Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-01-10
TWO KINDS .OF,CLUBS.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE ON THE GOOD
AND THE BAD.

Famous C1ubhouses In the Big Cities.
Effect of the Club Upon Business and
Religious Life "A Warning to the
Young.
ICopyright. 1898. by American Press Asso-
ciation.1
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-This discourse
of DR.. Talmage will be helpful to those
who want to find places with healthful
and improving surroundings and to
avoid places deleterious. His text ISL
Samuel. IA, ''Let the young men now
arise and play before us.
There are two armies encamped by
the pool of Gideon. The time hangs
heavily on their hands. One army pro-
poses game of sword fencing. Nothing
could be more healthful and innocent.
The other army accepts the challenge.
Twelve men against IL men, the sport
opens. But something went adversely
Perhaps one of the swordsmen got an
unlucky clip or in some way had his
ire aroused, and that which opened in
sportfulness ended in violence, each one
taking his contestant by the hair and
then with the sword thrusting him in
the side, SO that that which opened in
innocent fun ended in the massacre of
all the "a sportsmen. Was there ever a
better illustration of what was true
then and is true now, that that which is
innocent may be made destructive?
AT this season of the year the club
houses Of our towns and cities are in
full play. have found out that there is
zalegitimate and an illegitimate use of
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become a. healthful recreation, like the
contest of the "a men in the text when
sthey began their play; in the other case
at becomes the massacre Of body, mind
and soul, as in the case of these contes-
stants of the text when they had gone too
farwith their SPORT. All intelligent ages
have had their gatherings for political,
social, artistic, literary purposes-gath-
erings characterized by the blunt old
AngloeSaxon designation Of '.club. %
Famous Clubs.
IF you have read history, you know
that there was a Kings Head club,
Ben .Jonson club, Brothers club, to
which Swift and Bolingbroke belonged;
a. Literary club, which Burke and Gold
smith and johnson and Boswell made
Immortal Jacobin club, Benjamin
Franklin Junto club-some of these to
indicate justice, some to favor the arts,
some: to promote good manners, some to
despoil sthe habits, some to destroy the
soul. .IfxOne will write an honest history
of the clubs of England, Ireland, Scot
land, France and the United States for
the last 100 years, he will write the his
tory Of the world. The club was an in
,stitution born on English soil, but it
has thrived we'll in American atmos-
phere. Who shall tell how many belong
TO that kind of club where men put
purses together and open house, appor-
stioning the expense of caterer and serv-
ants and room; and having sort of do
mestic establishment-a.s style of club
house, which in my opinion is far better
than the ordinary hotel or boarding
house? sButasny object now is to speak Of
Lighthouses of a different sort, such as
the Cosmos cor Chevy Chase or Lincoln
club Of this capital, or the Union
Leagues OF, many cities, the United Serv-
ace club of London, the Lotos of New
York, where journalists, dramatists,
Sculptors, painters and artists from all
branches gather together to discuss
newspapers, theaters and elaborate art;
like the Americas, which. camps out in
Summer time, dimpling the pool with
ITS hook and arousing the forest with its
stag hunt ;.likeGhe Century club, which
has its large group of venerable lawyers
and poets; like the Army and Navy
club, where those who engaged.in war
Like service onceaen the land or the sea
nowseome together to talk over the days
a>R 10 <ho NJ
club, with its floating palaces of beauty
upholstered with velvet and paneled
with ebony, having all the advantages
Of electric bell and Of gaslight and Of
king s ipantry, one pleasure boat costing
s. 900, another $4,000, another $780,
900, another $65, 900, the fleet of
pleasure boats belonging to the club
having cost over $4,000, 900; like
the American Jockey club, to which
belong men who have passionate fond
ness for horses, fine horses, as had Job
when, in the Scriptures. he gives US a
sketch of that king of beasts, the arch
OF its neck, the nervousness of it's foot,
the majesty Of its gait, the whirlwind
OF its power, crying out: "Hast thou
clothed his neck with thunder? The
glory Of hisnostrils is terrible. He paw
eth in the valley and rejoieeth in his
strength. He saith among the itrumpets
-Ha, hal and he smelleth the battle
afar off, the thunder of the captains and
the shouting" like the Travellers club,
the Blossom club. the Palette ckub the
Commercial club, the Liberal clnb the
Stable Gang club, the Amateur Boat
club, the gambling clubs, the wine
clubs, the clubs Of all sizes. the clusos of
all morals, clubs as good as good can be
and clubs as bad as bad can be-cauhs
1nnumerable. During the day they are
comparatively lazy places. Here and