Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-04-01
The Fashions-Follow the Fashions.

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from the Golden Rule, would of itself be
sufficient inducement for us to copy had we
not been requested to do so by DIR. Huntoon.
We know our readers will commend his Sc
lection.-Aurora (W.) Republican.
"Why not No matter how expensive,
foolish, dangerous, ridiculous, soul-ruinous,
follow the fashionable the popular course !!
No matter whether the bonnet is trimmed
with white, black, blue, red or scarlet, turn-
ed up or turned down, on the back side Of
the head or on the front side, stuck on the
forehead or the back of the neck-it looks
beautiful! No matter whether the dress be
long or short, hoped or not hoped, Boomer,
or not Bloomer, up to the knee or trailing in
the mud and dirt, so bet is the fashion,
If it is fashionable to wear tight shoes, pinch
ing the feet and toes, wear them-corns or
no corns, all the same If it is fashionable
to wear jewery, wear ton the breast the
arms, the fingers, in the ears, on the Enose-
load them down, Bible Or no Bible, cost OR
no cost. If dress or shawl cost fifty, a
hundred or two hundred dollars more, instead
of five or ten, on with them, bankruptcy Or
no bankruptcy-it's the iashion-we go it,
sink Or swim.
If high crowned hats are in vogue, wear
them-it low, low. If short brims, wear
short brims--if long, long. If bob-tailcd
coats are the cut of the day, wear bob-tailed
coats--if long, long. If stocks to choke the
neck, and high collars become popular, buckle
them on, tight as drum head, breath or nc
breath, bronchitis or no bronchitis all the
same. Ii the fashion comes round to veal
long boards and moustaches, cover the chin
upper lip and lower lip, stop the mouth, look
like beast bear, vol, a goat, or an owl
All right, minister or no minister, church
members, deacons, class-leaders, all the same
its the fashion.
If it's fashionable to write, puff, and read
novels, 60 to the theatre, the dance, and play
the fiddle follow the wake "On with the
dance, letjoy be uncon6ned."
If it is fashionable pay five, ten twenty
or a hundred dollars for ticket to hear Jen
ny Lind sing in theatre or church, to FL
Barnum's pockets, hurrah for Jenny Lind
hurrah On they go, ministers and people
its the fashion, it popular!
If it is fashionable to make holiday feasts
NV Years calls, load the tables and side
boards with wines, cordials, rich dainties
poisonous confectionaries eat, drink, gor
mandize, play the glutton, the drunkard ant
starve the poor, 60 ahead, it's the fashion,
no matter, all right! "Like priest, lik'
people," If it is fashionable to hold fame,
fairs, tea-parties, soirecs oyster-suppers, pic
MICS, &C., to raise money to sustain the pastor
pay off church debts cushion the pulpit &c.
have jolly time of it, eat and drink to tn
full, return home before the morning dawns-
no matter, let us do evil that good may come
Sometimes, also, sinners, men OF the world
have balls, dancing parties &c., for the bene
fit of the poor, the widows and orphans, OIL
the same principle-it's the fashion.
It's the fashion now to have hig Oh stecples
away up in the air, out Of sight, that cos
two, three, four, perhaps ten thousand dollars
1t is the fashion, moreover to have fashion
ably ornamented churches, costing one or tw
hundred thousand dollars, with fashionabl
choirs organs, instrumental music, after tn
temple worship, or popish worship-sing b
proxy, pray by proxy, live by proxy. Thi
is the fashion. Once it was customary
- kneel in prayer before God Or rise up befor
or the King of Kings, but now the easy sttin
posture is the fashion Once the house c
God was open to the poor, but now the fash
ion is to sell the slips, rent the pews, knoc
them off under the auctioneer's hammer
the highest bidder, make Gods house hous
of merchandise. "Once, twice, three,
going, going, gone, two, three, five @
ten thousand dollars for pew rents is quite a
object these hard times, to pay tic ministe
the sexton, and church incidentals-no maj
ter about seats for the poor. Christ, to b
sure, remembered the poor, preached the go'
pei o them especially, but the times al
changed Ours is a progressive age. TIL
rich man with gold ring in goodly appare
is told, "Set thou here in good places" t
at the poor, "Stand thou there or sit under m
It, foot-stool"
or Churches once meek, humble, Christ-lik
- on which the candle o! the Lord shone brigh
a ly, that looked upon the choir system, instrr
H. mental music in the house of God, buildin
ur costly, ornamental churches, renting pew
seats under the hammer, sitting idly and il
ne dolently in prayer-time, singing by prox.
H. &c. as little better than sacrilege or blasph'
1g my, have gradually yielded the palm, tallt
of into the popular wake, "Gve us king ais
G. like to the nations around us" All right
- 1t is the fashion. Going to church now
tie silver slippers, with gold rings, gold stud
Iy dangling watch chains, keys and seals, al
re, itching ears, is the fashion.
of No matter for the poor the oppressed, IL
TT, perishing; this is an age of steam, of pr
- gress, of telegraph. The Bible? Pol
IL What have we to do with the Bible? l.
Their, Wesley, WhiteGed, Baxter, Bunya
Doddridge-these were good men in the
day. but we are in the advance. Our age
progressive, tclcgraphic. The old standa
in writer's are now measurably obsolete, ant
W. quated Paul was good man, no doubt.
ID was Wesley, Baxter and many others at tn
IL period-but-bat-but. Some parts of Il
I'D 81, Bible, of Wesley's writings, Baxters, 81
~ will do-,but-but-but
,iu There is way that seemeth right un
~ man, but the end thereof are the ways
10, DEATH" Prov. IA: II.
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