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. . . - ' , ; . ' , : r - . -. , , : ' - . i TAKE A BIBLE ALONG. DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES ON SUM MER VACATIONS. Admonlihei th Pleasure Selcer Sot to Leave ilelltfloia Beblnd. Temptation. Abound at Water riacess. ' Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1899.1 Washington, Aug. 20. At this sea son of the year, when all who can get a vacation are taking it, this discourse of Dr. Talmage U suggestive and ap propriate. The text is John v, 2, 3: A Pool, which is called inthe Hebrew toEigue.Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of im potent folk, of blind; halt, withered, waiting for the movingof the water Outside -the city of Jerusalem there was a sanative watering place, the popular resort for invalids. To this day there is a dry basin of rock which shows that there may have been a pool there 3G0 feet long, 130 feet wide and 75 feet deep. This pool was sur rounded by five piazzas, or porches, Or . bathing houses, where the patients tar ried until the time when they were to stop into the water. So far as rein vigoration was concerned it must have been a Saratoga and a Long Branch on a small scale, a Leamington and a Brighton combined medical and thera peutic. Tradition says that at a cer tain season of the year , there was an officer of the government , who would go down to that water and pour in it some healing quality, and after that the people would come and get the medication, but I prefer the plain statement of Scripture that at a cer tain season an angel came down and stirred-up or troubled the water, and then the people came and goc the heal ing. That angel of God thattirred up - the Judaean watering place had his counterpart in the angel of healing who lin our day steps into the mineral waters of Congress, or Sharon, or Sul phur! Springs, or into the salt sea at Capo May and Nahant, where multi tudes who are worn out with commer cial and professional anxieties, as well as those who are afflicted wlth jrheu xnatic, neuralgic and splenetic dis eases, go and are cured by the thou sands. These blessed Bethesdas are scattered-all up and down our country. The Vacation Season. We are at a season of the year when rail trains are laden with-passengers and baggage on their way tor the moun tains and the lakes and the seashore. .Multitudes of our citizens -are away if or a restorative absence. The city boats are pursuing the people with torch and fear of sunstroke. The long, silent halls of sumptuous hotels are all abuzz' with excited arrivals. The, antlers of Adirondack deer rattle un der tbe shot of city-sportsmen. -The trout make fatal snap at the hook of adroit sportsmen, who toss their spot ted brilliance into the game basket. The baton of the orchestral leader taps the music stand on the hotel green, and American life has put on festal array, and the rumbling of the ten pin alley, and the crack of the ivory balls on the green balzed billiard ta bles, and the jolting of the barroom goblets, and the explosive uncorking of the champagne bottles, and the whirl and the rustle of the ballroom dance, and the clattering hoofs of the race course and other signs of social dis " sipatlon attest that the season for the great American watering places is in full play. Music! Flute and drum and cornet-a-piston and slapping cym bals wake the echoes of the mountains. Glad am I that fagged out American life for the most part has 'an oppor tunity to rest and that nerves racked and destroyed will find a Bethesda. I believe in watering places. They recuperate for active service many who were worn out with trouble or overwork. They are national restora tives. Let not the commercial firm be grudge the clerk, or the employer the Journeyman, or the patient the physi cian, orhe church its pastor, a season of Inoccupation. Luther used to sport with his children; Edmund Burke used - to caress his favorite horse; Thomas Chalmers, in the dark hour of the church's disruption, played kite for recreation so I was told by his own daughterand the busy Christ said to the busy apostles, "Come ye apart awhile into the desert and rest your selves." And I have observed that they who do not know how to rest do not know how to work. But I have to declare this truth today that some of our fashionable watering places are the temporal andeternal destruction of a multitude that no man can num ber' and amid the congratulations of this season and the prospect of the de parture of many of you for the country X must utter a warning, plain, earnest and unmistakable. . Take Pletr Along;. The first temptation , that is apt to hover in this direction is to leave your piety at home. You will send the dog and cat and canary bird to be well cared for" somewhere else, but the temptation will be to leave your re ligion in the roorn with the blinds down and the door bolted, and then you will come back in the autumn to find that it Is starved and suffocated, lying stretched -on the rug stark dead. JThere is no surplus of piety at the wa tering places. I never knew any one to grow very rapidly in grace at the Catskill Mountain House, or Sharon Springs, or the Falls of Montmorency. It is generally the case that the Sab bath is more of a carousal than any other day, and there are Sunday walks and Sunday rides and Sunday excur sions. Elders and deacons and minis ters of religion who anT entirely con sistent at home, sometimes when the Sabbath dawns on them at Niagara Falls or the White mountains, take a day to themselves. If they go to the church, it is apt to be a sacred parade, and the discourse, instead of being a plain talk about the soul, is apt to be rhat is called a crack sermon cnat 1 sin. ox me pit umj xxjra uoa an- a