. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . found two hundred fathoms down beneaththe Norwegian seas; Siberian stag get fat on the stuntedgrowth of Altain peaks; Hedysarium grows amid the desola-tion of Sahara; tufts of osier and birch grow on the hot lipsof volcanic Sneehattan; but a pure heart and an honest lifethrive in a dissipating club-house—never! The way to conquer a wild beast is to keep your eye onhim, but the way for you to conquer your temptations, myfriend, is to turn your back on them and fly for your life. Oh, my heart aches! I
. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . found two hundred fathoms down beneaththe Norwegian seas; Siberian stag get fat on the stuntedgrowth of Altain peaks; Hedysarium grows amid the desola-tion of Sahara; tufts of osier and birch grow on the hot lipsof volcanic Sneehattan; but a pure heart and an honest lifethrive in a dissipating club-house—never! The way to conquer a wild beast is to keep your eye onhim, but the way for you to conquer your temptations, myfriend, is to turn your back on them and fly for your life. Oh, my heart aches! I see men struggling against evilhabits, and they want help. I have knelt beside them, andI have heard them cry for help, and then we have risen, andhe has put one hand on my right shoulder, and the otherhand on my left shoulder, and looked into my face with aninfinity of earnestness which the judgment day will have nopower to make me forget, as he has cried out with his lipsscorched in ruin, God help me! For such there is nohelp except in the Lord God Almighty. To His grace Icommend SUMMERING CHAPTER XXL WATERING-PLACES. Outside of the city of Jerusalem, there was a sensitivewatering-place, the popular resort for invalids. To this day,there is a dry basin of rock which shows that there musthave been a pool there three hundred and sixty feet long, onehundred and thirty feet wide, and seventy-five feet pool was surrounded by five piazzas, or porches, orbathing-houses, where the patients tarried until the timewhen they were to step into the water. So far as reinvigora-tion was concerned, it must have been a Saratoga and aLong Branch on a small scale; a Leamington and a Brightoncombined—medical arid therapeutic. Tradition says that ata certain season of the year there was an officer of the gov-ernment who would go down to that water and pour in itsome healing quality, and after that the people would comeand get the medication; but I prefer the plain statement of
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