St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-01

very persons that I want to speak.
You will find wonderful rest in the
prayer meeting; try it. You will
find joy and love renewed, and COM
ing in contact with those who gather
in the prayer circle will drive away
that tired feeling, and you will be
refreshed as you can be in no other
way. I have known some of the
busiest business men who declared
they could not get along without the
rest which they found in the prayer
meeting.
RELIGION SUFFERS
especially during the summer months
from the spirit of self Indulgence.
Mankind is always more or less given
to this, and with the hot weather this
disposition increases, and it is, of
course, hostile to anything like earnest
Christian work. This feeling lasts with
some people all the year round, but
it is much more prevalent during the
summer. 1t is seen in the conduct
of many Christians who spend their
vacation at summer resorts. One can
not stay at such places without being
impressed with the general laying
every side. Too many, if they were
honest enough to speak out their
thoughts, would, like a certain little
girl, bid farewell to their pets and
home, and then go into their rooms
and say as she did. Good bye, God, 1
am going on a. vacation" In the pro-
grammes of the different summer re-
sorts we find much intended to merely
amuse, good deal that is dangerous
if not absolutely harmful in it's ten
dency, but nothing about religious SER
vices or prayer meetings, and too often
the time lost to Christian activity by
the vacation is not only the weeks it
occupies, but also the time it takes for
the Christian tone to be recovered
afterwards.
Another danger is seen in the amuSe-
ments resorted to. Saloons and places
of amusements of the most questionable
! character are largely patronized; Sun
day theaters in full blast, Sunday base
ball-unleSS when stopped by injunc-
tion,and 1 wish it could always be
| thus stopped; Sunday picnics, all are
| running full blast, in fact one of the
| worst effects of this self indulgence is
| the use made of the Lords day, which
| is turned into a day of merely selfish
| amusement. All last week we have
seen it placarded on all the street cars
! in the city that there would be
picnic of the Knights of Labor at some
| place in or near the city today. 1 have
a deep and strong sympathy for labor
| ing men and l have been in the habit
of looking towards organizations such
as the Knights of Labor with a strong
hope that they would be a means of
much good to the labor circles. But
I am sure that there is no hope for the
! laboring man in this or any other Or
ganization that will turn the Lord s
| day into day for a beer drinking
| carousal.
1t is said by some that Sunday is the
only. day the men have, but it is not so.
| They can have any day in the week
they choose to demand for a picnic
or for any other purpose which COM
mends itself to them as an organized
body. Christian people regard these
matters with too much Indifference. I
| believe thoroughly in parks, and have
no doubt about the propriety of having
| these places where the people can get
| the air. 1 believe in making them
beautiful, and filing them with flowers,
but while 1 say this 1 want to say
further, that l am confident that street
car companies in this day are going
altogether too far in the free show
| business to get people out to these
! parks.