The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1888-04-27

followed them in long procession to the
tomb, 70 find that you are followed by still
larger procession OF unfilial deeds done and
wrong words uttered The one procession
will leave its burden in the tomb and dis
band; but that longer procession OF ghastly
memories will fore-er march and forever
wall. Oh, il IS a good time for young wo-
man when she is in her fathers house. How
careful they are of her welfarei How wat III
fol those parents of all her interestsl Seated
at the morning repast. father at one end the
table. children on eithe4 side and between !;
but the years will roll on, and great changes
will he effected. and one will be missed from
one end the table, and another Will be missed
from the other end the table. God pity that
vouzg woman's soul who. in that dark hour,
has nothing but regretful recollections.
90 further and advise you not to depend
for endowment upon mere personal attrac-
tons It would be sheer hypocrisy, because
we may not have it ourselves, TO despise, or
affect to despise. beauty in others When
God gives il he gives it as q blessing and as
a means Of usefulness David and his army
were coming down from the mountains to
destroy Nabal and his focks and vineyards.
The beautiful Abigail, the wife of Nnbal,
went out TO arrest him when he came down
from the mountains, and she succeeded
Coming to the foot Of the hill, she knet
David with his army OF sworn men, came
down over the cliffs, and when he saw her
knellrg at the foot Of the hill he cried ''Haltln
to his men and the caves echoed Ii: Halt
halt That one beautiful woman kneeling
at the foot of the cliff had arrested all
those armed troops A dewdrop dashed
back Niagara The Bible sets before us the
portraits Of Sarah and Rebscca and Abishag
Absalom's sister. and Jobs daughters. and
says: "They were fair 10 look upon" BY
out door exercise, and by skillful arrange
ment of apparel. let women make themselves
attractive. The sIoven has only one mission,
and that TO excite our loathing and disgust.
But alasl for those who depend upon personal
charms for their happiness Beauty is such
a subtle thing. it does not seem to depend
upon facial proportions, or upon the sparkle
OF the eye. or upon the flush of the cheek
You sometimes find it among irregular feat
ures. II Is the soul shining through the face
that makes one beautiful But, alasl for
those who depend upon mere persln charms
They will come TO disappointment AMI to a
great fret. There are SO many different
opinions about what are personal charms;
and then sickness, and trouble, and age, do
make such ravages. The poorest god that a
woman ever worships is her own face. The
saddest sight in all the world is a woman who
has built everything on good looks, when The
charms begin 10 vanish. Oh, how they try
10 cover the wrinkles and hide the ravages
Of timel When time. with iron shod feet
steps ON face, the hoof marks remain, and
hide them think the most repulsiye fool
in all the world is an Old fool.
Why, my friends should You be ashamed
to be getting old. 1t is a sight is prima
facie evidence that you have behaved toler-
ably well or you would not have lived to this
time. The grandest thing, think, is eternity,
and that IS made up Of countless years.
When the Bible would set forth the attrac-
tiveness of Jesus Christ, it SAYS: His hair
was white as snow.n But when the color goes
from the cheek, and the luste- from the eye,
and the spring from the step and the grace
fitness from the gait, alasl for those who
have built their time and their eternity upon
good looks But al the passage of years can
not take out OF ones face benignity and kind
ness, aud compassion. and faith Culture
your heart and you culture your face. The
brightest CORY that ever beamed from a
woman's face is the religion Of Jesus Christ
In the last war 200 wounded soldiers came to
Philadelphia one night, and came unheralded,
and they had to extemporize hospital for
them, and the Christian women Of my church,
and OF other churches, went out that night to
take care Of the poor wounded fellows. That
night l saw Christian woman go through
the wards OF the hospital her sleeves rolled
up, ready for hard work, her hair di-
sheveled in the excitement Of the hour
Her face was plain, very plain; but
after the wounds were washed and the
new bandages were put round the splintered
limbs and the exhausted boy fell off into his
first pleasant sleep, she put her hand on his
brow and he started in his dream, and said:
'.Oh, thought an angel touched meln There
may have been no classic elegance in the
features Of Mrs. Harris, who came into the
hospital after the Seven Days awful fight,
as she sat down by a wounded drummer boy
and heard him soiilo1uize: "A ball through
my body, and my poor mother will never
again see her boy What pity it isl' And
she leaned over him and said: 'tShall be
your mother and comfort your And he
looked mp and said: Eyes, Ill try to think
she's here. Please to write a long letter to
her and tell her all about it, and send her a
lex Of my hair and comfort her. But
would like to have you tell her how much
! would like You to do that,
for she would feei so for me. Hold my hand
whie die There may have been no classic
elegance in her features, but all the hospitals
OF Harrison's Landing and Fortress Monroe
would have agreed that she was beautiful:
and II any rough man in all that ward had
insulted her, some wounded soldier would
have leaped from his couch on his best foot,
and struck him dead with n crutch.
Again, / advise you not TO depend for hap
pinsss upon the batteries of men. It is a
poor compliment to your sex that so many
men feel obliged in your presence to offer un-
compliments Men capable of ele- /
CANT and elaborate conversation elsewhere !
sometimes feel called upon at the door of the /
irawing-room TO drop their common sense 1
md to dole out sickening batteries. They |
iay things about your dress, and about your /
appearance, that you know and they know, 1
IRE false. They say you are an angel. /
You know you are not Determined to tell /
he truth in office and store and shop they 1
consider it honorable TO lie to woman The /
anne thing that they told you on this side of |
he drawing room three minutes ago they I
al to some one on the other side of the draw
ng room Oh. let no one trample on your 4
ELF respect. The meanest thing on which
woman can build her happiness is the flatter-
rs Of men
Again, charge you not to depend for hap
liness upon the discipleship Of worldliness I /
ave seen men as vain Of their old fashioned
md their eccentric hat as yon brainless fop +
5 proud Of his dangling fooleries- Fashion
ometimes makes a reasonable demand of us.
nd then we ought to yield to it. The daisies
4 the field have their fashion of color and
eaf; the honevsuckles have their fashion OF
ar drop, and the snowfiakes flung out of the
winter heavens have their fashion of exquis-
teness After the summer shower the sky
Feds the earth with ring of rainbow, and I
% not think we have right to desp;se the
and fashions Of the world, espe-
tally il they make reasonable demands upon
S; hut the discipleshipand worship of fash
IN IS death to the body and death to the
oul: am glad the world is improving
'ook at the fashion plates of the Seventeenth
nd Eighteenth centuries. and You will find
hat the world is not so extravagant and ex-
now as It was then, and all the
marvellous things that the granddaughter
MI do viii never equal that done by the
randmother. Go still farther back, TO the
iible times. and you find that in those
ines fashion welded a more terrible
,epter. You have only to turn TO the third
hapter OF Isaiah, portion OF the Scriptures
rom which once preached to you n sermon,
, read; ''Because the daughters of Zion are
aughty. and walk with stretched forth necks
nd wanton eyes. walking and mincing as =.
hey go, and making a tinlsling with their
set: In that day tie Lord will take away
De bravery Of their tinkling ornaments about
leir feet, and their cauls, and their round
res Ike the moon. the chains and the brace
is, and the muffiers, the bonnets, and the
ead bands, and the tablets. and the ear
ngs, the rings, and the nose jewels, the
suits of apparel and the NANTES.
nd the wimples. and the crisping pins, the
lasses, and the fine linen and the hoods, and
ie veilsn Only think Of a woman having