The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-02-18

were made in the image Of God. But
that is true of man, the nobest of beings
below God. O! what fall is there !!
when that noblest of created beings, no.
blest in powers, constitution and destiny,
has squandered his estate, squandered his
intellectual endowments, wasted his
moral nature and succumbed, with di'
vine heritage of gifts, to tho destinations
of the wine cup
2. But let us notice that it is appended
to this proyerb: "He that loyeth wine
and oil shall not be rich" Oil in ori.
entail countries and earlier times was the
common conveyance of perfumery. Its
use here is that it was cosmetic-an
element of the toilet. She that loveth
the pleasure of dress shall be q. poor aro-
man-poor, very poor, within frescoed
walls and lovely curtains. For she has
run her own career of more refined in
toxication-the pleasures Of popular ad-
miration. Those very fine qualities of
com passionateness, sympathy and spon-
taneous love with which God had en-
dowed her, have been squandered in the
exhilarations of the dance and in the
maudlin tears that are wept over unreal
tragedy. Those very fine instructive
powers of penetration have been lost in
the intricacies of dress and in the arts of
captiyation. Her wondrous adaptation
to the wants and miseries of real world
have all been dissipated in the imagina-
ry, the phantom felicities of fashiona-
Bile life. Her true powers are gone.
And when called to the administration
of household; when real cares and real
responsibilities come home 10 her heart !;
when unkempt children wrangle over
their rights and fill the chamber with
their cries; when not one duty but fifty
press for attention, it is poor solace that
is found in tears. Having wasted her
intellectual and moral property on pleas
ure, this poor woman at once laughs and
cries over the solemn perplexities from
which there is no escape. Is man the
only sinner in the pleasure OF intoxica-
ton? No. His tender mate, within the
limits allowed her, is no less the victim
of mental and heart dissipation in the
region of visionary joys. Her education
both at home aud in school tends to dis
sipate her real strength. In the one she
is too often trained in the arts of dress,
receptions, mannerism and vaporous vol.
utility: in the other she goes through
those arts and sciences which require the
least amount of intellectually and such
as flourish around the suburbs of knowl-
edge. Poor woman! she has been cut
off by the hard destinies of fashion from
the interior of the temple of wisdom and
consigned to the jejuue mysteries of the
art of captivatiou. And when she comes
to be mistress of household she must
learn the sternest duties of self control
and moral wisdom at the hand of unre'
lenting experience. And yet such are
her powers of adaptation and accommo-
dation to trying circumstances, that even
with the most faulty training, she does
her work. What would be the effect
upon the world, if she who is SO wonder
fully endowed by her Creator to be the
educator of the race, were trained and
educated as her powers and position
demand 1t ought to be proclaimed
upon the housetops" that the germs of
taste, elegance and refinement are in
s0oman's constitution already; that senti-
ment, loveliness, captivation, embroidery
come along naturally after stern, heart
and-head education; that our girls i'm
peratively need more Latin, Greek,
Mathematics and Metaphysics in their
education-the great mental disclaimers
which carry with them the elements of
critical taste, refinement Of soul and
moral penetration. 1t is not often con.
sidered how much the spirituous intem-
perance of our country takes its origin
in the faulty training Of woman. Man,
like simple bird, yields himself once to
the snare OF cosmetics. But no more
after that. When lie returns home from
the tolls of the day, and meets tears and
reproofs instead of smiles and sweet
welcomes; when he finds the very sane
tion of his happiness the home of regrets,
complaints and womanly expostulations,
be is wounded when he expected q solace
and seeks consolation in the vino cup.
8. He that loveth the pleasure Of gain
shall be poor man. lie congratulates
himself that he has no relish for the
amusements as they are styled. He is a
very steady, solid business man. Yet he
is absorbed in a very fascinating game.
The figures on the chess board are coun-
tiers, safes, ledgers, estates, men. 1t is
not more than game in its outcome.
"There is that maketh himself rich, yet
hath nothing.' Very poor when the
hour comes to exchange worlds. "When
the silver cord is loosed and the golden
bowl is broken" When the voice OF
the messenger is heard, "this night shall
thy soul be required of thee," and when,
through the tumbling walls of his taber'
nacle, he must make his escape to obey
that summonsI; without capital, without
credit, without wel.founded hope that
the doors of the heavenly charity will be
opened to him. o. it is a very solemn,
a very fearful thing to diepoor. And he
that lo5vveth the pleasure of gain shall die
poor.
4. But there is 3 pleasure that maketh
rich: makcth rich in this world. And
as it is not the riches of outward estate ;
of silver or gold, position or place so it
is not the riches of religious cxtasy, of
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