Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-08-30

new turI enterprise was DelnS started IL
this country, wrote a letter In which he
said, "Heaven help you. then, for OF all the
cankers Of our old civilization there Il
nothing in this country approaching in un.
blushing meanness, in rascality holding its
head high, to this belauded Institution oil
the British turf" Another famous sports.
man writes, "How many fine domains have
been shared among these hosts OF rapa.
,ious sharks during the last 200 years. and
unless the system be altered, how many
more are doomed to fall into the same
gulf3" With the buillghts OF Spain ane
the bear baitings OF the pit may the LORD
God annihflate the Infamous and accursed
horse racing OF England and Americai
Another temptation lowering around the
Watering place Is the formation of hasty
Md lifelong alliances. The watering
places are responsible for more OF the
domestic infelicities OF this country than
neary all other things combined. Society
Is so artificial there that no sure judgment
Of character can be formed. They who
form comprehensive amid such circum.
stances go into lottery where there are
twenty blanks to one prize. In the severe
tug OF life You want more than glitter and
splash. Life is not ballroom, where the
music decides the step and bow and prance
and graceful swing OF long train can make
up for strong common sense. You might as
well 20 among the gayly painted yachts Of
summer regatta to tind war vessels as
TO go among the light spray Of the summer
waterlne, place to find character that
can stand the test of the great strug-
sle Of human life. In the battle OF life
you want stronger weapon than a lace
fan or a croquet mallet. The load of life
is so heavy that in order to draw 1t you
want team stronger than that made up
Of a masculine grasshopper and a feminine
butterfly. If there is any man In the COM
munity who eXcites my contempt and who
ought to excite the contempt of every man
ind woman 1t is the soft handed, soft
headed dude, who, perfumed until the air
is actually sick, spends his summer in
striking killing attitudes and waving senti-
menta! adieux and talking infinitesimal
no.hinGs and finding his heaven in the set
of n lavender kid glove. Boots as tight as
an inqusition. Two hours of consummate
skill exhibited in the tie of flashing cra-
vat. His conversation made up Of "Absl"
and "Ohsi'' and "He hesp'
There is only one counterpart to such a
man as that, and that is the frothy young
woman at the watering place; her cOnver-
'Ition made up of French moonshiue; what
she has In her head only equaled by what
she had on her back; useless ever since she
was horn and to be useless until she is dead
Inless she becomes an intelligent Chris
ian. We may admire music and fair faces
and graceful step, but amid the heartle g.
hess and the imitation and the fantastic
Influences OF our modern watering places
teHdTs now you make lifelong covenants.
Another temptation that hovers over the
watering place is that of baneful litera-
:ure. Almost every one starting off for
he summer takes some reading matter.
There is more pestiferous trash real among
he Intelligent classes in July and August
han in all the other ten months of the
rear. Men and women who at home would
lot be satisfied with a book that was not
eally sensible find sitting on hotel piazza
Ir under the trees reading books the index
n which would make them blush if they
;new that you knew what the book was.
Oh" they say, '.you must have intel
ectual recreationv' Yes. There is no need
hat you take along to a watering place
'Hamiton'S Metaphy ysics" or some ponder
,us discourse on the eternal decrees or
'Faraday's Philosophy" There are many
'asy books that are good. You might as
veil say, II propose now to give a lit
le rest to my digestive organs, and in
tead of eating heavy meat and vegetables
will for a little while take lighter food. a
little strych h.0Ga tewgrains of rats
nne." L!tefusy poison r -7k5s sEss-4ai11 -
,ad as literary poison In December. Mark
hat. Do not let the frogs of a corrupt
printing press jump into your Saratoga
ruak or White Mountain ralise. Are there
lot good books that are easy to read
'ooks of entertaining travel, books of con-
;enial history, books of pure fun. books of
poetry, ringing with merry canto: books of
Inc engrayings. books that will rest the
mind rs well rs purify the heart and ele-
ate the whole life? There will not be an
iour between this and your death when
'ou can afford TO read a book lacking In
moral principle.
Another temptation lowering all around
'ur watering places is Intoxicating bever-
Iges. l am told that it Is becoming more
md more fashionable for women to drink.
. care not how well a woman may dress, if
he has taken enough of the wine to flush
Ter cheek and put glassiness on her eye
Ihe is drunk. She may be handed into n
:2500 carriage and have diamonds enough
% astound the Tiffanys'-she is drunk.
She may be q graduate Of the best young
adies' seminary and the daughter of some
nan in danger of being nominated for the
oresidsncy-she is drunk. You may have
l larger vocabulary than l have, and you
nay say in regard to her that she is ICON
vivial," or she is '..merry, or she is "fes-
:ive," or she is ''exhilarated," but you
cannot with all your garlands of verbiage
cover up the plain fact that it is an old
fashioned case nj drunk.
Whether You tarry at home-which will
% quite rs safe and perhaps quite as COM
'ortable-or go into the country, arm your
self against tempt ton. The grace of God
s the only safe shelter, wheth r in town
or country. There are watering places
accessible TO all of us. You cannot open
l book of the Bible without finding out
'ome such watering place. Fountains
open for sin and uncleanness. Wells of
sal alton. Streams from Lebanon. A
iood struck out Of the rock by Moses.
Fountains in the Wilderness discovered
% bathe in. Tho river of God,
which is full of water. Water of
which II a man drink he shall never thirst.
Wells of water in the valley Of Baca. Liv-
ing fountains of water. A pure river OF
water as clear rs crystal from under the
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accessible to all of US. We do not have
laborious packing up before we start-only
.he throwing away of our transgressions.
No expensive hotel bills to pay. 1t Is
without money and without price" Nc
ong and dusty travel before we get there.
t Is only one step away.
In California in five minutes l walked
around and saw ten fountains all bubbling
up, and they were all different, and In five
minutes l can go through this Bible par
:erre and find you fifty bright, sparkling
butbling up into eternal life
healing and therapeutic. A chemist will go
20 one OF these summer watering places
and take the water, and analyze 1t and tell
you 1t contains so much of iron and so much
Of soda, and so much of lime, and so much
Of magnesia. 1 como to this gospel we'll
this living fountain, and analyze the water
and find that its ingredients are peace par
don forgiveness, hope, comfort life heaven.
'Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye'
% this watering placel Crowd around
this Bethesda. Oh, you sick, you lame.
you troubled. You dying, crowd around
his Bethesdai Step in 1t, oh, step in i'll
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 n stepin that
direction. Then we take you up in the
arms of PRAYER and plunge you clear under
The wave, hoping that the cure may he rs
sudden and rs radical as with Captain
Naaman, who, blotchcd and carbuncled,
stepped into the Jordan aud after the sew
enth dive came up, his skin rosente COM
plexioned rs the flesh of n little child.