 to me. And
if to day speak to any whose hearts are
troubled, whose souls are restless, whose
minds are full of worry and care, and cor
roding anxiety, who wonder why 1t Ia thai
their lot should be go different from tina
of many another; who sigh for wealth, OF
rank, or power, or culture, or fashion, and
then imsgine how grand 1t would be Il
wander up and down the earth and make
display of these, may say to such
for your OWE cake, for the sake of others
and for Christ's sake"
3. Our modern craze for summer res
encourages disoomforting economy. L
could be O millionaire year in and yea
out, or all the year round, don't know
but might enjoy it; but to pinch anc
ecrimp ten months in order to expand ant
swell two months, would not be to- my
taste. Moreover, a spiurgy make believe
is always detected sooner OF later, and, II
the long run, Is sure to bring more dis
grace than honor. And yet not a few,
am told, live poorly, yes, and meanly, il
order to make vacation show.
f. AS rule, those most nseafngsum
mer rest do not get it. The 'toiling mil
lions must keep toiling-work, work
work. And how about the age, in years
of those who during the warm weeks, 60 t.
the popular places of ressrti More thai
four fths would come short of forty
And surely, thess are not tho tired mother
and weary fathers, who are bearing th
heat and burden of the day, nor az
they, to any great extent, elias
of young men and young women that
| from early life, have known what 1t wa
| be doubted whether the health of tn
| American people, taken in the aggregate
is improved by their summer outing Man,
| families return to their homes more wear.
! than when they went away. They hav
| not recT ui:ed either In mind OF body; ant
| instead of having taken to themselves Gle
| ments of strength. they have sowed tn
seed of actual weakness. They are not IL
as good condition physically or mentally a.
they would have been had they remained
at hoDae. And il this is true, as we ar,
assured it liz, of more than one half o
wsIm weathsr excursionists, then what i
the aggregate gains
S. 1t is claimed by some that one mus
visit many lands in order to be we'll in
formed. Well, Shakespeare knew some
thing, but he was not much of traveller
And there is Mr.. Gladstone, with mint
rich in culture and learning, but through
long life he has been stay t-home
And of the poet Whittier, one writes that
tempted to go to Quebec, he replied tina
he knew the place as we'll by books an
pictures as if he had seen it. He believe
| that the people who t'stay put" in thi
world gain more than those who are TO,
| ever searching for greater opportunities
And, having been no traveller himself, thu
he sung: