The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-08-25
TAKE A BIBLE ALONG.
Or. TALMAGE olScoURSES ON SUM-
MER VACATIONS.
Admonishes the Pleasure Seekers
Not to Leave Religion Behind.
Temptations AbOund Rt Watering
Places.

Not to Leave Religion BcLind.
Temptations Abousd mt Watering
Places.
copyright. Louis Klopsch. 1899
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.-.At this sea-
son OF the year, when all who can get
o vacation are taking it. this discourse
Of DR.. Talmage is suggestive and ap-
propriate. The text is John V, =. B: ~
pool. which is called in the Hebrew
tongue Bethesda, having five porchc3
In these lay great multitude of i'm
potent folk, of blind. halt. withcrcd,
waiting for the moving OF the water"
Outside the city of Jerusalem there
was 4 sanat.vc watering place, the
popular resort for iuval.dS. To this
day there is Il dry basin of roc; which
shows that there may have Eccn Il
pool there go feet loEg. 100 feet wide
and - feet deep. This pool was sur
rounded by five piaZzas. or porchcs. or
bathing houses. where the patients tar
ried until the time when they were To
step into the water. SO far as rein
vlgoration was concerned it must have
been n Saratoga and Long Branch on
small scale. Il bennington and
Brighton combincd-mcdical and thcva-
peutlc. Tradition says that at Il crr-
tain season Of the year there was an
officer Of the government who would
60 down to that water and pour in Il
some healing quality. and after that
the people would come and get the
medication. tut | prefer the plain
statement of Scripture that at 4 GER
tain season an angel came down and
stirred up or troubled the water, and
tben the people came and go, til" heal
ing. That angel of GC;l that stirred up
the Judacan watering place 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 sea IT
Cape May and Nahant, where multi
tudcs who are worn oUt with CONNER
cinl and professional anXietics. as well
ns those who arc afflicted with rhCu.
matte, neuralgia and splcnc;ic dis
cases, go and are cured by the thou
sands. These blessed Bcthcsdas are
scattered all up and down our country.
The Vacation Season.
We are Mt n season or the year when
rail trains arc laden with passengers
and baggage on their way to the noun
tains and the lakes and the scashora.
Mnltitudcs OF our citizens are away
for n restorative absence. The city
heats are pursuing the people with
torch and fear of Sunstrokc The long,
silent halls OF SumptuouS hotels are al
abuZZ with excited arrivals. The
antlers of Adirondack deer rattle un-
der the shot Of city sportSmcn. The
trout make fatal snap 1T the hook Of |
adroit sportsmcn, who toss their spot |
ted brilliance into the game basket |
The baton OF the orchestral lender taps |
the music stand on the hotel green,
and American life has put on fcStal |
array, and the rumbling of the ten.
pin alley. and the crack of the ivory
balls Oh til" green baizcd billiard ta-
bles, and the joltinS of the barroom
goblets. and the explosive uncorking of
the champagne bottles, and the whirl
and the rustic oc the ballroom dance,
md the Gathering hOofs of the race
course and other signs OF social dis
sipation attest that the season for the
great American watering places is in
full play. Music, Flute and drum
and cornct-a- piston and slapping Gym
balls wake the echoes of the mountains.
Glad am I that tagged out American
life for the most part has an oppor-
tunity to rest and that nerves rnckcd
mud destroyed will find Bethesda.
l believe in watering places. They
recupcratc for active service many
WHO We're worn out with trouble or
Svcrwork. They are national rcstora-
q, 4 4.
gr,lige the clerk. or the employer the
1ourncyinaB, or thn patient the phySi-
clan. or the church lis astor, Il season
Of inOccupation. Luther USED TO sport
with his children; Edmund Burke used
80 CarcSS his favoritc horse: Thomas
Chalmers, in the dark hour Of tbs
church's disruption, played Kite for
racrcatinp-S" ! was told by his own
dauGhter-and the buSy Christ said to
the busy apostles, Come yc apart
awhile into the desert ana rest :our-
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
fhe temporal Anl eternal destruction of
- multitudc that 10 man can mum
her" sod amid the congratulations Of
ethiS season npl the prospect Of the de-
,aarturc Of mapy "i YOU for the country
! mast after 4 w%rnin2, plain, earnest
nrfd unmistnkablc.
Take ftrty Along.
The first temptation that is apt 10
hover in this erection Is 10 leave your
DIpty az homo Won Will send the dog
and cat ana canary bird TO be well
cared for somewhere else, but the
temptation will be to leave your To-.