Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-20

eHdt ~ 10. All Vi WHICH lS the SAME bis
saying, to come definitely to the topic,
that If a Christian does not take his
religion with him on his vacation, he
has precious little to leave behind.
Vacation time Is to some persons a
vacation time, holiday emptied of all
serious purposes and intelligent re-
creations Whereas an ideal vacation
is a period for filling up; for storing
away health and pleasant memories
and new knowledge and fresh friends
and inspirations. 1t is summer gath
ering for winters needs.
He is careless Christian who packs
his holiday trunk without Bible in It.
Every new experience is a new OPP
portunity. Vacation, which affords
contact with new lives and new places
gives occasion for touching those new
lives and new places with the touch
of ones best SELF In sense, it Is
easier to do the work and WELD the
influence of Christian during vaca-
ton than when fulfilling the daily
round of ones accustomed duties
First Impressions are most powerful
Whose will may stand for refinement,
unselfshness and Christian disciple
ship amid the holiday associates who
share hi; vacation.
Vacation religion is simply worka-
day religion proving itself genuine.
How crowded is all out of doors
with spiritual messages! Sea and
mountain, stream and forest, field and
flower, and all the vast expanse of
nature, make their appeal to the mind
freed for the time from it's habitual
cares. Nobody should be so we'll
qualified to enjoy vacation as the
child Of God who looks upon all these
beauties and wonders as so many
fresh revelations Of the character of
his loving Father. There are no low
ers of nature SO happy as they who
are also lovers of God.
Every vacation is also mission.
The best vacation is that which min
listers to the best nature.
no rest from Gods service.
The first danger of a vacation is not
the danger of over-exertion in play, or
OF over-indulgence in food, or Of ex.
travagance in expenditure, OF of false
pretence; although all Of these are
real vacation dangers The greatest
temptation Is the temptation to lower
ones moral and spiritual standards
Away from home and accustomed en-
v1ronment, 1t is easy to do what "ev.
erybody does" Within the past few
days the officials of the largest sum
mer resort city in North America have
openly declared, in an official examina
ton, that they do not try to enforce
the laws pertaining to morality that
are in force elsewhere. They even
quoted the old saying-alluding to the
fact that this resort is on an island
connected with the mainland by
bridges-that mo law comes over the
drawbridge." Their belief, in which
they say that they are supported by
nine-tenths of the population of their
city, is that the people away on va
cation expect a certain degree of moral
relaxation. That there is substantial
ground for this belief every visitor to
popular summer resort knows full
well. The Sabbath is not kept as at
home. Temperance principles are Of.
ten left behind Conduct that would
be counted scandalous at home is com.
mon on the bathing beaches. It is no
Idle warning to bid Christians guard
their spiritual life with especial zeal
while away from home on summer
outings.
Happy is the man who knows how
to take a vacation from worries and
fears and all petty, ignoble concerns
as well as from his major work in life
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.
1t is one thing to know how to give
and another thing not to know how to
|keep.-Seneca.
Put this restriction on yonr pleas