The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-04-22
For the Bulletin
RICH AND GORGEOUS, BUT NOT
ODDLY.

KlCH AND GOkUEDJS, DLl wv
ODDLY.
Sitting alone at my window, this bright,
beautiful Sabbath morning, weary in
valid, and as such shut off from the out side
world, with all its pomp, display and hol-
low-headedness question which has 50
often before presented itself to my mind,
again arises uppermost in my thoughts, as
gaze idly on the moving throng in the street
| below, as each individual wends his or her
way to some fashionable church The
question is this Why do people consider
1t necessary TO dress so eXtravagantly to at
tend the house o! God, and does the
thought ever occur to those who may have
the means to indulge their tastes in this
matter of dress, how many of Gods poor
they may keep away from their fathers
house by thus gratifying their own pride
aud self indulgence There the rich and
poor meet together and the Lord is maker
of them all. Have the rich then any right
TO shame those that have not, and by start
ling contrast of their magnifcence with the
pIainncss of the poor drive them from
Gods house or expose them while there to
painful humiIationsi Is it good breeding
or kind, to say nothing Of your duty as
follower OF the meek and low!y Nazarcne,
to make the poor feel out OF place
-ntraders in fact upon ground to which
their right is as undoubted as your own
Nor is this all the bitter fruits that are
born Of this worst kind of wor.dlincss
that is shielding itself under a wretchedly
thin disguise Of Difference to the sanctuary.
There is a family, We will say, in moderate
circumstances, enabled by the temperance
and industry Of the father, and s,ric, econ
omy OF the mother, to get along comfort
ably and pay all their Indebtedness. They
desire 10 bring their children mp in the
church, and insist upon their regular at
tendance at some church the parent, may
choose for them. All goes well for awhile,
""' - al" ~ u tue C"IIdIth Slo" "'IeT
he iac' becomes pmnIu.!y apparent to
their minds that they are not dressed as
? tlnc or stylish as many that bow The knee
win them IN the same sanctuary They
may be made more conscious OF this fact
! by oVer-hcarlng whispered sentence-a
q suppressed utter OF ny seeing slight
= Snug oil Inc shoulders between some bet
Ter dressed companions OF their own age
Nhat are 'he feelings thus awakened IN
, their young ana heretofore happy hear~i
ana "hAt Is the consequence: lhey return
? home unhappy snd dissatisfied ana begin
, to ciamor Tor either inner clothing or to be
q ano"eu 20 absent themselves from 600
mousse altogether mere j. sad dilemma
Tor the poor mother She cannot 50 lar
forget 'Ae du'y she owes her children as To-
allow them 10 get IN the haDit OF no: at
tending chuTch' SUI! her tender mother
hear, cannot compel them 10 20 and sub
lect them 10 TINS painful Illumination again.
What then Is to oe done; SheconieIs with
her husband and not wItns'andins ms assur-
- ance that he Is already dressing MS ianny
to the eXtento OF hls ability She oeg' HIN to
try and manage some way by winch they
maybe dressed better anu SO II happens 'l't
by and by, the children are dressed better
u then their parents can oIiord' and some
body must pay for the extravaganza. DO
not mean that they are tempted to steal but
| do say they GRIND They mean some
how 70 get itout OF the miI'lner' out oi the
dress maker OF "u' Oh u'c I"e'''on'' lucy
intend to make one manu- wash the other
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