Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-24

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 attractiveness
Of Jesus Christ, 1t says: "Hls hair was
white IS snow" But when the color
goes from the cheek, and the luster from
the eye, and the spring from the step,
and the gracefulness from the
gait, alas for those who have built their
time and their eternity upon good looks.
But all the passage Of years can not take
out of ne's face benignity, and kindness,
and compassion, and faith. The bright
est glory that ever beamed from q womsn's
face is the religion of Jesus Christ. In
the last war 200 wounded soldiers came
to Philadelphia one night, and came I'M
herSlded, and they had to extemporize 8
| hospital for them, and the Christian wo-
men of my church and of other churches,
went out that night to take care of the
poor wounded fellows. That night saw
Christian woman go through the wards
of the hospital, her sleeves rolled up,
ready for hard work, her hair dishevelled
in the excitement Of the hour. Her face
was plain, very plain; but after the
wounds were washed and the new band
ages were put around the splin-
tered limbs, and the exhausted boy
fell of into his first pleasant
| sleep, she put her hand on his brow and
he started in his dream and said: ooh,
thought an angel touched me! !" There
may have been no classic elegance in the
features Of Mrs. Harris, VINO came into
the hospital after the "Seven Days
awful fight as she sat down by
WOUNDED DRUMMER-BoY
and heard him soliloquize: ga ball
through my body and my mother will
never again see her boy. What a pity it
list" And she leaned over him and said {:
''Shall l be your mother and comfort
your" And he looked up and said
eyes; I'll try to thirk she's here. Please
to write long letter to her and tell her
al about it and send her lock of MY
hair and comfort Ter. But l would Ike
to have you tell her how much I suffered
yes, would Ike you to do that for she
would feel so for me. Hold my hand
while l de-" There may have been no
classic elegance in her features,
but all the hospitals of Har-
rlson's Landing and Fortress
Monroe would have agreed that she was
beautiful; and II any rough man in all
that ward had iDsulted her, some
wounded soldier would have 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. 1t
is poor complimentto your sex that 30
many men feel obliged in your presence
to offer unmeaning compliments. Men
capable Of elegant and elaborate CONVEX
sation elsewhere, sometimes feel called
upon at the door Of the drawing room to
drop their common sense and to dole out
sickeDing batteries. They say things
about your dress, and about your appear
ance, 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 it honor
able to lie to 8 woman. The same
thing that they told you on this side of
the drawirg-room, three minutes ago
they said to some one on the other side
OF the drswiDg-room. o, let no one
trample on your self-respect. The mean
est thing on which q woman can build
her happiness is the batteries OF men.
Again: charge you not to depsnd for
happiness upon the discipleship Of world
Illness. I have seen men as vain of their
old fashioned and their eccentric hat S.
your brsinless fob is proud of his dangling
iooleries. Fashion sometimes mskes a
reasonable demand of US, and then we
ought to yield to it. The daisies Of the
field have their fashion of color and leaf;
the honeysuckles have their fashion of
ear-drop, and the snowhskes flung out Of
the winter heavens have their fashion Of
exquisiteness. After the summer shower
the sky weds the earth with ring of arain-
bow And do not think We have right
to despise
THE KLEGAECIKs AND FASHIONS
Of this world, especially II they make
reasonable demands upon us shut the dis
cipleship and worship of fashion Is death
TO the body, and death to the soul. 1 am
glad the world is improving. Look st the
fashion plstes of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. and you will aud
that the world is not 80 extrsragsnt and
extraordinary now as 1t WAS then, and sll
the marvellous things that the grand
daughter will do will never equal thst
done by the grandmother. Go still far
Their bAck, to the Bible times, and you
End thst IN Chose times fashion welded
q more teri bic sceptre. You have only
to turn to the third chapter of Isaiah, 8
portion OF the Scriptures from which 1
once presched you sermon, to read ::
"Becsuse the daughters OF Zion are
naughty, and walk with stretched-forth
necks and wantoR eyes, walking and
mincing IS they 20, and making .
tinkling with their feet: Ia that
day the Lord will take away the
bravery OF their tinkling ornaments about
their feet, and their cSuls, sad their
round tres Ike the moon, the chains. AM
the bracelets, and the mufffsrs, the bon
nets, the hesd-bsnds, and the tablets, and
the earrings, the rings and the nose Jew
the els, chaDgeable suits Of apparel, snd the
msntlss, and the wImples, and the crisp
ing pins, the glasses. and the fine. linen,
snd the hoods, and the vsiiss Only
think of woman having all that onf SsIl
am glad that the world is gettfHa, better
and that fashion which has dominAted
In the world so ruinously in other dz4s;
has for little time, for little degreeRt
any rate, relaxed its energies. AL taA
spiendors and the extrsvsaancs or thu
world dyed into your robe and dung over