Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-04-27
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FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 81. 1877.
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SOME GOOD WORDS TO GIRLS.

SOME GOOD WORDS TO GIRLS.
A s11NnAv NIGHT TALK OF REV. WIN. E.
BAKER TO YOUNG WoMEN-coMMoN
SENSE WELL PHRAsED.
&C. &C., &C.
Sunday night was young ladies night at
the First Presbyterian church. and BESIDES
the usual attendance of that class OF socle-
ty in the congregation, there was large
representation of the students OF the Au-
gusta Female Seminary. AS most OF the
heads wearing bonnets that came
into church were filled with serious
thoughts upon the-spring fashions, the
sermon was timely as well as good. 1t was
based on the remark OF Paul to Timothy,
that 'sshe that liveth IN pleasure is dead
while she liveth."
Young ladies', said Mr.. Baker, are spec
tally tempted to live in pleasure, and need
to be warned. Young men have to work,
but young women find their greatest pros
perity in the very path Of foolish and eX-
travagant self-indulgence. The life OF
ease which would elevate the social posi-
ton of a young lady, lowers that Of the
young man. Vanity and luxurious hab-
it's would ruin him in the eyes of those who
control the weighty interests Of a commu-
nifty Besides, young ladies being the Or
namental part of society are tempted to
be merely ornamental, satisfying the gen.
eral expectations if they but succeed in
making themselves agreeable and attrac-
tive. Now while we do not find fault with
flower garden for containing no vegeta-
bles, we do complain of d store where they
sell pretty things if it contains nothing
but pretty things. Y Dung ladies, therefore
being set apart by the vain world merely
| for admiration, are not So apt to feel 1T IN
cumbent upon them to be useful. Then
| too, young ladies are the source and centre
| of almost all the gayeties, festivities and
indulgences of society. They are appro-
priated both by the idle and the busy for
the entertainment of hours of ease, in the
sense of relaxation after toll. They are
very much in demand to make summer re-
sorts inviting, and are used like wine to
cheer and like confections to sweeten life,
d passive mission that they can fulfil all the
better if they live in pleasure,
Enjoying themselves makes them all the
more enjoyable, and softness, lat this term
some of the girls were seen to bride up
REP.] righteousness and fondness for in
diligence are the very qualities most ess
teemed. ''As for your souls, my young
friends,'' said Mr.. Baker, "the less you
think about them the more popular you
will be with the world" He who lives fol
the present, it is cel tain, does not want tG
see anything, either in the tone OF spirit Of
young lady to remind him Of the future
Were these creatures like young women il
other respects, but not immortal, they
would soon distance them in the competi-
lions of gay society. The Immortality O.
the latter is their only blemish in the eye:
of the worldly amid pleasures throng How
then are young women to escape this waste
and Misrepresentation How can they
avoid becoming toys? Their situation il
indeed full OF peril. They are naturally in
clined to live in pleasure and those arount
are using their utmost efforts to induce
them TO live in pleasure. In proportion t,
their attractions they are perishable; tn
multitude wish to spoil them, but thei
true and serious friends, as soon as the
observe the frivolous admitted to thei
confidence ale disposed to turn away il
sarroWland despair.
| 'UpOnyUuIIR GUiIIULI uIIvr.rny., a.,
speaker, it depends to settle the question
whether they will give their young live
for the selfish enjoyment of others, O
whether they will have regard to their owl
real sand eternal interest In living il
pleasure, it is certain that like a fly IN th
honey, size is dead though surrounded witt
sweets. It is a dead soul, and if tina
corpse is arrayed in silk and whirls in tn
unwarrantable liberties Of revelry, so mucl
the more are we shocked. The speake
then proceeded to examine this corps
which instead of being Wrapt in shroud
Wrapt in pleasure, and instead of bein;
committed to the undertaken is given owe
to the hands Of fashion for adornment. Il
has q heart but it is forsaken by it's right
full sovereign; pulses but they cannot bea
in the hottest cause; appetite, but not TO
the bread which cometh down from heav-
en-: thirst, but not for the living water
the benedictiOns are not hers. She is Meth
er poor IN spirit, nor weak, nor hungerine
| after Righteousness, nor pure in heart She
bushes, but not with ingenious shame OF
| account of sin. She WeepS, but not one of al
her tears has ever touched the feet Of
Mary's Savior. The world defends her
but God condemns her. The world asserts
her sanctity but the Bible teaches that all
who do not wash in the one fountain are
unclean. Those who are lovers of pleasure
more than lovers Of God, cannot be as pure
as those who are lovers of God more thai,
lovers of pleasure. Living in pleasure must
produce a degradation which though
easily conce aled FROM the world S eye rusts
and corrodes unseen. The speaker urged
women to put higher value on themselves
than that of mere servant of the world
ministering to its pleasure, and he warned
them against life of pleasure, which in
the end dulled the mind to the nobler
| feelings of nature and made the soul ILL
different to it's future state. He conclu-
ded by pointing out the true beauty of a
Christian life, so much purer, so much bet
ter, so much higher than q worldly life,
and urged his hearers to make that the
object of their desires and highest effort.
Acquitted.
The County Court was densely crowded