Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-08-26
TAKE A BIBLE ALONG.
-nP. TALMAGe DlscouRsEs ON SUM-
MER VACATIONS.
Admonishes the Pleasure Seekers
Not to Leave Religion behiho'
Temptations Abound at Watering

Ndmonishes the Pleasure Seekers
Not to Leave Religion Behind.
VemYtntions Abound at Watering
YinceS.
lcopyrieh,. Louis Klopsch. 1891
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.-At this sea-
son of the year, when all who can get
vacation are taking ii, this discourse
of DR.. Talnage is suggestive and ap-
nrcprate. The text is john V, ,, 3: a
pool. which is called In the Hebre"
toncue Bethesda, having five porcheS.
in these lay great multitude OF I'M
polent folk, of blind, halt, wltllered,
waiting for the moving of the water.
Outside the city of Jerusalem there
was n sanntivc watering place, the
popular resort for invalids. 10 this
,lay there Is q dry basin OF rock wliich
shows that there may have been Il
pool there EGO feet long. 100 feet wide
and IS feet deep. This pool was sur
rounded by FIVE piaZZas, or porches' OF
bathing houses, where the putlents TAR
Rod until the time when they were 10
step into the water So far as rein
vigoratlon was concerned II must nave
hcrn Saratoga and Long Branch on
Il small scale, bennington AMI Il
Brighton umblned-mcd!cnl and thern-
pcutic. Tradition says that ut a GER
tain season Of the year there WAS IN
officer of the government who would
20 down to that water and pour In it
some healing quality. and after that
the people would come and get the
medication. but prefer the plain
statement Of Scripture that at n GER
tain season an angel came down and
stirred ND or troubled the water, anu
then the people came and go, the heal
ing. That angel OF God that stirred up
the Judacan watering pncc had his
counterpart in the angel of healing
who in our day steps into the mineral
waters, OF Congress. or Sharon. or Sui
phur Springs or into The salt sen Ill
Cane May and Nahaiit. where multi
tudes who are worn OF; with CONNER
clal and professional anXirt!"s. as well
as those who are afflicted with rEcu
matte. neuralgia and Splcnrtt. dis
eases, 20 and are currii lay tn" thou
sands. These blessed Et'ar."!ns a'r
scattered all UP aud down our country.
The Vacation sea.on.
We arc nj season OF tar gear when
rai trains are laden with l:!lsacngcrS
and baggage on their way &c tlr moth
tains and the lakes and the scaShore
sIult!tudes of our citizens are away
for a restorative absence. The city
heats are pursuing the people with
torch and fear Of sunstroke The long,
silent halls of sumptuous hotels are all
ahnZZ with excited arrivals The
:;iti.us ii Adirondack deer rattle un-
der the shot of city sDortsmcn. Tile
trout MAKE fatal snap 1T The nook or
adroit sncrtsmcn. who toss their spot
led br!!i!ancc into the game basket.
The baton of the orchestral leader taps
fine music sand on the hotel green,
and American life has put on festal
array. ind the rumblinS of the ten
Din alley, nld the crack OF the ivory
balls OH the green pniZed billiard Ia
bicS. aud the jolting of the barroom
col.icts. and the explosive uncoriing OF
The champagne bottles, and the whlrl
and the rustic Of the ballroom dance,
and the gathering hoofs of the race
course and other signs Of social dis
slpati0n attest that the season for the
great American watering places is In
full play. Music! Flute and drum
and piston and slapping Gym
balls wake the echoes OF the mountains.
Glad am / that tagged out American
life for the most part has an oppor-
tun;ty to rest and that nerves racked
and destroyed will find n Bethesda.
I believe In watering places. They
recuperate for active service many
who were worn out with trouble or
overwork They are national restora-
tives. Let not the commercial firm be-
grudge the clerk. or tile employer the
journeyman, or the patient the physi-
clan, or the church It's pastor, season
of inoccupation. Luther used TO sport
with his children; Edmund Burke used
TO careSs his favorite horse; Thomas
Chalmers, in the dark hour of the
churchs disruption. played kite for
recreation-so was told by his own
daughter-and the busy Christ said to
the busy apostles, Come ye 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
declare this truth today that some of
our fashionable watering places are
the temporal and eternal destruction of
"a multitude that no man can num-
ber," and amid the congratulations OF
this season and the prospect Of the de-
parture of many of YOU for the country
l must utter warning, plain, earnest
ard unmistakable.
Take Piety Along.
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 re-
ligion In the room with the blinds
down and the door bolted, and then
you will come back in the autumn to
find that it Is starved and suffocated,
lying stretched on the rug stark dead
There is no surplus of piety at the wa,
tering places. never knew any one
10 grow very rapidly in grace at the
Catskill Mountain House. or Sharon
Springs. or the Falls Of Montnorency
Ii is generally the case that the Sab
bath is more Of n carousal than any
other day. and there are Sunday walks
and Sunday rides and Sunday excur-
sons. Elders and deacons and minis
tiers OF religion who are entirely con-
sistent at home. sometimes when the
Sabbath dawns on them at Niagara
Falls or the White mountains, take a
day to themselves. If they 20 to the
church, it is apt to be sacred parade,
and the discourse, instead of being a