The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-21
Need Of Vacations,

with trouble or oyerwork. they are ma
tional restoratives
Need of Vacations.
Let not the commercial firm hegrudge
the clerk. or the employer the journey
man, or the patient the physician, or the
church its pastor season OF inoccupa-
ton. Luther used to sport with his chill
dren; Edmund Burke used to caress his
favorite horse; Thomas Chalmers tn the
dark hour of the church's disruption,
played kite for recreation--so ! was told
by his own daughter-and the busy Christ
said to the busy apostles, Come We apart
awhile into The desert and rest your
selves" And have observed that they
who do not know how to rest do not
know how to work. But ! have to de-
clare this truth today-that some Of our
fashionable watering places are the tenn
poral and eternal destruction Of "a multi
tude that no man can NUMBER and amid
the congratulations Of this season and
the prospects of the departure Of many
of you for the country l must utter
warning plain, earnest and unmistaka-
be
The first temptation that is apt to
hover In this direction is to leave your
piety at home. You will send the dog
and cat and canary bird to be well cared
for somewhere else, but the temptation
will be to leave your religion in the room
with the blinds down and the doors bolt
ed, and then you will come back in the
autumn to find that 1t is starved and suf-
focated, lying stretched on the rug. stark
dead. There is no surplus of piety at
the watering places. ! never knew any
one to grow very rapidly in grace Mt the
Catskill Mountain House or Sharon
Springs or the Falls of Montmorency. 1t
Is generally the case that the Sabbath Is
more Of a carousal than any other day,
and there are Sunday walks and Sunday
rides, and Sunday excursions. Elders and
deacons and ministers Of religion who
are entirely consistent at home, some
times when the Sabbath dawns on them
ut niagara Falls or the White NOUN
tains take day to themselves. If they
20 to the church, 1t Is apt to be q sacred
parade, and the discourse, instead of be-
ing plain talk about the soul, Is apt to
be what Is called a crack sermon-that
is, some discourse picked out of the eff
fusions Of the year as the one most
adapted to excite admiration, and in
those churches, from the way the ladies
hold their fans, you know that they arc
not SO much impressed with the heat as
with the picturesQueness Of half disclos-
ed features. -Four puny souls stand in
the organ loft and squall a tune that no.
body knows. and worshipers, with $1,000
worth of diamonds on the right hand,
drop cent into the poor box, and then
the benediction Is pronounced. and the
farce is ended. The toughest thing l
ever tried to do was to be good at wa
tering place. The air Is bewtched with
the "world. the flesh and the devil"
There are Christians who, in three or
four weeks in such place, have had
such terrible rents made in their Chris
tian robe that they had to keep darning
1t until Christmas to get It mended.
Take the Bible Along.
The health of great many people
makes an annual visit to some mineral
spring an absolute necessity, but take
your Bible along with you, and take nm
hour for secret prayer every day, though
you be surrounded by guffaw and satur-
MALTA. Keep holy the Sabbath, though
they deride you as bigoted Puritan.
Stand of from gambling bells and those
other institutions which propose to jmi-
tate on this side the water the iniquities
of Baden.Baden. Let your moral and
your IMMORAL health keep pace with
your physical recuperation, and remem-
Der that all the sulphur and chalybeate
springs cannot do you 80 much good as
the healing, perennial food that breaks
forth from the Rock Of Ages" This
may be your last summer. If SO, make
It fit vestibue OF heaven.
Another temptation lowering around
nearly all our watering places is the
horse racing business We all admire
the horse, but we do not think that Its
beauty or speed ought to be cultured at
the expense of human degradation. The
horse race Is not Of such importance rs
the human race. The Bible intimates
that man Is better than sheep and |
suppose he Is better than a horse, though, |
like Jobs stallion. his neck be clothed |
with thunder. Horse races In olden times
were under the ban Of Christian people,
and In our day the same institution has |
come up under fictitious names. And 1t |
Is called q summer meeting" almost
suggestive Of positive religious exercises.
And It Is called an agricultural fair"
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