Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-12
Sunday Morning Talk
A Word to the People Who Can't Get
Away.

When we say everybody Is out Of town.
we are simply indulging in one Of those
rhetorical flourfshes permissible now and
then to people who mean. as rule, to en-
ploy language soberly. 1t would be nearer
the truth to say nobody is out of town.
AS a matter Of fact q census taken even at
the height of the vacation period named
show more people at home and at work
than away from home and at play. Few
people. comparatively. have more than a
fortnight off duty. vast number have
to be content with a day or two. The doc
tors and nurses cannot consult their own
sweet wills in the matter of absence from
their posts of duty. Mothers are usually
about the last members Of society to en-
Joy breathing spell. Those who provide
dustry-are not always able to command a
vacation. Many persons devote all of these
hot summer days to the care OF the aged,
the inflrm and helpless little children NO,
it is not true that the whole world goes a
holidaying at once It Is a working world.
a world of responsibility and tasks from
January to December
So then. Mr.. Stay-at-Home. chafing a
little because you cannot idle the days
away at the mountains or the shore. count
not yourself the most miserable or the most
solitary OF mortais. Be glad that you GU have
doing may be making 1t possible for some
body else to take vacation. 1t helps us
sometimes to see how apparently indispens-
the home or business. of philanthropy or
the church.
And If some Of US are staying at home
because we have no money to go away with
and no place to go to. and very little to
do even at home. we can be fitting our
selves for greater activity and usefulness
by and by The school or college vaca-
ton may be utilized so that we shall catch
up with the class in the autumn or even
outstrip it. To do little domestic work.
to take up the study Of birds Of flow
ers. to read few solid and intellectually
stimulating books may be quite as valuable
to US In the long run as to be frittering
away golden summer days doing the con-
ventional and often the inane things which
some people do at the resorts.
We are not debarred. either. we stay-at-
homes from little halliday excursions
sandwiched in between busy working days
or from the comfort Of lawns and piaz.as
other stay-at-homes Only let US be mod
crate In our eating and drinking sensible
in our choice Of small pleasures, cheerful
and eontented, for In this way we shall
be able best to endure the heat. The quiet
mind keeps cool the fevered blood.
read the other day Of a tired mother
who IN despair Of ever getting vacation
wheeled her baby one evening to park
where a preacher was talking about "a
spiritual vacation" His text was Cast
ing all your care upon Him, for He careth
from work? No. Vacation from children?
No. Vacation from home? No. Vacation
from carea Yes" And as this mother lis
tened to his invitation to rest soul and
body upon an infinite and friendly power
her fretfulness and WEAKNESS began to de-
part and she entered into the serenity OF
those who trust God in all the common
ways and cares Of life. So she was able
to resume her Monday morning work with
hops and courage.
One may go on q vacation and come home
faded and unhappy. One may stay at home
and be happy. healthy and satisfied.
THE PARSON.