a m TCk T.nCi H "7P. maiTO Zi fVnnta KUn some discourse picked out of the ef fusions of-the year as the one most adapted to excite admiration, and In those churches, . from the way the ladles hold their fans, you know that they are" not so much impressed with the heat as with the picturesqueness of half disclosed features. Four puny souls stand in the organ loft and squall a tune that nobody knows, and wor shipers with $2,000 worth of diamonds on the right hand drop a cent into the poor box, and then the benediction Is pronounced, and the! farce Is ended. The toughest thing 1 ever tried to do was to be good at a watering placev Thejiir is bewitched with the "world, the flesh and the devlL" There are Christians who in three or four weeks In such a place have had such terrible rents made in their Christian robe that they had to --keep . darning it until Christmas to get it mended. The health of a great many people makes an annual visit to some mineral spring an absolute necessity, but tike your Bible along with you and take an hour for secret prayer every day, though you be surrounded by guffaw and saturnalia. Keep holy the Sab bath, though they deride you as a bigoted Puritan. Stand off from gam bling hells and those other Institutions which propose to imitate on thia side the water the Iniquities of Baden Baden. -Let your moral and your Im mortal health keep pace with your physical recuperation and remember that all the sulphur and chalybeate springs cannot do you so much good as the healing, perennial flood that breaks forth from the "Rock of Ages." This may be your last summer. If so, make it a fit vestibule of heaven. Tnrf Abomination. Another temptation hovering around nearly all our watering places Is the horse racing "business. We all admire the horse, but we do not think that its beauty or speed ought to be cultured at the expense of human degradation. The horse race is not of such impor tance as the human race. The Bible Intimates that a man is better than a sheep, and I suppose he is better than a horse, though, like Job's stallion, his neck be clothed with thunder. Horse races in olden times were under the ban of Christian people, and in our day the same institution has come up under fictitious names. And it is call ed a 8ummer meeting," almost sug gestive of positive religious exercises. And it is called an "agricultural fair," suggestive of everything that is im proving In the art of farming. But under these deceptive titles are the same cheating, and tbe same betting, and the same drunkenness, and the same vagabondage, and the same abomination that; were to be found under the old horse racing system. I never knew a man yet who could give himself to the pleasures ' of the turf for a long reach of time and not be battered in morals. They hook up their spanking team and put on their sporting cap and light their cigar and take the reins and d-sh down on the road to perdition! The great day at Saratoga and Brighton Beach and Cape May and nearly all the other wa tering places is the day of the races. The hotels are thronged, every kind of equipage is taken up at an almost fab ulous price, and there are many re spectable people mingling with jock eys and gamblers and libertines and foul mouthed men and flashy women. The bartender stirs up the brandy smash. The bets run high. The greenhorns, supposing all Is fair, put in their money soon enough to lose it. Three weeks before the race takes place the struggle is decided, and the men in the secret know on which steed to bet their money.' The men on the horses riding around long ago arrang ed who shall win. Leaning from the stand or from the carriage are men and women so absorbed in the struggle of bone and muscle and mettle that they make a grand harvest for the pick pockets, who carry, off the pocketbooks and the portemonnales. Men looking on see only a string of horses with their riders flying around the ring, but there is many a man on that stanqVj whose honor and domestic happiness and fortune white mane, white foot, white flank are in the ring, racing with" Inebriety and with fraud and with profanity and with ruin black neck, black foot, black flank. Keck and neck go the leaders in that moral Epsom. White 'horse of honor, black horse of ruin. Death says, "I will bet on the black horse." Spectator says. "I will bet on the white horse." The i white horse of honor a little way ahead. The black horse of ruin, Satan mounted, all the time gaining on him. Spectator, breathless. They put on the lash, dig in the spurs. There! They are past the stand. Sure. Just as I expected it. The black horse of ruin has won the race, and the galleries of darkness "Huzza, huzza!" and the devils come In to pick up their wagers. Ah, my friends, have nothing to do with horse racing dissipations this summer! A Timely Warning, Long ago the English government got through looking to the turf for the dragoon and the light cavalry horse. They found out that the turf depre ciates the stock, and it. is worse yet for men. Thomas Hughes, the mem ber of parliament and the author known all the world over, hearing that a new turf enterprise was being start ed In this country, wrote a letter in which ne said, "Heaven help you, then, for of all the cankers of our old civ ilization therei Is nothing in this coun try approaching In unblushing mean ness, in rascality holding its head high, to this belauded institution of the British turf." Another famous sports man writes, "How many fine domains have been shared among these hosts of rapacious sharks during the last 200 years, and, unless the system be altered, how many more are doomed to fall into the same gulf?" With the bullfights of Spain and the bear bait- nlhllate the infamous and accursed horse racing