The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-21

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many easy books that are good. You
might a. wsil Say. II propose now to
give httk rest 70 ny digestive organs,
and instead at eating heavy NEST and
yessta blss will. for little while, take
lighter food-a little stryehnine and q
fsw grains Of ratsbane." Literary pol
son In August is as bad as literary pol
son In December. Mark that. Do not
let the frogs Of q corrupt printing press
Jump into your Saratoga trunk or White
mountain valise. Are there not good
books that are easy to read-books OF
entertaining travel; books Of congeniai
history; books Of pure fun; books Of Do
etry, ringing with merry canto; books OF
fine engrav wing; books that will rest the
mind as well as purify the heart and
elevate the whole life? There will not
be an hour between this and your death
when you can afford to read book Lack
ing in moral principle.
Dangers Of Intemperance.
Another temptation lowering oil around
our watering places is intoxicating bev-
erages. am told that It 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 a glassiness on
her eye, she Ia drunk. She mhy be
handed into $4,000 carriage and have
diamonds enough to astound the Tinanys
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 larger vocab-
ulary than have, and you may say In
regard to her that she 10 cornwall or
she Is ''merry" or she Is festive" 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
Of drunk.
Now, the watering places are full OF
temptations to men and women to tpple.
At the close Of the tenpin or billiard
game they tipple. At the close Of the
cotillon they tipple. Seated on the pi-
azza cooling themselves off they tipple.
The tinged glasses come around with
bright straws and they tipple. First
they take eight Wines" as they call
them, but eight wines" are heavy
enough to debase the appetite. There Is
not very long road between champagne
at IS q bottle and whisky at 10 cents
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 rare case. Very seldom
indeed can you find a man who will be
such fool as that. Satan will take
another man to grade, to descent at
an angle about like the pennsylvania
coal shoot or the Mount Washington rail
track, and shove him of. But this Is
very rare. When a man goes down to
destruction, satan brings him to plane.
1t is.almost 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
toward darkness-just little. And the
first mile 1t is claret and the second mile
1t is sherry and the third mile it is punch
aand the fourth mile it Is ale and the FIFTH
mile 1t is whisky and the sixth mile 1t is
brandy, and then it gets sleeper and
sleeper and sleeper until 1t Is impossi-
bic to stop. Look not thou upon the
wine when it is red, when 1t giveth its
color in the cup, when it moveth itself
Alright. At the last 1t biteth like SER
pent and stingeth like an adder.
The Only Safe Shelter.
Whether you tarry at home-which
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 watering
places accessible to all of us. You can
not open book Of the Bible without
finding out some such watering place.
Fountains open for sin and unceanness.
non. 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 water. Water of which
II man drink he shall never thirst
Wells OF water in the valley Of Baca.
Living 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 u.s. We do not
have a laborious packing up before we
.start-only the throwing away of our
trausgressions. 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 bub-
bling up, and they were all different, and
in five minutes l can 60 through this
Bible parterre and find you so bright, |
sparkling fountains bubbling up into
eternal life-healing and therapeutic. A
chemist will go to one OF these summer
watering places and take the water and
analyze it and tell you that it contains so
much Of iron and SO much of soda and
so much of lime and so much Of magne-
sia. l come to this gospel well, this liv-
ing fountain and analyze the water; and
l find that its ingredients are peace, par
don, forgiveness, hope, comfort, life,
heaven. "Ho, every one that thirsteth,
come We" to this watering place. Crowd
around this Bethesda. 0 you sick, you
lame, you troubled. you dying-crowd
around this Bethesda. Step in it, oh,
step in it. 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 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 carbuncled, stepped into
the Jordan, and after the seventh dive
came up, his skin roseate complexioncd
as the flesh of little child.
Courageous Parent Mice.
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