The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-03-08
OUR RELIGIOUS COLUMN.
old Church Calendar.
March 70. Third Sunday in Lent.

March ~. Third Sunday in Lent.
He who came to save the whole world,
came as the Teacher of all His precepts /
bear marks Of universally, as suitable, as
ineligible. as necessary, to-day and here,
as 10 Judea, two thousand years ago.
He reproved common faults He pro-
vided for common needs. He guarded
against common dangers. He soothed
common troubles. And He condescended
to notice very small things, both to show
that 'He knew what was in man, and
also to lift man up to regard for higher
things.
One of His sayings was, g Your body is
| more than raiment. A mere truism,
some might say-of course clothes are of
less value than the human form they are
made TO cover, the living, acting, ccmpli-
Gated body Yes, we all know it we
readily assent to it's declaration and yet,
was there not good reason, great need,
for its utterance? For, do we always re-
member what we know? Do we always
act as if we knew it? Must not truth be
often repeated, to make MS feel and live
according toit?
" Your body is more than raiment.
Does that mother know it, who dresses
her child in clothes that are pretty, in
| deed, but yet poor protection against
| the weather to which the child is to be
exposed ? Thin shoes, on the damp
| ground, short skirts, to Withstand the
March winds, bare arms and neck, for the
May day party. win she learn its truth,
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was almost fatal, or that hacking cough,
| that worried her half through the Sum
mer?
Does the maiden know it, whose corsets
and high heels distort into deformity the
figure that might have We'd with the
Greek ideal of female beauty, and burden
with consumption and dyspepsia and
might have been the elastic, agile, joyous
companion of healthy, buoyant, cheer
full spirit?
| Does the exquisite y know it, who,
with poor mimicry of John Chinaman's
spouse, forces his feet into lower num-
Der than Nature clamors for, and at five
and thirty is hobbling and grunting with
bunions and corns2
| But the truth takes n far higher range.
| 4" Your body is more than raiment' The
costliest raiment fades rots, feeds moths.
| that is eternal. And the body, that it
may possess immortal bloom, must pro-
mote, now, such care of its tenant-soul, as
will ensure its own heavenly beauty. The
neglect of the soul, is the destruction of
the body's glory.
! And between these extremes, there is a
middle plane of thought, on which medium
minds may move profitably, and with no
great effort. The amount of time spent
on making and trimming and altering
dress, in the tresome race to keep up
with ever-changing Fashion, is unworthi-
| ly used, miserably wasted The wear on
hands and feet, too Gin these days of sew
| ing maehinesl, ON lungs and brain and
nerves, is destructive of health, takes Ma
lures own beauty from the check that
should glow and the eye that ought to
sparkle; and enfeebles and dwarfs the
mind, that might, else, be expatiating,
many hours each week, in the grand
thoughts of the Poets and the splendid
themes of the Historian and the Novelist
And-to stop, as we must, before one
half is said--the hardest toilers in this
line are still unsuccessful. Ones best eff
forts are always outdone by some one else,
because Of longer purse or better oppor-
tunity, or finer tact. One is either so
much ahead of others, as to look odd or
so much behind, as to look Anticipated
or so exactly in season, as to look no bet
ter than everybody else. And if by rare
chance, one does succeed in attracting a
larger share of acknowledgements then
1t is only the milliner, or the mantua-
maker, that is admired not the wearer--
for charms of lerson, grace of manner,
ease and elegance of movement, sweet
ness of character.
The dress which does not attract obser-
walton, leaves room for the true beauty of
manhood and womanhood to appear, ma.
turally, unoffensively, pleasingly.
Beauty nnadorned, adorned the most. "
Can it be denied that many live and act,
constantly, as though they thought their
bodies were made only to be dressed up
handsomely and appear thus artificially
beautiful, and be admired and that they
themselves exist chiefly that they may
taus accomplish this grand purpose Of
their body's creation?
Immortal spirits living, breathing, NOV.
ing through all their earthly life-or for
many years of it-that they may reflect
credit on the tailor and modiste--serve
for blocks and advertisements to the
makers of clothes Idea ridiculous, were
it not SO humiliating
But turn to the nobler thought of Him
who has given us the promise, and who
offers to us-on well-kuown conditions
to come and change our present bodies to
be like unto His own glorious Body, aud
clothe their mortality with Lite.
Tho groyeling worm
Shall Rnd his wings, and soar fast and free
| As his TRANSPORTED Lord with lightning form
And snowy vest--sueh grace He wen for thee"
Church Services.
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! r. NJ Sunday, 1880 A, Nj, $50 +. M Monday, 4
PM.
PRESBYTERIAN CHuRcH.-SeryiCeS on sunday,
| 40 A NJ 10 p NJ. PRAYER meeting Tuesday