Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-31
they had to keep darning it until
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your Bible along with you, and take an
| hour for secret prayer every day,
though you be surrounded by guffaw
ana saturnalia. Keep holy the Sab
bath, though they deride you as big
oted Puritan. Stand off from gam
bling bells and those other institutions
which propose to initiate on this side
the water the iniquities of Baden-Ba-
den. Let your moral and your immor-
tai health keep pace with your physi-
cal recuperation, and remember that
all the sulphur and chalybeate springs
cannot do you so much good as the
healing perennial flood that breaks
forth from the Rock of Ages" This
may be your last summer. If so, make
it fit vestibule 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 impor-
lance as the human race. The Bible
| intimates that man is better than a
| sheep, and l suppose he Is better than
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 ssC,poD,ar almost
| i've of positive religious exercises. And
| it is called an agricultural fair" sug-
| gestive of everything that is improving
in the art Of farming. But under these
| deceptive titles are the same cheating
and the same betting and the same
drunkenness and the same vagabond-
| age and the same abomination that
were to be found under the old horse
racing system.
Long ago the English government
got through looking to the turf for
| the dragon and the light-cavalry
| horse. They found out that the turf
| depreciates the stock; and it Is worse
yet for men. Thomas Hughes, the men,
Der of parliament and the author
known all the world over, hearing that
a new turf enterprise was being start
ed in this country, wrote a letter in
which he said: Heaven help you,
then; for of all the cankers of our
old civilization there is nothing in this
country approaching in unblushing
meanness, in rascality holding it's head
high, to this belauded institution of
the British turf" Another famous
sportsman writes: How many fine
domains have been shared among
these hosts of rapacious sharks during
the last 200 years; and unless the sys-
tenn be altered, how many more are
doomed to fall into the same gulf"
With the bull fights of Spain and the
bearbaitings of the pit, may the Lord
God annihilate the infamous and ac-
cursed horse racing of England and
America!
Now, the watering-places are full of
temptations to men and women to tip
pie. At the close of the ten-pin or bill
lizard game, they tipple. At the close
of the cotillon, they tipple. Seated
on the piazza cooling themselves off,
they tipple. The tinged glasses come
around with bright straws, and they
tipple. First, they take light wines, "
as they call them; but light wines"
are heavy enough to debase the appe-
tite. There is not very long road
between champagne at five dollars a
bottle and whisky at ten cents a glass.
Satan has three or four grades down
which he takes men to destruction.
One man he takes up, and through one
spree pitches him into eternal dark
ness. That is a rare case. Very sell
dom, indeed, can you find a man who
will be such fool as that. Satan will
take another man to grade, to a de-
scent at an angle about like the Penn
sylvania coal-chute or the Mount
Washington rail-track, and shove him
off. But that is very rare. When a
man goes down to destruction, Satan
brings him to a plane. 1t is almost a
level. The depression is so slight that
you can hardly see it. The man does
not actually know that he is on the
down grade, and it tips only little to-
ward total darkness-just little. And
the first mile it is claret, and the sec
ond mile it is sherry, and the third
mile it is punch, and the fourth mile
it is ale, and the fifth mile it is whisky,
and the sixth mile it is brandy, and
then it gets sleeper and sleeper and
sleeper, until it is impossible to stop.
Look not thou upon the wine when
| it is red, when it giveth it's color in the
cup, when it moveth itself Alright. At
the last it biteth like a serpent, and
stingeth like an adder"
Whether you tarry at home-which
| will be quite as safe, and perhaps quite
as comfortable-or 60 into the country,
arm yourself against temptation. The
grace of God is the only safe shelter,
whether in town or country. There are
watering-p places accessible to all of us.
| You cannot open a book of the Bible
| without finding out some such water
| ing place. Fountains open for sin and
uncleanness. Wells of salvation.
Streams from Lebanon. A food struck
out of the rock by Moses. Fountains
| in the wilderness discovered by Hagar.
| Water to drink and water to battle In.
The river of God, which is full of wa
ter Water, of which If man drink
he shall never thirst. Wells OF water
in the Valley Of Baca. Living foun-
tains 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 laborious packing up before