Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-12-04
Extravaganza.

~ oacA W urst priDclple6 anu lake
a new start. We need more brim-
stone ground into the preaching.
We need more humility ground in
to the pews.
We need more fever and ague.
When folks are sick they value the
church for itself, when they are well
they like it, as merchants like show
window. There are ladies that
come to church every time they
get something new. When l see
them come in, | say to my self, al
wonder what new thing she's got
this time"
"I've a good mind to say I'll never
go to church again." said Mrs Ball,
wife of an Industrious mechanic
Whats up?" inquired the irrelig.
ious husband. 'Ob, well, nothing
that ought to be, l suppose; dare
say it's all very wrong feeling so,
but 1 worked all The week tight as
| could spring. every spare minute
| bad, to turn my old cloth sack
and Tx over my bonnet, and went
10 church feeling as il / locked
pretty we'll and little like folks;
but you ought to have seen the la
lies in their toys and s'reamers and
flying bits of lace l wish you could
have seen Mrs Honiton come into
church, every body looking at her
Her trail reached back three seats
OF course / know il to be wrong to
3ovet-but don't covet, as koow
~. She is welcome TO her silks apd
velvets, and her front pew and such,
for all me. But | know ono thing:
it is ridiculous for me 10 belong To
he same church with her, u I'D to 20
here Sunday sft,r Sunday, ia, I to
ne made ashamec If mystl Ii every
Sunday Of my Ii ;" n isba I'd"
ahe continued ear estl', 81 do wish
there was some thnrca VT ere ooor
folks was j1st IS cod is r eh lks
don't mind it " k d.ys, but Sun
lay | should like 20 fael that the
Lord loves me az uucb as rpvb ,dy
# l could "B5 tor 10 Ike me-"
replied hsr husbas "yot 30 g. sill
All churches are 2i.k. they aim,
meant for o1e.ht sc f ks like as "
Mr.. Ball does she ehul ch iuias ice.
You can visit fam lies, aud the vel
come be hypocriIicai, but there is
no church in the inpd but that you
go to aud the welccme be genuine
| do not say that , ioh peol 10 Ought
to dress like poor people, but l do
say that rich people iu coming to
the house of GOO, are nobler the
more they consider the feelings OF
the poor.
l was surprised the other day TO
hear q beautiful and accom- plished
young lady declare, Il believe it
wicked. the amount of work they
put on dress nowadays Eighteen
yards, too, for one little womanl 1,
won't do, either, to wear one dress;
you have to wear two-one over the
o her, and trimming enough for
third. and eteeteras enough to buy
\ fourth"
The amount OF nonsense crowded
into the fashion plates is positively
childish. The Bible says: "As for
my people, children are their op-
oressors add women rule over them"
1t is Sc. 1t costs more to clothe n
six year old boy now than il cost TO
clothe you and me when We were in
college. l heard of one little girl
last year who had thirty fiye dollars
worth of shoes
l know OF one young couple " no
tor three months have been rejoicing
10 the love and helplessncss of their
irst-born child. The happy ia her
assured friend of mine that the
bills he had already paid for that liz.
10 pink dumping of darling had
come to six hundred dollars. and
here was q number of other things
the baby would soon be ready for,
and probably die if it didn't bave.
The catalogue OF Vassar says il is
esp' cislly desired that the dress OF
he students shall be simple and in
expensive. Simplicity saves time.
hough', money If extrsvsgance
axes the mind { the student away
rom study, it takes the mind of the
Christian away from Christ. II ~in.
plIclty OF dress AZ d life is gooo for
girls when they are s adents. u il
good for them when they are
women, wiees and mothers. With
rich silks g;i,,erir in ur yves we
forget books, we forget 9 risl We
forget our vow; iih Re lszz OF
\ fashionable life o W an IL I-om
Heaven, it is not cry atrf lge ,hat
We come 10 act If her VS. no
Heaven, 90 acco' tab ii'y to I'D
no judgmen,.sss of Gu ist. w
lead butteshy-';Ts; vs walk n 9
vain shadow, COO leteiy scin ,tec
by the glare, the li'tel, AMI the tic.
sci OF time Il W OF say" ssid The
excellent Mrs. Jauey. "thst / have
seen wax work exactly like ns, ure
but have seen nsturr exactly Iik,
wax work. People Law ou, all hey
have upon their backs, End ther
complain about thu cost ap the ex
actions of religion The mad folly
of being like 'he world, the MAJ
passion for costly apparel. dries nv
sweet Heaven drawing sympstsies
makes rs fairly hate charitabl,
causes; Makes Us forget Christ ant
the sturdy souls If whom the worlt
was not worthy, and spend on
time, our means and our wits, I,
psttern after dsnd fed men and dol
lifted women. o. daughters of fss b
ion, children of foIlyl ye shall b
ashamed of the osks ye have desired
aud confounded 10 the garden y,
have chosen. Ye shall be SO an oal
whose lesf fsdeth, and "a garden
that hath no ws'er. o, lady, i
there no way to prove your ricl
womsnship, your sweet and gent,
spirit, the gift Of suavity, the grace
. I ~ Al