6 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT. BELLEFONTE. PPA, AUGUST 31, 1899, SUMMER VACATIONS. Dr. Talmage Draws Some Lessons from Qur Annual Outings. Dangers and Temptations That Sore round Watering Places Necessity of a Period of Inoccupation, Our [Copyright all taking 1, sSUg- At this season of the year, when who can get a vacation are this discourse of Dr gestive and appropriate, John 5:2, in the Hebrew tongue five porches. In these lay tude of impotent I withered, waiting for the moving « lalmage is Il he text is “A pool, which is ealled Bethesda, having ngreat muity- yd, halt, fthe lk, of blir water.’ Outside the city of Jerusalen e watering | Was a sanatiy ular for there is a iry basin of that there may hb feet long, 1 This pool was su resort invalids 86 deep piazzas, or porche where the time when water concerned, toga ar scale; Combing I'radit) of the governmer water RETViC trouble al restora Let not the clerk an, or the and ean for somewhere else, but the te tation will be to the leave your religion in the blinds down nd wom with \ doors bolted, and back nd that it is starved and suffocated, lving stretched on the rug, stark dead. There is no sur plus of plety at the watering places, 1 never knew anyons to grow very rapid. ly in grace at the Catskill Mountain house or Sharon Bprings or the Falls of Montmorency. It is generally the case that the Babbath is more of a carousal than any other day, and there are Sune daw walks, and Sunday rides, and Sun. day excursions Elders and deacons and ministers of religion who are ene tirely consistent at home, sometimes when the Babbath dawns on them at Niagara falls or the White mountains take a day to themselves, 1f they go te the chureh, it is apt to be a sacred parade, and the discourse, instead of be- ing o plain talk about the soul, is apt to be what is called a crack sermon-—that is, some discourse picked out of the ef. fusions of the year as the one most adaped to excite admiration, and fo the then you will come in the autumn to f | 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 dis closed features, Four puny souls stand in the organ loft and squall a tune that nobody knows, and worshipers, with £2.000 werth of diamonds on the right hand, dxop a cent into the poor box, and then the benediction is pronounced, and the farce is ended. The thing 1 ever tried to do was to be good at a watering place. The air is be witched with the * the flesh and the [here in three or four weeks in » had } h terrible their Christian toughest worl devil.” are Christians who, uch n piace have rents n they | keep daruing it until Christmas it mended. The heal makes an SUC robe that rpring an a vour Bible hour ir secret ering places a of the try than bined domestic } near NS ety RO sure t n : : cier oan formed sips amiaq who form companion such circumstances go into a lottery where there 20 blanks to one prize In the severe tug of life you want more than glitter an Life de Are 1 splash is not a ballroom where the music cides the 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 a war vessel as to go among the Hght of the summer watering place to find character that ean stand the test of the great struggle of human life, sironger croquet pray In the battle of life You want a than a lace fan or a mallet The load of life is 80 heavy that in order to draw it you want a team stronger than that made up of a masculine grasshopper and a feminine butterfly, 1f there isany mas in the community who excites my eon. weapon tempt and who onght to excite the con- tempt of every man and woman, it is the soft-banded, soft-headed dude, who, perfumed until the air is actual- ly sick, spends the summer in striking killing attitudes, and waving senu- mental adieux, and talking infinitesimal nothings, finding heaven in the set of a lavender kid glove, Hoots ht as an inquisition. Two hours skill the versa alnd his exhibited in His gon f “Aha!” and msummate hing cravat, tion made “Ohsl” and “He hes!” There is up o part to such frothy t) ¢ ng places; of French } what she ver sinoee she stalns so h of fron ch of y nuck me much of 1 come soxia and »o f magnesia this Gospel well, this living fountain, 1 and analyze the water: and | find that its Ingredients are peace, pardon, for giveness, hope, comfort, life, Heaven. “Ho. evervone that thirsteth, come ye* to this watering place. Crowd around this Bethesda, O you sick, you lame, vou troubled, you dying—ecrowd around this Bethesda! Step in it, oh, step in it! "The angel of the covenant today stirs the Why do you not step fn 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 lug that the cure may be as sudden and ns radieal as with Capt. Naaman, who, blotehed and carbuncled, stepped into the Jordan, and after the seventh dive came up, his skin roseate complexioned as the flesh of a little ehild walter, SCHOOL AND CHURCH. Fifteen expended in churches, mililon dollars is annually missions by Christian Five prisoners were taken from the jail at Carlisle, Ky., the other day Ww be baptized in the ( hristian church. 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