Evils of the cities : a series of practical and popular discourses delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle . this day there is a dry basin of rock which showsthat there must have been a pool there three hundred andsixty feet long, one hundred and thirty feet wide, andseventy-five feet deep. This pool was surrounded by fivepiazzas, or porches, or bathing-houses, where the patientstarried until the time when they were to step into thewater. A MINIATURE SARATOGA AND LONG BRANCH. So far as reinvigoration was concerned, it must havebeen a Saratoga and a Long Branch on a small scale; aLeamin
Evils of the cities : a series of practical and popular discourses delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle . this day there is a dry basin of rock which showsthat there must have been a pool there three hundred andsixty feet long, one hundred and thirty feet wide, andseventy-five feet deep. This pool was surrounded by fivepiazzas, or porches, or bathing-houses, where the patientstarried until the time when they were to step into thewater. A MINIATURE SARATOGA AND LONG BRANCH. So far as reinvigoration was concerned, it must havebeen a Saratoga and a Long Branch on a small scale; aLeamington and a Brighton combined—medical andtherapeutic. Tradition says that at a certain season of the yearthere was an officer of the government who would godown to that water and pour in it some healing quality,and after that the people would come and get the medi-cation; but I prefer the plain statement of Scripture,that at a certain season, an angel came down and stirredup, or troubled the water; and then the people came andgot the healing. That angel of God that stirred up the Judean water- [320]. WATERING PLACES. 321 ing-place had his counterpart in the angel of healing that,in our day, steps into the mineral waters of Congress, orSharon, or Sulphur Springs, or into the salt sea at CapeMay and Nahant, where multitudes who are worn outwith commercial and professional anxieties, as well asthose who are afflicted with rheumatic, neuralgic, andsplenetic diseases, go, and are cured by the Bethesdas are scattered all up and down our coun-try, blessed be God! OFF FOR A VACATION. We are at a season of the year when railway trainsare being laden with passengers and baggage on theirway to the mountains, and the lakes, and the of our citizens are packing their trunks for arestorative absence. The city heats are pursuing the people with torch andfear of sunstroke. The long silent halls of sumptuoushotels are all abuzz with excited arrivals. The cry
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