Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-01-30
be not discouraged, bear your burden yet
little while longer, and you shall go in tri
umph to that land

be not discouraged, bear your burden yet
little while longer, and you shall go in tri-
umph to that land
Where the women cease from troubling
And, the '':nen- folks are at rest
The congregation will please rise and
sing.
Women may be divided into three gen
eral classes, i. c. gals" ''wives'' and
''widders." The first part of the discourse.
refers to gals" (which is supposed to
mean young women.) To this head of my
sermon | shall devote much time, as the
gals are the most dangerous of the three
classes. Calls are usually highty, frisky,
pretty, and SASSY - and we need TO grid
ourselves about as with an armor of iron.
Yea as with an armor of wrought iron,
when we come in close contact with this
gushing, blushing, enticing and altogether
deceitful class of women. Take heed bre-
thren that We linger not by the side of the
siren, lest flesh and the devil prevail
against ye, and cause ye to ''hanker after
strange women" The garden of Eden
was very, yygall laid out for comfort, and like
wise NJ - s-St ,i,,if iIhf:
'yidual of the male persuasion who inhabit-
ed it was gentle youth named Adam, and
he was the first man exposed to the wies
Of a woman, he fell, without struggle he
succumbed to beauty unadorned'' for in
those days dressmakers and tailors did but
little business. Speaking of dressmakers,
my dear hearers, l feel it my duty to warn
the young and inexperienced members of
my little flock to beware of them. In the
language ofan immortal bard, whose name
l have forgotten.
Beware of young Dressmakers stylish and CAV.
Bewitching, by day, and beguilng by night,
For your foolishness they are bound you shall
pay
4 breach of promise suit will see it done right.
The gall of the period, my christian friends,
is very peculiar. Her fancy harness, i'm
mense pannier, high heeled boots, flying
frizzles, &C., are only the snares with which
the unwary are caught. Verify they are
only vanity, and vexation. BY the way of
Illustration, as it were, will relate an in
cident that occurred while l was stationed
at Springgins Corners. In my congrega-
tion was young dressmaker. She sang
in the choir, and every Sunday l noticed
her casting ''sheep's-eyes'' at Deacon
Spriggins, but thought little of this, until
one Sunday noticed that the dressmaker's
seat was vacant, ,deacon's seat was likewise.
\ terrible suspicion flashed through my
mind !; after the sermon learned that the
dressmaker had left town, and that the
deacon had also departed. Mrs. Deacon
has applied for ''bill." Oh my dear
young friends take warning by Deacon
Spriggins, and approach not the stylish
dress manufacturer, lest she lead thee from
the straight and narrow way in which thou
shouldst walk
The Heartmashing Milliner, is another
woman who will have much to answer for.
She uses the power of creating beautiful ef
fects with which she had been endowed to
draw the needful from your pocket to sup
ply your possible wife with the wherewith-
al to crafty her sinful pride. If you have
not the above mentioned convenience upon
which to spend your cash, she is ready to
supply you, and is not at AL averse to ac-
cepting the situation herself, provided your
supply of filthy lucre is goodly. Verify,
she careth much for worldly goods. and, if
you have not treasure laid up here below,
she will take no stock in your celestial
bank. To use her words, she considereth
that it lacketh the requisite thickness, as
it were. 1t is too thin. Once in my youth
fui days, my brethren and sisters, before
had learned ''that this world is all a feet
ing show before | had given up earth and
the sins thereof" / knew a milliner-her
name was Mehitable Perkins-and for
style she layed clean over anything in the
female line in MiserytOwn. Miserytown
contained the domicile of my paternal re-
latiyes there was born there, Oh my
beloved brethren, l met Mehitable, and
finally she so threw charm Of earthly long
ing about me, that | called her "Hetty, -
&C. There was a good deal of &c. shall
never forget the day l called her Hetty, or
the consequences thereof Brethren, my
emotions overcome me. l cannot proceed
with the subject. Suffice it to say, that the
old man with his gun did not overtake me.
and departed in safety from the land of
my fathers. The place that was wont to
know me, knew me nc more.
now come to a portion Of my discourse
that treats of a class of women with whom
many of you have had experience. l mean
the lady clerk of whom Mark Tracy sings
The other day up by the square.
saw pretty face;
pair of dancing sloe-black eye-,
And actions full of grace.
Silks and velyets, by the yarG,
Made up this charming little belle,
Who stole my heart away.
She was clerk in candy store
Sweeter by far than the sweetest Of sweets
Was this clerk of a candy store.
In this frivolous and sinful song the world
" man setteth forth his ideas ofthe women
clerks. You enter store in which there
is lady clerk, and she cOmeth forward,
and smiling sweetly, says: ''What can l
show you to-day?" Then she praises your
selecting eIertinflg goods, and tells you that
this or that is SO becoming to your style,
and cozzens you until you feel as if you
would be doing something mean to so out
without buying anything. Thus she in
duces you to purchase articles you do not
want at all. In very deed, my Christian
hearers, the worldly man knOweth how to
take advantage of human nature, and he
valueth the lady clerk highly, she selleth
many goods and bringeth him in much
gold and silver But what availeth it him
if he selleth all his goods, and yet loseth
his deposits with the great banker. Breth-
ern, 'for ways that are dark'' woman
clerk far surpasseth the native of the China,