The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-20

olher churches went out that night 10 tako
care of the poor wounded fellows. That
night saw n Christian woman go through
the wards of the hospital, her sleeves rolled
up, ready for hard work, her hair DISNEY
eiod in the excitement of the hoIr. Her
face was plain. very plain; but after the
wounds were washed and the new baudageS
were put round the splntered limbs, and
the exhausted boy fell OIL into his first
pleasant sleep, she put her hand ON his brow,
and he started in his dream, and said: 80,
| thought an angel touched me' There
may have been no classic elegance IN
tue features of Mrs. Harris, who came into
the hospital after the "Soven Days. awful
fight as she sat down by wounded drum
mer boy and heard him soliloquize: "A
ball through my body, and my poor
mother will never again SEQ her boy
What a pity il is!' And she leaned over
him and said "Shall | be your mother,
! and comfort youM And he looked up and
said: "Nes, I'll try to think she's here.
| Please to write a long letter to her and tell
her all about it, and sond her lock Of my
hair and comfort her. Bat | would ike TO
have You tell her how much | suffered
yes. would like you to do that, for She
would feel SO for me. Hold my hand while
| die" There may have been no classic
elegance in her features, but all the hos
pitfalls of Harrisons Landing and Fortress
!
beautiful; and if any rough man in all that
ward had iuSulted her, some wounded sol
der would nave leaped from his couch, ON
his best foot, and struck him dead with
crutCh
Again: | advise you not to depend for
happiness upon the batteries of men. II Is
poor compliment to your sex that so many
men feel obliged in your presence To offer
unmeaning compliments. Men capable of
elegant and elaborate conversation else
where, sometimes feel called upon at the
door of the drawing to drop Their
common sense and to dole out sickenlng
batteries They say things about your
dress, and about your appearance, that you
know, and they know, are false. They say
you are an angel You know you are not.
Determined to tell the truth in Office, aud
store, and shop, they consider it honorable
to lie to a woman. The same thing that
they told you on this side of the drawing
room, three minutes ago they said to some
one on the other side of the drawing groom.
O, let no one trample on your self-respect.
The meanest thing on which IA woman can
build her happiness is the batteries of men.
Again: l charge you not to depend for
happiness upon the discipleship of worldii-
ness. | have seen men as vain of their old
fashioned and their eccentric hat as your
brainleSs fop is proud of his dangling fool
cries. Fashion sometimes makes reason
able demand of us, and then we ought to
yield to it. The daisies of the field have
their fashion of color and leaf the honey
suckles have their fashion OF ear-lrop; and
the snowflakes flung out of the winter heav-
ems have their fashion of exQuisteness.
After the summer shower the sky weds the
earth with ring of rainbow. And / do not
think we have a right to de-
spise the elegancies and fashions of
this world, especially if they make
reasonable demands upon us; but the DIS
cpleship and worship of fashion is death
to the body, and death to the soul ! am
glad the world is improving. Look at the
| fashion plates of the seventeenth and
| eighteenth centuries, and you will find that
the world is not so extravagant and extra
| ordinary now as it was then, and all the
| marvellous things that the granddaughter
will do will never equal that done by the
grandmother Go still father back, to the
Bible times, and you find that in tho-e
! times fashion welded "A more terrible
sceptre. You have only to turn TO the third
| chapter of Isaiah a portion of the Scrip
| lures from which | once preached 10 you n
sermon, to read: Because the daughters
of Zion are naughty, and walk with
stretched forth necks and wanton eyes,
walking and mincing as they go, and max
ing a tinkling with their feet In that day
the Lord will take away the bravery of
| their tnkling ornaments about their
| feet, and their cauls, and their round tires
like the mOon the chains and the bracelets,
| and the mufilers, the bonnets, aud the head
bands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
the rings, and the nose jewels, the change
| able suits of sppare, and the mantles, and
the wimples, and the crisping pins, the
| glasses. and the fine linen, and the hoods,
and the wells" Only think of woman
| having all that on! ! am glad that the
world is getting better and that fashion
which has dominated in the world 80 ruin
ously in other days has for little time, tor
a little degree at any rate, relaxed its
energies All the spendors and the eX-
traYaganZa of this world dyed into your
robe aud flung over your shoulder cannot
wrap peace around your heart for single
moment The gayest wardrobe Will utter
no voice Of coincidence in the day Of trouble
and darkness. That woman is
grandly dressed, and only she
who is wrapped in the robe of
a Saviour's righteousness. The home may
be very humble, the hat may bo very plain,
the frOCk may be very coarse; but the halo
of heaven settles in the room when she
wears it, and the faintest touch Of the res
direction angel will change that garment
into raiment exceeding white, so as no
fuller on earth could whiten it. | come 10
YOU, young women, today, TO say that this
world cannot make you happy. / know it
is a bright world, with glorious sunshine,
and golden rivers, and fire-wOrked sunset,
and bird orchestra, and the darkest cave has
its CRYSTALS, and the wrathest wave its
foam wreath, and the coldest midnight its
flaming aurora; but God will put out all
these lights with the blast OF his own
nostris, and the gloiies of this world will
perish in the final confagration. You will
never be happy until you get your sins
forgiven and allow Christ Jesus to take fun
possession of your soul He will be your
friend in every perpexity. be viii be
your comfort in every trial. He will be
your defender in every strait. ] do not ask
YOU to bring, like Mary, the spices TO the
sepulchre Of a dead Christ, but to bring
your all TO the feet of a living jesus. HIS
word Is peace. His look is love. His hand
is help His touch is life His smile is
heaven O., come, then, in focks and
groups. Come, like the south wind over
banks of myrrh. Come like the morning
light tripping over the mountains. Wreathe
all your affections on Christ's brow, set all
your gems in Christs corOnet, pour all
your voices into Christ's song, and let tins
sabbath air rustic with the wings of re-
ioicing angels, and the towers of God ring
out the news of souls saved.
"Ths world It's fancied pearl may crave,
"Tis not the pearl for me;
Twill dim its ustre IN the grave,
Twill perish IN the sea.
But there's "A Pearl Of price untold,
Which never can be bought with gold;
o, that's the pearl for me.