Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1899-09-07
Oa. iALhAGt'S SERMON.
oOp,ARsD ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG
xND GID.

HND OLU.
.,tfect. iGvice For the Vacation-Take
the Bile AIonG-Pleasure Seekers Ad-
aoni4lled Not TO Leave Religion Be
L.ll-TemptatiOns at Watering Places.
rr rignt, Louis KIoTsch. 1891
r. TON, D. C.-At this season q
gar F.leu all who can get vacation
a- - it, this discourse Of DR.. Tal.
,oe .gestive aud appropriate. Tho
tay II 1@an y, 2, 3: "A pool, which is
ca.a II the Hebrew tongue Bethesda,
tar.GrI.r- p1rches. In these lay a great
nglitnar of impotont folk, Of blind, halt.
wtaer4' waiting for the moving Of the
C4..i TAO citysof Jerusalem there was
se.native watering place, the popular re-
IN. for riDvalids. To this day there is =
,lr. Fa-ia ot r5cl which shows that cher,
M It.yr been pool there 800 feet long,
f3 .st Ti!e ani seventy-hve feet Geep.
rHte was surrounded Dy five piazzas,
cri ts,- Or bathing houses. where tho
I... - ttrrieI until the time when they
E. ,7-tep INTO tile water. 50 far az re-
i ration was concerned it mus st have
aas .rltoga and Long Branch on q
.l4 .ia, bennington and a Brighton
medical and therapeutic. Ira
avs that at certain season Of tho
was an officer Of the govern
o @lo would 90 down to that water and
/, -5me healing quality, and after
ta people would como and get tho
.i,u but | prefer the plain state
,a.l scripture that at n certain season
G angel came down and stirred up or
e.i the water, and then tho people
al@1t the healing. That angel os
tsr tirred up the Judaean watering
IH lad bis counterpart III tho angel Of
Aaa ill.,. Who in our day steps into the min
el.i I.atfS Of Congress, or Sturon, or Sui
.gt,N iri. 4 l,n u
M4 a4i Nahant, whore multitudes who
III ri out with commercial and profess
II sa aIvicties as we'll as those who aro
at@s..l W!th rheumatic, neuralgia and
reuetie Diseases, go and are cured by the
IL .saal-. These blessed Bethcsdas arc
'teeed al up and down our country.
ac a~a ct season OF tho year when rail
tril arl laden with passengers and bag
ga9 their way to the mountains and tho
M.ls aad the seushOre. Iultitudes of our
c.'2.s are away for restorative alb
e4tr. Iho city heats arc pursuing the
iealia with torch and fear of 5unstrole.
l-e org, silent halls OF sumptuOus hotels
ar all abuz3 with excited arrivals. The
&.. r- Of Adirondack deer rattle under
t.a shot Ok city spOrtamen. Tho trout make
fatal map ut the hook Of adroit sport smen,
Ta3to, their spotted hritliance into tho
gasne basket. The baton Of the orchestral
leader tap5 the music stand on tho hotel
green, and American life has put on festal
arry altd the rumbling OF the n-pin
aliaI. ana tho cracl; Of the ivory balls on
TIE green baized billiard tables, and the
10ltt"- # the barroom goblctS, and the eX<
Iia-iYa uncorking, Of the champagne bot
tlc-. and the whirl and the rustic Of the
Gar99;n dance, and tho clattc1luE hoofs
ot TIE race course and other signs of social
d!-sipation attest that the season for the
great American watering place is in full
play Music Flute and drum and cornet-
~, Is tt,n
eea - Of the mountains. Glad am that
tagged out American life for the most part
ia, an opportunity to rest and that nerves
ratia1 and destroyed will find a Bethesda.
believe in watering places. They
reeapcrate for active service many who
were worn out with trouble or overwork.
Iaev arc national restorativeS. Let not
Il, commercial firm begrudge tho clerk,
Or the employer the journeyman, or the
rtt.-Ht tho physician, or the church its
PASTOR II season of inOccupation. Luther
GstI to sport with his children; Edmund
Burke usel to carcss his favorlto horse;
Taama4 Chalmers, in the dark hour Of tho
caarrh5 disruption, played kite for
tredt1L-so I was told by his own dauSh-
Ir-;L,d the busy Christ said to the busy
GIe-tes, "Cone ye,apart awhile into tho
le-art and rest yourselves" And [ have
Observed that they who do not know how to
r.st 10 not know how to work. But l have
our fashionable watering places are the
temporal and eternal destruction OF "a
multitude that no man can number" ana
G.il the congratulations OF this season
an the prospect Of the departure Of many
g! you for the country must utter warn
!1-, plain, earnest and untntstakable
IAn rst temptation that Is apt to hover
L. t.i. direction is to leave your piety at
AeHe. You will send the dog and cat and
Canary bird to be we'll cared for somewhere
e.-e, u tho temptation VII be to leave
[oag religion in the room with the binds
WI anu the door bolted, and then you
via '3me back in the autumhto lind that
4 i starved and suff0cated. lying stretched
o,taerug stark dead. There is no sur
III, o. lictv at the watering places. l
1eYsr knew any one to Srow very rapidly
lEerlae at the Catskill Mountain House,
ofsaaEon springs, or the talls or Mont
7 raAev. 1t is gonorally the case that the
Saa. 4ta Is more Of q car0usal than any
ota 3av and there are sunday walks and
So lax rides and Sunday excursions
-3ar ana deacons and ministers OF rellE-
- Mo dre entirely consistent at nome
AttEle5 when the Sabbath daWns on
ts1 II Niagara Falls or the White Noun
la..~ tako day to themselves. ltthey 50
L t-e church. it is apt to be u sacred pa
faia, and the discourse, instead OF being G
b.a.a talk about the soul, Is apt to ps
F.at is called crack sermon--that Is
DISCOURSE pickeu OUT OF Tue ell
g. '-e year as the ono most adapted TO ex
ei," admiration, and in those churches
II Z the way the ladies hold their fans
y61 Know that they are not 50 much i'm
Pressed with the heat as with the pic
tGre>4aenes of half disclosed features
Jar puny souls stand in the organ lot
aa3 s!a.u tune that nobody knows, an'
"rssiYers with $4,000 worth Of diamond
s@ raa right hand drop cent into tn
sox. ana then the benediction IS Pro
!. l4ce!, ana tho farce is endcd. IN
highest thing ever tried 10 do was to b
t51 At Watering place. The air Is be
VI. ael with the world, the llesh and til
"ss,. There are Christians who IN tare
- i4Gr weeks IL such q place have ia
>a,A terrible rents male in their Chris
's robe that they had TO keep darnlnS
l4tA Christmas 10 ger it ,nendei.
1ae health Of a great many pe0Q.
makes an annual visit 70 some nlincrf
SFyinG an absolute necessity, but take You
ti..e along with you ana take an hour fo
seeTut prayer every day, though you Z
;,lrroundel ~ gufraw. and saturnaii5
aeep holy the SABBATH, though they derld 4
You as a biSoteI Puritan. stand OF fro!
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