Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-07-21
PIETY AND BREAST.PINs.

Our Methodist friends recently in Convention at
Buffalo. New York, have had an interesting time
Of it. Having finished up the slavery question,
they devoted a whole day to the discus
sion of shirt studs, piety, diamond breastpins,
French fashions and JouN WESLEY.
One reverend Brother was "down" upon the
sporting of %iewelry, diamonds and ruAled shirts;
and doubtless thinks that a fifty dollar fob chain
would consigu the wearer to endless perdition.-
The reverend Brother was also opposed to gold
spectacles, Paris boots and crinoline skirts, the
latter Of which he looks upon as balloons of vanity
that will carry the women to the devil" Another
reverend Brother Joined isoue on this question,
aud CALAMITY rallied in favor of crinolino and
and gold spectacles, Brother No. 2 informed the
Conference there wasn't a prohibitory expression
in the entire Bible. The law only applies to jew
elry worn by women, and leaves the opposite sex
to do as they please.
Rev. Brother Smith, Of Virginia, remarked that
he had no particular feeling in the matter, though
he was obliged to use his gold spectacles to see
what the Discipline said upon the subject. This
be did not understand, and WHAT is more had never
been atle to understand it. What ornaments
were superhuous, was a matter upon which the
Discipline was silent. As some ornament was
permitted, the question that now arose was, at
precisely what point ornament becomes supe,hu-
Gus? Having said this the Brother took his seat
and awaited rejoinder.
This sort OF logic rather puzzled the Conference,
whom Rev. Mr.. Brown remarked that the prohibi-
tory rule applies to 'the putting on of gold and
costly apparel" Mr.. Brown didn't realize great
advantage by the remark. Anoshcr Brother forth.
with ''pitched into" Mr.. Brown, and asked
whether it was any greater sin for him to carry a
twenty dollar watch-chain than to carry q twenty
dollar gold piece in his pocket. This was a deci-
ded clincher, and the Conference took a recess to
decide whether, if carrying gold be a sin, the
carrying of fnge. rings and FIVE dollar gold pieces
has not the same tendency to damnation and outer
darkness. The remarks also stirred up the muddy
waters Of Rev. Brother Lee, who said ne had
known q young female to be expelled from church
for wearing in her bonnet an atifcial flower worth
twelve and-a-half cents. Here's a revelation for
US! Had such q piece Of petty tyranny been exer-
cised in a Catholic church, we should not have
heard the last Of it in the next halls century; while
our side door" n~eishbor would have converted it
into a tex: by which to provo that "the Jesuits
were renewing their attempts to get control of our
public schools"
The next speaker after Brother Lee, was q gen.
tleman who inveighed against gold watch chains;
and said that as long as the mon wore gold orna.
ments, the church had no right to asS the women
to lay aside their "beau-catchers." What the
brother meant by "beau-catchers" is more shan
we can say. A brother from Delaware now inter.
posed. lie thought that the church had higher
duties to perform than undertaking to regulate the
mantua making business, and that the time wasted
in fighting the fashions had a great deal better be
devoted to fighting against Belzebub, a gentleman
who is always in the field, and always ready to
take advantage Of any platform that leads men
from religion to non.essentials-fro the doctrines
of the bible to disputations upon whalebone, buck
ram, gJld studs, and corset boards.
This gentleman took a common sense view of
the matter, and proved, wo think, satisfactorily,
that the people will reach heaven, not because they
believe in a certain cut for their coats, the shape
of a bonnet, or the width of a rufie, but because
they lived up to the precepts contained in the
New Testament. At the conclusion Of this gen.
ueman's remarks, the subject of dross was indef-
nitely postponed, and the sisterhood of milIiners
and modistes, may therefore breathe freer. The
world certainly moves!-Sunddy Transcript.