Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-02-20

| drawing room TO drop their common sense
and to dole out sicaening batteries Thy
say things about your dress, and abou, ,uur
appearance, that YOU know. and they know
arr false. They say you ere an angel
| You know you are not. Determined
to tell the truth in Office and s.ore
AMI shop, they consider it honorable
TO lie to a woman. The same thing that
| they told You on this sid. OF the drawing
room lhree minutes ago they said u some
one on the other sid. Of the drawing room
| Dn, let no one trampl. on ycur self respect
The msanest thing on which woman can
build her happn,s, Is the batteries Q: nreD.
Again. | charge YOU not To depend for hap
| pin.s upon tho dIsc:psohip OK worldliness. |
have ssen men vain of their o.d fashioned
and their eccentric hat as your brainless fsp
is proud Of his dangling iOSieriss. Fashion
sometimes makes a reasonable demand Of ~,
AMI then We ought to yield to il. The daisies
| of the field have their fashion Of color and
| leaf: the honeysuck,es have their fashion Of
ear drop and the snowfiakes flung out Of the
winter heavens have their fashion OF exqui-
siteness. After the summer shower the sky
weds the earth with ring Of RAINBOW. and I
do not think we have a right to despiss tho
eleyancies and fashions Of this world. esp.,-
cially II they max. reasonable demands apon
US; but the disrirlesh.p p and worship nf fash
ion is death to :h, body snd death To ths
soul | AM glad tn. world is improving
Look at the fashion plates of the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth centuries, and You will find
that the world Is no. 80 extravagant and ex-
trsordinary now a. it was then and all the
marvellous things that the granddaughter
will do will never equal that done by the
grandmother Go still farther hack, to the
Bible times, and You find that in those
times fashion wisited more terrible
! srepter. You haT. only 10 turn Ia the third
! chapter Of Isaiah, portion of the Scriptures
from which once presrhei h Won . sermon,
| 10 read: "Be,auss thr daushtc-s Il Zion ars
naughty, aud walk with stretched forth necks
and wanton ewes, walking and mincing ss
they 81, and making linking with their
feet. In that day til. Lord viii take away
the bravery Of their tinkling ornaments about
their i.~t, and their csui>. and their round
tires ike the nooi, the "Eaius and tbs brace
lets, aud tho miiHcss, III. bonne.s, and the
head bands, ard IN tablets. AMI th- ear
rings, the rags. nni 'h- NOSE jewels, thu
chanseable salts NJ apparel, and the mantles,
ani the wimp'eS ami the cr!spinS pins. the
Glass... and the line linen, and the hoods, and
t5a wells Only think u, woman having
al! that on! am gii tnai the world is
getting better. and thai fashion, which has
dominated IN 'ht "ofid :" ruinously in other
DAYS. has for 4 iIf'i" time. for little degree
at any rate, relaxed It's energies. All the
spiendorS AMI tn extravaganza of this world
dyed into ycnr r"iSa and flung over your
shoulder cnnno' wrap peace around your
n.arf for single moment. The Sayest ward
robe Will utter no voice OF coincidence IN
the day "t tr"ubie and darkness That
woman is Srandly 'I"ss't. and only she,
who Is wrapped IN the robe of
Saviour's Righteousness. The home may
be very humbi'. ths hat may be very plain,
the frocS may be very eoarse: but the halo
of heaven settles in the room when sbe wears
1t, and the fa,ntest touch "f the resurrection
angel will chang" that garment into rainient
exca-Niiny white, 50 a. no fuller ON earth
could whiten Il l come to You. yc-Ins
women. today, II say that this world cannot
make f"n haprS' SAow IL Is ofisht
world, Win S'of!"us sunshine, ana Sosden
rivers, ami iir, worked sunset, and bird
orchestra and IN. darkest cave has its crys-
tails. and the wrathies; wave its foam wreath
and ,hs o,ldss. u;d,i,bt in. a.m;rg
.u-,r. h,,, G., I'll -, 80, Ill ,I.-s
lights with tn. blast o. his own nostr,ls
and the clories OF this .orli will perish in
the Anal confederation Won will mayer
Ia happy until you cot your sins forgiven
and allow Christ Jes,,, N take full r,ssessio,
of y,ur nn) He will be ,,ur friend in
every psrpIexitv. He will be YOUR comfort
in every trial He will be your defender in
every strait. do not ask YOU 10 brins. like
Mary. tn, spices 70 the sspuIcbar Of a dead
Christ, but TO bring vcur nll 10 the feet Of q
living Jesus His word is peace. His ,e,k
is love. His hand /, helm. His touch is life
His smile is heaven. Oh, come, then, in
n"cSs ana groups '"me ne toe soutn VINO
over "snks Oh mSrrn- LON" hsS tne
morning uSnt tripping over 'ns mountain
"reatne AL your Ane''ohs ON -, ,nrist prov,
~e All your se'h' IN 'nis' c"Tohe.' pour AL
your voices into ohri,' song, ana let this
f'a'oa'o ar rustic win tue SiEss Oh re}o'e
ing angels ana the lowers oi ''l ring ONT
me news OF souis saseh
This world its fnncie'i p-srl may erars,
rs no' the p'An Tor me-
WI VIII, ni,n '' 1s '9s',. @ m .ne grave
p,,, m ,hn,p,sa p'n : 1.,, ~ s"s y, ,,r.,,
whIch never can b, hmeh, With gold.
Oh that. the p.ari for me
Tho SNOW w,s vary s.s, aud !, x.s sill,
,.I,;,, ;,I, -, -, ,h. e.. :. -.
m;ri.,rx 7 bas,.n,uI r., ~. a vo,ng u,n,,.r
ji, I, WINS . v.rv bu,,,J. h,n,. Sh. v,.s
an ornhsn. bsr ,,,,,sr had h.,.r sb;rvr,.,L..i
nr ,h, h.rls -, N.wf,urdI.n1 Oh, IA
.,rn.., b.r ,x, living A. .,,.r,., ~.
rc.,r, saw ro,h;ry a.rrar,;vs S,n,c,,r,s
M ,,ns,rv Not even . cushioped chair
Tn. snow o, the window c,s,nep, was
mo-, ,.h;,.- ,h.r ,h. ch...l ~ ,b,,
d,ir, girI I, WAS !. f,c, never "a
Ia f,rso,,a, Sweetness and majesty Of
s,,,, ard f.i.b !, cod Rad given her n
ma'ehIeSs beauty, and the sculptor who could
have caught tn" outlines OF those features,
and frozen them into stone, would have
m1te himself immortal With her large,
brown ewes she loOEesi calmly into the great