Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-30
SERMON.
DISCOURSE Of the Series On
yThe Marriage Ring"
,o,ated to Morals-Evll Effects
.., Attire-The Responsibility
Stage for It's Undress Uni
form Parades.

10 STACY
y form Parades.
r Dewitt Talmage took for the
ithis sixth discourse of the series
Marriage Ring" "Costume and
taking for his text:
..or the Lord said: Because the
w. NJ Zion are naughty and walk
1.,nhed. forth necks and wanton
ling and mincing as they go, and
,;nkling with their feet, in that
lord will take away the bravery of
sling ornaments about their feet,
noau)s, and their round tires like
=, tine chains, and the bracelets, and
sors tne bonncrs, and the ornaments
"s and the headbands, and the tab.
! the'suits of apparel, and the man
a the wimples, and the crisping pins,
'.os. and the fine linen, and the hoods,
[~,ols.-Isaiah ill.,, IL, 1873
Is a Jerusalem fashion plate. It
$500 years back, and sets US down
[ncient city. The procession of men
omen is moving up and down the
reefs. 1t is the height of the fash
. season. The sensible men and
move with so much modesty that
o not attract IL attention. But
ome the naughty daughters of Jeru-
They lean forward; they lean very
onward: so far forward as to be UNI
|,-teetering, wobbling, wriggling,
or as my text describes it, they
with stretched forth necks, walking
incine as they CO." They have in
sounding style arranged their bon
Id their walls and their entire APP
and now go through the streets TAX
hore of the pavement than they
titled to, sweeping along with skirts
he text describes as ground tires like
oon.n See! That is a princess!
That is a Damascus sword
Look! That is a Syrian m err
The jingling of the chains and
shing of the headbands, and the
lions of universal swagger, attract
ention of the Prophet Isaiah. and
he's his camera to bear upon the
and takes a picture for all the
But where is that scene? Van
Where are those gay streets? Yer.
bvered population pass through
Where are the hands, and the
and the foreheads, and the shoul-
md the feet that sported all that
%fcence? Ashes, ashes!
we should all be clad is proved by
pening Of the first wardrobe in
Use, with it's apparel of dark green.
he should all as far as our means
us be beautifully and gracefully
Fled, is proved by the fact that God
made a wave but he gilded it with
sunbeams, or a tree but he gar
it with blossoms, OF a sky but he
ID 1t with stars, or allowed even the
of q furnace to ascend but he
he'd and turreted, and doled and
d it into outlines of indescribable
f%uIness, When 1 see the apple
Fds Of the spring and the pageantry
autumnal forests, | come to the
Fsion that if nature ever does join
burch, while she may be a Quaker
be silence of her worship, she
will be a Quaker in the style. of
ress. Why the notches of a fern
the staman of a water lily? Why,
the day departs, does it let the fold
0ors Of Heaven stay open so long,
tmight go in sc quickly. One sum-
bmning l saw an army of q million
each one adorned with a diamond
first water-I mean the grass with
Jaw on it. When the prodigal came
his father not only put a coat on his
but jewelry on his hand. Christ
b beard, Paul, the bachelor apostle,
hicted with any sentimentality, ad-
the arrangement of a woman's hair
he said in his epistle:
woman have long hair it 10 q glory
per.
IRE will be fashion in Heaven as on
but it will be a different kind of
Pn. 1t will decide the color of the
and the population of that country,
beautiful law, will wear white.
by these things as a background to
ermon to show you that l have no
precise, prudish or cast-iron theories
subject of human apparel; but the
Pss Of fashion has setup her throne in
ountry, and at the sound of the tim
we are all expected to fall down and
PIP. Her affairs smoke with the sacra-
Of the bodies and souls of 10000
IS. In her temple fo,:r people stand
c organ-loft, and from there comes
a cold drizzle of music, freezing on
Fafs OF her w%orshippers. This god
Of fashion has become a rival of the
Of Heaven and earth, and it is high
we numbered our batteries against
0oiatry. When I come to count the
us OF fashion l find as many mascu-
feminine. Men make an easy TRADE
ls' women, as though she were the
"orshlper at this idolatrous shine,
10 doubt some men in the more con-
nus part of the pew have already cast
e at the more retired part of the
,nelf look a prophecy of a generous
ioution. My sermon shall be as APP
.'"te tor one end of the pew as for the
II are rs much idolaters of fashion as
w. but they sacrifice on a different
VI the altar. With men the fashion
10 cigars and club-rooms and parties
"Aie suppdfs n the United States
leu cnew up and smoke one hundred
WIS OF dollars worth of tobacco every
ina is their fashion. In London,
o'a ago, a man died who started in
,Nn 100000. But he ate it all up in
on'es' sending his agents to all parts
eortn Tor some rare delicacy for the
sometimes one plate of food costing