of .England and America! I I go further and speak of another temptation that hovers .over the water ing place, and that Is the temptation to sacrifice ? physical strength. The modern Bethesda, just like this Bethes da of the text, was intended to re cuperate the physical health, and yet how J many come from the watering places their health absolutely destroy ed! City simpletons boasting of hav ing Imbibed 20 glasses of Congress wa ter before breakfast. Families accus tomed, to go to bed at 10 o'clock at night gossiping until 1 or 2 o'clock In the morning. Dyspeptics, usually very cautions .about their health, mingling ice creams and lemons and lobster salads and cocoanuts until the gastric juices lift up all their voices of lamen tation and protest. Delicate women and brainless young men dancing themselves Info vertigo and catalepsy. Thousands of men and women coming bjck' from our watering places In the autumn with the foundations laid for ailments that will last them all their life long. You know as well as I do that this is the simple truth. In the summer you say to your good health: "Goodby. I am going to have a gay time now for a little rwhile. I will be very; glad to see -you again In the au tumn." Then In the autumn, when you are hard at work In your office or store or shop or counting room, Good Health will come in and say: VGoodby. I am going." You say, "Where are you going?" "Oh," says Good Health, "1 am going to take a vacation!" It is a poor rule that will not work both ways, and your good health will leave you choleric and splenetic and ex hausted. You coquetted with your good health-In the summer time, and your good health is coquetting with you in the winter time. A fragment of Paul's charge to the jailer would be an appropriate inscription for the hotel register in every watering place, "Do thyself no harm." Society Artificial. Another temptation hovering around the watering place is the formation of hasty and lifelong alliances. The wa tering places are responsible for more of the domestic . infelicities of this country than nearly all other; things combined. Society is so artificial there that no sure judgment of character can be formed. They who form com panionships amid such circumstances -go into a lottery where there are 20 blanks to one prize. In the severe tug pf life you want more than glitter and splash. Life is not a ballroom, where the music decides tbe step and bow and prance and graceful swing of long train can make up for strong common sense. You might as well go among the gayly painted yachts of. a summer regatta to find war vessels as to go among the light spray of the summer watering place to find character that can stand the test of the great strug gle of human life. In the battle of life you want a stronger weapon than a lace fan or a croquet mallet. The load of life is so heavy that in order to draw it yon Want a team stronger than that made up pf a masculine grasshopper and a feminine butterfly. If there is any man in the communi ty jwbo excites my contempt and who Ought to excite the contempt of every man and woman It Is the soft handed, soft headed dude, who, perfumed until the air Is actually sick, spends his summer in striking killing attitudes and - waving sentimental adleux and talking Infinitesimal nothings and find ing his heaven in the set of a lavender kid glove. Boots as tight as an inquisi tion. Two hours of consummate skill exhibited in the tie of a flashing cra vat. His conversation made up of "AhsT and "Ohs!" and "He hes!" i There is only one counterpart to' such a man as that, and that is the frothy young woman at the watering place; heir conversation made up of French moonshine; what she has In her head only equaled by what she has on her back; useless ever since she was born and to be useless until she is dead un less she becomes an Intelligent Chris tian. We may admire music and fair faces and graceful step, but amid the heartlessness and the inflation and the fantastic Influences of our modern wa tering places beware how you make lifelong covenants. , -' Baneful Literature. Another temptation that hovers over the watering place is that of baneful literature. Almost every one starting off for the summer takes some reading matter. It Is a book out of the libra ry or off the bookstand or bought of the boy hawking books through tbe cars. I really believe there is more pestiferous trash read among the In telligent classes In July and August than in all the other ten months of the year. Men and women who at home would not be Satisfied with a book that was not really sensible I find sitting on hotel piazza or under the trees reading books the index of which would make them blush if they knew that you knew what the book wjis. "Oh," they say, "you must have Intellectual recreation V Yes. There is no need that you take along to a watering place "Hamilton's Metaphys ics" or some ponderous discourse on the eternal decrees or "Faraday's Philosophy." There are many easy books that are good. Yon might as well say, "I propose now to give a lit tle rest to my digestive organs, and in-, stead of eating heavy meat and vege tables I will for a little while take lighter food, a little strychnine and a few grains of ratsbane." Literary poison in August is as bad as literary poison in December. Mark that. Do not let the frogs of a 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 congenial history, books of pure fun, books of poetry, ringing with merry canto; books of fine engravings, books that will rest the mind as well as purl- , ". AOYOiAUSX ' AVantsA Union, of coarse. 