Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-15
the miider phase Of this

only the mIIder phase Of this
evil. 10 shuts great multitude
out OF heaven The first neai OF
thunder that shook Sinai decla,ed.
"Thot shalt have no other gods before
mo. and you will have " choose be.
tween the goddess Of fashic and tho,
Christian God. There are a great ms'ov
seats in heaven and t,iey are all easy
seats, but not one seq. for the devotee of
costume. Heaven is for meek a'Id qmrt
spirits. Heaveri is for those who think
more OF their souls than Of their bodies.
Why, 1t you with your idolatry of cos
tune should somehow get into heaven
you would he for putting French roof
on the "honse of MANY MANSIONS and
YOU would BE- for introducing the patterns
VT Butterwick's Quarterly Delineator.
| Give up this idolatry OF fashion or give
up heaven. What would you do standing
beside the countess Of Huntington, whose
| Joy II was to build cnapels for the poor
on with that Christian woman Of Boston
who fed 1900 children Of the street at
/ Fanuil hall one new years day, giving
n sort Of doXology at the end OF the
meeting pair Of shoes to each one OF
| them; or those Decreases OF modern So
ciety who have consecTated their needles
10 the Lord and VINO will get eternal ie
ward for every stitch they takeY o, men
and women, give up the idOatry of cos
! tune. The rivaires and the compel
tons of such life are a stuptnduus
Indebtedness. You viii always find
some one with brighter array aud with
more palatial residence and with laven-
der kid gloves that make tighter ht
And If YOU will buy this thing and wear
It you will wish you had bought some
thing else and worn IL. Aud the frets OF
such life will bring the crows feet to
your temples before they are due, and
Nhen you come to die you will have n
miserable time.
have seen men and women of ex-
cessive costume die and never saw on
Of them die well. The trappngs off
there they lay on the tumbled pillow, |
and there were just two things that
bothered them--a wasted life and IA com |
Ing eternity. | could not pacify them, |
tor their body, MIND and soul had been |
exhausted in the worship OF costume
and they could not appreciate the gospel. |
When knelt by their bedsi ie they wer,
mumbliDg out their regrets and saying |
"Oh God! Oh God!' Their garments
hung up in the wardrobe never again to |
be seen by them. without any excep- .
tion, so far as my memory serves me,
they died without hope and went into I
eternity unprepared. The two most |
CHASTITY death-beds ON earth are the one .
where u man dies of dclnum tremens,
aud the otner where u woman dies after
having sacrificed all her faculties of body, |
mind and soul in the worship of costume |
My friends, we must appear in iudg-
ment TO answer for what we have worn /
on our bodies as well as for what repent
ance we have exercised with our souls
On that day / see coming in Beau Brum-
mel OF the last century, without his
cloak, like which all England got cloak
and without his cane, like which all En-
gland got a cane; without his snuff box,
like which all England got snuff-box-
he, the fop OF the ages particular about
everything but his morals; and Aaron
Burr, without the letters that down to
old age he showed in pride, to prove his |
early wicked galantries; and Absalom
without his hair; and Marchioness Pom
padour without her titles; and Mrs.
Arnold, the belle of Wall street, when
that was the center of fashion, without
her flipperes or vesture.
Aud in great haggardness they shall 90
away into eternal eXpatriation, Will,
among the queens of heavenly society viii
be found in Vashti, who wore the modest
vii before the palatial observation-disclosures
and Hannah, who annually made little
coat for Samuel at the temple; and Grand
mother Lois, the ancestress of Timothy,
who initiated her virtue; and Mary, who
gave Jesus Christ tn the world and many
of you, the wives and mothers,and sisters
and daughters of the present Christian
church who, through great tribulation,
are entering into the kingdom of God
Christ announced who would make up the
royal family OF heaven when he said;
whatsoever doeth the will of God, the
same is my brother, my sister, my
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