The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-08-26
SIMMER VACATIONS.
.. Talmage Draws Some Lessons
from Our Annual Outings.
.,. and Temptations That SUR
md oar Watering Places
necessity of "a Period of
Inoccupation.
,,,,yrlrht, 1893, by Louis Klopschl
w. MashImgLon.

his season of the year, when all
cop get a vacation are taking ii,
W." WV discourse OF DR., Talmage is sug-
'" Tive and appropriate, The text is
Etn s,g. Q: "a pool, which is called
''" ,be Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having
~, norches. In these lay great multi
p,J If impotent folk, of blind, halt,
,,bcred. waiting for the moving Of the
water
.os n sanatiye watering place, the pop
,ar resort for invalids. TO this day
,sare Is a dry basin of rock which shows
'rat there may have been pool there
.'s feet long, 1870 feet wide and IS feet
,.sn This pool was surrounded by five
,i,Izas. or porches, or bathing houses,
'Eore the patients tarried until the
,,.,o when they were TO step into the
Ter So far as reiuvigurating was
aoorned. it must have been a Sara
,,ro and a Long Branch on a small
,olo. a bennington and Brighton
,,,blped-medical and therapeutic,
|T-,dltlon SAYS that at certain season
a fine year there was an officer of the
Ir,rprnmcnt who would go down to that
s,',tcr and pour in it some healing quail
,,r and after that the people would
,rme aud get the medication. But |
,-cfer the plain statement OF Scripture,
,bot at a certain season an angel came
down and stirred up or troubled the wa
,er. and then the people came and got
,be healing. That angel of God that
stirred up the Judaean watering place
had his counterpart in the angel of heal
mo who, in our day, steps isto themin-
srol waters Of Congress or Sharon or
sulphur Springs, or into the salt sea at
Ic,pe Navand Nahant, where multitudes
who are worn out with commercial and
professional anNieties, as well as those
who are afflicted with rheumatic, neu-
ragic and splenetic diseases, go and are
nred bv the thousands. These blessed
Rethesdas are scattered all up and down
our country.
We are at a season of the year when
rail trains are laden with passengers
and baggage on their way to the noun
tajns and the lakes ald the seashore.
|lmItitudes of our citizens are away for
restorative absence. The city heats
are pursuing the people with torch and
fear Of sunstrol,e. The long, silent halls
of sumptuous hotels are all abuzz with
excited arrivals. The antlers of Adiron-
lack deer rattle under the shot of city
sportsmen, the trout make fatal snap at
the hook of adroit sportsmen, who toss
their spotted brilliants into the game
basket: the baton of the orches trail lead |
In taps the music stand on the hotel |
green. and American life has put on
festal array, and the rumblug Of the
tenpin alley, and the crack of the ivory |
balls on the green-baized billiard tables,
and the iolting of the barroom goblets, /
ard the explosive uncorking Of the
champagne bottles, and the whirl and .
the rustic of the ballroom dance, and |
the Gathering hoofs of the race courses |
and other signs of social dissipation at /
lest that the season for the great Amer
lean watering places is in full play.
Music Flute and drum and cornet-a-
piston and clipping cymbals wake the
echoes of the mountains. Glad am |
that fagged-out American life for the
most part has an opportunity to rest
and that nerves racked and destroyed
;vill find a Bethesda. / believe in water
Ing places, They recuperate for active
service many who were worn out with
trouble or overwork. They are nation
81 restoratives.
Letnot the commercial firm begrudge
the clerk, or the employer the journey
man, or the patient the physician, or the
'hurch its pastor a season of iuoccupa-
ion. Luther used to sport with his
hidren; Edmund Burke used to caress
bis fayorite horse; Thomas Chalmers,
n the dark hour of the church's disrup
ion, played kite for recreation-so [
vas told by his own daughter-and the
luSy Christ said to the busy apostles:
Tome We apart awhile into the desert
md rest yourselves" And | have OBJ
Pryed that they who do not know how
rest do not know how TO work. But
have TO declare this truth to-day-that
ONE of our fashionable watering places
re the temporal and eternal destruc-
ION of "a multitude that no man can
lumber, and amid the congra tulations
L THIS season ana the prospects of the
eparture of many of you for the coun-
Iy must utter warning, plain, ear
est and unmist 2kable.
The first emptation that is apt 10
over in this direction is to leave your
'etY at home. You will send the dog
nd cat and canary bird to be well cared
Or somewhere else, but the temptation
I'll be to leave your religion in the
'om with the blinds down and the
oors bolted, and then you will come
ick IN the autumn to find that it is
arved and suffocated, lying stretched
the rug, stark dead. There is no sur
JUS OF plety at the watering places. l
ever knew anyone to grow very rapid
IN grace az the Catsllill Mountain
'use or Sharon Springs or the Falls of
ontmorency. It is generally the case
at the Sabbath is more of carousal
an any other day, and there are Sun
" walks. and Sunday rides, and Sun
y excursions. Elders and deacons
ID ministers of religion who are en- !,
Iey consistent at home, sometimes
pen the Sabbath dawns on them at
'agara falls or the White mountains
ne day to themselves. If they go
tne church, it is apt to be a sacred a
raoe' and the discourse, instead of be-
plain talk about the soul, is apt to
"hat is called a crack sermon-that
some discourse picked out of the eff d
SONS OF the year as the one most
aped to excite admiration, and in a
use churches, from the way the ladies y