19 yemrt In battnea, mad never had a strike that' m our labor record. If your dealer don't keep Keyston foods, aead in bis name. CLEVELAND & WHITEHILL CO., Newburgh, N. Y. IF THEY RIP IAPH7 JUHllUlA nn jvJ9 Salesmen : J. W. Crawford; W. tps Will. B. Bankin. Jon T. Bee. fy the heart and elevate the whole life? There will not be an hour between this and your death when you can afford to read a book lacking in moral prin ciple, i Another temptation hovering all around our watering places is Intoxi cating beverages. I am told that it is becoming more and more fashionable for women to drink. I care not how well a woman may dress, if she has taken enough of wine to flush her cheek and put a glassiness on her eye she Is drunk. She may be handed into a $2,500 carriage and have diamonds enough to astound the Tiffanys she Is drunk. She may be a graduate; of the best young ladles' semlndry and the daughter of some man in danger of being nominated for the presidency- she is drunk. You may have a larger vocabulary than I have, and you may say in regard to her that she is "con vivial," 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 it is an old fashioned case of drunk. Dangeri of Tippling, j Now, the watering places are full of temptations te men and women to tip ple. At the close of the tenpln or bil liard game they tipple. At the close of the cotillon they tipple. Seated on the piazza cooling themselves off they, tip ple. The tinged glasses come around with bright straws and they tipple. First they take "light wines," as they call them, but "light wines" are heavy enough' to debase the appetite. M There is not a very long road between !cham pagne at $5 a bottle and whisky at 10 cents a glass. Satan has three or four grades down which be takes men to destruction. One man he takes up and through one spree pitches him into eternal darkness. This is a rare case. Very seldom, indeed, can you , find a man who will be such a fool as that. Satan will take another man to a grade, to a descent at an angle about like the Pennsylvania coal shoot; or the Mount Washington rail track, and shove him off. . But that Is very rare. When a man goes down to destruction, Satan brings him to a plane. It Is al most a level. The depression is so light that you can hardly see It, The man does not actually know that he Is on the down grade, and it tips only a little toward darkness Just a little. And the first mile it is claret, and the second mile it is sherry, and the 'third mile It Is punch, and the fourth mile it is ale, and the fifth mile It. is whis ky, and the sixth mile it is brandy, and then It gets steeper and steeper and steeper until It is Impossible to stop. "Look not thou upon the wine when It is red, when it giveth Its color In the cup, when it moveth Itself aright At the last It biteth like; a ser pent and stingeth like an adder." The Safe Shelter. Whether you tarry at home which will be quite as safe and perhaps quite as comfortable or go Into the coun try, arm yourself against temptation. The grace of God is the only safe shel ter, whether in town or country. There are watering places accessible to all of us. You cannot open a book of. the Bible without finding out some such watering place. Fountains open for sin and uncleanness. Wells of salva tion. Streams from Lebanon. A flood struck out of the rock by Moses. Fountains in the wilderness discover ed by Hagar. Water to drink and wa ter to bathe in. The river of God, which Is full of water. Water of which if a man drink he shall j never thirst. Wells of water in the valley of Baca. Living fountains. of water. A pure river of water as clear as crys tal from under the ' throne of God. These are watering places accessible to all of us. We do not have a labori ous packing up before we start only the throwing away 1 of our transgres IN WEAR, YOU GETJANOTHER PAIR. SIMM H. Bees, Harry 8. Donnell, sions. No expensive hotel bills to pay. It is "without money and without price." No long and dusty travel be fore we get there. It Is only one step away. In California in five minutes I walk ed around and saw ten fountains all bubbling up, and they were all dif ferent, and in five minutes I can go through this Bible parterre and find you 50 bright, sparkling fountains bub bling 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 It contains so much of Iron, and so much of soda, and so much ofIme, and so much of magnesia. I come to this gospel well, this living fountain, and analyze the water, and 1 find that Its Ingredients are peace, pardon, for giveness, hope, comfort, life, heaven. "Ho, every one that thlrsteth, come ye" to this watering place! Crowd around this Bethesda. Oh. you sick, you lame, you troubled, you dying, crowd around this Bethesdal Step In It, oh, step In It! The angel of the covenant today stirs the water. Why do you not step In it? Some of you are too weak to take a step in that direction. Then we take you up In the arms of prayer and plunge you clear under the wave, hop ing that the cure may be as sudden and 5 as radical as with Captain Naa man, who, blotched and carbuncled, stepped Into the Jordan and after the seventh dive came up, his skin roseate complexloned as the flesh of a little child. ; ' Velveteen Klaaea. "Walking along the sidewalk In a business street the other day," said Mr. Gllmby, "I read on one of those A shaped signs standing on the edge of the walk this inscription, done In chalk: - " 'Special Velveteen Kisses, 19 Cents a Pound "I didn't look up to see, but I sup pose the sign must have been in front of some candy store, and that velve teen kisses are candy. I found as I went along that the sign had Impressed me agreeably. The idea of kisses was good, of velveteen kisses better still and of velveteen kisses at 19 cents a pound best of all." New York Sun. UNCLE SAM'S HOT BATHS. The Hot Springs of Arkansas. 9 Via. 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