The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-08-25

is the soft-handed, soft-headed du ,
who, perfumed until the air is actual
~ sick, spends the summer in striking
killing attitudes, and waving zen J.
mentala dieux, and talking infinitesima Al
nothings, alnd finding his heaven in
the set of lavender kid glove. Boots
as tight as an inquisition. Two hours
of consummate skill exhibited In the
tie OF flashing cravat. His eonversa.
ton made up Of "Ahsl" and "ohsi"
and "He hest"
There is only one counterpart 10 such
a man as that, and that is the frothy
young woman at the watering place ; /;
her conversation made up of French
moonshine: what she has in her head
only equaled by what she has on her
back; useless ever since she was born.
and TO be useless until she is dead. I'M
less she becomes an intelligent Chris
tian. We may admire music and fair
faces and graceful step; but amid the
heartlessness and the initiation and the
fantastic influences of our modern wa.
tering places beware how you make
lifelong covenants.
Another temptation lowering ali
around our watering places is intoxi.
eating beverages. am told that ii is
becoming more and more fashionable
for women TO drink. | care not how
well a woman may dress, il she has
taken enough of wine to flush her
cheek and put glassiness on her eve.
she is drunk. She may be handed into
a $4,000 carriage and have diamonds
enough TO astound the Tiifanys--she is
drunk. 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 10 her that she is econ
vivial' or she is "merry" or she is "fes-
tive" or she is "eNhilarated." but YOU
cannot with all your garlands of YER
biage cover up the plain fact that it
il an old-fashioned case of drunk.
Now, the watering places are full OF
temptations to men and women 10 tip
pie. At the close of the tenpin or bill
lard game they tipple. At the close Of
the cotillion they tipple. Seated on
the piazza cooling themselves of thoy
tipple. The tinged glasses come around
with bright straws and they tipple
First they take light Wines" "a thty
call them, but Eight wines" are heavy
clough to debase the appetite. The-c
is no; very long road between chan
pIgne at five dollars a bottle and Will
Ky at ten cents a glass. Satan has thTSe
or four grades down which he taxi
men TO destruction. One man he tal9s
into sternal darkness. That is a rare
case. Very seldom indeed can you find
a man who will be such fool as thai.
Satan will take another man to a grade,
to n descent at an angle about like the
Pennsylvania coal shoot or the Mount
Washington rail track, and shove him !
Oft. But this is very rare. When al
brings him TO a plane. 1t is almost a
level. The depression Is so slight that
you can hardly see it. The mar does
not actually know that he is on the
down grade, and il tips only little
toward darkness-just a little. And the
first mile il is claret and the second mile |
il is sherry and the third mile it is
punch and the fourth mile it Is ale |
and the fifth mile IL is whisky and the |
sixth mile it is brandy, and then it gets
sleeper and sleeper and sleeper, unit, |
il is impossible TO stop. Look not thor |
upon the wine when it is red. when il |
giveth its color in the cup, when il
moveth itself Alright. At the last il
biteth like a serpent and stingeth Ike
an adder"
Whether you tarry at home-whch
will be quite as safe and perhaps quite
as comfortable-or go into the country,
arm yourself against temptation. The
grace of God is the only safe shelter.
whether in town or country. There are
places accessible to all Of US.
You cannot open a book Of the Bible
ing place. Fountains open for sin and
Wells OF salvation.
Streams from Lebanon. 4 food struck
out of the rock by Moses. Fountains
in the wilderness discovered by IIagar.
Water TO drink and water TO battle in.
The river of God, which is full of water.
Water OF which il man drink he shall
never thirst. Wells OF water in the val
Icy of Baca. Living fountains OF water.
pure river Of water as clear as crys-
tai from under the throne of Cod.
These are watering places accessible to
all OF us. We do not have laborious
packing up before we start-only The
throwing away of our transgressions.
No expensive hotel bills to pay; it Is
without money and without price,"
No long and dusty travel before We get
there; it is only one step away.
In California. in five minutes. ]
walked around and saw ten fountains
all bubbing up, and they were all diff
prent. and in five minutes / can go
through this Bible parterre and ind
you so bright, sparkling fountains bub-
bling up into eternal life-healing and ,,
therapeutic. A chemist will go 10 one
II those summer Watering places and
AXE the water and dnalyze il and tell
you that IL contains SO much OF ron ]
md so much of soda and so much of
ime and so much of magnesa. come
% this Gospel well. this living fountain.
md nnalVZp the water. and nd H. . | ]