The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-03-02

very plain: but after the wounds were
washed and the now bandages were put
round the splintered limbs, and The ex-
hausted 10y fell Oh 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 mew
There may have been NO classic ole.
gance In the features Of Mrs. Harris, who
| came into the hospital after the '1seven
days" awful fight, a. she sat down by .
wounded drummer boy and heard him
| soliloquise:
"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:
"Shall be your mother and comfort
you'll" And he looked up and said:
eyes; I'll try to think she's herr.
tell her all about il, 'and send her Q lock
Of my hair and comfort her. But would
like to have you tell her how much sui.
fered-yes, would like you to do that
for she would feel so for ma Hold my
hand while die"
There may have been no classic Gle.
of HaTrison's Landing and Fortress Mon.
roe would have agreed that she was
beautiful; and il 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 a crutch.
Again: advise you not to depend for
happiness upon the batteries Of men. It
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 conversa alton elsewhere,
sometimes feel called upon at the door of
the drawing.room to drop their common
sense and to dole out sickening 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, and
store, and shop, they consider 1t honorable
to lie to q woman. The same thing that
they told you on this side of the drawing.
ryom three minutes ago they said to some
one on the other side of the drawing
room. Oh, let no one trample ON your
self-respect. The meanest thing on which
q woman can build her happiness il the
batteries Of men.
Again. I charge you not to depend for
happiness upon the discipleship of world
illness. / have seen men as vain of their
old.fashioned and their eccentric hat a.
your brainless fop is proud Of his dang
ling fooleries. Fashion sometimes makes
a reasonable demand of US, and then we
ought to yield to it. The daisies of tbs
field have their fashion Of color and leaf;
the honeysuckles have their fashion of
ear. drop, and the snowfiakes flung out of
the winter heavens have their fashion of
exquisitness. After the summer shower
the sky weds the earth with ring OF rain.
bow. And do not think we have right
to despise the elegancies and fashions Of
this world, especially II they make
reasonable demands upon rs;
but the discipleship and worship
of fashion is death to the
body, and death to the lsoul. I 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
extraordinary now as IL was then, and
all the marvellous things that the grand
daughter will do will never equal that
done by the grandmother. Go still far.
Their back, to the Bible times, and you
will find that in those times fashion
welded q more terrible sceptre. You
have emily to turn to the third chapter Of
Isaiah, portion of tho Scriptures from
which once preached to you . sermon,
to read:
Because the daughters Of Zion are naughty
and walk with stretched-forth necks and wan
ton eyes. walking and mincing as they go, and
making tinlsling with their feet; in that day
the Lord will take away the bravery of their
tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their
cauls, and their round tires like the moon, the
chains and the bracelets, and the muf11ers, the
b0nnets, and the headbands, and the tablets,
and the earrings, the rings and the nose jewels,
the changeable suits Of apparel, and the man
ties. and the wimples, and the crisping pins, the
glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and
the walls.
Only think of a woman having all that
on! l am glad the world is getting better
and that fashion which was dominated in
the world SO ruinously in other days has
for q little time. for little degree at any
rate. relaxed its energies. All the splen-
doris and extravaganza Of this world dyed
into your robe and flung over your shout.
der can not wrap peace around your heart
for q single moment. The gayest ward.
robe 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 Saviour's
righteousness. The home may be very
humble, the hat may be 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
resurrection angel will change that gar.
ment into raiment exceeding white, 90 Is
no fuller on earth could whiten it.
This world its fancied pearl may crave,
IT'S not the pearl for me;
twill dim its luster in the grave,
Twill perish in the sea.
But there's pearl of price untold,
Which never can be bought with gold; =
o. that's the pearl for me.
The snow was very deep, and IL was
still falling rapidly when, intthe first year
Of my Christian ministry, fastened to
see a young woman die. 1t was q very
humble home. She was an orphan; her
father had been shipwrecked on the
banks of Newfoundland. She had earned
her own living. As entered the room
saw nothing attractive. No pictures, no
tapestry, not even . cushioned chair.
The snow on the window easement was
not whittier than the cheek of that dying
girl It was a face never to be forgotten.
Sweetness and majesty Of soul and faith
in God had given her . matchless beauty,
and the sculptor who could have caught
the outlines of those features and frozen
them into stone would have made himself
immortal. With her large brown eyes she
looked calmly into the great eternity.
sat down by her bedside and said:
'.Now tell me all your troubles, and sor.
rows and struggles, and doubts" She
replied: