CHAPTER XV.
SUMMERING AT SARATOGA AND MOHONK.
_Bishop Haven .-- Dr.Schaff .-- President McCosh_.
To the laborious pastor of a large congregation some period of recuperation during the summer is absolutely indispensable.

The cavalry officer who, when hotly pursued by the enemy, discovered that his saddle-girths had become loose, and dismounted long enough to tighten them, was a wise man, and affords a good example to us ministers.
It was my custom to call a halt, lock my study door (stowing away my pastoral cares in a drawer) and go away for five or six weeks, and sometimes a little longer.

A sea voyage was undertaken during half a dozen vacations, but during a portion of forty-two summers I "pitched my moving tent" in salubrious Saratoga, and a part of twenty-one summers was spent on the heights of Mohonk.
As this volume is issued in London as well as in New York, I will mention some things in this chapter for my British readers with which many of my own fellow-countrymen may be already familiar.

There were several reasons that induced me to select Saratoga early in my ministry as the best place to spend a part of the summer vacation.

It is the most widely known the world over of any of our American watering places and is an exceedingly beautiful town.