The Penn's Grove record., 1899-08-25

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gulf" With the b~ullfghts OF Spain and
the bear baitlngs OF the pit may the Lord
God annlhilate the Infamous and ~aecursed
horse racing OF England and Americal
Another temptation lowering around the
watering place is tho formation of hasty
and lifelong alliances. The Watering
places are responsible for more OF the
domestic Infelicities OF this country than
nearly NIL other things combined. Society
Is so artificial there that no sure Judgment
OF character can be formed. They who
form comprehensive amid such circum.
stances &c into a lottery where there are
twenty blanks to one prize. In the severe
tug OF life you want more than glitter and
splash. Life is not n ballroom, where the
music decides the step and bow and prance
and graceful swing Of long train can make
up Tor strong common sense. You might az
well &c among the gayly painted yachts oil
n summer regatta to lind war vessels az
togo among the light spray Of the summer
watering place to find character that
can stand the test of the great strug-
gle of human life. In the battle Of life
you want a stronger weapon than a lace
fan or a croquet nallet. The load of life
is so heavy that in order to draw 1t you
want a team stronger than hat made up
OF a masculine g~rasshopper and q feminine
butterfly. II there is any man in the com.
munity who excites my contempt and who
ought to excite the contempt OF every man
anil woman it Is the soft handed, soft
headed dude, who, |perfumed until the air
is actually sick, spends his summer in.
striking killing attitudes and waving sentif
mental adleuX and talking innniteslm1
no.hings and finding his heaven in the sd
Of n lavender kid glove. Boots as tight 4
I'M inquisition. Two hours OF ~consummat
skill exhibited in the tie of n flashing era
vat. His conversation made up OF "Ahs!"
and "0hsl" and "He hesl''
There is only one counterpart to such a
man as that, and that Is the frothy young
woman at the watering place; her CONVEX
sation made up of French moonshine; what
she has In her head only equaled by what
she had on her back; useless ever since she
was born and to be useless until she Is dead
unless she becomes an intelligent Chris
tian. We may admire music and fair faces
and graceful step, but amid the heartle-s-
ness and the initiation and the fantastic
influences OF our modern watering places
beware how you make lifelong covenants.
Another temptation that hovers over ths
watering place Is that OF baneful litera-
ture. Almost every one starting off for
the summer takes some reading matter,
There is more pestlferous trash real among
the intelligent classes In July and August
than In all the other ten months Of the
year, Men and women who at home would
not be satisfied with a book that was not
really sensible find sitting on hotel piazza
or under the trees reading books the index
of which would make them blush II they
knew that you knew what the book was.
"Oh," they say, you must have intel
lectual recreationl" Yes. There is no need
that you take along to n watering place
"Hamilton's Metaphysics" orsome ponder
Gus discourse on the eternal DEGREES or
"Faraday's Philosophy" There are many
easy books TINT are good. You might as
well say, II propose now to give a lit
tie rest to my digestive organs, and in
stead Of eating heavy meat and vegetables
l will for n little while take lighter food, a
little strychnine and n few grains of rats
bane." Literary poison in August is as
bad as literary poison in December. Mark
that. Do not let the frogs of q corrupt
printing press jump into your Saratoga
or White Mountain valise. Are there
not good books that are easy to read
books of entertaining travel, books of con-
genial history, books of pure fun, books Of
poetry, ringing with merry canto; books of
line engravings, books that will test the
mine as well us ~pENSythe hear, and ele-
yate. b -MhhG41sfife2 There will not ~ an
hour between this and your death when
you can afford to read a book Hacking HI
moral principle.
Another temptation lowering all around
our watering places is Intoxicating bever-
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and more fashionable for women to drink.
care not how well u woman may dress, il
she has taken enough of the wine to flush
cheek and put u glasSiness on her eye
she is drunk. She may be handed into q
52500 carriage and have diamonds enough
to astound the T~iffanys'-she is Trunk.
She may be a graduate of the best young.
ladies' seminary and the daughter of some
man in danger of being nominated for the
presidency-she is drunk. You may have
a larger vocabulary than | have, and you
may say in regard to her that she is ICON
yiyial," or she is merry" or she is "fes-
tive or she is "exhilarated," but you
cannot with all your garlands OF verbiage
cover up the plain fact that 1t is an Old
fashioned case nj drunk.
Whether you tarry at home-which Will
be quite us safe and perhaps quite as com
go into the country, arm your
self against tempt ton. The grace OF God
Is the only safe shelter, wheth r in town
or country. There are watering places
accessible 10 all of us. You cannot open
a book OF the Bible without finding out
such watering place. Fountains
open for sin and uncleanness. Wells OF
sal alton. Streams from Lebanon. A
food struck out OF the rock by Moses.
Fountains in the wilderness discovered
by Hasar. Water to drink and water
to battle in. The river of God,
which is full of water. Water of
which If a man drink he shall never thirst.
Wells OF water In the valley oil Baea' LILY.
ing fountains of water. A pure river OF
water as clear as crystal from under the
throne of God. These are watering places
accessible to all of US. We do not have q
laborious packing up before we start-only
the throwing away OF our transgressions.
No expensive hotel bills to pay. II Is
"without money and without price" No
long and dusty travel before we get there.
1t is only one step away.
In California in five minutes l walked
around and saw ten fountains all %bubbllng
and they we're all different, and in 1--WE
minutes l can go through this Bible par
terre and find you fifty bright, sparkling
fountains bubbling up into eternal lie
healing and therapeutic. chemist VIII go
to one of these summer watering places
and take the water, and analyze it,and tell
you it contains so much OF iron, and so much
OF soda, and so much OF line, and so much
OF magnesia. | come to this gospel well,
this living fountain, and analyze the water,
and | find that its ingredients are peace, par
dor, forgiveness hope, comfort, life, heaven:
'fHo, every one that thirsteth, come ye,
to this watering place! crowd around
this Bethesda. Oh, you sick, you lame,
you troubled, you dying, crowd around
this Bethesda Step in it, oh, step in III
The angel of the covenant to-day stirs the
water. Why do you not step in it? Some
of you are too weak to take a step In that
direction. Then we take you up In the
arms of PRAYER and plunge you clear under
the wave, hoping that the cure may be as
sudden and as radical as with Captain
Naaman, who, blotched and carbuneled,
stepped into the Jordan, and after the sew
entl dive came up, his skin roseate com
plexioned as the flesh Off little child,
NO LAYING ON OF HANDS.
Chicago Justice Restricts Faith Curlsts to
Faith Alone.